| Re: The Duma Key
Cell is damn brilliant. It's concise, told with concrete language, and through brevity King keeps the plot rolling while not sacrificing his amazing attention to character. Next to the Dark Tower stuff, it's my favorite King book. Cell is a one-two punch of memorable characters in dramatic situations and hard hitting horror. I think it is a perfect book in that it is perfectly paced and plotted and accomplishes everything a good story should.
With Lisey's Story, I feel as though King forgot the plot, and when you don't have a good plot, you better have some damn interesting ideas. I thought it lacked both. The characters weren't even interesting. It felt as if King were coasting on a half-baked premise with a half-baked main character floundering around in an uninteresting world.
I am keeping my expectations low for Duma Key, but the idea sounds interesting. I am really glad that King is still writing and I do look forward to checking this one out. |