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Title: The Return of Stephen King...Sort Of
Review: This "novel" was the first release for King after his mini-retirement. Since it's part of a "hard case crime" series with a fantastic retro-pulp cover, you wouldn't be wrong to expect hard boiled crime...executed with King's immutable style. After the first two chapters don't go anywhere, however, you realize that this is really just a short story exercise for King that never picks up speed. In fact, King says as much in his afterword: This book is a meditation on unsolved mystery. There's no crime, no sex, and no tension--all of which makes for a maddening pulp fiction book.
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