Thinner

This was a reread for me, but sometimes time is a good thing. When I read this as a teen, this felt like an interesting but ultimately shallow work, but now I see Billy as tragic anti-hero. When I read his soliloquy about who is to blame, it had the ring of truth. Yes, Billy and his wife made a very poor decision in that car, but I can't help but think, who hasn't made a poor decision, acted recklessly, and is it anything more than dumb luck that that decision did not end in calamity?

And like any good tragedy, King really needed to leave a character alive to clean up the bodies at the end.