‘All that shit starts
in E.’
This has to be the fastest review I’ve ever produced as I finished
reading the book just a couple of hours back. I think it’s probably because I don’t
want to give myself much time to reflect on this book. Stephen King’s ‘Revival’
was selected by the audience in last week’s Readers pick and I present to you,
my views on this haunting and just as thought provoking classic.
So the plot revolves around Jamie Morton, who is also
narrating the entire book as his perspective through life and all that happens
in it. The Morton family is a large happy Christian family where Jamie is the
youngest sibling. His encounter with the Jacobs, the newest minister in the
Methodist church is something that stays with him beyond his wildest
expectation. They develop a kinship right from the day they meet and bond over
Jacobs’ different experiments with electricity.
On an unfortunate and fateful day, due to some personal
trauma Jacobs ends up giving a rather appalling and hateful sermon that ends up
getting him fired. As life moves on, in the following years, Jamie and Jacobs
do cross paths and this encounter is what sets the plot ahead, which of course,
I will let you good people read and enjoy for yourselves.
What I liked most about this book is the intricacy with
which certain parts of this book (if not the whole book) is written. The appalling
sermon that I talked about up there was something I read twice because it was
so well put up, through the perspective of Jacobs and his then state of mind.
This of course shows the mastery of skill of a great author. What kept me most
hooked was to see what could happen of Jacobs’ passion, if I may call it that,
would result into. And with Jamie’s character being one of those with which an
audience relates makes the story all the more believable.
Just a little heads up on the fact that this book does
contain certain contentious and arguable topics which may hurt or question your
opinions on religion and the afterlife. But, as the book quotes that ‘too much
knowledge is dangerous’, I personally take this as an interesting read and
nothing more.
Do give the book a shot if you would like some thrills, some
unexpected twists and a lot of shocks! (no pun intended J )
“What’s tough? Life. What’s
life? A magazine. How much does it cost? Fifteen cents. I only got a dime. That’s
tough. What’s tough? Life.”
DETAILS
NAME: Revival
AUTHOR: Stephen King
PUBLICATION: Hodder
DATE: 11th
November, 2014
PAGES: 372
Great way to put it Reema. Keep it up!!
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