Of Kings & Countrymen - Debbie Bennett
I'm reading - or rather, forcing myself to read - Stephen King's Sleeping Beauties , co-written with his son Owen King. I used to love Stephen King's books, back in the days of Firestarter , The Stand and It . Back in the days when you didn't have to wade through pages and pages of exposition and asides and irrelevant minutiae. I just about managed 11.22.63 , but since then I've given up, and I doubt I'll get to the end of this book. It sits on my bedside table and I'm even watching Family Guy in bed now, because I can't face picking up the hefty doorstop of a paperback and trying to remember which one of the myriad of characters is in this chapter. I can't even hold it comfortably to read. Why does nobody edit this stuff anymore? Is it because he's such a huge name and the publishers know the books will sell whatever they do or don't do? Is it because of the cut-backs everywhere, the redundancies in the publishing industry and relucta...