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Anna asked this question about Bag of Bones:
Am I the only one that thought this book was awful? I keep seeing all these great reviews and how this is "King's best work", but I just don't get it?? If this is his best, then I'm afraid to read anything else he's written.
Åke Malmgren King writes for those with a vivid visual imagination. That's what those "pointless details" are for - they are the brush strokes he uses for painting…moreKing writes for those with a vivid visual imagination. That's what those "pointless details" are for - they are the brush strokes he uses for painting the pictures directly into your mind.
If your imagination doesn't work like that, his style of writing probably isn't for you. If you think in words rather than pictures, there may just be too many of them and the story will seem to drag on and meander.

But for the likes of me he's a genius, and reading or listening to his books is way better than watching a movie. I love this book, as do I most of his works, because his style meshes so perfectly with my mind.(less)
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