Hello everyone and welcome to the Stephen King cast One Man's Musings on the Works of Stephen King.

Each week I will review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King and the chronological order of publication.

This week I examine an entry in King's collection that might rank as number one in his least talked about novel category.

In fact, if you have read it, I'm sure that you've probably

forgotten about it. And for reasons that I'll get into throughout the course of this episode,

I believe that this particular novel never latched onto the public the way that many of his

other works did. Like I said, I'm going to be able to get into that into much more detail.

Regardless, this novel is a thematic continuation of his exploration

of domestic abuse, witnessed in Gerald's game, Dolores Claiborne, and most recently with

insomnia. Furthermore, it's the continuation of the high-concept supernatural stories that

begins with insomnia and is followed through with desperation, the regulators, and wizarding

glass, which is the fourth entry in the Dark Tower series, and is insane with imagery.

So the novel that I'm talking about is the triumphant tale of the victim becoming her own hero, a novel about justice and revenge, Rose Matter.

It was as if King decided to take the character of Helen from insomnia and build an entire

story around her.

As I sat down to reread Rosematter, I realized that I didn't remember much about it.

I remembered Norman, the abusive cop.

I remembered the painting, it being an entry to what I believed was midworld from the dark tower, but now I'm not so sure.

I remember a bracelet or a band that went around Rose's bicep, and that's about it.

So I'm just as guilty when it comes to forgetting Rose Matter as anybody else.

This was an interesting novel for me to revisit because it was almost as if I was reading it again for the first time.

And as soon as I was done, I wish I could have forgotten it all over again.

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