This was not an enjoyable read. I could occasionally sense the bones of one supporting the garish and confusing framework of Lisey's Story, but it just couldn't support the weight of the weirdness of it all. As a habitual lover of all things weird, I should have loved this too, but it was ultimately too bogged down with painfully slow revelations, and invented "smucking" slang. Apologies to King, who says this is his most personal work. 2/5