Here is a small book that does not seek to change the world or themselves on the top step of American literature. It 's a simple book (for some maybe too simple-minded), a book that is read in one breath and that ultimately does not leave much except the feeling of having read a good book of fiction and nothing more. Written in the darkest period of our beloved King (pre-and post-accident) is presented as a product with all it takes to entertain the reader last minute and make people smile the most experienced and most faithful. The story is simple and bewildering at the same time: a beautiful Buick 8 is left by a mysterious man at a gas station in Pennsylvania and from there taken to the nearest State Police. The problems began immediately. The machine is not a real car but almost a big giocattolone as all controls are fake and the tires spit out any speck of dirt or dust. In addition, each time he decides to give birth to small and large eccentricities asking the boot as reward or animal lives nearby and happened to unknowingly absorbed into an alien world, unknown. The first police officers were surprised, then intrigued and finally take it as a of the many flaws of their hard work. A secret to preserve and hand down a police officer in seamlessly.
defects are mainly two: the translation is not the work of my beloved Tullio Dobner and is perceived by the complete lack of irony and translation from school and almost devoid of verve. Flaw number two: the environment. We understand very well that the King does not know so much so that Pennsylvania does not describe it and do it deliberately because he himself admits to being totally ignorant on this as always used to write to him dear old Maine. But the idea of \u200b\u200bthe book as a tribute was born there and has found it necessary to transplant the roots of history in this country that will remain unknown to us, plus a backdrop of cardboard behind the characters that scenario a real and tangible.
The characters are not too bad, poorly characterized and perhaps a bit 'too much in the lines but otherwise do not disturb the story because the protagonist is almost complete you, the Buick when he decides to get busy lowers the temperature and gives rise to a series of strobe lights and special effects film of the second or third band. Gracious gifts that leads from his strange world, bats, beetles, green earth that smells like lilies and white ... but also the most disturbing things of life that does not reveal and not to damage surprise to those who still have to read the novel. Of course I would have some more explanation Mass: What really is the car? Who is the strange character who abandons the car and disappears after a meteoric figure? What will happen when the Buick all the cops if they are taken care die? Perhaps you think about it, especially when it comes to books of Stephen, the most reasonable thing is not to have too much explanation because sometimes not all that pulls out from its capacious cylinder are valuable, but often prove to be brutally disappointing. The open-ended in this case earns half a point ahead to book, just because everyone is free to give the answers that he likes best.
Finally, a good book.
Rating: 7.5
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