About to dive into Sleeping Beauties by Stephen and Owen King. I'm wondering if a lot of it will actually be Stephen's work, or did he just tack his name on his son's work to help him get recognition like James Patterson does with all those YA novels he supposedly writes?
For the most part, it's hard to tell who wrote what---which I guess is a good thing, considering it makes the book flow. However, there are parts where when I was reading, I knew it was a passage Stephen wrote because I know his style so well. As for the book itself, it was all right. It didn't have to be 700 pages, though. It really starts to drag past page 300 or so, but picks up later on. An editor really should have kicked the Kings in the butt for this book because somewhere in this 700-page tome, there's a really god 400- or 450-page novel. Like I said a few pags back (or, at least, I
think I did), something like
It,
The Stand, or
Needful Things had to be long to cover a ot of ground. There wasn't a lot of ground to cover in this book, but the Kings were determined to have it go on forever. What's even funnier is that apparently the book was supposed to be even longer than it is already.