He never fails to dissapoint me. (with the exception of Delores Claiborne)As usual, he reels you in with an intense, easy to read storyline and then lets you die a slow, agonizing death through the last 1/3 of the book. Too sci-fi with the painting. The most horrifying aspects of any of King's novels have been characters/events that can actually exist - THAT is horror. Not some boogeyman/bull in an animated oil painting. He should learn to leave well enough alone instead of going off on a (bizarre) tangent every time.