Updated January 26, 2012: I posted the following review in the early days of my blog, before I had discovered the rich community of book bloggers; in those days I had many lonely posts. I've changed the review only slightly, and just added it to The Stephen King Project, a new reading challenge hosted by Natalie from Coffee and a Book Chick and Kathleen from Boarding in My Forties. Although this review is probably best understood by others who have read Duma Key (I use words and phrases employed by the author in the book, in an attempt to be humorous), if you haven't read the book, I hope it will stimulate your desire to do so. At the end of this post, I mention Lisey's Story, a chunkster I have on my shelf but have not yet read. I also plan on ordering It very soon from Amazon, and will read and review it in 2012. After this review posted originally, I read a non-fiction work by Stephen King, and aspiring writers may wish to stop by my review of his book about writing, On Writing: Are You Serious?