Rose Madder

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Summary: Ze Bool
Review: I regard this work by Stephen King as one of the weirdest. This book is like a first draft, a sketch. Snip: (...)

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Summary: Awesome
Review: I thought this book was great-all i have to say is the husban got what he deserved what he got

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Summary: Not his best
Review: Stephen King has a nasty habit of introducing supernatural events into his books, without explaining them adequately. Rose Madder is no exception, with a supernatural sequence weaved into the plot which leaves the reader astounded. The character development is terrific, and up until a picture comes to life, the book has a lot of potential. While Rose walks through her recently purchased picture, you keep on expecting the Easter Bunny to appear! From this point the book goes downhill. Rose's already psychotic husband (Norman) goes completely over the edge, but his insanity is not even remotely realistic. He still has control over what he does, even though his psychosis is driven by pure rage. Rose goes within two months from a timid mouse to a ferocious woman, ready to protect everything close to her, including her wimp of a boyfriend. The book is definately readable, but only with an extremely open mind, a good dose of humour and nothing better to do. Rather read "The picture of Dorian Grey", it is much better.

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Summary: Overview of Rose Madder
Review: Susan Maze
Book Review-Rose Madder

I really enjoyed reading the book Rose Madder written by Stephen King. In Rose Madder the main character Rose, has been abused and tortured physically and sexually for many years. She wakes up out of her dream world and decides to change her life; all it took was one drop of blood.
It was very easy to keep turning the page. King writes as Rose and as her husband, Norman. While writing as Rose he tells of her new life and how she is trying to put it back together, even though her fear of her husband finding her is always first in her mind. While writing as Norman he switches completely to a very deranged man who happens to be a cop with animal like instincts on the hunt for his wife. I felt that King did a great job at switching back and forth between the two personalities.
Once Rose moves on with her life in a new city, with a new job, she finds a painting that seemed to be calling her name. There is a woman in the painting standing on a hill in a rose madder colored robe. She is standing with her back to the viewer. Rose realizes that the painting seems to be changing, getting bigger. She takes the back off of the painting and finds it is filled with different items out of the painting, something is not right. When she wakes up that night the painting has turned in to some kind of gateway into another world. When she entered the painting everything symbolized some past event in her life. King did a wonderful job connecting Rose's life to the painting. The switch between reality and the supernatural world was a huge surprise to me.
Rose is trying to forget about Norman, but his hunt for her has proven successful. She has no other option than to enter the painting and try to hide from him. The beginning of this book is very realistic, but that changes. This book has a very supernatural ending but one that is very enjoyable. I would recommend this book to anyone Stephen King fan or not.

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Summary: One of King's best!
Review: Rose Daniels is a frightened, abused creepmouse of a woman living with her abusive cop husband, Norman. He's spanked her, bit her, cut her, threatened to kill her, raped her, and he even beat her baby girl out of her one night. Nevertheless she stays with him until fourteen years later she realizes she has to run away while he's at work. Just leave. Fast. She steals his bank card and takes a train to a city hundreds of miles away where she begins to rebuild and repair her life. But Norman is searching for her. Norman is furious. And he's determined to make her pay. Possibly my favorite Stephen King book beside Misery and Gerald's Game. As good as The Shining or Pet Sematary. Don't miss it!

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Summary: Interesting?
Review: It was a good book that captured my interest, but I found the ending confusing and bizarre.

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Summary: jenn dittso
Review: this was one of my first books of stephen king well im hooked for life . amazing ,the detail was incredible, rose made a wonderful triumph.STEPHEN KING i comend you!!!!!!!!I recomend this book to everyone,you wont be able to put it down!

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Summary: One of the Worst Books Ever
Review: I am writing this review to try and save others from wasting any time on this book. I really should have put Rose Madder away after the first couple hundred pages (which were passable), but I just kept hoping that things would improve. They don't.

Rose's forays into the alternate dimension that exists behind the picture that she picks up in a pawn shop (where she finds new love) are ridiculous and boring. I've read a lot of Stephen King, and appreciate the supernatural elements that are always injected into his writing, but I can't help but think that this concept was dreamed up under extreme deadline pressure.

Don't waste one cent buying a used copy of this book, or a minute of your time reading it.

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Summary: One of Stephen King's Best
Review: Rose Madder is one of the best books to come along in a long time. Your eyes are glued to the pages wondering what will happen next. You also begin to sympathize with some of the charcter's, such as Rose, who are taking the most important step of their lives while being fearful of their lives. I recommend it to anyone who wants a non-police invovled type of suspense story. .

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Summary: Greek Myths meet Stephen King with...
Review: ...a touch of The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe!!

I enjoyed (if that's the right word) the concept of the story and felt that King seemed to have remarkable insight into what the main character, Rose was feeling. He rather scarily manages to get into the head of a psychotic abuser too.

However I just didn't feel very happy with the ending. I felt it had kind of lost it's way from the stark reality of most of the book to a vague unsatisfying surreal feel.
I would still recommend reading it, but the ending just left me feeling a little cheated.