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Summary: King holds the imagination hostage.
Review: Let Stephen King lead your imagination into another world. You don't even have to think about the scenes and landscapes in this story, somehow King uses his magic to slide the images directly into his readers minds. Rose Daniels is by far one of the best characters ever created in Kings world and i hope that all SK fans will give this book a chance.
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Summary: Escape from the Bull
Review: Another breath taking story of one of Stephen King's finest horror stories. One might say different from the occasional 'monster next door', but this tale is truly a winner. After escaping from her 'bull' cop husband, Rose McCleadon is all alone in a strange town without a friend to comfort her on her terrible life story living with Norman Daniells. After finding a framed picture in an old store and being moved and drawn by its 'power', she purchases it and realizes it may as well be the best thing that has happened in her life.
The story leads on with an edge on your seat experience and the path Rose must take in order to free herself from her past and Norman who is slowly tracking her down. Will he find her and 'talk to her up close' or will she escape him and perhaps find the man she should have been with a long time ago? Read and find out for your self.
Enojy.
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Summary: Not Up To His Usual Par
Review: I don't want to give anything away, in case you do read the book, but I really couldn't connect to this book the way I always have with Kings earlier works. I usually love his work, but Rose Madder seemed forced, stunted and at times confusing.When I was done I felt empty, without any closure. Save your money for one of his better works.
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Summary: Fabulous.....Thanks Mr. King
Review: I am so glad that I read Rose Madder. I borrowed it from a man at work who said it was good but it was great! King delves into the messy world of marital abuse and pulls out Rose, a beautifully developed character, so realistic I could feel my heart pound when she had a close-call with Norman and I could almost feel her pain, feel every hit,every bite....It's a long book but you won't know it as you're reading it so enjoy!
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Summary: This is an amazing book.
Review: ROSE MADDER has everything. It's:a real life thriller, with real life horror
a story of courage and survival
a fantasy adventure
a love story
a dark comedy
a satirical look at the left liberal political community I'm sure I could come up with more, given the time. Rosie McClendon is a heroine who gains the reader's utmost sympathy with the insane horror of the abuse she has endured, and her courage in leaving despite her terror. As she builds a new life and digs out her true character, long buried by subjugation to her brutal husband, we admire her and enjoy her humor and spunk. Norman Daniels, the viciously abusive husband she leaves, is one of the most terrifying, compelling, horrifyingly likeable, and darkly funny villians I can imagine. The sections written from his point of view are chilingly enjoyable. He sets out to find her by getting inside her head, "trolling," as he calls it. He imagines he is her, and does everything she would do, tracing her every step with deadly accuracy, leaving a trail of mutilated corpses in his wake. When Norman acquires a hokey rubber bull mask at a carnival, uses it as a hand puppet and begins having conversations with it, well, we know he has really lost it. I found these scenes quite funny. When the painting Rosie bought at a pawn shop turns out to be a doorway into a secret world, the novel takes a disconcerting leap from gritty reality to mythic fantasy. When Norman follows Rosie and new boyfriend Bill into the painting, Norm merges with the mask to become a sort of Minotaur. Norman's crimes, and the cunning with which he stalks his prey, are only too believable. In a fully realistic novel, his end would be predictable - lifelong incarceration in a prison for the criminally insane, or getting killed somehow. Only in a fantasy world with the aid of supernatural figures is it possible to wreak satisfying vengeance for such crimes.
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Summary: Not Stephen King caliber
Review: Stephen King has written some great horror books and even good non-horror like Four Seasons. But this book is by far his worst peice of work yet. I'm almost reluctant to read any more of his works.
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Summary: Rose Madder by Stephen King
Review: After reading Stephen King's Rose Madder, I found that I liked the book, however, it was very strange. First of all, it was a very well written book. The character descriptions were amazing. Stephen King's writing enables you to actually draw a picture in your head of what is going on.
While this book was good, it did have a lot of supernatural strangeness. The picture that Rose buys is the strangest part of the story. This picture gives her courage and strength to try and live on her own, away from her abusive husband. If you read this story pay attention to the picture and what happens to it throughout the story.
The husband, who is absolutely determined to find Rose, brings an exciting conflict to the story. He is a crazed husband who uses vulgar language, violent acts, and overpowering moods to frighten everyone he comes across. As the story progresses he becomes a killer on the prowl for his prey.
Although I thought this book was very good overall, the one thing I did not really like was that sometimes Stephen King got a somewhat over descriptive. Even though the descriptions were amazing, there were a few instances where he went so into detail that it could bore you. For instance, King describes exactly what everyone is wearing, which would be fine accept by the end you did not want to know what they were wearing but rather, what was going on in the background.
Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I would highly recommend this book to anyone, especially those who enjoy somewhat weird science fiction stories.
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Summary: No new ideas.
Review: Rose Madder is a mix of many other elements of King novels, battered spouse, psychotic husband, images of spiders, and a fantasy realm all adding up to one of King's worst novels. The characters are caricatures rather than well drawn personalities. (usually a major strength of King)There is not one surprise in this book as the husband gets crazier, Rose gets more frightened and Greek mythology becomes a factor. I generally enjoy the works of this author and I found this book an anomaly in a career filled with excellent work.
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Summary: Awful Ending
Review: Any realistic book that ends with a character jumping into a picture is not one that I want to read! Enough said!
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Summary: Rose Madder is Shocking and Imaginative
Review: Rose Madder is definitely worth purchasing!! Stephen King's tale of an abused woman on the run from her psychotic cop-husband is one of his best. King follows in the tradition of The Talisman and The Dark Tower series with the other-world concept and fuses it with a shocking, explicit domestic violence storyline. How it all comes together is surprising and very pleasing. You will not be dissapointed.
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