But what does the Institute want with them? The answer is revealed piece by disturbing piece. In the halls, he meets other kids like himself, kidnapped children with mostly weak traces of telekinesis or telepathy. When Luke wakes up, he’s in a near perfect replica of his own bedroom, but with one startling difference: there are no windows. His mind has a latent ability that draws the attention of a secret organization known only as The Institute. But Luke’s mind isn’t what gets him kidnapped from home in the middle of the night. Accepted into two colleges at the age of twelve brilliant. “It came to him, with the force of a revelation, that you had to have been imprisoned to fully understand what freedom was.” The cast of characters was beautifully fleshed out and varied. The plot was disturbing and vaguely supernatural without seeming implausible. While I’ve enjoyed everything of his I’ve read at least in part, some of his books are more successful than others. The plots he dreams up, and the characters he creates to populate those stories, are pretty spectacular and always feel original. While I do believe that King would benefit from a harsher editor, and that he often fails to stick that landing with his endings, Stephen King has an incredible mind. Since then, I’ve read a third of his body of work, and I’ve been largely impressed. This has not been a lifelong truth, and my infatuation began a mere 5 or so years ago.
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