Books
November, 1989
Stephen king recently signed a four-book contract for roughly $40,000,000, and The Dark Half (Viking) is the first book. So it's pretty hard to pick this novel up without thinking, OK, Stephen, show me something worth $10,000,000. Within the first ten pages, he gives it his best shot. King takes us through an astonishing scene in an operating room where a malformed eye, part of a nostril, three fingernails and two teeth are removed from the brain of an 11-year-old boy. These are the remains of h...