The Mist – Stephen King
Unlike the last review, I actually enjoyed this book a lot. Ever one for a helpfully descriptive title, a mysterious mist does indeed largely feature in the story. Again, the main character is a professional artist (hmm, think I may have forgotten to mention that in the Cell review, sorry).
Following a powerful storm, a family finds their house survived pretty well. Heading into town to pick up supplies, the mist on the lake seems to be moving with some sort of purpose. Arriving at the supermarket, things start to get even stranger. For fans of suspense, I don’t want to reveal much more, other than to say a thick mist can hide the identity of all sorts of strange characters.
If Alex happens to be reading this, leave me a message and let me know what you thought of the book yourself.
June 2nd, 2007 5:29 am
My favourite. 🙂
June 14th, 2008 3:28 am
Just have finished watching the movie (The Mist, 2007). Nice one, though the ending is way too dark, even for King.
Too bad you gave up writing book reviews. 🙁
And, BTW the search box on the 404 page is broken. Try yourself: https://chrismerriman.com/archives/885/ — search there for something.
June 14th, 2008 2:42 pm
I haven’t given up writing book reviews, they are just on a long term break 😉 Seriously, I do intend to finish off the reviews some time, but I still need to catch up on some other categories first.
Many thanks for the heads up on the search box function being broken on 404 pages – I hadn’t spotted that. I think I’ve now fixed that problem 🙂