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Title: A Spellbinding Masterpiece
Review: As an avid fan of King and an '80s baby who was formerly obsessed with the Beatles and the Sixties, I was eager to get his view on that important time as well as our most painful war. The excellence of his writing and his connection to other cultural tie-ins (I read Lord of the Flies right before this) helps me to understand what is must have been like to live in that time, which seems so far away (although I wasn't even alive then). I hate to sound pretentious, but I can really picture the Sixties he described as though I "remember" them (a past life?). One comment: I was disappointed after read Low Men in Yellow Coats (a true masterpiece) to read stories that slowly dwindled down. And why was Blind Willie so unconnected? Quite possibly because it appeared in Antaeus Magazine. However, Heavenly Shades of Night are Falling tied up the book in an excellent way. It is a modern classic which fits into a nice (albeit 525-page) package.
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