 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another book review. This is not a Thursday theorist. That's coming later on. Tomorrow I imagine, depends on when I upload this video. But today we're in front of the King's Shells, so it is King-themed. But today we are not talking about Stephen King, we are talking about Tabitha King. This is her debut novel, Small World, released in 1980, and it has a blurb on the front from Peter Straub that says, Suspense so clever it could cut your skin. He is so utterly full of shit, it ain't even funny. This book is probably one of the top five most boring books I have ever read. It has whole sections with people just walking around. Long drawn out sections people talking about traveling plans. Long drawn out sections of people talking about flight times. Long drawn out sections of illusions to sex. Some sex. Just the most boring crap you could possibly think of. All of it's in this book. There are two really good scenes in the book that happens somewhere around the midway mark and somewhere around the end of the book. There are some pretty good scenes. I did nowhere near good enough to make up for all the rest of this. And as far as the suspense so clever it could cut your skin. What book did you read Peter Straub? I don't understand it. Is it because he is your friend's wife or did you read the same book that I did? I don't understand it. This book's bad and not just bad in like an amateurish way. Because the writing in it is pretty good. We're gonna talk about that more in a second but it's just nothing happens and the stuff that does happen is just boring. It's literally the daily lives of these individuals with a little speculative fiction tied on. I mean it's it's really hard to spoil this part of the book when it's on the cover but it's about a person that gets shrunk or about a shrinking ray called the minimizer which is a running joke throughout the book. Yeah it's one of those books where I just could not wait until it was over. That's unfortunate. Now do I regret reading it? Hell no and you'll find out later on when when you watch my Thursday Theorist episode but if for no other reason the Thursday Theorist connection made this worth the read. Now as far as the the writing is concerned this book reads very familiar. Familiarly? No that's not a word is it? I don't know. I'm a writer. I'm a writer. That's even better. I'm a writer y'all. This it really does feel like a Richard Bachman book. Even with it being as boring as it was especially with it being as boring as it was it felt like a Bachman book. And the writing I went back and I put some passages side by side man and I'm telling you they were pretty damn close and I've long said that the Bachman books don't feel like Stephen King books and that's I know this is a hell of a stretch but what if Tabitha is the one who wrote the Bachman books? What if that's the reason those books feel that that removed from King's catalog? Now later on you know like after dinner you know with blaze and the regulators those feel like King books even dinner dinner feels like King book but those first four books man they really do feel different from King's output and I thought it was just because his stuff was you know it was so early on his career but I'm wondering if husband and wife didn't either worked really close together on these books or if Tabitha is actually Richard Bachman who knows we'll probably never know I'm probably way off base but also I mean later on in his career you can't tell Joe Hill and I've done this with Stephen King fans I've given them a passage and said hey is this Stephen King and they're like yeah that's definitely Stephen King and it was actually either Joe Hill or Owen Hill now Owen not Owen Hill Owen King now Owen's a little easier to tell apart from his dad but modern-day King reads exactly like Joe Hill's work and I believe it's because this family pretty much just works on each other stuff that's my that's my theory anyways either that or you know Joe might be working on some of King's stuff I know he came up with the ending for what was it Dark Tower 11-22-63 I know Joe Hill came up with the endings for those or certain concepts or whatnot but anyways have you read Small World by Tabitha King did you like it I have some friends who say they like her more than they like Stephen King and if but if this is anything to go on no I'm sorry I didn't care for this much at all I do love the Thursday there's the Dark Tower connection I found in this book it's a damn near a hard connect to which is pretty awesome but if you read the book let me know what you thought of it don't just say it sucks or it's amazing don't say that I can't stand that give me some reasons for why or I'll just you know ignore your comment but anyways until next time I have any you've been you this been another book review I'll talk to you guys later bye bye