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Query: Bag of Bones is just that -- slim pickings.

The story is meandering and disconnected. Again King appears to be feeling deeply sorry for himself as a poor-poor multimillionaire author, with another one of his softheaded character authors who gets into highly improbable trouble. This novel seems to have a more than usual high disregard for the reader's feelings (like in Pet Sematary), in that SK is again back to his lame old tricks of killing off just about every good character there is. For shock? Who knows? If there is supposed be a shock value ascribed to this sophomoric treatment of lead characters, it's of the dismally boring variety. I'm just glad I borrowed this book from the library. Though I can't say that valuable time wasn't wasted in reading the sucker.