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Title: He's No Stephen King
Review: Being not a Simmons afficionado I can't fairly say that he is a bad writer; but if "A Winter Haunting" is any example of his writing, I must say that I won't be reading any more of his work. I thought "A Winter Haunting" lacked substance, and feeling. The main character goes back to a spooky abandoned farmhouse where his best friend, the brilliant Duane, was killed in a nasty farming accident. And this is all the pretense Simmons gives you. He messes around with some mysterious hounds, takes a lot of walks (Lord have mercy, does this character walk!), and finds himself attracted to a lesbian; gets his tires slashed, not once, but twice by a group of "belligerent youths", aka skinheads. All in all, I give this novel two thumbs down.
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