Stephen King Revisited

  -Matthew McConkey This book is a great read. Plain and simple. This was King’s first book with Scribner, and what a novel to lead off with. This book has everything: love, loss, redemption, a ghost story, and a murder mystery, all in one.  When I first read this book, I was young. I was 19 a few months before I turned 20. I didn’t know anything about a midlife crisis and certainly didn’t know about losing a spouse. And when I first read the book, I didn’t get it because of my age and inexperience.  As with most of King’s work, especially now that I'm older and more mature, I’m connecting with it on a higher level. And Bag of Bones is one of those books I connected with emotionally. Not only did I connect with Mike, the story's protagonist, but I also empathized with him. Stephen King, to me, puts on a writing clinic, fusing a great story with a fully realized arc that never tires. His use of ghosts, love gained and lost, and a long-ago murder mystery make this book a m...