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jjayne 's review for:
Danse Macabre
by Stephen King
King (in this book) describes another author's work as halfway riveting and halfway an "uphill push" which is more or less exactly how I'd describe this.
I think the biggest problem with the book is that it's a work of analysis on a genre that still hadn't seen some of it's greatest works to date. I think the author and the publisher should have waited until 2000 and had a much more complete review of horror before the 21st century.
King has a lot of interesting thoughts but they are mired in 41 year old takes (and huge air balls on predictions of where fiction will go) with a lot of "here let me recap in detail these works of fiction you haven't seen yet."
The result was me skimming this book heavily. If I hadn't been assigned an analysis of the work for class, I probably would have put it down and never picked it up again.
I think the biggest problem with the book is that it's a work of analysis on a genre that still hadn't seen some of it's greatest works to date. I think the author and the publisher should have waited until 2000 and had a much more complete review of horror before the 21st century.
King has a lot of interesting thoughts but they are mired in 41 year old takes (and huge air balls on predictions of where fiction will go) with a lot of "here let me recap in detail these works of fiction you haven't seen yet."
The result was me skimming this book heavily. If I hadn't been assigned an analysis of the work for class, I probably would have put it down and never picked it up again.