![]() ![]() ![]() It was creepy, heart-wrenching, introspective, speculative, terrifying, thought-provoking – and on and on and on. I suppose knowing that I read it in one sitting says a lot about what I thought about it – I LOVED IT! It blew me away. I read until the sun came up fueled on caffeine and the enthralling words of the Master of Horror himself. ![]() The first time was in the late 1990s at an all-night coffee shop in Cincinnati. I remember the first time fondly as this is only one of two Stephen King books I read in one sitting (the other being Pet Sematary). It was creepy, hea This was my second time in The Dead Zone. This was my second time in The Dead Zone. The Dead Zone is every bit as important to 2016 readers as it ever was. What Bill, Beverly, et al experience? Has never moved me the way John Smith's last stand(s) did. And what of those who remain? The other characters have all chosen to try to save society in other ways-but we know how well conventional approaches worked out for the Boomers, don't we? Even John Smith, though he makes the right choice (just barely) finds his 'luck' run out eventually. It is a heavy and hard responsibility to carry, and very few will be able to wield it well. But I don't think about this novel as mere social commentary, (even the important, non-sentimental kind) but as a brutally insightful discussion of the burden of Knowing, either as a psychic, a prophet, a scientist, an historian or anyone else, that Bad Things are coming and You are the sole obstacle in their way. Really a transgenerational condemnation of how our parents (and grandparents) effed up our society and what it would take if anyone wanted to (or could) avoid the worst. And very relevant to a whole swath of major social issues affecting the psychology of an entire generation. So is The Dead Zone …more Yeah, yeah, It is fine. ![]()
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