If I get drunk, well I know I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be the man who gets drunk next to you.

And if I heaver, yeah, I know I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be the man who's hevering to you.

But I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more just to be the man who walked up Hello,

And one man's

One Man'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

just a note before I get any further. I'm recording this episode in a different location than I

normally do. Typically I'll review these episodes and record them in my basement, but I decided

I was feeling kind of comfortable on my couch upstairs in the living room, so I decided to just pull the microphone upstairs and record from the comfort of the living room.

So it might be a bit more echoy because the space is a little bit more open.

So if it just sounds a little bit different than usual, I apologize. But this week, I will be

examining a novel that I consider a high point in Stephen King's creativity and a point to be made

in the argument to anyone who will argue that he's just a horror novelist.

Clearly, I don't have to convince anyone listening to this podcast that Mr. King is an

incredibly talented individual, but it isn't just talent that makes him who he is.

He's someone that, when asked why he chose to become a writer, has answered that this is what he was born to do.

But he isn't just content in resting on his laurels. He's someone that constantly challenges himself.

And as you can see in the 70 plus episodes I've reviewed so far, he's someone that has reinvented

himself over and over again as evidenced by the different phases of

his career.

It's what has allowed him to be the phenomenon that he's been for the last 40 years.

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