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Summary: A fictional memoir to a lost beloved.
Review: This book was a rather abstract and way out there idea, and tactfull made concrete. If you are a hopelessly optimistic person, you may want to avoid this book. I think this was one of the more "romance for the oddities" kinda book, so I really enjoyed this book.
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Summary: It was the best I've read so far
Review: I read this mostly because everyone I knew said it was terrific. They were right! I loved it! Though at times I was confused, everything fell into place as the book went on. It was hard to put down, and I would recommend Bag of Bones to anyone.
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Summary: King needs a more assertive editor
Review: I've been a King fan for years, but many of his recent novels just go on and on! And...so does this one. King's editor really needs to get on the ball. This story could have been told more effectively (and would have been a more enjoyable read) in half the words.
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Summary: This novel got me reading Stephen King again.
Review: "Bag of Bones" brought me back from a King hiatus (I had read all the standards, "The Stand", "The Shining", "Dead Zone", etc.). What I liked was the fact that he didn't jump around with different subplots and characters like he has done in other novels. This one I recommend to anyone who has never read a Stephen King story before. His discription of pain and suffering of his characters is so realistic, I winced when his main character was being pummeled by rocks, and when he draws the reader up to the big conclusion and the mystery revealed at the end, you find yourself up to 2 a.m. trying to finish it.
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Summary: Horror doesn't scare me... until now.
Review: I started this book at 10:00 in the morning and didn't put it down until 2:00 the following morning. I, of course, was reading it all alone at night when a particular part made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and sent chills up my spine! When a book can spook me, it is a good book! If you like Stephen King, you should like this book. I loved it!!
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Summary: Bag of Bones is a Bag of Words
Review: Somebody please...Get This Man An EDITOR! This is King at his most ineffective and inefficient. Other long books of his were much better, like The Stand. This is just not worth the time and effort. EKW
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Summary: Boring
Review: I didn't enjoy this book at all. I never cared about the characters. Usually I can't put his books down, but for this one, I couldn't wait to put it down. The only reason I finished it was because I had already spent money on it. Try again Stephen! Go back to the good stuff like Needful Things, The Stand, or Carrie.
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Summary: Mr. King should have stopped when he wrote "Salem's Lot".
Review: In this book, Stephen King refers to the pressure imposed on best-selling authors to write a book a year. Evidently he was referring to his own experience as this is the longest, most tedious drivel I have ever attempted to read. The biggest horror I found was in trying to find a plot of some kind. I even tried skip-reading, but even so was bored to tears.Mr. King is a talented writer, but does not put his talent to good use.
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Summary: Bag of Bones was just that!
Review: There is no doubt that King is the master of story-telling. His writing style is engaging and genuine; however, the plot in Bag of Bones is lacklustrous. Bag of Bones is hair-raising and spine-tingling - but only in the beginning. The same scary stuff occurs throughout most of the book without hardly any implication in the story line. The story line does not take a turn until the end of the book. The characters' dialogues are uninteresting and corny. Mattie is banal. The relationships (specifically between the evil townspeople, Sara Tidwell and the Red Tops, and Michael Noonan and his crew) are a tangled web of nonsense. What saves the book is the main character, Michael. He is likeable and substantial. His narratives and thoughts introduce ideas that draw the reader in. Essentially, the book is excellently written, (word-wise), but lacks a firm nourishing plot.
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Summary: It was good because of its contents. Two thumbs up!
Review: I liked how each person had their own frame of mind,none on of them was alike.
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