He seems to be thinking, “what if I don’t try to emulate the inimitable? What if, instead I take it and run with it, use it for the seed of an idea to form my own creation, something written the way I write things?” And that’s just exactly what he’s done here. With his works Exorcist Road and the sequel that I’m talking about today, Exorcist Falls, you can almost see his thought process and the approach he’s taken in creating these two great books. And the reason for that is simple: The Exorcist set the bar so incredibly high that it’s seemingly impossible to surpass and folks have pretty much stopped even giving it the effort of an earnest try. Blatty’s own successive attempts to duplicate that former success largely failed even while being good books in their own right, their acceptance by readers was relatively tepid by comparison. But, whether trying to emulate the the film or the book it’s based on, those attempts have been largely, if not universally, unsuccessful. Ever since William Peter Blatty wrote the iconic novel The Exorcist, authors have been trying to repeat the feat, some out of a love of the author and a desire to pay tribute, and some hoping to cash in on the book’s resounding success.
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