Book of the Day
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Started reading this over the weekend, will be a slow read as it's usually just before bed, but it's the first fiction book that's grabbed my interest based on the description in quite a while:
In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says. “You check in, but you don’t check out.”In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don’t, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute.
As psychically terrifying as Firestarter, and with the spectacular kid power of It, The Institute is Stephen King’s gut-wrenchingly dramatic story of good vs. evil in a world where the good guys don’t always win.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/e…I've got other books in in various states of reading, but my most ones aside from this that I've actually started are:
- I'll check it out. As a Stephen King fan growing up, his newer stuff always fell flat for me. Hopefully this is better.monospaced
- It was typical King. Ultimately a bit predictable and the "twist" at the end was totally unnecessary. Not close to his best work, but better than some.monospaced