I've noticed how good King is in these first three novels at making characters seem so normal, so real. They are worried about things you and I are worried about. These characters could be us, or at the very least, our neighbor.
Which is interesting since the books I've read thus far, Carrie, 'salem's Lot, and now The Shining, were all written about forty years ago. I've read quite a few books from that time period and slightly earlier, and, while many were enjoyable, its much more common that the main characters were not like actual people you may know.
Sometimes, this is intentional, such as in works of fantasy or science fiction, but other times its because the characters seem distant, stuffy or just a product of their time. An anachronistic vestige of modern history that just seems out of place today. And that's all fine.
But I just continue to be amazed at how human, normal and real these characters feel, despite the passage of years since they were committed to paper.
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