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King is the master of coming up with a central conceit and wringing the hell out of it for a thousand pages. It's how he fills those thousand pages that matters and, as usual, the ride is delirious.
"Hey, what if a small city was trapped inside a barrier?" I imagine that's how this book started 40 years ago. That's it, that's the whole thing. Except it isn't. It's the effect of that barrier on the people trapped inside that's explored so completely. Being a King book, things certainly don't go w ...more
"Hey, what if a small city was trapped inside a barrier?" I imagine that's how this book started 40 years ago. That's it, that's the whole thing. Except it isn't. It's the effect of that barrier on the people trapped inside that's explored so completely. Being a King book, things certainly don't go w ...more