RH Value Publishing: Thinner King as Richard Bachma (Hardcover, 1987, Random House Value Publishing)
Hardcover
English language
Published March 11, 1987 by Random House Value Publishing.
Thinner is a horror novel by American author Stephen King, published in 1984 by NAL under King's pseudonym Richard Bachman. The story centers on lawyer Billy Halleck, who kills a crossing Romani woman in a road accident and escapes legal punishment because of his connections. However, the woman's father places a curse on Halleck, which causes him to lose weight uncontrollably.
This should have been a short story, if it had to be a story at all. Nothing about this book clicked with me, from the unsympathetic characters to the tedious "action", and King Bachman's treatment of the Romany seemed particularly tone deaf. Usually I enjoy King's work, but I admit I had to skim a lot of this just to make it through. Would not recommend.
4.5 I think. One of my favorite King books. I enjoyed it just as much this time as I did when I was a teen and read it for the first time.
