Gerald's Game
Stephen King's books have a mixed appeal for me as I think as I have mentioned before. I believe he is a superb writer and I savor the detail in which he probes into his characters' heads and builds his plots. As a reader I can feel the joy he gets from the process of writing. However I have little interest in the big supernatural elements of most of his stories as I find them difficult to relate to. As such I have never read or seen a lot of his most famous works like The Stand, Pet Cemetary or IT. I have read a lot of his short stories (Different Seasons and Just After Sunset collection), and also really like some of King's more grounded books like Cujo and Misery. I also liked the Green Mile and 11.22.63 for their anthology structure and time travel respectively. In early 1993 I read the recently released Gerald's Game on the recommendation of a friend who devoured King's books as they came out. I thought it was an intriguing story with a great hook (a w