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Title: Overblown
Review: I suspect King imagined countless scholarly students pouring over this work in another 100 years, following a carfully-crafted path of symbolism much like Chaucer's works referenced in the afterword.Along with his usual tedious description, King gives us a story written in a characteristicly pompous voice. With no real plot and characters drawn in fluid terms that don't every quite allow us to engage with them, this novel doesn't make for an entertaining read.If you want to follow King down the rabbit hole he dug, you'll enjoy The Gunslinger. But if you believe he would do well with an editor who had an affinity for chopping large swaths of description and one that insisted on him having at least some thread of a reasonable plot, then don't waste your time.
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