![]() This is not a case of King retreading ground that he’s covered before. It wouldn’t be accurate to say that Stephen King’s new novel, The Institute, is a blueprint for his career as a novelist, but in it King reprises themes that he has explored regularly over the past 45 years, notably: children endowed with wild paranormal talents (think Carrie, The Shining, and even End of Watch, the third novel in his Bill Hodges crime trilogy) that unscrupulous adults attempt to exploit ( Firestarter, anyone?), and those children discovering, while on the run from pursuers ( Doctor Sleep? Check.) that they are a formidable force for saving themselves when they band together and pool their powers (surely you’ve read – or at least seen the movie adaptation of – It). ![]()
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