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The Colorado Kid
December 11, 2005
Ah, more Stephen King. This is the second book he's published since he supposedly retired, but like his last it's a bit of a departure from his horror pulp. Instead, he's written a murder mystery pulp. The Colorado Kid is the story of a young reporter-in-training and two aging newspapermen from rural Maine who tell her an unsolved mystery. Without solving it. In other words, they set up this whole story and murder mystery, then at the end say "Ayup, and we don't know who done it." I'm pretty sure that in most mysteries, you find out who done it at the end, but not here.
Some may call that spoiler territory, but think of it as more of a public service announcement. I understand what King is trying to say about storytelling and the nature of mystery (which is what the book is really about), but dang, that's annoying.
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