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Summary: "Gerald's Game" Could It Happen To You Too?
Review: This is one of the most frightening King books on the market because most of the story could happen to anyone! How may times have you been in a situation where if the person you were with died on the spot you would be trapped and alone? This is what happens with Jesse, after her husband Gerald dies while playing his "game", leaving her handcuffed and alone (and don't forget vunerable; she's partially nude on the bed which would affect her state of mind as well...)
During the course of reading the book, I found myself trying to come up with escape scenarios for Jesse (imagine my husband's surprise when he came in to our bedroom and found me laying on the bed with my arms up on the bedposts trying to WILL Jesse's escape from her silent prison!) Can she push the mattress off the frames? Could she get a foot to the floor to push the bed across the room? Could she escape at all?
A must reading to every woman who likes great fiction, married or not, to give you insight into the male ego of all men! And don't forget, it is terrifying as well. This book affected me long after I was finished reading
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Summary: Disappointing. I was let down.
Review: I have read about fourteen of Mr. Kings books and frankly I am stunned how dull this book, after years of nerve-racking stories turns out to be. It seems interminable and I read on in the hope that it would turn out to be a bit more entertaining . It seems to me to be merely a mélange of several of his previous novels; look at the following comparisons for example:
Misery - bound to a wheelchair/bed;
The Library Policeman - repressed memories of childhood sexual assault;
Cujo - the dog formerly known as Prince;
Dolores Claireborne - eclipse;
Polly's gloves for her arthritis - Jessie's glove for her cuts. And didn't someone in 'The Stand' (Dana, I think), try to kill herself by thrusting her neck through a window pane, just as Jessie was contemplating doing after running out of the group session ? If there are any more similarities between this and previous King novels, then I "disremember" them.
One sure way of an any artist's (imminent) demise is a repetition of their previous works. In the late Agatha Christie's mystery/murder novels, never once did I detect a resemblance to any previous publication. This is not Steven the King. This is a fable by Steven the Princeling.
Rating: 
Summary: One of his worst
Review: This book seems almost like a bet someone made with Stephen King. They wanted to see just how good he was. "Can you write a whole book about a woman lying on a bed?"
Any other author would have gotten a 1 on a book that goes nowhere and has very little happen. Stephen King just didn't have enough to work with. This was perhaps more of a character study, a chance to get into someone's head and see what they can learn about themselves from extremely stressful conditions. People who like artsy foreign films will probably love it. For someone like me who's more interested in a good story, I spent the whole book wondering when something significant would happen. I only bothered to finish the book because I kept thinking that some radical twist would put it all into a new perspective but I was dead wrong. Gerald's Game would have been an excellent short story, or a "MacGyver" episode. But stretching this 20 page plot into a full book made it painfully slow and boring.
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Summary: Terrifying!
Review: Wow! What can I say? Stphen's really getting better with age. The basic premise of this book is one of his most creative ever, and the story is written without any of the excesses Stephen's known to cause some of his novel ruin. This is definetely one of his best, and it's downright scary at times. Terrific reading
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Summary: Kinky, Horrific, and Terribly Entertaining
Review: GERALD'S GAME is a great novel; who can expect it to be anything less when it comes from the mind of a creative genius like King. This is definately a page turner: I was scared and aroused from the start to the finish
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Summary: TRASHY JUNK, BUT OH SO INTERESTING.
Review: THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR THE EASILY OFFENEDED. IT STARTS OFF WITH WILD SEX, BUT DOESN'T REALLY MOVE ON MUCH FROM IT'S START. GOOD FOR HORNY POKES THOUGH
Rating: 
Summary: Trapped!
Review: This is one of those stories that makes you think. Think what?
WHO IN THE WORLD THOUGHT HANDCUFFS WERE KINKY!!!! This is probably
going through Gerlad's wife's mind as she lays helplessly handcuffed
to their bed. A bed that happens to be in the middle of no where at this moment. We watch on in horror as her mental state is tested. Tested by hunger and thirst, by fear (both real and imagined). Listening
to this story on a trip back from Florida left me spooked! Moral of the story: Never, not ever, do you piss of the guy hold the handcuff keys!
Rating:
Summary: Not that good.
Review: Sorta boring.
Not a lot of action.
It goes on and on.
Rating:
Summary: Stunning!!
Review: As a Stephen King fan, I picked up this book based on the belief that
if it came from Stepehn King, it was a good book. What i didn't
know was that it wasn't a good book, it is a GREAT book. The
way it grabs your mind a make you feel the reality portrayed
in its pages is scary. This has been the only Stephen King
book that i have to stop myself from reading too much of it
at night because I was getting scared.
I recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: A simple game that just got out of hand.
Review: Gerald and Jessie Burlingame take a little time off from their hectic lifestyles to visit their lakeside property in Dark Score, Maine. Gerald had an idea for a little fun, he brought handcuffs along with him to attach Jessie to the bedposts. Harmless enough, until Gerald has a fatal heart attack with Jessie still in cuffs. Now, she has to struggle countless hours to no avail. With hunger setting in and thirst scratching at her throat, she has to find some way to escape from the cuffs. Gerald's game is one of the top Stephen King books I've ever read. It deals with the struggles to stay alive while at the same time, goes back into the past to explore Jessie Burlingame's haunting childhood that never seems to leave her alone. She begins to see things in the middle of the night. The question is, are they really there, or are they her imagination?
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