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Title: Great Technical Writing But No Scares
Review: Levitating and Psychic zombies are the least of this book's problems. Forget the ridiculous premise of phone signals downloading instructions to the masses or the fact that a major plot point was written a number of years ago by author Brian Keene (going after a missing son in THE RISING), let's get down to brass tacks here -- it wasn't scary in the least!King falls back on his usual formula of gathering survivors together to battle the big baddie and then, of course, prevail so conveniently and in such a preposterous and illogical outcome, you have to ask yourself, "Why is this a bestseller?". Having the name Stephen King still sells books, but at some point, people will realize that the master of horror is now past his prime. Mr. King needs to go back and read his early work from the 1980's to remind him of why he was so great in the field of horror, and ultimately, how to scare the audience.
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