Hello everybody, here. Welcome back to another book review. Today we are doing the most anticipated book for me at least of the year and that is Stephen King's The Outsider. Boy, the material of this book was good. Right off the bat, I'm going to bring up a couple things. There was a lot of hull of blue over whether or not this was the fourth Bill Hodges book, which was, as you've read the Mercedes trilogy, it was impossible for that to be that. Holly from, I don't think this is any big spoiler at this point. Holly from The Hodges books is in this book, but this is not a book about Holly Gibney. This, she just happens to be in this book and she was in the Bill Hodges trilogy, whatever you want to call it. This is a complete standalone. Now while we're on that subject, there are going to be some spoilers in this book for the Mercedes trilogy or the Hodges trilogy, whichever you want to call it. I'm going to call it the Bill Hodges trilogy. There are some spoilers in this one regarding that series. So if you plan on reading that series, I do suggest unfortunately read that series before you jump into this one. I'm not going to go into spoilers for this book when I do my Thursday theorist video for this one, which we will be getting to in roughly about seven weeks. When I do that, then we will get into the spoiler territory. This book, I'm pretty sure at this point is in my top five Stephen King novels. One am I going to be replacing? If you guys watch my top five Stephen King books, I'm going to be replacing this as bumped off the wastelands. I was on the fence, I was going to bump off bag of bones or the wastelands. I think I'm going to bump off the wastelands for this one. This book is so much fun. From beginning to end, it is dark, it is disturbing. And yes, it is a horror novel. It is a detective story, but it is most definitely a horror novel. There is some of the creepiest stuff that King has ever written is in this one, because I cannot express enough how happy I am about this book. This just goes to show you, and the guy has written over 60, published over 60 books at this point in his career, and he is still trying new things, he is still doing new things. There are some things in here that just puts it way up there as far as Stephen King's storytelling ability. There is a story within a story that I really, really like. There is a character that comes in late in the game called A Claude, both in I believe it is, and his mother, Lovey, Lovey tells a story in here that is just as good as any of Stephen King's short stories. The lore, the reasoning for the villain in this one is unique. I have never heard anything like it before. There is so much great stuff in here, but I don't want anybody to think, oh this is a return to form for King. This is not Old Stephen King. This is the best, probably this and revival are the best of New Stephen King. This is the later years, whatever you want to call it, the winter of his career kind of deal. But this definitely a top five brand new favorite, I am jumping right back into it, and audiobook of course, because Will Patton is narrating it. I am going to jump right back into it, right, go tonight. I am going to finish this afternoon and do this video and jump right back into the audiobook. So, have you guys read it, what do you think? You are not going to get any higher recommendation from me than all five stars, if I could give it more, I would, six, ten stars, whatever, all that, baloney. I do not wait for the paper bag, I do not wait for a second hand thrift stop by, this is one of his best books go out and buy it. Did you read it? Did you like it? Let me know in the comments below. But until next time, I have been ea, you have been ea, this has been a damn good Stephen King book. I will talk to you guys later. Bye bye.