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Summary: King Does It Again
Review: I found this book to be right up King's alley. Very eerie and apocolyptic for lack of better terms. I was fascinated with the plot and the ending was the ultimate climax.
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Summary: What the hell was Stephen smoking when he came up with this?
Review: I took it up because some girl I wanted to date said she couldn't get any sleep after reading this book. I thought I would see what makes here sleepless and boy oh boy....I found story line to be interesting but nothing spectacular so I thought to myself "what is that airhead girl thinking?" Boy was I wrong. I found myself thinking about the book, story line and characters all through out the night.. couldn't get a wink of sleep.. So what the hell, I might as well finish the book, right? I kept on reading next day and same thing happened.. couldn't get any sleep. Not that I was wide awake reading the book, I turned the light out, closed my eyes and characters started to swim through my brain. To make long story short, I had to get through the book as fast as I could in hopes to get some sleep finally but after reading the book, I found myself dreaming about the plot for a week. I was waking up with sweat running down my back. If you want to find out what insomnia feels like, it is a definite read for you. Unless otherwise, help yourself and don't read it.
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Summary: OK, that's my honeymoon idea blown...
Review: A spiritual trek down route 66 through the state of Nevada seemed like the perfect honeymoon to me until I read this book. King sparkles with some of his past magic in this terrific return to form. More graphic than past King, but not without reason. However, I too was puzzled by what point King was attempting to make about God and religion. I think he's pretty undecided. Anyway, no trapsing through the desert for me. Nevada is creepy enough without these images in the back of my mind.
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Summary: Captivating, one of his best.
Review: I enjoyed this book immensely. Reading Stephen King's books is a gamle. Some I love, others I hate. This book is one of those that make the gamble worthwhile. I am not going to spoil your enjoyment by describing the plot. I will stay that there is pleny of action, and lots of interesting characters. There is quite a bit of religion and supernatural involved as well. But it is not pushy or overbearing, like the "Left Behind" series. It is entertaining and insightful. I would certainly recommend this book.
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Summary: I enjoyed it
Review: In Holland 2 of Kings books, The regulators (De regelaars) and Desperation (same name) came out all together.
I could not believe my luck.Two Big Books!
I started with the regulators and after that came desperation.
From the start i liked it. very scary
Who do people trust?
Yes The police! (well oke not always ;-) but when you are in trouble)
But not this policeman.
King lets you see how much control a policeman can have, how easy it is for him/her to lure you in a trap. So something which is natural, help of a policean, he can make that into something scary
The 2 books have a lot in common but also you can find as mostly in Kings books leads to his other books.
For instance in desperation you will meet persons from the book Rosie
I read this book over night. so warning if you have to wake up early do not start reading this one. P.s I agree with the other reviewer buy both books.
groetjes marlene
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Summary: Stephan King has done it again.
Review: I've read quite a few of King's books and have always enjoyed them. This one was so thick that I'd passed it over several times in favor of lighter reading. I finally picked it up hoping it would get me through 4 long nights at work (don't tell my boss) and was immediately hooked. It only lasted two of my four nights, couldn't put it down. It wasn't predictable at all. The story moved swiftly; none of that describing what the mountains in the distance looked like for six pages. Not everyone lived that was expected to live; not everyone died that was expected to die. I love the way King puts characters from other books into his stories. It was good to find out how Cynthia's life turned out. Marinville was an enigmatic character. I couldn't quite figure out if I liked him or not--until the end. The whole book centers around the neverending battle between--what else?--good and evil. Kudos to King for actually naming the good, giving credit where credit is due. Throughout all the horror and terror, Mr. King sprinkles in the humor. He makes a reference to a celestial body in the middle of one of the character's fight with a rat that had me laughing so hard I had to get a tissue to wipe my eyes. This is a great book and definitely worth reading. I just wish Stephan King would write a story in which no dogs meet untimely deaths. What's up with that, anyway?
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Summary: One of King's recent best
Review: King spun a terrific set of tales when he began Desperation and also Regulators(Richard Bachman). I read Regulators in a manner of days, and then I had to pick up Desperation. The two are some of his fastest paced and grotesquely satisfying novels in years. I have read about half of Kings books overall and I found these to be more satisfying, and faster reads than some of his more popular titles. If you do go and buy Desperation or Regulators, you may as well save yourself a trip and buy both at the same time. While they are entirely different stories the two intertwine so perfectly, and have such similiar darkness to the plot that it will feel like two sides to a mirror, the same, yet opposite. Do yourself a favor and read these books if you are a King fan. If you are a King newcomer there isnt a better place to start than these.
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Summary: Truly Frightening King
Review: I had nearly given up on Stephen King, some time after "The Dark Half", but I plugged along to the truly abysmal "Bag of Bones"... I didn't expect much from "Desperation". However, from beginning to end, I was riveted. Having spent much time exploring some of the more remote parts of the Southwest deserts, I could easily picture an isolated Nevada town being taken over by an ancient evil force (hey, there's Las Vegas for an example.) In "Desperation", King's characters are all quite believable, strong; they are people you know. (Especially Cynthia, for those of you who've read "Rose Madder".) I can compare this book to "The Stand"- people of variant backgrounds coming together and fighting evil, finding strength within themselves and each other. But, best of all, the book truly scared the daylights out of me- I will always get a chill when a police car approaches me on a lonely Nevada highway. Who's to say that it won't be a malevolent force at the wheel, and where can I run in the desert?
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Summary: Deparation the masterpiece
Review: King has peaked in his writing career. Magnificent is the only word that can appropriately describe his work. Desperation has everything the typical horror/ action book should contain. This could be King's best work ever!
As always king describes the characters of the book as well as can be done. This gives the reader the feeling as if he/she knows the character. The characters in this book develop very well. The boy in the story who's mom has been killed earlier in the story develops into the hero as he discovers God and just how much he cares for his father.
Many king fans may not like the fact that he has been incorporating god into his stories lately; nevertheless, King pulls it off very well. While firing profanity every 10 words in the story King is not what you would call a "Christian author." He's very far from it. This is what is so appealing about King's books. Most authors cannot combine topics as Christianity and violence together quite as well as Stephen king has done.
The story takes place in a town that has been totally annihilated by a superhuman cop. The book goes into great detail of how the cop brutally murders people. Eventually the boy and his father end up coming to the town as they are picked up on the highway by a cop. They find themselves to be in a world of terror. Once they realize that the cop is evil they know they have to find a way to escape. Eventually they do escape from the jail cell and roam through the corpse filled town while looking for a way out.
One scene they enter a building where bodies are hanging from coat hangers from their necks. Body parts and blood cover the room to make the scene even more intense. The pace rarely slows down in this story.
Later on in the story they meet up with the cop. The cop is killed and when this occurs they find that the same thing that possessed the cop has possessed another person. It seems as if there is no end to the demon possessing the humans. The story eventually explains itself and where the demon has come from.
The only downfall in the story is that the ending may have dragged on a bit too long. It was like watching a movie that should have ended four times already. Even with this in mind the book was still amazing. The action in the story rarely stopped. There was never a dull moment in the book with the exception of ending.
For readers looking for a supernatural/thriller I recommend this book. I would not hesitate to say that this was king's best work ever. It had everything a great story should have. If it were not for the repetitive ending this story would receive a perfect ten out of ten, but I have to stick with a 9 for now. Matt otis
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Summary: Not up to his usual brilliance
Review: I was disappointed with this book, as well as The Regulators. These are the books from Stephen King that I read and promptly forgot. They were good entertainment while I was reading them, but they were just not "unforgettable."
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