![]() ![]() Yet the ferocious needle-toothed ""shit-weasel"" that escapes from him is only one of three varieties of invader the protagonists, and eventually a black-ops containment force, face: the others are Grays, classic humanoid aliens, and byrus, a parasitical growth that threatens to overtake life on Earth. The first chunk of the text offers a tour de force of terror bound in darkest humor, depicting the arrival at the four guys' remote hunting cabin of a man who's fatally ill because he harbors in his bowels an alien invader. ![]() The action shuttles between present and past, following primarily the tribulations of a band of five males four regular guys from Derry, Maine (setting of King's It and Insomnia), and their special friend, Duddits, a Down's child (then man) with telepathic abilities. ![]() In its suspenseful depiction of an alien invasion, it superficially harkens back to King's early work (e.g., the 1980 novella ""The Mist""), but it also features the psychological penetration, word-magic and ripe imagination of his recent stuff (particularly Bag of Bones). Yet despite its excessive length, the novel one of the most complex thematically and structurally in King's vast output dazzles and grips, if fitfully. So much for the theory that it's word-processing alone that leads to logorrhea. In an author's note to this novel, the first he's written since his near-fatal accident, King allows that he wrote the first draft of the book by hand. ![]()
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