false 10574 22 "On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There's no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues, and it's more than a year before the man is identified. <p>And that's just the beginning of the mystery. Because the more they learn about the man and the baffling circumstances of his death, the less they understand. Was it an impossible crime? Or something stranger still...? <p>No one but Stephen King could tell this story about the darkness at the heart of the unknown and our compulsion to investigate the unexplained. With echoes of Dashiell Hammett's <i>The Maltese Falcon</i> and the work of Graham Greene, one of the world's great storytellers presents a surprising tale that explores the nature of mystery itself..." 856005 book 4 10 2005 The Colorado Kid (Hard Case Crime #13) total:1873|5:160|4:417|3:716|2:399|1:181| 1873 5595 2455 188 5 6 false false Sat May 03 22:48:52 -0700 2008 Sat May 03 22:49:07 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 01 23:33:43 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 03 15:17:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu Jan 31 06:39:55 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 09 05:21:59 -0800 2008 Mickey Spillane and Ellmore Leonard. Lots of tough guys, fast-talki...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Feb 05 07:51:07 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 07:51:15 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 11:27:59 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 11:28:40 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 31 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Thu Aug 27 14:51:52 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 14:52:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 07:34:59 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 09:30:50 -0700 2009 Project Runway Australia with my girlfriend tonight, but I started reading The Colorado Kid during a break and found it hard to put down. I forcibly held off reading the last two chapters in order to score some brownie points, but in the end I got t...more...]]> 1 1 false true Fri Feb 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 17:16:14 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 13:34:21 -0800 2009 talented book-reviewer, I would probably be able to write a review of this novel without having to give pertinent details away. I’m not, so I can’t. Hence the spoiler alert.

The setting is a small, Maine island town. Two grizzled, old newspapermen are recounting local m...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:36:43 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:36:43 -0800 2009 There's nothing like a good noir crime novel, and The Colorado Kid is nothing like a good noir crime novel. King's refusal to play by the time-honored rules of the genre exasperated critics, who might have been more forgiving had King delivered a compelling story. The plot, related by two crusty new...

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Pretty, and full of the Maine accents and manners King has single-handedly e...more...]]> 1 3 false false Tue Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 14:56:09 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 10:41:24 -0700 2009
His repetitive, bland descriptions do not dig me deeper into t...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Oct 15 08:14:48 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 15 08:22:10 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Sep 28 08:07:16 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 24 09:41:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Nov 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jun 10 22:54:19 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 03 12:47:43 -0700 2009 THE COLORADO KID by Stephen King, I have to say, was a nice little read. I haven't finished a book in awhile so it was nice to knock one out in about a week. I was checking out Hard Case Crime (the books publisher) in the backs of the crime comic CRIMINAL for a long time and when I saw THE COLORAD...more...]]> 1 0 false true Thu Apr 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 26 23:17:07 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 03 22:40:07 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 14 07:35:22 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 14 07:35:22 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Wed Jun 27 13:41:05 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 27 14:13:23 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false true Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 17:51:19 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 18:04:12 -0800 2008 The Colorado Kid is enormously frustrating. The main idea is sound but I feel like the execution is off. Like so many of King's stories this one is a story-within-a-story. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much point in telling it this way and the characters involved in the storytelling aren...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 06:40:28 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 06:48:38 -0800 2009
I haven't read any King since The Stand was reissued. Some of his yawners ...more...]]>