Thursday, January 28, 2010

Have you ever felt a simpatico relationship with a character in a novel?

You all have heard me speak frequently of enjoying reading and missing it when my cataracts made it too difficult to do.
Well, I’m back and very happy to report my first return trip to a voracious ferocious appetite for reading has been satiated to the degree that I feel the pull from my new novel calling to me to continue to read it as I write this, and yes it is that good!
Are you interested in what the title is, I must admit that it is not a brand new one, its apparently one I missed I’m embarrassed to say since I do read this particular author, in fact ever since the early nineteen seventies, since he began his amazing journey into becoming one of the most well respected authors of this century and the previous one writing in the genre of the macabre, and I believe I think I was one of the first to notice his resemblance to Edgar Allan Poe’s style. Have you guessed; I am sure you all know who I am speaking about? I bet you already know…Stephen King, who else? And the novel that I missed but are making up for it now with reading it, “Duma Key”, written in 2008.

To me it is quite an undertaking since I have returned, for the first time in ages back into the realm of reading; this novel could be considered an epic in its proportions at six hundred and eleven pages, a challenge, which I always enjoy.

I chose it as the first of the several books we borrowed from our county library and it is the longest. The return schedule is long for not brand new ones, and all the ones I chose are not new, but Hubby chose one that was and that has only two weeks until it must be returned. It’s so nice to be able to turn off the TV and have some other form of entertainment and escapism to absorb my active mind in.
And the adage goes; good readers make good writers, right?
That is why I do understand the necessity to continue with this past-time that I have loved since a child.

This particular story also drew me in very quickly since it is Stephen King’s first time using Florida as his backdrop and locations not far from where I live. Most of the mentioned places are real accept for the titled key, Duma it is an imaginary locale.
The main character is also likeable and relatable since he becomes injured through no fault of his own and how he deals with it is interesting to say the least, and knowing King’s joy of never the ordinary straight and narrow way of telling anything this has so many twists and turns of the unexpected supernatural type moments, but it is as usual a true King methodology of expressing a tale. I like it and I haven’t even gotten to page two hundred!

He lives here too part of the year; not here by me, but in Florida, he has for years.

PS Stephen King will be visiting our Cultural Center in March, and four hundred tickets will be given out for free through a lottery starting in February, one can only hope for one, can't one?

Good night to all and to count those blessings and we will too!

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