Mile 81
Just finished Stephen King’s latest short story/novella Mile 81, which is available only as an ebook. Unfortunately, it didn’t impress me. I’ve read a lot of his stuff, and I have a high opinion of his abilities. In fact, if anybody is interested in learning about narrative pacing I would encourage you to read King; he understands readers in a way that most writers don’t. that being said, I usually discourage people from reading his more recent novels (prolific writers tend to sacrifice quality over quantity, an issue I don’t really want to discuss, and it’s an opinion that has many exceptions). However, the price of this ebook was too tempting for me to resist. If you’re a die-hard fan, you’ll buy the ebook regardless of my opinion. For everybody else, I encourage you to pick up a different story, one that better showcases King’s genius.
