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Summary: Why should I
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Summary: An amazing novel
Review: Stephen King wrote another masterful novel. I first read Stephen King when a friend of mine recommended that I read the Gunslinger. Since that time I have come to enjoy Stephen King's novels. I read this novel after reading Wolves of the Calla. 'Salem's Lot goes into more detail about Father Callahan. I wanted to learn more about Callahan and at the same time I got to read a great story. King makes use of excellent imagery and character description. I think it is one of King's trademarks to draw the reader into the novel. He goes through a normal of the town. He shows how character's think. The first part of this novel allows the reader to feel the setting.What Happens? Ben Mears comes back to 'Salem's Lot to exercise some past demons. Initially we meet many of the citizens, and Ben falls in love with one of the residents. He also meets a down to earth teacher. He and the teacher begin to notice odd things are happening in the town. And at the same time, new residents have moved into the abandoned house of a devil worshipper. Mark Petrie is a young boy who has one of his friends taken, and joins the teacher, Ben, and Ben's girlfriend against the Evil Force. Eventually they summon the aid of Father Callahan and Jimmy Cody, a doctor. If any of you also have read the Dark Tower, did you find it interesting that both Ben's girl and Roland's girl were named Susan. And that Ben's Susan had a mom who acted like Roland's Susan's Aunt. I thought this was a great novel and encourage everyone to read it.
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Summary: Gripping, not quickly forgotten...
Review: Salem's Lot is in my opinion one of King's best. You care about all the characters, and they are very believable. When one chapter ends, you are disappointed cause you cant wait to find out what happens next, but then you are quickly engrossed in the next chapter, and the element of the story that it is discussing. This book, even though its focus is the evils in a small town, is beautifully written. You'll be thinking about this even when you are not reading it. And you can REALLY feel the evil that lurks in the town, and all of its dirty little secrets. If you have ever spent time in a small town that hasnt quite moved on with modernity, you will know what King is talking about. The only bad part about this book for me was that it was one the first King novels I read, and I have to try really hard not to compare his others to this one which I intend on reading a second time. If you like the way this book is written, check out The Stand. It has the same feel to it, where there are enough characters to make it interesting, but not so many that you cant remember who they are. I cant say enough good things for this book, if you havent read it, do so.
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Summary: A Classic
Review: With the passage of time it has become self-evident that Salem's Lot is the only possible novel worthy to receive the benediction of Bram Stoker as heir to the mantle of Dracula. I can't think of another. The pastoral town motif imbued with the spirit of authenticity adds to the timeless aura of the book. No doubt it will still be read a hundred years from now.
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Summary: Fantastic!
Review: I just finished this book moments ago and it was fantastic. This is the third King book I have read with Green Mile being the first and Thinner being the second. The Green Mile was flawless. I thought Thinner was mediocre mainly because it was too long. I bring this up because Salem's Lot was similar in this respect. 631 pages, of which I think, 300 could be removed. I actually was worried that I might not be able to finish the book due to unimportant and lengthy tangents. I guess I'm beginning to find out this is a trademark of King and one I suppose I will simply deal with. While the first 300 pages were very slow the remaining pages fly-by. I will say that I was never afraid like some people here state they were while reading. I scare easily too but just simply did not with Salem's Lot. This is not to take away from the book because again it is outstanding. For those that do not know, the book centers around a small town that is invaded by a vampire that begins to slowly take over the entire community. By the end of the book there are few remaining locals that have not been transformed to the Undead. Would have given 5 stars if the first 300 pages had been edited down. Wonderful book!
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Summary: Better than the Miniseries Movie!!!!!
Review: Salem's Lot is the typical history of a town, which everybody live their life with normal situations and nothing strange happen until mysterious things began to happen by an uknown visitors, which one of them identity is known but the other one is unknown by the meaning of what Mr. Straker said "No, no Mr. Barlow is not right now in town, he is in business trip but soon very soon you will meet him", in a matter of way what he responds to Mr. Crockett strange manifest of question about his elusive "partner". This novel touch in a way nice things than the miniseries doesn't do. Touch about Ben Mears life with his wife and his background before he came to be a full time writer. Also, we know more about the itself Marsten House and about how their first owners, in main character, about Hubert Marsten was involucrated with mysterious murders on Salem's Lot (a long before) and also with the Mob, that in the movie doesn't tell much about his owner. (¡¡¡¡¡Who would ever believe that Hubbie Marsten was a Hit Man for the Italian Mob!!!!!) Finally, all I can say is it good of what I had readed of King's works. Also, In a way expected more play of Kurt Barlow (The Mysterious partner of Mr. Straker and the blood sucking Vampire on Salem's Lot), in which he talks and he do things that in the movie you couldn't see until the end, only you could make a resemblance and a look like Murnau Vampire on "Nosferatu."
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Summary: Vampires among us....or, good and evil in Small Town USA
Review: It's been over 20 years since I first read Salem's Lot for the first time. I was still in high school and I happened to be in the K section of South Miami High's library when I came across this big hardcover of King's second novel. A few years before, ABC had run a two-part miniseries based on this modern-day vampire novel, but I'd skipped it, thinking it was a rather unappealing program to watch. But I'd just read Carrie and I decided to give the novel a chance. I checked the book out and started reading it on the way home via school bus. It took me two weeks to get through Salem's Lot because I was then dealing not only with the normal loads of homework and reading up for exams, but I was also writing for the school paper. Nevertheless, I really was hooked by this clever juxtaposition of Bram Stroker's Dracula's plot and observations of modern American small town life. I have lived in big cities all my life and my only experiences of small town life have been brief visits to Sebring, FL and Douglas, GA (in addition to knowing a few people who live in rural America), so for me the idea of living in a community where everyone knows everybody else...and where if you make a bad life choice (steal, cheat on your spouse, beat up same) it doesn't remain secret for long...is truly more frightening than crime in the big city. Jerusalem's Lot, like Castle Rock and Derry, ME, is purely fictional, but King's keen eye for detail and his lively writing style make it seem very real. Although some of the story elements he uses here later become standard issue (writer as hero, small Maine town and its inhabitants vs. supernatural THINGS), Salem's Lot's town and the people who live there -- Tony Glick, Ben Mears, Father Callahan, Susan, the local girl Mears falls in love with, and Mark, the young boy who must help the writer/vampire killer in his grisly task -- all come across as a real town with living, breathing beings whose lives are upended when the unspeakable horror of a vampire takeover begins. King fans -- including me -- consider The Stand to be his masterpiece of horror, but this more tightly paced and shorter work is clearly among his very best. It's a powerful chiller, and even though we know vampires are creatures of the imagination, this novel will make the first-time reader double-check to see if all the windows are closed and the door locked.
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Summary: my thoughts on 'salem's lot
Review: It all starts in a tiny little town in Maine called Jerusalem's Lot. Where everything looks nice and the people are nicer. Then things start going wrong after two mysterious people move into the Marsten House. People go missing, they dont show up for work, they start feeling very sick...So five locals get together to figure out what is going on.
I thought this was a very good book. I could barely put it down. I hope this review helps you decide to read it because it is an awesome book. There are many twists in the plot and it keeps you guessing.
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Summary: This novel puts other vampire novels to shame!
Review: When I first read this novel a year ago, I swear to God that this novel gave me nightmares for a week. The story evolves around a small town called Jersalem's Lot, and vampires slowly take over the town! Now one of the so-called heros (Father Callan, he shows up in the Dark Tower Series) he gets out of dodge instead of facing the vampires at Marsten House. This novel depicts the town folks living their lives, and the characters seem very real, and the vampires are the coldless blood suckers that they are.
The vampires are smart, and they are deadly, and man this novel is good. Now me being a HUGE Stephen King fan, this is the full-length of a short story he called of course 'Jersalems Lot', he published it in the early 70's before he wrote Carrie, it premiered in a old men's magazine called Cavelier and a lot of his short stories did too: Night Surf, The Lawnmover Man, and the list goes on. These two stories: Night Suft was then transform into The Stand, and The Lawnmover Man was made into a horrible movie and video game with Pierce Brosnan.
Salems Lot is a MUST GET for any horror fan out there, this novel will scare the holy bejesus out of you, trust me.
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Summary: A dark scary book
Review: The first Stephen King book I read was Pet Sematary.I hated it and I thought all of King's books were like that.But then I decided to try another and I chose Salems' Lot.It was MUCH better than Pet Sematary.It was scary and interesting unlike PS.This is not as scary as The Shining but it still is very good!!!!!!!
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