 Hello everybody, E here welcome back to another book review as you can see by the backdrop We are in front of the King's shelves. So today video today's video is Stephen King themed or more aptly Richard Bachman themed. This is going to be a spoiler-free review of thinner The fifth Richard Bachman novel and the last Bachman book before Stephen King was outed this one is This one is important to me now because I have read it three Times before this is my fourth time through it. This is the quickest I've ever read the book. I read it over the course like three or four days something like that Usually takes me about a week two weeks to read it and I absolutely loved it this time around I don't know what happened. I don't know what has changed in my life to make me appreciate this book more now I read it back when I was a teenager read it in my early 20s I read it again in 2015 when I did the complete Stephen King reread which I'll be doing again in 2020 I'll probably be doing it every every five years or so But and if that sounds the same insane you guys don't realize how big of a Stephen King fan I am But every time I read reread his stuff, I find something new I find something different Usually my opinion of the book as a whole changes completely and that's what happened this time It took four times for me to read this book before I actually Before I actually enjoyed it this time. I loved every single page of it. It was fun. It was a blast Sections that I found myself loathing and wishing would end the last time I read this in 2015 I adored this time through like Janelle's I don't want to like I said this is spoiler-free But Janelle's whole section that part used to bore me and this time I was on the edge of my seat Which is hilarious because you know, I I knew what was coming the the last Couple chapters of this book fills me filled me with dread. I had a great horror experience Which is funny because I just got through saying in another video that I don't think Stephen King is a very good horror author He's a great author great storyteller great character Drama writer all that stuff But his horror seems to lack this time He actually bothered me with some of the dream sequences and things like that and of course at the end the item What the item does at the end that that kind of got to me and I'll talk about more I'll go in more detail in my Thursday theorist video. Of course. This is not my Thursday theorist video So you don't expect spoilers But expect spoilers over there in that video One of the things that stood stood out to me a great deal upon This reread is how good the writing is you can tell that there's a huge difference Between those first four Bachman books rage the long walk road work and the running man There's a huge difference in the writing between those books and this book by this by this time King has found his voice. There is no fooling anybody He sounds like himself this very much feels like a Stephen King book Less than it feels like a Richard Bachman book and this is the one and only King book I feel even when I didn't appreciate it was one of those Bachman books that I thought should have been a Stephen King book now Oddly enough this like I said, this is the last Bachman book before King was out if you go on to publish two more The regulators which is a companion novel to debt to the King novel death Desperation and then blaze which was a trunk novel. He told everybody that it was a trunk novel in the at the beginning of the book but Oddly enough misery was supposed to be a Richard Bachman book but King was outed before that book got published because he was going to be publishing it and Misery it under the King name and misery around the same time As a Bachman book and that would have been interesting This Friday tomorrow roughly I'm not sure it's just going up on Wednesday and Thursday, but this Friday I will be doing the top five Stephen King books I feel should have been Bachman books because there's only one Bachman book that I feel should have been a King book But there are numerous Stephen King books. I thought should have been Bachman books this one It's it's funny also that this book feels like two separate books. There is a definite line in the sand Where the first half of the book goes by and it has one tonal quality and then the second half of the book Completely shifts gears and feels like a completely different book You are kind of removed from the situation toward the end Which I thought was brilliant this time around and I caught the reasoning for that Because of what the main character goes through Billy Halleck Halleck I'm not sure What he goes through and I thought it conveyed it perfectly and I finally see this time I finally see why so many people love and adore this book especially literary minded people because the the themes are strong They're heavy in this one, but one of the best parts about it is the tonal quality The stuff what King gets across with subtext with the feeling overall of the characters and how there's that drastic shift once Bill Billy, you know kind of Realizes what he has to do to get on with you know get on with the getting on kind of deal I don't like I said I want to get into too many spoilers But what did you guys think of thinner? Let me know down in the comments below Please no spoilers, but until next time I have any you've been you this been another book review Yeah, not Thursday Thursday. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye