To begin with, this book introduced me to a story line that I have never seen before. It is basically like a typical roller-coaster ride, at the beginning you feel a bit tense, then you start swinging around, around the corners there are steep hills and shallow slopes and sometimes you don't even know what to anticipate. This perfectly describes the story of the book. You never know what will happen, because Stephen King is the kind of writer which can make you addicted to a book. Once you start reading it you think about it at work, at class or even washing the dishes. This is exactly what happened to me. I could not have forgotten the book up until I ended it.
Furthermore, the setting is very interesting both for a history lover and for an american culture freak. Throughout the book there is just so much information and tiny bits of stories that happened during that period of time that it certainly forces the reader to continue on going into the history of that certain historical period. All I can say that the story is very heavy of american content. Throughout the whole book names like "coca-cola", "Vietnam" and "Dr. Pepper" are repeated numerous times. And it's not just these particular names. The names of famous political figures and superstars are also mentioned a lot. Places in which the story will take place are fictional, but american,down to their roots, towns with old american folks and houses with people dreaming an american dream in them.
Finally, the characters are the driving force of the story. And the amount of that force is huge. There are a lot of character and each one of them are created with, I must admit, a touch of genius. I don't want to say much about the characters but there is one thing that is worth mentioning about the protagonist: he is an English teacher. And the synthesis of extra-terrestrials and an English teacher gives an amazing result, because the the reader starts thinking:"If this particular fellow can get extra-terrestrial powers...So can I !". There are various types of relationships between the characters, like love stories, arguments and even scrimmages but they all feel needed in the book. From the side of characters the book is perfect.
To sum everything up "The dead zone" is a book that every horror fan must read. It is not as frightening as the more popular creation of Stephen King called "The shining" but this book is much more than worth reading. The story is phenomenal, the characters are vivid and the setting is just marvelous. Of course there is more than that, but with only these three aspects mentioned the book is already close to perfection.
The essay is well structured and informative, ut while reading it I had a fealing that you did not read it before posting. There are some very stupid mistakes like "your" instead of "you", "writer" when you probably had in mind "writers", and you have repeated "the" two times in a row.
AtsakytiPanaikintiCommented by Romuald.