Oh, crackling rose a gate on board, we're gonna ride till there ain't no more.

I'll take it slow.

And, Lord, don't you know,

I'll have me a time with a poor man's lady

Hitching on a twilight train

Hello everyone and welcome to the Stephen King

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.

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 on to the

public the way that many of his other works did like I said I'm gonna 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 to Loris 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 Wizard in Glass,

which is the fourth entry in the Dark Tower series,

and it is insane with imagery.

So the novel that I'm talking about is the triumphant tale of the victim becoming her own

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