Thinner - Stephen King

Those of you who have read my opinions before will know that writing a fiction-book review is a bit of a shift for me. Although I read quite a lot I do not feel that I could do most books justice. I can think of little to say without just giving a précis of the author's entire work. This would do no writer justice!! So how come this one?....................... We were in the queue at Asda and there was a pile of one of Stephen King's latest books. HE asked if me if I had read it, I said that I hadn't and we popped it in the trolley. There were the inevitable long queues, where we always happen to pick the WRONG queue, i.e. the one that ...

It took me a little over a week to finish this book, which is darn good for me, it's a little different than most of his other books, some people will probably like that, since sometimes it can take about 300 pages for the action to start happening. Throughout the course of this book, we are faced with characters dealing with moral dilemas(nice cars those dilemas!). The book's main character, Billy Halleck, accidentally kills an old Gypsy woman in the road while his wife is performing a certain sexual act on him. Then the woman's father curses him, he starts to lose loads of weight until he's nearly a human skeleton, but no one believes that ...

Another Stephen King book which is a bit on the thin side, but unlike “The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon” it has a story line more like what you would expect of Stephen King. It’s basically about a very lawyer called Billy Halleck who was confident that the area in which he lived in would soon be free of those pesky Gypsies as the patrol guys were on to them the day they arrived. He never thought for one minute, whist in his car along with his wife he would be hitting one and fatally injuring them with his car, then again he would never have thought his wife, who was quite prude, would endure a sexual act upon him whilst he was driving. ...