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Title: A slow, thought-provoking mystery
Review: The Colorado Kid is a slow, thought-provoking novel more intent on highlighting the nature of mystery itself than it is giving us a concrete plot. Though virtually actionless, the story is highly atmospheric and unsettling as two old men relate a bizarre tale to a young woman, a tale full of questions but no answers. Twenty-five years earlier a man apparently set out to die--either by his own hand or by that of some unknown killer--leaving behind a series of clues that are so puzzling no one has ever been able to figure them out.King takes a good many risks going out on a limb where he knows many of his loyal readers won't want to follow. This is an intriguing, enigmatic novel worth exploring even if it leaves you full of questions with no real closure (which is the point of the book).
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