Sunday, December 9, 2018

Elevation by Stephen King

Short little novella that has some of the patented King weirdness along with the should-be-patented King humanity. If you follow King's Twitter, it's not a secret that he is very much against Trump and this novella shows his liberal side, but in a good way.

Scott Carey is a large man with a big front porch (I have never heard a beer belly called that before). But he's rapidly losing weight. Not just losing weight, he's losing gravity. Gravity is loosening it's hold on Scott, more every day. So while he looks like the big man he always has, he's very much not.

His new neighbors are lesbians who have opened a new restaurant in Castle Rock. Despite having fantastic food, customers are very few. Castle Rock doesn't cotton to lesbeans who are married.

How the little town quits being a dick to the lesbian couple, how Scott, Missy, Deidre and Doctor Bob end up together and how Scott loses his battle with gravity....ALL very well written.  Humans are great (except when they are not).


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