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Summary: What was King thinking, new Dracula?
Review: I did not like this book because of fashion it was written in. The description and suspense was, as in all king books, worthwhile. But I thought that King should have told the reader what happened to the vampire victims. Another thing that I did not like was making a timetable of the whole town; I thought that was very boring. When I finished this book I was glad, telling what the whole town did every day made it seem longer than 451 pages. Myself, I would not recommend this book to another person because only the last 75 pages were worth reading. This book takes place in a small new England town called Jerusalem's Lot, nicknamed 'Salems Lot. The main character, like most king novels, is a writer named Ben Mears. He comes to 'Salems Lot to write out his childhood fears. At the same time a new horror has arrived at the town and its taking over.
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Summary: Salem's Lot is wonderful!
Review: Salem's Lot is a wonderful book. I couldn't put it down! Its defenetly Stephen King's best book he has ever written! I have to buy it so I can read it again :)
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Summary: Scary and Stylish
Review: Being Stephen King's second book, 'Salem's Lot proves to be a preview of things to come from the spellbinding author. In my review of Needful Things, I wrote that Kings writes that book in the same tradition as this one. Although Needful Things is a much better book than 'Salem's Lot, the scary and stylish vampire novel by King is very entertaining and shows signs of brilliance we see later on in such King epics as IT and Needful Things. Many people seem to forget about this fun, simple-minded story. King doesn't break any new barriers writing the novel, but instead, shows us that he is beginning to find his knack for his genre of writing. Always a good read, 'Salem's Lot is a good Stephen King book to start out with, before you get to the really good stuff.
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Summary: Awful
Review: This is by far the absolute worst book I have ever had the misfortune of reading. The copy I read was 550 pages. The first 500 pages dictated the lives of every single citizen of Salem in soap opera fashion. Very little mention is actually given to vampires in the first bleak 500 pages. Whenever they (Vampires) do come out to claim a victm, King cuts off the sequence of events without ever telling what happened to the unfortunate soul (Ocasionally he will, but 350 boring pages later). It got very very frustrating. The last 50 pages were good, but the certianly didn't even come cloce to making up for the first 500.
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Summary: Simply the best
Review: With his second novel, Stephen King has proven himself to be one of my favourite writers. Salem's Lot, a book about a small town in which vampires have slowly diseased, is a MUST READ- especially if you are new to Stephen King's work.
If you are interested in starting to read SK books, I recommend you read this one first, as it demonstrates SK's potential to thrill and scare you..... I even bought myself a crucifix!
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Summary: Very Good Vampire Book!
Review: This is a very good book about a writer named Ben Mears who comes back to 'Salem's Lot to write a book(he grew up there as a child). Further in the story, a young boy is found dead. At his funeral, the father throws himself into the boy's coffin screaming for his son to wake up. And when his son does, it's not what he wanted at all. I would reccomend this book to anyone who liked "Carrie" or "The Shining".
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Summary: SCARY??? SOMEWHAT...
Review: I read this book a couple weeks ago and I have to say two things
a) It was very well written. In fact, Stephen King gives the portrait of a small town, deserted mysteriously. The characters are very realistic, nearly alive. One of the best written books I have read.
b) Just a good horror book.
The book is not that scary after all. First, you know who the survisors are from the begining. Then, the book is way too big to keep you tuned. I only felt the creeps at three points: The visit to the house(while the hero is a kid) his nightmare(one of the most surprising scenes ever) and the scene after the funeral(cliched). But when the reader finds out who is the leading evil then reads just to see what happens next. A very long horror book seems boring to me. Personally I prefer Lovecraft.
To sum up, the book was good but not something to give you THE creeps. I suggest you should read it.
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Summary: A new and imaginative approach
Review: Well, what can I say? With King's books, its all 5 stars. I found that this book led an imaginative approach to the sinister and dark creatures of the night. The characters were ingenius, the plot imaginative, and the story kept me on the edge for the three consecutive nights in which I read it. Definite thumbs up, another great read from King.
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Summary: Scarier Than Any Movie You'll Ever See
Review: I was a teenager when I first read "Salems Lot" over 20 years ago. It was the first King novel that I had ever read, and I have read it at least 15 times since. I can still recall that it scared me so badly the first time I tried to read it, that I had to put it down and I didn't dare pick it back up for weeks. This book will take you away and it will not bring you back until it has had its way with you. Choose a quiet evening, unplug your phones, turn out all the lights except the one you need to read by, and then let the tale of the steady and unstoppable corruption of Jerusalem's Lot take you over. I absolutely guarantee that you will sleep (if you sleep) with your windows locked and shades drawn for a very long time. Folks, I've read all King's works again and again, and this is still the one I swear by, the one I always recommend, and the one that to this day still manages to send chills down my spine and causes me to run, not walk, run to my house from my car at night. Enjoy!!!!!
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Summary: Stephen King's Best.
Review: I have been staring at this blank text area for several minutes now, trying to come up with the words that could possibly put this book into the light it deserves. Quite frankly, I don't think there are any. It is amazing in every sense of the word and, in true Stephen King style, leaves the reader breathless. It all starts out in an innocent little town in Maine called Jerusalem's Lot. It's the type of town where everyone knows everyone else and you can't do anything without it being the hot gossip at the Bingo parlor the next Sunday. Ben Mears, a writer, comes back to the town to make peace with the old Marsten House, a place he has feared since childhood, while writing his next book. When he arrives, he finds that the House has been bought just days before. What follows is a series of events that will make our heart pound, your breath catch in your chest and make you look under the bed before you fall asleep. The first time I read this book, I finished it in two days. I've now read it four times and it is still as scary as ever.
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