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I had not yet read The Regulators, the companion volume, when I picked this one up so I wasn't sure what to expect. I came away with the feeling that I had experienced a pretty good King novel. It is far from his best but I enjoyed it none-the-less. Stephen King is well known for marketing gimicry, pushing the envelope in the publishing business. At first it was through using brand names without permission. Then it was the alternate ego, Richard Bachman, followed by the serial novel (Green Mile) and now it is a "dual novel." Frankly, I don't think it worked this time. Having since read The Regulators, I just couldn't get the parallel between the two books/settings. Same names but different people and places. What was the point? Really, they are two seperate books.
In this one, I enjoyed the patented realism that King always displays, setting the scene for the coming horror. The people that get stranded in the town of Desperation, Nevada, all become very real, as we read of their personal situations. Nobody does that better than King. And the resulting horrific consequences that follow make this one difficult to put down. We are kept on the edge of our seats the whole time.
The only reason I didn't give this one 5 stars is because of the nature of the evil itself. 'Tak' remains somewhat of an undefined evil and we are never satisfied as to what it was/is. It's just sort of...there. Don't get me wrong, the manifestations of it are cool (and bloody) but it just felt incomplete.
Still, an overall solid King entry. Just don't expect as much from its companion book.
Still, this one really feels hollow after it's done. King has an interesting idea. Maybe the worst "monster" or all is really God. It's not a new idea for him--there's a line in THE STAND where one of the characters talks about God always requiring a sacrifice. "His hands are bloody with it." And the idea of the Old Testament God as a monster has real possibilites. But it's an idea that's raised here rather than really explored. And what's worse, King ACTS like he's explored it--acts like he's really said something. So you wind up at the end of the book feeling, "Huh--did I miss something?"
As is the case with so much of King's writing, the ending is a disappointment. It's rather like King gets these wonderful ideas for fiction, and he spends all his time and energy getting into these ideas and working them out. But they don't actually go anywhere.
Still other questions remain unanswered in the novel. Who is "Tak" (the demon/monster that God wants destroyed)? How did he wind up in Desperation? The whole thing is richly readable but ultimately unsatisfying.
Oh--one more thing. There's this odd overlap with the characters from THE REGULATORS. DESPERATION has some of the same characters--except they're not the same. In DESPERATION,the cop who terrorizes desperation has the same name as the cop who tries to fight the evil in THE REGULATORS. And the Carver family is in both novels--except that the names of the kids in one book are the names of the parents in another. And the monster, Tak, appears in both novels, except that its powers are slightly different in each.
I'm not sure what the point of all this is. King is working out two slightly different versions of the same fantasy? Like much else in the novel, this is a tantalizing idea, but not much is made of it. (I'd be interested to read about what other readers think about this.)
Besaß bereits das Taschenbuch und wollte halt günstig die gebundene Version... Lesen Sie weiter...
To begin with all the characters are interesting and are introduced in an endearing manor. Lesen Sie weiter...
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