This is my first reread of this book since it came out. That’s almost 30 years ago. I enjoyed it so much more the second time around. The concepts of God and faith are ideas that Stephen King writes about often. This story, a tale of strangers bought together by an ancient demonic being from another dimension, or a different level of the tower if you will,  and their struggle to defeat it with the help (help?!!) of God and those who chooses to use, is one of his best in that area. Before my reread, I had it rated pretty low in the list of King’s books but now I place it in possibly the top 10…definitely the top 15. 

God IS cruel…God is also love…

9 excused early from school passes out of 10.