A review by ibunnygirl
Lisey's Story by Stephen King

Did not finish book. Stopped at 7%.

Like every other King book I have ever read (Misery, Cujo, The Shining, It) I find his books so extremely, unusually waffly, pretentious and just pointless, utterly unengaging, that’s it’s just not worth the effort. His prose drags on and on interminably and never goes anywhere. He sentences often appear to be several sentences tacked on the ends of themselves, all saying the same thing repeatedly. His characters are so boring and dull that I’ve forgotten who they are three pages after they have been introduced. He is the most boring, painfully, stultifyingly boring, writer I have ever read. Easily so. The furthest I have ever got in any of those books was about 50% and that took me months, literally months, because I just wasn’t getting anything out of it at all. I don’t know or care who anyone is on page 40? Sorry, I’m out. By page 11 I had already reached the stage where my eyes were moving across the words but nothing was going in my brain. By page 26 I had reached the stage where I was having to force myself to continue. By page 34 I was groaning aloud. Who cares? About anyone in his books or anything that happens on them? I know many do, but I don’t. 

I will never “get” this author. I just won’t. It’s weird because I love horror but….i truly don’t get King. It’s on me. It’s a me thing. I know.

I promised myself I wouldn’t try again with this author but I got this book in Abominable 

I’m sorry. I just *can’t* read any more 

I’d literally get more out of reading an old school phone directory is how boring and pretentious I find this author.

I’m sorry. I just…no 

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