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Title: Not Very good
Review: Like other reviewers,I really wanted to like this book,but was unable to do so.It is becoming apparent that Stephen King peaked somewhere around 1983,with only a few bright spots"Misery,""The Green Mile", since.I say this as someone who once waited eagerly for each new king book to come out."Hearts in Atlantis" is king's attempt to come to terms with the 60's,and specifically,Vietnam,but I feel that he has failed.The stories were uninteresting,the characters unlikable,and if it hadn't been a Stephen King book,I doubt that I would have continued reading.I know that in the past King has mocked authors who take 5 years or more between books,but maybe it's time for him to take some time off,recharge his batteries,and come up with some stories worth telling.Go back and read "Night Shift" or "The Dead Zone",and then tell me "hearts in Atlantis" is the best that King can do.
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