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Summary: My Favorite King Book Yet!
Review: I have been a devoted Stephen King reader since I picked up "Different Seasons" in 8th grade in 1984. I've waited out the high points ("Rose Madder", "The Shining") and the low points ("Insomnia", "Eyes of the Dragon"). This was finally the one I've been waiting for. I read the entire (generous) text in one sitting, simply because I was unable to put it down. Reads like vintage King, but manages to imporve upon the best parts of all his finest works. Vividly imagined, that doesn't cop-out at the end (please refer to your copy of "The Stand", where it appears King got tired of writing near the end of the book), this one is one I'd love to have the time to read again and again.
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Summary: Put up your laptop and dust off your Royal Mr. King
Review: I'd like to believe that this piece of work was written by someone other than Mr. King but put under his name. Apparently gone are the days of "The Stand", "Carrie", "The Shining", and "Pet Cemetary". I did enjoy the first few chapters but then it just bottomed out. One of two Stephen King books I put down as a waste of time. The other one was "The Regulators". My advice Mr. King is to take a vacation, put away your laptop, dust off the Royal typewriter, and give us some of that vintage King we all know you still have in you.
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Summary: King says he's not a deep read and he's right
Review: I never understand people who say King is to dark, bloody, or just not deep. If you want a deep read, go away from the horror section and go get some political essays.(had to voice frustration) The book is pretty good, not his best. It's worth paying 7 bucks(if you're really cheap, to the library).
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Summary: "I rarely read, but I couldn't put it down."
Review: This was my first Stephen King book and it deffenitly won me over. I rarely read, but I found myself not being able to put it down. Desperation is a small town off a desolate strip of the interstate. A psyco sheriff kills all of the people in the town, I'm not going to give away anymore, but you should take my word for it and pick up this gem. "It's Phat!"
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Summary: King will keep you up nights with Desperation.
Review: In Desperation, Stephen King takes a twisted look at the traditional, of God, evil, and the durability of the human spirit. King superbly weaves a multi-character plot and uses one of his most horrific bad guys to date in this empathetic, but vivacious gore-fest. The novel begins with a couple of very misfortunate travelers who have a run in with the law while passing through Nevada. The officer that pulls them over is a monstrous, sunburnt toehead that has eyes in the back of his head, with his only connection to Barney Fife (or any other law man, for that matter) being that it's possible that he might have killed him at one point. The story has a religious boy of redemption, a washed up writer, a drunk, a blond hitchhiker, a roadkill barber, a whole lot of large and small gods, and plenty of other things that go bump in the night. This book is an absolute for any true King fan, or anyone else who doesn't mind great literature.
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Summary: In Desperation?
Review: Well, we have seen Stephen King grow and change. I am not knocking, we all change but... I am a Jesus Freak who checks out the Devil by reading about him (Tak ah la) and was ecstatic to find that God played such a heavy line in one of S.K.s books which proved something we all should know: God kicks ass! I sure hope S.K. brings the Main Star into more of his books. As for Desperation, the setting was so real I'm off for a holiday to find the town.
One thing, we find that S.K. has chosen yet again to have a writer as one of the main characters. Remind you of anyone?
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Summary: Desperation and Regulators
Review: I am not sure if it is wise to compare these two books. The evil spirit Tak seems to be the common theme in both books, but I suppose, King could author many more books based on this Tak. Individually both books rate high on plot, action and readability. Desperation though seems to bring out the true essence of Tak via transformations and symbolism. In desperation, I found an uneasy comparison between Christianity and Islam through David and Tak--"tak ah wan- tak ah lah?
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Summary: ENJOYABLE,PREDICTABLE,EXTREMLEY VIOLENT,BLOODBATH
Review: In desperation strangers who range from an alcholic writer to a kid that believes in god just a little to much are thrown together by fate and are at the hands of the local sherriff. The books starts of by showing how each character got caught by the sherriff or the spirit that is his in the sheriffs body. They are all thrown in jail while tak the spirit rounds up more victims. Predictably they escape and they fight the evil spirit. the body count his enormous in this one. Tak kills over three hundred people in less the six hundred pages. He kills the whole town!!!!. Although this was'nt that scary ( king's scarier one's lie in his older work) and predectible it was still a pretty solid book. I just have one more complaint.
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Summary: The short truth
Review: The shorth and simple truth can be summarized in a few short sentences...This is a good book by today's standards. It is not, however, one of the best that he has written. Devoted fans will heap praise and drink the book in. (i.e. me) Casual readers of King will not enjoy this novel as much as some of his others.
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Summary: It was definitely King's worst attempt ever.
Review: I can't believe that the same person who wrote The Shining, The Stand, Needful Things, and The Green Mile could write something so....utterly stupid. This is by far his worst work, besides, oh maybe, The Regulators?
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