And perhaps that’s a little unfair surely each release should be judged on its own merits and not against previous books? But still, it’s difficult, especially to those who have read and loved much of what he’s produced, from the darkest of horror to the most heartfelt of emotive pieces.Īnd so to his most recent work, the novella Elevation, a book that’s already garnering quite a few mixed reviews. Then there’s the weight of expectation-will it match the highs of previous works? Will it be horror or one of his more mainstream works (something he seems to have been gravitating more and more towards, recently)? It’s human nature to form pre-conceived opinions, to make assumptions about a work, but it often feels as though King gets this more than others. First, it tends to occlude other works in the horror arena regrettably understandable considering the long shadow he casts. ” … shows flashes of what King is great at giving the strangest of ideas plausibility, digging into the tics and quirks of what makes us individual and all too human, putting his finger on the pulse of small-town life.”Ī new release from Stephen King is always an interesting prospect.
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