Sunday, March 15, 2015

Revival


I am in the middle of reading Stephen King's new book Revival.  I was on the Denver Public Library's waiting list for 3 months in order to get a copy.  As of today it is due back at the library and can't be renewed, and so I am going to have to pick up the pace to get the final 130 pages read without incurring too much of a fine.  I always have thought of Stephen King as a horror writer, but I am three quarters of the way through the book, and so far nothing horror related has taken place.  The book relates the story of a minister who lost his wife and young child in a horrible accident, left the ministry, and started experimenting with electricity and using it to heal people.  The healing is actually just an excuse to experiment on people.  The narrator of the story was a small boy in the town where the minister preached, and is concerned about some of people who were cured of their afflictions, but with horrible aftereffects.  This narrator doesn't yet know what the minister's ultimate goal is, although given the title of the book, I have a pretty good idea, and intend to find out for sure, despite the possibility of having to pay library fines of up to $2.00.  In other words, money is no object.

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