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I used to be a huge Stephen King fan -- I loved most of his early work including 'Salem's Lot, The Shining, Carrie, Cujo, Firestarter, The Dead Zone, The Stand, and on and on. However, I just could not get into this novel. I tortured myself by reading the first 150 pages before I decided to give it up! I really got frustrated with the made-up language King kept using like "bool," "blood-bool', "bad-gunky", SOWISA, and "strap it on" to name a few. This one pretty much made me give up on King!

This has to be one of my least favorite books of King's. I did not like the main character at all. She got on my nerves quite a bit throughout the book. I flogged through to the end but the book never quite grabbed my attention.

I have read everything ever written by Stephen King... but I just couldn't finish this book. I forced myself to get to page 346, but I still wasn't into it. I read the reviews on here and it seems that a lot of people really liked it... I guess this just wasn't my style.

Stephen King is hit or miss for me most days. I have never enjoyed any of his books that involve the process of writing, and although the protagonist in this one is not an author, her husband, who is a very central character even though he is dead by the time the story begins, is an author. These stories just never work for me. This character did not feel like a living breathing woman to me -- she felt like Stephen King talking to you. I just couldn't get into it. I finished it just because I needed something to read in the evenings. I do enjoy other Stephen King novels, most recently, "The Dome".

A very different Stephen King novel.

Worst Stephen King book EVER. Picked it up twice and really tried to get through it, put it down in disgust both times. Have no idea what book these other readers who gave it a good review were describing, beause it definitely was not this book!