"The Dead Zone" by Stephen King

So I've definitely watched the show (Anthony Michael Hall) and I've seen the movie (Christopher Walken) but this book was like ten times scarier than either of those. And I will say that it is still one of the milder Stephen Kings books, but it is just plain kind of creepy.

For those of you who don't know "The Dead Zone", it's about a man named John Smith (for real) who gets in a really bad accident and after he is in a coma for numerous years and wakes up with a sixth sense - to see into the future when he touches people or sometimes objects.

It doesn't sound terribly terrifying until he meets a man who is running for Congress - and John Smith sees that he will become president who will engage in a very awful war. He begins asking his friends, "If you could go back in time and kill Hitler, would you?"

I think for anyone into politics, this book is extremely terrifying. Because, realistically, the scary thing about this book is not that he can see into the future - but it is often what he can see that is scary, which should make us all wonder about how scared we perhaps should be of the future.

The book is extremely entertaining.