I decided to do a little King catch-up – I got excited about it after our big Stephen King conversation here the other day. Found a copy of Rose Madder
That’s the thing. When they’re good, they’re good. And it’s like … you literally cannot put it down.
I have not read Rose Madder, by the way – so please don’t spoil it! I have NO idea what will happen.
Although now it is becoming apparent that there is something, shall we say, odd about the painting she bought in the pawn shop … and it seems to be … shifting within its frame … either zooming out … or moving back … who knows … It’s damn creepy, whatever it is. Imagine looking up on the wall at a painting you love, and suddenly seeing something coming in from one side that was never there before. As though the “camera” had moved over 5 inches, to see what was beyond the frame.
There are only a couple or three of his novels that I haven’t read, and Rose Madder is one of them. I’ve got a copy I bought, probably at a secondhand store like you, but it’s on that shelf of books that I own and mean to read one day….