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jeffschaible 's review for:
Lisey's Story
by Stephen King
I know that Stephen King considers Lisey’s Story to be among his best works. With all due respect to my favorite author, I disagree in the strongest terms. I found little to no enjoyment in reading this one.
The reason is simple enough: I could not get past the baby talk. It’s a personal pet peeve. I have no stomach for it, and it hits me right in the nerves. Here, it completely took me out of what might otherwise have been a romantic, haunting, slow-burn thriller.
This is my penultimate read as I catch up on King’s full bibliography (of all his novels, novellas, and short story collections, only Blaze remains), and… what a disappointment.
Were I to rank the 77 Stephen King books on my Goodreads “read” shelves, this one would – regrettably – be #77.
The reason is simple enough: I could not get past the baby talk. It’s a personal pet peeve. I have no stomach for it, and it hits me right in the nerves. Here, it completely took me out of what might otherwise have been a romantic, haunting, slow-burn thriller.
This is my penultimate read as I catch up on King’s full bibliography (of all his novels, novellas, and short story collections, only Blaze remains), and… what a disappointment.
Were I to rank the 77 Stephen King books on my Goodreads “read” shelves, this one would – regrettably – be #77.