Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Novel review: "Mr. Mercedes" by Stephen King

You can read the article here.








Oh, and another thing, an example of "missed opportunity" in regards to this book; there's great potential for paranoia fuel here.  Hodges is being stalked and watched by a psychotic murderer and knows it.  Now, this would put some people on edge.  After all, the guy could be anyone and he could be anywhere.  You'd think that the book would play that up, have him constantly looking over his shoulder and becoming distrustful of people he comes across.  Nope, Hodges couldn't seem to care less.  Even if you go with the argument that Hodges is a cop who's been there and knows not to freak out, you could have had Jerome be the one who's uneasy about being in the wacko's metaphorical cross-hairs and built up some tension that way.

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