I used to read Stephen King, as fast as I got the cash together to buy second-hand copies of his books while I was in high school. Lately, I've read some of his newer books (e.g. "22/11/63").
His newer books, compared to my "king memory" are less horror books and more novels that have an odd twist to them - no killer dogs or evil clowns.
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| #3 - Bill Hodges Trilogy |
"End of Watch" is the third (and final) book of the Bill Hodges trilogy. The basic storyline is of a young man who is fascinated with pushing other people into suicide - he runs a car through a crowd of people, killing several, and then plays a sadistic game of taunting the owner of the car used in the killing until she commits suicide ("Mr. Mercedes"). He also plans to commit suicide at a concert and take as many with him as he can ("Finders Keepers"). The end of that story results in him becoming brain damaged and comatose for a number of years.
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| #1 - Bill Hodges Trilogy |
End of Watch has him discovering that he can inhabit people, even though his own body is damaged. He uses this "power" to, again, coerce suicides, and plans to complete, or continue his mass murder plan from book 2.
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| #2 Bill Hodges Trilogy |
All in all, each story stands alone, and enough reflection is provided to allow non-sequential reading of the stories. All three books were fast and interesting reads, though maybe not as haunting as I recall his older works (though I was also much younger at that time).
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