That was what happened to Billy Halleck, an intelligent overweight lawyer. Then an idea was born what it a person could not stop losing.ight Like me, he didn't just lose the weight, he reacted to it I made a game of losing more and more weiht and he didn't really want to lose it. I have read that after getting over his anger, Stephen King did lose weight, he started to realize that there was something that made him want to hold onto the weight that he lost. At one point you have to listen to reason and stop. And I loved the game under I was told to stop. Once I was so sucessful at it and I wanted the scale go down everytime, whether I need to or not.

I have lost weight many times, the problem is preventing the weight from coming back. I have had one doctor tell me under his breath that I needed to lose weight just before slamming the door. When getting ready to get weighed, I always take off my coat and hold my breath at the doctor's office. Told to step on the scales without unloading his pockets or going to the bathroom first! At 236 pounds, his doctor told him to lose weight. Before reading it I found out what triggered Stephen King to write it. Horror is not my favorite genre, actually I have only read this one! But I was intrigued by the title long ago and entered a contest to read a used copy. I finally took Thinner off of my To Be Read shelves. If someone can tell me things get more interesting in the last quarter, I'll give it a go. (That's an issue that arises in The Shining, which is otherwise one of my favorite books.) Did I mention he worships a gangster who 'only believes in guns and money'? Profound stuff. Which leaves his hateful rants dangling there, feeling uncomfortably misogynistic. Like, is he going crazy? There's no other indication of that. On the other hand, he went from all randy dandy in love with his wife to bizarrely despising her. I think he's started to feel for him and what gypsies go through dealing with societal/social enmity. He's talked about finding the gypsy man who cursed him for many, many pages.

who he sees for the uncaring hucksters they are. He now resents his fellow professional types, doctors and lawyers etc. He's continuously pissy and horrible toward his wife who whimpers a lot. There's no very compelling character arc. We don't even know whether he's suffering any symptoms with the thinnerness, besides thinnerness.

I'm almost finished and have no real feel for his inner world. But the protagonist is unlikeable and uninteresting. There are points made about the corruption endemic to our system, the narcissism and racism of the middle/upper class. But compared to many of his other stories, this one falls flat. Of course the author knows how to weave a tale, seed feelings of dread, make people and possibilities real. A bit heavy on the gross-out factor, which is not scary or delicious for me.

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