Review: Stephen King in Utah via Aaron Ross Powell
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 29, 2013
This book is difficult to describe but struck me as a somewhat less verbose version of a Steven King novel. Our heroes start out in Virginia as opposed to Maine but the novel is in some respects a shorter version of epics such as "The Stand". King books always reminded me of short stories with lots of rambling story-telling adding color and texture to fill out a good novel; that is much the same for "The Hole". The book could have been a short story ("World goes crazy. Man and woman meet. Man and woman trek cross-country battling various Other World things. Man and woman finally defeat illogical but horrid Big Other World Thing. The End.") but is much more entertaining as a mid-length campfire tale told well and entertainingly. Like any King novel, a certain amount of incredulity has to be set aside but I found the story to be a good read and good value. If you don't know much about Mormonism, you'll learn a little about that as well.Like a lot of books that were originally essentially self-published, "The Hole" suffers from copy-editing gaffes but fortunately, no where near as many as in some other Kindle books that I have read. A top-notch reading experience all in all capped off by a nicely done note from the author at the end of the book explaining the genesis and evolution of the book. (Ironically, "genesis" is a good word for the book.)I'll certainly be other looking for other Aaron Ross Powell titles down the road.