Again, the dustjacket failed to convince me otherwise, and, yes, while King does selectively borrow from much of his previous writing, The Institute ultimately holds up well as an original and enjoyable text.
My initial impression was that King had decided to merely revisit a key idea from his Dark Tower series - that children with special “talents” would be exploited in order to facilitate the end of the world.
Indeed, the book’s front flap suggests that The Institute is another link in the growing chain of King’s literary universe: “As psychically terrifying as Firestarter, and with the spectacular kid power of It, The Institute is Stephen King’s gut-wrenchingly dramatic story of good versus evil in a world where the good guys don’t always win.”Īggressive foreshadowing aside (particularly as King begins with an epigraph from Judges in which a “good guy,” Samson, kills himself for a purportedly greater purpose), I will admit that when I first read the synopsis of this story, I was concerned.
“YOU’VE BEEN HERE before.” Stephen King writes these four simple words at the beginning of Needful Things, the “last” Castle Rock story in King’s ever-expanding body of work, and, at first glance, these same words could just have easily been imprinted on the first page of his newest novel, The Institute.
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