Björn recenserade The outsider av Stephen King
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It's a bit of a mess. Why King chooses to keep a secret that this is essentially part 4 of the Mr Mercedes thing is beyond me, but while the mashup of detective story and horror story has its points, it also fails to gel properly - the CSI-y obsession with detail kills the terror, the monster never quite gets the focus it could have used, and King constantly seems to flirt with the idea of having an underlying social commentary (similar to what he did so well in Hearts of Atlantis, for instance) but never quite gets there beyond having one character interject a lot of Spanish for no good reason.
That said, King is like pizza and sex; even mediocre, it's better than none, and after a few years apart, I can't help but love the old guy.
It's a bit of a mess. Why King chooses to keep a secret that this is essentially part 4 of the Mr Mercedes thing is beyond me, but while the mashup of detective story and horror story has its points, it also fails to gel properly - the CSI-y obsession with detail kills the terror, the monster never quite gets the focus it could have used, and King constantly seems to flirt with the idea of having an underlying social commentary (similar to what he did so well in Hearts of Atlantis, for instance) but never quite gets there beyond having one character interject a lot of Spanish for no good reason.
That said, King is like pizza and sex; even mediocre, it's better than none, and after a few years apart, I can't help but love the old guy.
