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Summary: Worth reading
Review: It just floors me how someone who has written thousands of pages of fiction can still create fresh images and brilliant turns of a phrase. Plot-wise, I felt that this one bogged down about two-thirds of the way through. But the writing is so very skillful that it carried me to the end. Not as scary as "The Shining," in which much of the horror comes from what is left to the reader's imagination, but scary nonetheless.
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Summary: starts off brilliantly loses itself halfway through
Review: This was my first King book and I have to admit it scared the hell out of me for the first few chapters but by the middle it had run out of steam. I could not help but feel at this stage he was writing for television or cinema. Uplifting yes but a bit lame towards the end
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Summary: This book was so scary.
Review: I could not put this book down. I read the whole thing in two days. For the first half of the book I was terrified for these poor peole who were at the mercy of a psyco cop. The last half of the book I was crying because it was just so sad. Stephen King develops his charecters in such a way that you genually care what happens to them. I would definately recomend this book.
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Summary: Back to King BASICS!!! (Much better than "The Regulators")
Review: FINALLY!!!! He gets back to the style that made me start reading him 15 (!) years ago.A great read. Like every one else (almost) has said. Classic King with the battle between Good and Evil. My opinion: SKIP the Regulators. "Desperation" is a better, creepier story line. I went out a bought and read "The Regulators right after reading "Desperation" -- the juxtaposition of characters was confusing and a big let down.
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Summary: Very good
Review: After then success of The Stand, I don't blame King for writing another religious-run plot, and it normally worked. However, he went a little overboard on it. It doesn't affect what I thought of the novel, though. I read The Regulators before this, and I hated it. I didn't want to read this book because I thought it would be a mirror of it, but it was wasn't. The main thing that sets this above the other is that it isn't so grossly violent. There is still plenty of guts and gore, but not to the graphic extent of the Regulators. The plot has many great aspects of it. One thing I really liked were the jokes every few pages. The characters were really great, too. It was very imaginative, like the tak bodies slowly deteriorating, something I thought was very funny, especially for the cop. Overall, this is a great book, recommended for anyone who likes the horror genre.
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Summary: Awesome
Review: It was very interesting. I was scared. It seemed that I was a part of the story. I was scared. I couldn't put the book down. I was scared.
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Summary: I bought, I read, I loved!
Review: Now, with so many books out right now, I rarely find one that's good that doesn't have Stephen Kings name written all over it. This is one good read! I could not put this one down. Like with most of Kings novels, this got off to the usal bumpy start, but that only lasted a couple of pages. Soon (very soon) the stuff King is well known for jumps in and takes you for a horror roller coaster ride! This is one HELLUVA GOOD BOOK!
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Summary: EXCELLENT!!!
Review: What a novel! This is the Stephen King of IT that I know and love so dearly. I absolutely love the way that Stephen (hey I take him to bed with me ... first names are nothing) keeps the classic good and evil plot black and white. In this novel there is a clear delineation between good and evil and good wins. My only moment of regret was that one of my favourite characters dies, but Stephen (see note above) gets 5 thumbs up from me.
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Summary: Really? I was kinda disappointed.
Review: This book started out with an incredible sense of creepiness and dread, but it fell apart for me when the mystery of it all was reveiled. I had the same reaction to Insomnia. This book also has heavy religious overtones, which may not appeal to everyone. For me, The Regulators was a tighter (if more brutal) novel, and a lot more fun.
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Summary: Don't read it at night.
Review: Somewhere along Interstate 50 there's a place that some call the loneliest place on Earth. It's known as Desperation, Nevada. It's not a very nice place to live and it's an even worse place to die. The story - surreal, tragic & scary - begins here. In a manner reminiscent of The Stand, King brings a select group together to fight the forces of evil and darkness. In this case, the evil is old, very old, and trapped in a mine near the town of Desperation. It's hungry. Peter & Mary Jackson open the tale as they discover a police car behind them, coming up fast. As the car blasts by them at 90 or so, they relax a bit, only to tense up again as the cruiser slows to 50, then 40, 30...finally 20, forcing them to pass. Very soon, the flashing lights come on and they are pulled over to the side of the road. "Get out of the car, Mr. Jackson." was definitely not a question. A missing license plate on the rear of their Acura was discovered to be the cause of the ! ! stop and the suspicion. Of course, the officer searched the trunk and found a stash of pot. Now this is always a good reason to be hauled off to the local pokey with Smokey. The nightmare begins. Strange things happen in Desperation - dogs hanging from signs, nothing moving on the streets, a young dead girl lying at the foot of the stairs in the jail house - and now Mary imagines the worst as the cop shoots Peter 3 times with his .45. The worst hasn't even begun - yet. The evil force, Tak, needs bodies to inhabit while it feeds and grows stronger, and the group of people locked up in jail are the ones selected to serve as hosts. However, an escape takes place and its supply of hosts is no longer available. Can anyone see where this is leading? Oh yeah. One thinks the evil will be easily defeated and good will reign once again. It's always comforting when this happens, but such is not the case. Even the animals - wolves, scorpions, spiders - are at this force's beck and call. ! ! They are it's eyes and ears. The recently re-opened mine (! China Pit - so-named for the Chinese miners trapped in a cave-in sometime during the 1800s) just outside of town is discovered to be the source of this evil. Bits of sculpture are found which render people vulnerable to Tak's power. Go ahead - touch 'em. Gettin' curious? Let's just say this: King draws the pictures with his pen and allows you to fill in the colors with your imagination and, by this means, will scare you - badly. Your blood will run cold as your bone marrow freezes. Does evil triumph over good? Does Tak finally win - or lose? This Number 1 New York Times bestseller will answer these questions, but no one here will give the tale away. Read the book for yourself. But don't read it at night!
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