It’s his newest book, quite long, but seems pretty good so far.
It’s about a man who was doing very well in his business but was then severely injured and becomes an amputee. His marriage crumbles, and he moves to a beach house in Florida and takes up painting again. That’s as far as I’ve gotten.
There are also bits from the point of view of a small girl who has trouble getting her words out. I don’t know yet how she figures into the story, but I’m sure that she and the disabled man will be merged at some point.
It does not appear to venture into supernatural territory.
I read it a couple of rainy Saturdays ago, and had a rare opportunity to completely immerse myself in it. That may be one of the reasons I really dug it, but it was good. Also, at one point near the end of the book, the lights went out at my house and scared me half to death!
Wireman’s awfully likable, isn’t he?
I think it’s interesting that the main character is rolling in dough. Have Steve’s memories of poverty grown too faint to be useful anymore? He’s probably been a millionaire for thirty years now.
I still remember reading Salem’s Lot when it first came out. Late at night. During one of the chapters where the vampires were banging on the windows to wake up little Richie, one of my kids woke up crying. Scared the crap out of me.
The protagonist recounted some of his lean and hungry days in the book, before he ‘made it’. I figured it paralleled SK’s own track. Rich, powerful, nearly killed in an accident.
Hooray! Finally another good spooky King novel. I guess I’ll shell out the cash for it. I couldn’t get into Lisey’s Storey and The Cell bored me.
I used to love reading his stuff and getting so into it that everything would set me off. While reading the short story Gramma I tuned out everything around me and didn’t notice that a severe thunderstorm had started building. At one point in the story lightening crashed and simultaneously thunder crashed outside my house. I threw the book across the room and couldn’t calm down for about 10 minutes.
I loved it too. At first blush, one of his best, I think. I thought it was very effective. Nicely spooky, good characterization, and no bloat. The writing itself is fine too. It’s not often that King comes up with quotable stuff, but there’s some good craft here.
I haven’t heard any negative comments about Duma Key, unlike his last few books.
I have it, but I have to finish Colleen McCullough’s *The October Horse * and get through *Antony and Cleopatra * first, otherwise all those Roman names start to run together and I forget who is who.
King has gotten out of control with the accident stories. This is, what, the fifth book in a row that’s a thinly-veiled roman-a-clef for his own accident?
Yet another “magic negro.” King is starting to sound like David Duke in reverse.
Potato Pancakes, yep. I’m a longtime fan who was disappointed with Lisey’s Story. I managed about 50 pages and put it back on the shelf. Duma Key is “old King”, without the self-indulgence.
TLDR, which five books were about his accident? I’m drawing a blank here.
I haven’t read a ton of his books, but from what I have read this doesn’t seem to be a overwhelming theme.
The main characters in Pet Semetary, Misery and Salem’s Lot were successful and well off. Poverty was essentially a non-factor in The Stand. I’m not sure it’s really a cliche in his works which appears to be the implication.
No, I just think it’s interesting. This character has an ability to handle his problems differently because of his wealth, and that’s okay. I think Steve deserves to be a millionaire. But it’s been a while since there was a character constrained by his financial situation in the way that most of us are.