There are certainly no characters on the same level as Randall Flagg. No domes are falling from the sky to trap a town no alien vessels are being uncovered. There are no deep cuts to other characters, and there isn’t anything overly supernatural going on in Jamie’s life. It’s a chronicle, a first-person past journal, and Jamie only focuses on what he considers important to his life story. It’s not about something it’s about someone, in this case, Jamie Morton. Sleep was more a slice-of-life book than anything else, and Joyland is a small story about a college student’s summer vacation job. Yet his last few novels have taken a step back from this norm, giving us something smaller in scope and normalcy. He is, after all, the man that gave us Pennywise the Clown, Jack Torrance, and Randall Flagg (among many, many others). I’ve always associated Stephen King with large plots, tons of characters, and a certain level of crazy that I just don’t get elsewhere.
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