Desperation

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Summary: BORING
Review: I am an avid Stephen King fan. All I can say is he better be glad he is Richard Bachman. Bachman's book was better. I just finished this book today. I was disapointed, it wasn't up to snuff. He can do better and has. I did not feel this was a companion book to the Bachman book, I felt the Bachman book was better. The ending just didn't cut it. I don't care for Alfred Hitchcock type endings. Both books I felt ended basicly the same. This story didn't seem to have any meat. I couldn't find myself caring enough about any of the characters. I love the way Stephen King can scare the beejesus out of anyone but this book just didn't do it. Some old hidden God, come on you can do better. This story is set in a town in Nevada. A mixed nut assortment randomly picked by not so random. Tested by God to work together to defeat an ancient God. Not even! I truly believe there's no such thing as a bad King book, but this book will not be one of my favorites give me The Shining or The Stand any day

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Summary: Middle Of the Road King!
Review: I am an avid fan of King's good and bad books. This epic was strong in spirit and weak in finish. The premise is based upon a mythical god of evil that is entoumbed in an evil mountain. More time should have been spent on definition of the god "Tak" and less on his gruesome exploits and carnage. King needs to provide more explosive endings and not leave you trailing in the wind. The cosmis fight between good and evil is always tempered in King's novels with less than perfect real life human beings. But many of his best works incude the less than ordinary and more than normal. This book deals with a tragic hero and an unworthy hero. There is no closure to the tale and as in the past, king leaves the tale open for next generation stories. I like to use of King's past bit players in all of his books. The easter egg's are easy to spot for King fans in this book. It sums up to a long drawn out tradgedy and only woth the wait for real diehard fans. Wait for paperback

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Summary: I couldn't put it down. What else can you ask for in a book
Review: I have not read a King novel that for me personally dropped below a seven (and there have been times when I really tried to convince myself that I wanted to or needed to finish a lousy novel) and Desperation did not disappoint me. It was a great story, was unpredictable, unlike primetime television, and had me leaving lights on behind me as I raced down the dark hallway to my bedroom. It's why I read King and I thoroughly enjoyed it

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Summary: Grabs you right from the start
Review: One of King's best books yet. The story grabs you at the start and you just keep going. Excellent characters and the story line was incredible. I was and now again a die-hard King fan. Cant wait for his next one!!!!

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Summary: better than regulators
Review: i'm still on page 107 and i can tell that it's a whole lot better than Regulators. It's a regular King work

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Summary: He thinks it's one of his best, I say it's so-so.
Review: Not that bad of a book, I find the tie in of The Regulators a much better read

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Summary: ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS EVER
Review: Except for the Green Mile, this is the best book--not just by King, but ever written--to come around in a long time. The emotions and descriptions and suspense are in perfect form. The ending is great and will put tears in most eyes. The characters are so believable that I found myself actually feeling sad for them when one died (and I'm not giving anything away, either). Better than it's almost twin sister, The Regulators, Desperation will not soon leave your mind. . . or your heart, for that matter

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Summary: Not a slow starter
Review: This is one of the best SK books I have read! At some point I just all looks to black for the hero's to be sure that they are going to survive. But the ending is a little to Hollywood like.

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Summary: Steve is back, watch out!
Review: Easily the best thing King has written in the last ten years. It is the Stephen King of old, when you had to miss supper to finish the chapter. The mate to this, The Regulators was weak and confusing. This book made up for that lame attempt. Take the bucks and buy this book, but skip the "set", you don't need the other. A must read for all King fans

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Summary: King NOT desprate for DESPERATION
Review: King does it again in this bone chilling-keep you awake at night book! With its great words, and horrifying imagination, Desperation will truely show you the meaning of the word that many of us don't stop to think about. Stephen King is a wonderful writer who knows how to bring the charaters to life; he is the kind of person that knows what it's like to be slaughtered, and how it feels to be demon possed, or to be in some kind of life threatining-heart out of chest-fears, and situations. The story is about good and evil facing one another in an all out brawl that will leave you stranded at every brake, crimping up at every mention of the word, evil, and terrifyed to even look in a mirror, because who knows what is standing behind you. The two forces fight it out between a link, a boy; who's name is David, along with a writer, a father, a mother, a normal woman, a little girl, and a man named Peter; along with the other possed dead people. Early in the book, the suspense starts, and leaves your stomach tightning in awe, and in total fear. The suvivors are chosen quickly, and not many people live. A quick description: While traveling down the road, Peter, and Mary see a cat nailed to a road sign, and are pulled over by a policeman, to investigate why there license plate is somehow missing. The cop-not really human-finds a bag of pot under a tire, and takes them off to a town called Desperation. In another part of Highway 51, a family is stopped by a cop, and are taken to the same town, after their tires are busted on road spikes. And on the same road a writer stops to take a leak, and is captured by the cop, and beaten senseless, he manages to call his assistant, and get him down to Desperation as fast as possible. In the meantime they are all taken to the town of Desperation to be locked up. At the door of the police building, Peter is shot, and killed, and the little Girl of the family in the van is thrown down the steps. The night that cop left the boy of the family escaped, and freed the others. The writers assistant is on his way to the other side of the country when he gets a phone call on his cell. With a passenger in his side-a rocked out hippy girl-he takes the call, it's his boss; the writer. He heads to Desperation, with no direction, for when the Writer called, the range was bad, and only few words got through, they pass the town just as the escapies are leaving the building, but with the high wind-and since they are in the desert-a storm prevents them from seeing them, and all is lost in the middle of the book. But the boy-possed by the power of God-calls then on the cell, making it work within well clarity, and calls the assistant and the girl back. They join up the best most suspenful ride of your life. 690 pages of pure terror, and non-stop action, this book will grab you from the beginning, and leave you sweating even when your done.