07-24-2013, 04:00 PM
For those who don't know, Joe Hill is Stephen King's son. He has written two previous novels and a comic book series.
Charlie Manx travels the land on hidden roads that only he can access in his Silver Rolls Royce abducting children which takes to Christmasland. Vickie can find lost things by traveling her own hidden ways. They come into conflict and eventually one of them has to lose.
In a lot of ways, it felt like a Stephen King novel. Or at least it was trying. The settings of New England and Colorado all felt very familiar. The way everything was described, people, places and things, all seemed very familiar. But in the end, it just felt like a simulation of King story rather than an actual King story. Even a lot of the plot devices felt the same. There was the car that could drive itself. Psychic powers always come with a price, usually a splitting headache. They even look at a map of the US that has Pennywise Land over Maine.
Don't get me wrong, I fell out of favor with King a long time ago, although I have read some of his works recently. I am very familiar with his style and this just doesn't quite make it. It made me want to go read a real Stephen King book, which I will when the sequel to the Shining comes out in the fall.
If you do want to read a Joe Hill novel, I suggest Horns. Not a great book, but quirky and had a style of it's own.
Charlie Manx travels the land on hidden roads that only he can access in his Silver Rolls Royce abducting children which takes to Christmasland. Vickie can find lost things by traveling her own hidden ways. They come into conflict and eventually one of them has to lose.
In a lot of ways, it felt like a Stephen King novel. Or at least it was trying. The settings of New England and Colorado all felt very familiar. The way everything was described, people, places and things, all seemed very familiar. But in the end, it just felt like a simulation of King story rather than an actual King story. Even a lot of the plot devices felt the same. There was the car that could drive itself. Psychic powers always come with a price, usually a splitting headache. They even look at a map of the US that has Pennywise Land over Maine.
Don't get me wrong, I fell out of favor with King a long time ago, although I have read some of his works recently. I am very familiar with his style and this just doesn't quite make it. It made me want to go read a real Stephen King book, which I will when the sequel to the Shining comes out in the fall.
If you do want to read a Joe Hill novel, I suggest Horns. Not a great book, but quirky and had a style of it's own.
So much for the flickr badge idea. Dammit
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