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Dolores Claiborne
September 2, 2005
Here's another example of King trying to stretch his literary muscles and do something different, as there's only a smattering of the supernatural and horrific in this book. It's also a great example of how King can get away with hanging a bunch of pointless prose on the too-thin skeleton of a plot. There are huge chunks of this book that serve no purpose and should have been cut. But on the other hand, the title character of Doloris Claiborne is a great piece of work. She's genuinely complex and faced with a set of terrible choices that drastically affect her personality and her future. She's some of King's best work in the realm of character building.
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