It is almost funny how different early Stephen King books are from some of the latest ones. I have always harped on King for his self indulgent style, for his indecipherable local colloquialisms and the long-winded and sometimes boring family and town histories that he inserts into the his stories. But it seems to me that King was on his game as a young man, and off of it in his middle years, in a way that really kind of redefines the phrase “he's lost it.” Although there were some YA […]<\/a> It is almost funny how different early Stephen King books are from some of the latest ones. I have always harped on King for his self indulgent style, for his indecipherable local colloquialisms and the long-winded and sometimes boring family and town histories that he inserts into the his stories. But it seems to me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[2508,2572,2527,2571,2639,2638],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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