Stephanie Bryant (USA: NV) (2007/05/19): King's pathos is that he's always writing the same story, and it's usually in one way or another about himself. Sort of. Lisey's Story is not really an exception. It's about Lisey, the wife of a rich and famous, if eccentric, fiction author who taps into the deep pool of interior demons and imagination in order to create his great works. It's a tremendous answer to "where do you get all your ideas?" as well as the best love letter a man could possibly write to his wife, fictionalized or not (truly, Scott's repeated admonitions to Lisey about how important she is to him, how she has saved him time and time again, how she is the core of him.... oh, that we could all find such eloquent men!) The plot, the action of the story, is well-done, as only King can write plot, but this is Lisey's story, so he gives it more cerebral meanderings than his more tightly-plotted action pieces. I enjoyed it very much, and found it tread the line between beauty and horror nicely.
