![]() Right up until he hits an old Roma woman with his car, killing her. I’ve heard that the idea came to King when he was told by his doctor that he should lose some weight and that sent his mind down the road to wonder what if you started losing weight but couldn’t stop?īilly Halleck is a lawyer, doing well in his firm, liked by the police and judges that he has to work with, happily married with a teenage daughter. On the surface, Thinner is about a guy losing weight. Thinner is another example of how Stephen King can take a small, everyday concept and somehow, miraculously, turn it into a powerful novel. It doesn’t surprise me that this is the one that caused a bookseller named Steve Brown to identify Bachman as King. Now, Thinner was the last of the Bachman books – or at least the last one before King’s cover was blown – and for me, it’s the book most like the rest of his work. ![]() (He had published twenty by now, but I didn’t read Rage, for reasons explained earlier in this series.) There’s a reason this man is known for being prolific. ![]() ![]() I’ll be looking at the recurring themes, the tricks he likes to use, the way he develops character and the way that his craft has evolved in the 46 years since Carriewas first published.Īt this point in the project, we’ve covered a decade of King’s career and nineteen books. I will be reading all of Stephen King’s books in order of publication (with the exception of The Dark Tower series which I will read together, at the end of this adventure) and writing a review of each. ![]()
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