Thinner [UNABRIDGED]

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Summary: Thinner the Seaman Way
Review: Thinner by Stephen King, a chilling novel that is bound to break your soul and captivate your knowledge of every day life. Billy Halleck was an ordinary man, lawyer and successful business typhoon. The man even had the whole deal, a family, nice house, and an extra 200 unneeded pounds. Personally the book really took me down for a knockout. The deep detail our famous author brings us really makes you think. Of course as the reader some sort of jealousy comes into place when a fat man has everything including an ego almost as big as him. It¡¦s only human to want him to fall, or shall I say ¡§shrink.¡¨ When I read a novel I want to be hooked, I want to actually crave the next page and unfortunately many novelists today just can¡¦t fit that description. This book does, and does it so well that you can actually see Billy as he shrinks to nothing and feel his anxiety grow with every page. Quote on quote p.236 ¡§WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME¡¨ is just evidence of Billy¡¦s desperation, useless desperation that is. A great example of this and a favorite even, Billy desperately and bravely begged the gypsy daughter for forgiveness and to release the horrible curse off of him. Unfortunately that was returned by a sling shot rock splicing through his toothpick hand, but you get the idea.

Hmmm, through this whole review I¡¦ve been trying to get this one point across, this one idea that is basically the message of the author. ¡§Don¡¦t take life for granted¡¨, call it a theme, a bible verse, even call it a really over weight man who had everything and lost everything all because of his ego and poor morale values. The important thing is learn from it, yes learn from a fiction book. Everything is derived from something and if you look deep inside this novel you¡¦ll find some truth. On a personal level I definitely have witnessed many rich kids go down hard because their just rude or think that they are better than everyone else. That¡¦s why I really relate to this novel, not because I crashed into a gypsy or got a curse, but because I looked deep down and saw the morale¡¦s that King is trying to display.

I¡¦ll be honest, this book isn¡¦t for everyone. If you¡¦re the type who gets your jollies off reading boring text or non fiction books and aren¡¦t ready to open your eyes and look beyond the literature and phony plot than NO, don¡¦t read the book. However if you¡¦re the type of person who likes a good thriller and is willing to except some fake facts for the joy of entertainment while learning a valuable life lesson then get on that horse and check out the book. Either way you really have nothing to loose, other than a trip to the library.

All in all 99 percentile out of 100 on the Seaman Scale, cause no book is perfect ļ