From a Buick 8

Post Christmas Reading

From a Buick 8 by Stephen King
Greetings in Jesus Name - The Scambaiter Letters by Mike Berry
The Social Life of Information by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid

All three books have been on the go now for a couple of weeks. Ben (son) and Shiv bought me the Scambaiter Letters for Christmas and the Seely Brown + Duguid book was on my Christmas wish list (bought by daughter Emma, for my birthday earlier in December). The Stephen King was one of three I bought when we were away in Reeth for the weekend towards the end of November. This was a £1 charity shop special.

From a Buick 8 by Stephen King ***/10
Anyone who has read much Stephen King will realise that his work can range from the plain weird right through to the downright scary and the quality of his writing can range from really poor to captivating and enthralling. This, another 'car' story is weird and the pace is quite slow. I have found that I got bored reading it for too long in one sitting (unlike Green Mile and the like) but not because the story is uninteresting (I'm nearly done and still don't know what the outcome, whodunit etc. will be) just because the pace is so languorous. Basically it's a car that comes from 'somewhere else' and tries to deliver alien babies (well - you know) all over a country police station. Bottom line? It's one of those Stephen Kings that you're glad you've read (to maintain your opinion that the man must have a really strange mind) but don't want to read again.

More about the other two later.

David