![]() ![]() ''Detective novels and horror movies: those were the things that floated Jonesy's boat,'' Mr. And it is Jonesy who sounds most familiar. ![]() King's ''It'' and ''Insomnia'') who reunite for what will prove an alien-plagued hunting trip, it is Jonesy who will have the toughest fight. Of the four old high school friends from Derry (site of Mr. ![]() ''It only knows how to stand its ground and fight until it can fight no more.'' ![]() ''The body is either stupid or infinitely wise, but in either case it is spared the terrible witchery of thought,'' one of the book's characters reflects at the end of the War of the Worlds that is furiously set off here. In this craftily phantasmagoric story about dreams, telepathy and extraterrestrials, the emphasis is less on fear than on the shared will and capacity to survive. But beneath all that, there is also a new urgency. King supplies enough spooky effects and space aliens to meet his usual quota of weird frissons and throws in enough messy gastrointestinal side effects to keep this book from seeming to have gone soft. Now, in the big, dynamic novel that is his first since being grievously injured, it's possible to see how that accident changed his definition of horror, too. In 1999, as he explained in ''On Writing'' last year, a reckless driver on a Maine road changed Stephen King's life. ![]()
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