Just came across your review after finishing this book today...I had started reading this all the way back in 2010, but I got sidetracked and DNF'd it right before Edgar made it to his meeting with Wireman. I am very glad that I picked this up and decided to finish it off this time! Loved the characters of Edgar and Wireman and Elizabeth and Jack and the way this came together in the final third of the novel (which FLEW by for me on this read because I was hooked and needed to know how it was going to wrap up from about chapter 16 on...) In my mind's eye this time I saw Edgar and Wireman almost as Red and Andy from 'Shawshank Redemption', just in a different setting - a kind of friendship and bond that transcends the page and gets to me as the reader and makes me care about them. I really do want to ask Sai King one day how he determines the denouement for his characters...he creates amazing characters overall, but man does he like to torment and abuse them! I went 5-star on GR because I was really between 4.5 and 4.75 but don't have that option over there! I think this novel fits very much in a pattern of King's works - fitting very nicely alongside 'Bag of Bones', 'Needful Things' (and 'Storm of the Century'), 'Insomnia', 'Dreamcatcher' and even 'Under the Dome' (which I personally enjoyed more than most people!)... All of these stories start off with small town characters or isolated protagonists and slowly add side characters and more until eventually the story sort of starts around 200-300 pages in...for some people (like me now) that slow build up is OK, for others (like me 13 years ago! damn that hurts to say...) it won't take. Anywho, thanks for the review, enjoyed your thoughts on 'Duma Key'...
I read this book ten years ago after a catastrophic life event. It helped me to keep going at a time when I was having a hard time finding the motivation to. So I have a pretty biased positive view of it… Anyway, great job and thanks for the review!
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Just came across your review after finishing this book today...I had started reading this all the way back in 2010, but I got sidetracked and DNF'd it right before Edgar made it to his meeting with Wireman. I am very glad that I picked this up and decided to finish it off this time! Loved the characters of Edgar and Wireman and Elizabeth and Jack and the way this came together in the final third of the novel (which FLEW by for me on this read because I was hooked and needed to know how it was going to wrap up from about chapter 16 on...)
In my mind's eye this time I saw Edgar and Wireman almost as Red and Andy from 'Shawshank Redemption', just in a different setting - a kind of friendship and bond that transcends the page and gets to me as the reader and makes me care about them. I really do want to ask Sai King one day how he determines the denouement for his characters...he creates amazing characters overall, but man does he like to torment and abuse them! I went 5-star on GR because I was really between 4.5 and 4.75 but don't have that option over there! I think this novel fits very much in a pattern of King's works - fitting very nicely alongside 'Bag of Bones', 'Needful Things' (and 'Storm of the Century'), 'Insomnia', 'Dreamcatcher' and even 'Under the Dome' (which I personally enjoyed more than most people!)... All of these stories start off with small town characters or isolated protagonists and slowly add side characters and more until eventually the story sort of starts around 200-300 pages in...for some people (like me now) that slow build up is OK, for others (like me 13 years ago! damn that hurts to say...) it won't take.
Anywho, thanks for the review, enjoyed your thoughts on 'Duma Key'...
Brain injury means special abilities in King novels. For example, The Dead Zone, Duma Key, Finders Keepers and End of Watch (Brady).
Duma Key is my 2nd favorite King novel and I've read most of King.
I read this book ten years ago after a catastrophic life event. It helped me to keep going at a time when I was having a hard time finding the motivation to. So I have a pretty biased positive view of it… Anyway, great job and thanks for the review!
I've seen the updates on Twitter for months. 700 pages.....idunno man
I have not heard of this book. I will need to add it to my list of Stephen King reads.
Yeah it wasn't on my radar really either, and I learned while reading it that it is being adapted into a film.
It's totally reasonable to take 7 months to read a book that big! Strange, I haven't heard of Duma Key. Good review!
I usually read 3 to 4 books at the same time.