Whatever the reasons, ROADWORK eventually slipped through the cracks for me and was largely forgotten. But then again King was only 25 years old himself when he wrote the darn thing. Was I simply too young or naive to connect with and enjoy the book? Perhaps. And I wasn’t crazy about the storyline of the book either - “A Novel of the First Energy Crisis”? No, thanks. Something about the character of George Bart Dawes himself that failed to reach me. There was something about the book’s voice that failed to reach me. I promised myself I would remain honest at all times while taking this journey, so my answer here is a simple one: I tried to read ROADWORK. So…why didn’t I read ROADWORK when news first hit many moons ago that Richard Bachman was actually Stephen King? After all, I gobbled up the other Bachman books - THE LONG WALK, RAGE, THE RUNNING MAN, THINNER - and enjoyed them all to varying degrees. (And, nope, I’m not going to tell you the other one, but you are all welcome to guess, of course.) ROADWORK is one of two Stephen King novels I had never read before. Because, for ROADWORK, there simply wasn’t a “That Was Then…”
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
May 2023
Categories |