Resumo de Thinner - Stephen King

Bill Haleck is thirty years old, has a good position, a beautiful house, a nice family made up of his Heidi wife and their daughter Linda.
Bill Haleck is fat.
As the sign of its success, its weight offers him an imposing presence when he pleads at the court, an insurance worthy the important people.
The life of Bill Haleck does not have anything interesting for the assiduous readers of terror and fright we are.
No real drama, no skeleton hidden in the closets.
Until the day Heidi decides to offer him his first motorized blow job.
Whereas a gipsy, leaving pharmacy is thrown under its wheels, he lacks the needed concentration to avoid it, and kills her.
The old Gypsy who accompanied her, his face corroded by an evil being looking a lot like leprosy, looks at him with a great intensity and whispers to his ear, like one whispers a threat: Thinner!
Magic spell, coincidence or disease?
Bill starts to lose weight.
Initially surprised, he will end up panicking when he will realize that even while eating like a pig, especially while eating more than reason, he can lose until two kilos a day.
When Bill crushed the gipsy, the police force and the courts, in these terms his court friend and neighbour, make up what is obviously a homicide into an accident following the lack of attention of the gipsy woman.
The camping is requested to leave the city.
The Gypsies are then very angry, and their chief the patriarch with the broken nose throws a fate with those which he considers guilty.
King plunges us in one of the most ridiculous fears of the townsmen, the arrival of a camping of Gypsies who settle down in a residential city.
Bringing its batch of songs, fairs, aggressions, and magic.
It involves us in a fight between a powerful man, his environment and its relations and a family of gipsies and their beliefs.
Makes us live the martyrdom of th fat guy, who would like to lose weight but refuses to follow the least diet to the letter.
And when the dream comes true, that he can eat whatever he wants while losing weight at sight, makes us share his fear of dying with only skin on the bones.
We enter the magic, that could really exist, and these strange things occurring to Bill and his friends finally do not seem so impossible.
I like this book because I find it well tied up.
It learns us, if we didn?t known it yet, to be wary of what one wishes, because that could happen.
It makes us share the fear of Bill, facing his loss of weight the best as he can.
His growing hate for Heidi, that he considers as guilty as he is of what happened, and which he blames not to be touched by the gipsy too.
He takes conscience of his life, of this masquerade he made his daily bread.
Searching for Taduz Lemke at all costs, initially seeking to kill him to finally having to face him whereas he represents nothing any more but about thirty kilos.
Its relations, even the worse will not be able to help him out of this nightmare.
He has to recognise his mistakes and assume them to reach the heart of the old man.
It is necessary for him to track the untraceable, to threaten the unthreading and to frighten the master of terror.
Far from the never ending fight between good and evil, the tale of a search and of a rebirth.
A psychological tale full of humour, like when Bill enters in court and that his trousers slip on his ankles, but especially full of darkness.
The darkness of magic, the darkness of hearts, the darkness of feelings.
Magic of the white man of the city against the magic without age of the gipsies.
By far one of the best novels of the author, who co-signs it of his pseudonym: Richard Bachman.
A pure moment of fright!

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