6/20/2023 0 Comments Duma key stephen king review![]() ![]() First, the language is entirely appropriate to an adult novel where organic brain trauma is involved. ***Humble Response to a Few Reviews** It\’s been mentioned in some of these reviews that 1) the language was unnecessarily coarse and 2) that it started slow. Your voice stood up, offered me a cool drink, and became Wireman to me. *** John Slattery, the reading was brilliant. And finally, it includes a supernatural element that rather than making the story less powerful, merely paints it in King\’s chosen palette: vivid, disturbing, painful, tender, and essentially real where it matters most, and where perhaps it looms the most dangerous. ![]() This all makes me want to, rather than a dead sort of word like \”literary,\” apply to King what someone, if I remember rightly, said about Ellington, \”He knew what music was for.\” King knows what a novel is for. Hard-won insight into what makes us human, how we deal with time, loss, fear of loss (Since when have you taken the chance to make friends with an 86 year old woman?), the mysterious tangle of creativity…. Some strengths of Duma Key: Chararacters that became, at least to me, more real as friends than some people I know. ![]()
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