Black Shuck's review
Black House by Stephen King
This book was written by Stephen King and Peter Straub. I've read a lot of Stephen King and one Peter Straub book. I learned from reading that PS book that I am not a PS fan. Black House started out like a clunky, overdrawn piece of crap, then towards the early middle I could see Stephen King's influence begin to take over, for the better. By the end of the middle, the book really had my attention and I was eating it up. I think by this point, Stephen King had realized his best bet was to put drugs in PS's drinks and do all the writing, cuz the book held together and wrapped up GREAT.
If you like a good story with elements of parallel worlds and a little horror, skip like the first quarter to a third of the book and jump in. If you follow Stephen King, this book reads like the middle Stephen King stories, when he was still telling AWESOME tales without getting too wrapped up in his own private mythos. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE the Gunslinger books, but at points they get a l...more
If you like a good story with elements of parallel worlds and a little horror, skip like the first quarter to a third of the book and jump in. If you follow Stephen King, this book reads like the middle Stephen King stories, when he was still telling AWESOME tales without getting too wrapped up in his own private mythos. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE the Gunslinger books, but at points they get a l...more
both authors combined equals magical writing!
candy
Meh... Maybe I need to read more Straub.
