Self Evaluation

In the beginning I was really insecure about the whole setting of the book. It was a type of book that I have never really liked to read before but when I first got started I got engrossed with it. It takes some time to get in the actual ’reading mode’ because the author has written the book in a way that makes it a bit heavy to read, but not too much. I really like the way that he has composed the sentences and the way that he goes into details without describing too much. When authors write to many details it sometimes gets too boring and the concentrations slips away. When it’s hard to read a book it isn’t fun to read and what is the point in reading then? I think that Stephen King has managed to write a book where he balances this fine line in a way that he and few others can.

Another thing that I like about this book is the characters and the way he describes them and uses their personality to make a good plot. The characters behave in a way that is important to the things that are happening in the book and it makes the book more understandable when you know the person you’re reading about.

The plot itself is really something special. To make up the complex characters and the plot probably needs a lot of thinking. Everything is put nicely together and everything fits. There is a lot of foreshadowing and every little detail fits. To make an example we can take the classic “gun on the shelf” scene. It’s like the family who is sitting in the cabin and then we read about the wife moving the gun further away while getting the glasses. Later on in the book the man shoots his wife with the gun that earlier in the book lay on the shelf. It’s not actually like that in the book, and it is not so specific about it, but you know that when you read about something it’s going to affect something later in the book.