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The Colorado Kid
by Stephen King
While I picked up this book for reasons insincere (read: no great love of King, newspapers and newspaper writing, or mysteries) I actually liked this book very, very much.
It was not what I was expecting, and certainly not the length I was expecting, but it was a most pleasant surprise.
A mystery from the 1980's yet unsolved. And that's the entire book. No, it is not solved by the end.
No, you don't care about the victim.
No, the woman on the cover is not a match for the puzzle-solver within (no hot-n-heavy sex-scenes that too many mystery novels feel the need to include or allude to, there isn't even a romantic opposite for her).
Instead, you only meet four characters and they tell you stories that are merely pieces of life, the real world, the reality not normally found in sensational novels, newspapers, TV, etc. Perhaps my love of theatre makes me love this book so much because - while occasionally sensational - theatre can also be [b:Waiting for Godot|17716|Waiting for Godot|Samuel Beckett|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71H2VTJQ4RL._SL75_.gif|2635502] and more about character development and people you never ever meet.
In the afterward, author [a:Stephen King|3389|Stephen King|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1261866457p2/3389.jpg] talks about the hate mail he expects from his adventure in unsolved mystery novels that are about real-life, about characters, about mysteries that surround us every day.
All of this made me enjoy this book all the more.
It was not what I was expecting, and certainly not the length I was expecting, but it was a most pleasant surprise.
A mystery from the 1980's yet unsolved. And that's the entire book. No, it is not solved by the end.
No, you don't care about the victim.
No, the woman on the cover is not a match for the puzzle-solver within (no hot-n-heavy sex-scenes that too many mystery novels feel the need to include or allude to, there isn't even a romantic opposite for her).
Instead, you only meet four characters and they tell you stories that are merely pieces of life, the real world, the reality not normally found in sensational novels, newspapers, TV, etc. Perhaps my love of theatre makes me love this book so much because - while occasionally sensational - theatre can also be [b:Waiting for Godot|17716|Waiting for Godot|Samuel Beckett|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71H2VTJQ4RL._SL75_.gif|2635502] and more about character development and people you never ever meet.
In the afterward, author [a:Stephen King|3389|Stephen King|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1261866457p2/3389.jpg] talks about the hate mail he expects from his adventure in unsolved mystery novels that are about real-life, about characters, about mysteries that surround us every day.
All of this made me enjoy this book all the more.