Stephen King Biography

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Stephen Edwin King is a man of many best selling literature/fiction books. King was born on September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine (Ramsey). King has a stepbrother named David Victor, who was adopted by King’s parents two years before King was born. Donald Edwin King, Stephens dad, later abandoned his family; he never showed up again. King found out that his father has been an aspiring writer (Ramsey). The King’s family moved quite a bit in the next nine years, and they settled down in Maine around 1958 (Ramsey). During that time, King started to submit short stories to magazines. In 1963, with the help of his counselor, Kings got a job at the Lisbon Enterprise, where he wrote about high school sports (Ramsey). Kings wrote two short stories …show more content…

Mercedes.” Brian Truitt said “with an accidental gumshoe and a freaky serial killer, Stephen King’s new novel, Mr. Mercedes, takes the old detective genre in an excellent, modern diction” (Truitt). That critical review sounds like a great one; Truitt is praising Kings work. The book has another great review from Preston Jones, which says “Mr. Mercedes derives much of its queasy power from King’s ability to pull readers inside Hartfields claustrophobic existence, a veritable incubator of banal evil” (Jones). He, too, is praising King’s work. The third critical review is from a Kirkus review, which states that “King’s familiar themes are all here: There’s craziness in spades and plenty of alcohol and even carnival, King being perhaps the most accomplished coulrophobia at work today...it’s nicely dark, never predictable and altogether entertaining” (Kirkus). All of these positive reviews tells one that “Mr. Mercedes” should be an interesting read. Overall, I am looking forward to all sorts of surprises from this detective/mystery book.
Detective Hodges is a retired detective; he is one of the main characters in “Mr. Mercedes.” Detective Hodges progressed throughout the story. In the beginning of the story, he was in a bad shape. Detective Hodges has been in his house for quiet awhile. He has been playing with his “.38 Smith & Wesson M&P revolver” (15), watching “Channel Seven” (15), he watches “this show every weekday since his retirement from police force” (15), and drinking beer. That would not be called a healthy lifestyle; instead he is a couch

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