I won't be forgetting this one for a while, and I dare say you won't be either.īeachworld, The Raft, and The Monkey are also tales of man facing an inevitable fate in an uncaring world. This is a sickening story, that I won't deny, but it's written so compellingly, and with an undercurrent of the most perverted idealism, that it's impossible to ever look away. 407) Well, our narrator wants to live very badly indeed, and, as the tale progresses, is forced to cut off and eat his own limbs to survive. 407) And the answer: How badly does the patient want to live? (p. The center of the story soon becomes this question: How much shock-trauma can the patient stand? (p. His fate seems sealed, but he disagrees and will always disagree. 423) As we begin, the narrator's trapped on an island, alone and with no food. But, as the narrator says, the only mortal sin is giving up.
This is a story of human determination, and, while reading, it's almost impossible to not think that, sometimes, it goes too far. If The Mist challenges King's optimism, Survivor Type does its best to hack it off with a buzz saw.
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