I wasn’t disappointed that I acquired the novel, but I will be much looking forward to King’s next effort and leaving this one in the rearview. The story is almost derailed as well by a lackluster ending. Ralph Anderson, on the other hand, is a bit of a bumbling oaf and near insufferable at times. I truly did find her moments in the book to be pieces of great storytelling. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. The novel has many highlights, Holly never fails to be anything less than engrossing and wonderful. His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. If the novel had come from any other author I feel I may have been more forgiving. Though for me, at least, I feel the novel may have suffered from high expectations. Though the novel served to ultimately entertain, it failed to leave much of a lasting impact upon the mind of this reader. This novel’s first half is a slow mystery and almost unavoidably so, the second half is devoted to becoming a lesser entry into the repertoire of King’s supernatural horrors. In a return to his most recent series, Stephen King brings us back to the world of Bill Hodges with The Outsider. I would like to start this review off by saying that I did, in fact, listen to this book on an Audible download read by Will Patton.
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