I took a call for a weekend last month just to try and recall the whole year.

All of the faces and all of the places wondering where they all disappeared.

I didn't ponder the question too long.

I was hungry and went out for a bite.

Ran into a chum with a bottle of rum and we wound up drinking all night.

It stores changes in attitudes, changes in attitudes, nothing remains quite the same.

All of our running and all of our cunning, yeah, we couldn't laugh with our

Hello everyone and welcome to the Stephen King's musings on the works of Stephen King.

Each week I'll review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King in the chron's musings on the works of Stephen King. Each week I'll review one entry

in the bibliography of Stephen King in the chronological order of publication, and this week I'm

reviewing 2008's work of a man picking up the pieces of his life after a horrific accident,

a tale of second chances and starting over, Duma Key. As you know, in 1999, Stephen King was hit by a van, an accident

that nearly killed him. Clearly, an event like this will fundamentally alter a person, so it's no

surprise that he worked through his near-death experience in the pages of Dreamcatcher, The Dark Tower,

and Lisey's story.

He continues that thread here with Duma Key,

which he sets in Florida, a departure from his usual main locations,

and based on his Floridian winter home that he has shared with Tabitha since the late 1970s.

Duma Key was a novel that I've discussed before on the podcast as being one along with Lise's story that I just felt that when I read them, when they first came out in early to mid-2000s, this one came out in 2008.

I just couldn't get into.

But then again, at that particular point in my life, I was in my early, early to mid-20s.

So in 2008, I was, you know, around 26 years old or so, and I just wasn't really in the right, not necessarily

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