Book Review: Desperation by Stephen King
Desperation by Stephen King
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
Another audiobook, another Stephen King – read again by Stephen King.
This story is more typically Stephen King, in the classic monster, blood, guts, scary impossible situation.
Desperation is a small mining town in the middle of Nevada. 4 groups of people get swept up by a larger than life cop. When they arrive at the town, they realize everyone has died. Follow escape, pursuit, and most things not being what they appear.
This was the type of King that many think of when they think Stephen King. Though the story was straight out of a 2am movie, the suspense was thick and if you look past parts of it, there is something there about the good of man verses the evil of man, or even man’s innate ability to do both good and evil at the same time.
King’s reading is again nasally and voice characterizations thin. He reads at a fine pace and meter, but his characters are all “Stephen King”.
This book also ties into the Dark Tower series, but in a very tertiary way, almost as an afterthought.
