Then he finds Christine, the embodiment of King's drugs of choice, and he slowly succumbs.Īt first, things aren't bad.
Things aren't perfect, but things aren't bad. Let's talk about that, because it became very very obvious to me that, whether intentional or not, this is the book where King truly begins to wrestle with his addictions.Īrnie is a smart kid, a good kid, constantly living up to his parents' -and society's-expectations. As others have noted, I can only blame the mystifying switch of narrative voice in the second section on King's addictions and the fact that, I'm guessing by now, the editors began to take a hands off approach to his work, as this is also the point where the bloat sets in and his books get a little longer than they should be.Īnd then there's the addiction.
And then there was Leigh.damn.Īnyway, 35 years later, I see this as the first crack in King's near-perfect run up to now. So, at the time, I completely bought into him and loved Dennis for his love and loyalty. And I remember being completely enchanted with it.
I remember buying it, coming home, parking myself in my bedroom and reading the entire thing in one sitting, pausing only when I needed to eat or bio break. Another of King's books I haven't read in 35 years.
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