 Hello everybody, E here welcome back to another Stephen King book review today. We are talking about The dead zone. Are you ready to piss off some Stephen King fans? Oh, yeah Okay, so the dead zone Not a big fan of this book or the movie although I love Christopher Walken and I love stories about psychics Especially in the Stephen King universe the issue I have with this book is As follows the book is never as good as it is in the beginning when Johnny and what's her name Susan? I believe there's a lot of Susan's in the Stephen King universe I hope I got that right. Maybe it's a Sarah. No. Anyways moving on. I can't be bothered to remember her name only reason I remember Johnny Smith is because I Mean John Smith how much more generic can you get? also the The whole plot toward the end And we're gonna talk about this not in-depth, but we're gonna go into it a little bit The whole plot with the assassination and everything it the book just gets worse and worse as it goes along for me It has nothing to do with the politics. It just that that kind of thing Bores me to death. It's another reason why I don't like 1120 263 But we'll get to that in that review With this one you have the opening with the carnival one of my favorite tropes some subgenres Whatever you want to call it is amusement parks carnival circuses all that kind of thing And then you have Johnny's accident I'm gonna try and keep away from spoilers here. So if you're looking for a spoiler-free review I'm going to cover the major notes, but not in-depth The book opens with that then Johnny has an accident He goes into a coma and wakes up years later and has this psychic ability when he touches people He sees what's going to happen to them very basic premise The second part of the book is about him helping the police catch a serial killer named Frank Dodd now Frank Dodd is important because he is mentioned all throughout the castle rock universe Now I believe this is the first Castle rock book not castle rock story maybe but castle rock book if it is the first castle Let's have it. Let's have a discussion about that instead of telling me whether or not you liked the book or hated it or whatever Let's have a discussion about what the first Stephen King story is and then we can debate when we get to needful things If that was really the last we know it's not but anyways This one it gets a little bit Interesting in this one for me, and then it just kind of stops completely And then it reboots Stephen King does this a lot has done this a lot in his career Most recently with the outsider the book changes drastically halfway through the book Billy Summers even his most recent one The the book stops halfway through and restarts he does this quite often but in this one it He doesn't the only time I think he's ever really done that type of story. Well is the outsider and Not really spoiler alert, but just let you know I'm more of a fan of Later Stephen King recent Stephen King than I am of old Stephen King. I think after his accident He unlocked an achievement or something He's just gotten really really good other than the trilogy of trash that was published directly After his accident which was from a Buick egg dream catcher and sell those are absolutely terrible, but This one like I said it starts off really really well And he gets the Frank Dodd part and the Frank Dodd part is rather anti-climactic and then we get to the George Stillson business with all the You know Johnny getting ready to To take on this politician who might be about to bring on the end of the world I don't like that section at all. It just the book again The book gets worse and worse for me as it goes along now the movie The only part of the movie I like are the Frank Dodd sections, which is odd, but anyways But I do enjoy that section of the movie It's kind of like full metal jacket in my eyes because after Go after Gomer pile or pile whatever you want to call him after you know, his story is done I lose interest in the movie after Dodd After his story is finished. I completely lose interest It's a rather short book 400 pages roughly I believe but I Just I don't know what I what I don't like about this one other than it's never as good as it is in the beginning Not that they could have spent the entire book at the carnival or any of that stuff, but his rehab none of none of the stuff Farther on in the book interests me whatsoever Now let's talk about something since all of you guys here seem to watch the Stephen King videos We need to have a discussion It's it's been brought up time and time again about how Especially conservative readers don't like Stephen King anymore because he seems to only write about politics. It's silly It truly is silly because the man has always written about politics ever since his first book Everything he's ever written has some kind of politics badmouthing Nixon badmouthing Bush You know, whatever it might be he badmouts politicians. Yes, especially conservative because that's that's his side of the fence Well, that's not his side of the fence He's he's liberal and conservatives don't like that about him, especially now that there's such a huge divide you got the I'm not gonna go into the politics or any of that stuff here, but it comes off silly that people Constantly complain about him and these are constant readers These are people who supposedly have read all of his books or a great majority of his books People who say that this is one of their favorite books. I've gotten numerous comments in other videos about how they can't stand How he writes about politics now It's usually a paragraph or two. Sometimes it's a little bit more, especially when he does have anything better to say Like in Billy Summers, there's a lot of Trump stuff in there But he has always done this Always I even make jokes every single time I review a book that you know, some people are gonna be chased away When he does it in every book, I don't understand it now I don't care about the politics in this one. That's my least favorite section of the book And I'm I'm wondering Yes, I just called half of you supposedly Half of you silly, but what I mean, where where's the blind spot here? Why? Do you just completely fail to see or notice that he's always done this if you want to If you want to go into detail down there in the comments I don't want this to turn into a political thing But I really want to know where this comes from either it's new readers coming across Stephen King and Only reading the new stuff where he harps on Trump And still it's only at at the most at the very most a page worth of content sprinkled throughout the entire book Also, it's the the utter That was the what's the word here You just ignore Everything that that that he has done beforehand Because the comment is always I wish he would go back to not harping on politics Yet all these all these books have some kind of political opinion in them I don't care which one in fact if you want if you want to bring up a book that doesn't mention politics whatsoever I would love to hear from you also as far as the the rest of the review for this book is That's all I have to say about this book now. I Think I will add this one thing that I get some flak for I think Johnny Smith is a very very weak character I think he's just as generic as his name and there isn't a truly strong character in this book at all There is a decent Villain in Frank Dodd and I much rather would have had an entire book from Frank Dodd's Perspect not about the Frank Dodd case Whereas it starts at the carnival you had the Frank Dodd that Peters out had it been the carnival and Frank Dodd I would have been completely happy But have you read the dead zone you can tell me what you think about it down there in the doobly-doo But until next time I have been a you've been you this has been another Stephen King Book review I'll talk to you guys later. Bye