A review by brucemcguffin
The Ninth Configuration by Mark Kermode, William Peter Blatty

1.0

According to the author this book was an attempt to fix a bad book based on a good idea that he wrote when he was young. That bad book was Twinkle, Twinkle "Killer" Kane. I was a teenager when I read the original many years, ago and I don't know if it would hold up now, but I enjoyed it then. It may have been unformed, unfinished and lacking a plot (so the author now claims), but it was funny. This book is not funny. It is excessively melodramatic, and doesn't hang together. The author should have just moved on.