The Dead Zone

The Dead Zone

1978 • 420 pages

Ratings193

Average rating3.8

15

I don't know how I hadn't read this one. I wanted a book for a road trip, one that would draw me in, be easy to listen to, and make the miles pass by quickly. This book was that.

I've enjoyed Stephen King since I started reading him many years ago. This was classic King, but what I really enjoyed about this one was the internal monologue of John Smith and the idea of consequences. When he's trying to figure out about people believing only after events and not before, and the idea of fate and whether he really can change it. The religion aspect is interesting too - there are no answers, only questions. Did God put Johnny there to do those things? Was his mother actually not entirely crazy?

I'll save up another King for my next road trip, maybe Cujo or Salem's Lot, another two that have passed me by.