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Summary: Fantastic read!!!!
Review: I had not read any King in quite awhile before picking up this book. But my love of ghost stories lead me to give it a whirl. Well, I found the book to be moving and scary as hell!!! While it would seem the number of plots and subplots would threaten to overthrow the story, King weaves them together wonderfully. I especially enjoyed the scene where...well, I won't spoil anything but I love how King allows you pages and pages to really fall in love with these characters and put yourself in the happy place with them before tragedy strikes. The only negative comment here is about the book's climax. Like many of King's stories it takes a nosedive into "what the hell?" territory!! Does anyone else remember the King story where the super secret magic weapon was a rolled up ball of licorice? Same feeling going on here. Otherwise, great read!
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Summary: Bag of Bones
Review: Set in the Maine territory King has made mythic, Bag of Bones recounts the plight of forty-year-old best-selling novelist Mike Noonan, who is unable to stop grieving four years after the sudden death of his wife, Jo. Mike returns back to Sara Laughs, the isolated & beloved summer home he shared with his wife. There he finds himself plagued by nightmares & visitations, but he forges a new life from the grief that has held his heart for four years & which has haunted Sara Laughs for nearly a century.
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Summary: Superficially excellent
Review: I generally like to wait until after I feel like I've come to understand all of what an author is trying to say in a book. It's been quite a while since I finished this book. It's not that the book is overly complex or difficult to understand--in fact, it turned out to be quite the opposite. This book, on the surface, is a good story told by a great storyteller in fantastic fashion, but just underneath the surface is a great, vapid nothing that will probably confuse you into thinking that it's something more than it is.See, the thing is, nothing really happens in this book, at least not in the way that things are supposed to happen in books. So far as I can tell, living people were responsible for absolutely nothing here. The narrator is the primary offender in that regard, spending the entire book as an observer to events, rather than as a participant in them. The same holds true for almost every other character in the book--nobody really makes a difference until after they're dead. It's this small shortcoming and only this that stops me from giving the book five stars outright and an unconditional recommendation. The story itself is a well-told mystery that should keep the reader interested up to the very end, written better, I might add, than most books in the mystery genre. The characters are well-developed, and King's typical knack for weaving together slices of his characters' lives with the events of the story to create a living world is in full effect. Indeed, for most loyal King readers (the majority of whom could care less about the more existential concerns that are the only real downfall of this book) Bag of Bones should prove to be an enjoyable experience. As such, I'd recommend it to anybody looking for a superficial read (meaning something not in the same family as James [overrated] Joyce). If, however, subtler internal plot elements and story construction quirks tend to bother you, the obvious hand of deus ex machina in this story could very well ruin what would otherwise be a great book, as it threatened to do with me.
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Summary: Go get 'em King!
Review: Part mystery, part homage, part campfire story. This guy is relentless entertaining, and no one touches him. Bag of Bones is one of my favorites by King, and other than a couple of recent "pulp" horror novels (like Shannon's "night of the beast" and the new doug clegg) nothing has been this much fun in ages. Keep the lights on, folks.
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Summary: Dreamcatcher??
Review: This was a heavy hitter and not for the faint of heart readers. Don't get this for your preteen. On the flip side, this was a page turner! Definitely later SK style. Creepy even when you know whats coming!
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Summary: Excellent! Heart-wrenching tale
Review: This book, frankly when I saw the title, didn't really appeal to me. However, when I finished the book, I realised something: King had changed his style. It was a pleasant change and it tugged at my heart-strings several times. Lovely masterpiece! Absolute classic!
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Summary: Surprised!
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The strangest thing being, that I was frighten enough to call my son (17 yrs old) into the room to "read him the passage" that scared me (but mostly cause I NEEDED the company). HOWEVER, at the same time I was laughing so hard ... to the point of crying. How is it possible to be so frightened yet so tickled you can't stop laughing? I don't know ... But it happened ... to me at least.
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Summary: Awesome Ghost Story
Review: This is a great ghost story. Stephen King has been seeming to get away from his spooky type of stories in recent years and this book restored my faith in him. I like his other stories as well, but I was beginning to miss the really scary ones. This book is just that. There is just the right touch of the supernatural along with lots of realism. You feel like you are right there with the characters. I could barely put it down. I loved it!
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Summary: this is a great book
Review: King readers know what we like and this is one of his best!
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Summary: Bag of Hammers
Review: Bag of Bones? More like a Bag of Hammers. After a strong beginning, the reader must wade through page after page of too much information and sloooowwwwww moving story. The only way I could get through it was to read some of it and listen to some on audio. Listening to King's baby-talk of the child character is especially grating. Think I will re-read his all-time best: The Stand.
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