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Title: A mess
Review: I recently re-read The Stand for the first time since I was a teenager and was struck by the great storytelling, interesting characters and tight writing in the book -- despite its length. It was particularly striking because I had just thrown Wolves across the room in disgust after about 150 pages. Wolves is a self-indulgent and frequently revolting mess of a book that's nearly incomprehensible in its own self-referentialism. This isn't because King is "ready to retire," as some have put it. If you read the recent collection Everything's Eventual, you know he still has every bit of his storytelling power. Too bad he didn't use it here.
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