This book has been recommended to me over and over and over again, but I can’t really see why. There are things I do like about the book but there are also a lot I didn’t like. My main issue with this book is I think Stephen King was trying way too hard to write a metaphor and that didn’t really help this book tell a decent story. I’ve been lucky to read a decent western style book recently in [b:The Sisters Brothers|9850443|The Sisters Brothers|Patrick deWitt|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1291999900s/9850443.jpg|14741473], so I think that this book feel really short when comparing the two. The writing style of this book was one of the things I really did enjoy, King’s prose were bleak and matched the book style perfectly, I was just never sucked in completely.