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Article: SUFFERING FOR HIS ART
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- Sunday Star-Times
- Article date:
- March 23, 2008
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After a run of shockers, the real shock horror would be if
Stephen King wrote something decent, says Tony Wall. ---------------
----- DUMA KEY By Stephen King Hodder & Stoughton, $28 Reviewed by
Tony Wall -------------------- IT'S BEEN a while since Stephen King
scared the crap out of me.
I grew up reading King's novels, and at one point there, in my
mid- teens, he was pretty much all I read.
Before I was introduced to some truly great American writers like
Cormac McCarthy and Don DeLillo, King and his terrifying early
novels - Carrie, 'Salem's Lot, Christine, Cujo - were the be all and
end all.
One of my favourites from the mid part of his career was Pet
Sematary, about a man who buries ...