I liked the characters, for the most part, especially the key characters of Elizabeth and Wireman and Jack, the people that help Freemantle discover the solution to the mystery of Duma Key.īut I didn’t like the way the novel went bad. I also liked the scenery: set in the Florida Keys, in a salmon-colored beach house that the hero calls Big Pink, there are wonderful descriptions of the Gulf, of walks on the beach, of overgrown greenery, of grand old Florida houses. I love when King is able to describe what it’s like to make art, to feel the need to make art, and especially the down side of it: the emptiness and exhaustion that come after working on art, the constant self-doubt and that nagging belief that these people only like your work because they like you. I loved that the main character, Edgar Freemantle, is an artist. Well, now I’ve read it, and: it’s not one of my favorites. Which, actually, is probably entirely appropriate. And in terms of book format, I didn’t like it. Maybe that’s the reason, actually: maybe Duma Key sat on the shelf for so long because it’s not a hardcover we bought it in mass market paperback, and what’s more, we bought one of those tall paperbacks – the “Summer beach read” edition, I’ve seen them labeled. My wife and I read every Stephen King book, and we generally get them and read them within a year or so of publication this is one author we are willing to pay full hardcover price for. For some reason it took me a while to get to this one.
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