Desperation By Stepen King
Desperation, a recent Stephen King novel, is not just a book, but an experience that leaves the reader frightened, paranoid, and questioning his moral beliefs. Picture, if you will, a lone, crazed Nevada policeman who pulls over vehicles on a lonely desert highway and forcefully takes away their occupants. Whichever of them he doesn't kill immediately, he locks up in the jail of the small desolate town of Desperation. Among those captured are the vacationing Carver family, whose car is sabotaged on its way to Arizona. Already incarcerated is Tom Billingsley, a once well-known member of the now slaughtered community of Desperation. They are soon joined by formerly famous, currently old and overweight writer, Johnny Marinville, who is riding across the country on his Harley-Davidson gathering material for a book of short stories. How to escape Desperation isn't the only unanswered question, though. How could and why would one man single-handedly murder the population of an entire town? How does he have such control over the minds of the animals? Why are they locked up when he could have killed them
Weirder yet, he is growing several inches a day and is bound to burst soon. The overlapping action is interrupted only by flashbacks that allow the reader to sympathize with a particular character's actions or feelings. He tells of how they had started out as "Four Happy Wanderers" as was detailed into the pinstripe of their RV, how they had suddenly blown four simultaneous flat tires, and how they were "rescued" by what seemed at the time like an outgoing officer of the law. The book itself begins with a distressed Mary Jackson shouting "Oh! Oh, Jesus! Gross!" (p. Upon entering the doorway of the police station, the cop puts his arm around Peter and pumps three bullets in his guts while he and his wife stare in disbelief at the figure of a dead little girl, neck snapped, lying crookedly at the base of the stairs. 1) in revulsion upon seeing a dead cat nailed to a speed limit sign along the Nevada stretch of highway 50. They go into such detail of the life-altering experiences of everyone involved that the reader gets a sixth sense as to how the characters will react to certain situations. These flashbacks are so intricate that it is difficult to believe they are fictional at all. On the way there they pass an RV with four flat tires that the policeman flys by as though he doesn't even see it. but he thought the car was white, which meant it wasn't State Police. 6) Soon the little white Acura they are driving is pulled over. After several days his body is falling apart at the seams, and he is bleeding from every orifice. Now the reader is introduced to the Carver family.
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