Oh boy. Ohboyohboyohboyohboy, did I love this book!

I think this is in my top 5 King books. It sums up everything (but horror) that makes King such a great author. You can relate to the characters, there’s a heavy sense of nostalgia, there’s crime (though I will admit that the amount of crime made me wonder why this was a Hard Case book), and it’s a big slice of life book.

It’s charming.

Yeah, that’s the word: charming.

It’s about a college boy who gets a summer job at an amusement park where there may or may not be a ghost but there was DEFINITELY a disappearance/death.

My only critique is that King’s mysteries aren’t so much “mysteries” in the traditional sense where the reader is given enough clues to figure it out on their own. Usually King’s involves a character looking at something and realizing SOMETHING doesn’t seem right but they just can’t put their finger on it until… oh my god, they figured it out. But you, the reader, are not given the clues. You’re one step away from the protagonist and you can’t read his mind.

Which is kind of strange since King’s known for conveying inner thoughts.

Anyhoo, I’d say I don’t like that delivery of a mystery if King didn’t make his books so entertaining.

To be clear: I don’t go to King for Christie stories. I go to King for King stories.

And I REALLY like this older King style of storytelling. It’s more conversational and way more… I don’t know… intimate? It feels like I’m a kid at the foot of my grandfather’s rocking chair next to the fire rapt in the yarn that he’s spinning and that makes King unique and special in my book.

Also, I think this is a PERFECT book to loan to someone who is uninitiated. At this point people will say they haven’t read him because his books are long or they don’t like horror. Neither is a factor here.

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I keep forgetting that although I love movies that are 'beautiful' (in many senses of that word) my tastes run to melancholy. So #Joyland was maybe not the best choice to put on to watch with my boyfriend, who needs a dose of happy at the moment. Stuff me, it was (still) great though and totally worth him being annoyed at me afterwards lol.