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Title: What Was the Point?
Review: I read this long story/book in about two days, upon completion of which, I said to myself, "What was the point of that?"Not only was it not really a crime story, but it seemed more like a writing exercise for King and not a complete work. At the end [*SPOILER*], you still don't know if the dead man was murdered, what he was doing in Maine or how he got there in the first place.For all of King's explanations in the afterword, that lack of a conclusion really irks me. And apparently a lot of other readers as well by the looks of the previous reviews. My message to King would be if you're not going to deliver at the end of the book, then don't bother publishing it.
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