I had no expectations of this story going in. I hate clouding my judgement of a book (or a movie) beforehand by reading the opinions of others. I save the "what did everyone else think?" part for when I have my own opinion to compare. I will admit that I read a couple of the reviews for "The Colorado Kid" when I was about 3 pages from the end. I just had to know what others thought. I had a feeling how the story would end, and I had a suspicion that many would be displeased by it. I now see that Mr. King's statement in the Afterword was correct: people either loved it or hated it, and the two camps are usually divided by the opinion of the ending.
