![]() ![]() Oh, and Johnny has woken up with a new ability: he can touch people and read them, almost, telling them something about their future. ![]() When he wakes up, nothing is like it was: Sarah is married, his father has been praying he'd die, his mother has found a cult-like branch of Christianity to join, and the world has moved on. Long story short, there's a car crash, and Johnny ends up in a coma for the next five years. They have a potential future together – it's tentative but brewing – until they go to a fair one day, and Johnny wins a lot of money playing Wheel of Fortune. Johnny Smith is a teacher, dating a fellow teacher called Sarah. Not that it's any the worse for that, mind you … (Into the dead zone?) Why? Maybe because, structurally, it's easily the strangest book King had, until this point, attempted to write and maybe because, unlike other King (not Bachman) novels of the time, it doesn't really have a bad guy to focus on and drive the narrative. ![]() I had read it, though – I still have the original copy to prove it – but it had slipped from my mind almost completely. ![]() It's the first book that is totally different to my memories of it to the point where I even doubted that I had read it, and hadn't just watched the (admittedly excellent) David Cronenberg movie adaptation too much. The Dead Zone was the strangest experience of my rereading experiment thus far. ![]()
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