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Gerald's Game

Gerald's Game

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Not vintage King
Review: As a Stephen King fan of many years, Gerald's game was too non-King to make an impact. If it had been written by anybody other than King, I would have been less critical, but one expects better from The Master. A wishy-washy story of one woman tied to a bed, with page after page of how she struggles to reach a glass of water...

It's not King at his best and, frankly, it's not even King in average form. It won't put me off buying more of his books, though, because even God has bad book days!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Games
Review: We play games, and due to the nature of this world, sometimes we get into big trouble, and extraordinary experiences happen to quite ordinary characters, namely, to us. Snip: (...)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: How it feels to have death breathing down your neck.
Review: King's descriptions are so vivid I could almost feel the pain Jesse was having in her muscles from bieng hand-cuffed to the bed for two days. The errie chill of realization, that Jesse's situation isn't so far fetched. Tied to a bed in a summer cabin with no one else knowing, and knowing the only escape is either death or excrusiating pain. This book is powerfully stunning.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: great book- very well written-but totally not typical King
Review: This is a duty book...Stop laughing. What I mean is that it is a fine book with fine writing and talks about extremely serious subjects in our world. To me I call this kind of thing a duty book/movie/show/artical etc. Like it's my duty to check out some of the common most negative things going on. Ever not enjoy the news, but watch it anyway? Ever watch a family law episode that disgusted you but you still felt urged to watch? That's what I'm talking about. And this book is seriously articulate in describing one of the most common horrors in the world today- rape and child molestation. I won't lie- you will not enjoy this book if you are a normal, sane human being. However it was still a great story and I didn't find it boring at all. It wasn't all climactic I'll grant you, but it was extremely interesting. The monster supposedly made of shadows, the common couple that loses the lust in their love life, what happens to people who were abused as children, dysfunctional families, freak accidents during intense moments, trusting intuition though you could be wrong, it's all in here. No doubt this probably wasn't really fun or exciting for SK to write mostly, but a duty to obey the issues and stories that popped into his mind. Also there are some big surprises here. There may have been a hole or two in the story, but in a nasty and wicked way, this is still a great piece of quality work from Stephen King. But once again- very interesting brain food- not enjoyable or entertaining though, nothing sugary here. Hope that helped.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Autophobia for me!
Review: I am a huge Stephen King fan, my first novel was "Firestarter" when I was in Elementary school. Despite mixed reviews, I read "Gerald's Game" and loved it. I liked it because I was told beforehand that this is not a typical King-horror story. I think if you are looking for something really gross and horrific, try "It" or "Desperation". But if you want just plain ol' keep- you-up-all-night-suspense..you'll like this one. Psychic suspense is the best. The main character, Jessie is married to a man who loves to have kinky sex. You know the type, "anywhere, anytime"... Well, he chooses a remote house , pretty much out in the middle of NOWHERE to set the scene for his latest sexual adventure. At first Jessie is into this. It seems fun to be handcuffed and be dominated, but soon the control becomes frightening. Her husband stops listening to her yelps to stop, and she sees a an "evil" in his eyes. Jessie responds in anger by "kneeing" him in an unprotected area. He then falls to the ground. DEAD. Everything now begins to happen in REAL TIME over two days, so if you read the book in two days and literally put the book down when night falls and Jessie sleeps, you BECOME a real watcher of the action, almost a participant. Jessie's relief to get her husband off her leads to a series of scary events to save her life. She calls out for help...something happens. She finds personal items on the shelf over her head...... She hears strange noises...... It's kind of like playing "MYST". How do you use your wit and skills and items in the room to free yourself? All these dilemmas are nothing compared to Jessie's own mind fighting against her. She panics, sees and hears things. Are they real? I won't spoil the fun, but I strongly suggest thinking of the story as a game...what would you do If you were Jessie? By the way....The ending was one of the strangest endings I think I have ever encountered! This is a must read for all King's fans who appreciate his different styles.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: This is scary?
Review: Plot...woman handcuffed to bed, may die from it. Okay, that's it. You need a seriously overactive adrenal gland to find this book frightening. Either that or read this book with one hand cuffed to a bedpost for effect. Maybe if you're the type to get grossed out easily (and if that's the case, why are you reading a Steven King novel). Only worth buying if you need to polish off a complete Steven King library, and even then I wouldn't suggest actually reading it.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Onlt for die hard King fans
Review: Only Stephen King is capable of writing more than four hundred pages featuring a single character and full it with chepa psychologic drama. Blergh !

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A new genre for King
Review: This is totally unlike Stephen King's other books. While King normally sticks exclusively to horrors, this is a psychological thriller. It's very difficult to come up with complaints about this. The only one is that it was difficult to comprehend the time frame of each scene. Maybe that was the author's intent, to show the loss of time sensation of the main character. If so, then King did a remarkable job.

The plot is quite simple. The wife of an established attorney is chained to the bed by her husband in their remote lakeside vacation home. When he has a heart attack and dies, she is left in this seemingly inescapable situation, with only the voices in her head, a stray dog, and a mysterious stranger that may or may not be real. Her greatest challenge is herself. She must conquer all of these physiological and psychological challenges if she's to live. How easy it would be for her to succumb and just let herself go.

King does a superb job in demonstrating how the survival instinct is far greater than any other seemingly powerful forces we may endure. I highly recommend this book to intelligent individuals over 18. Content is far too mature for younger readers.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: I neither cared whether Jessie lived or died.
Review: King sets himself a difficult task here. He must sustain our interest in a single character who is alone, chained to a bed, and likely to die.

While admiring his resourcefulness, his narrative skills, and many other of his books, I must report that I soon lost interest in his character Jessie and her predicament. I don't object to identifying with a character and sharing her long drawn-out agony if the experience is, paradoxically, a liberating one. One hour with Jessie, however, made me feel callous, heartless and dispirited. I neither cared whether she lived or died.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: fun for the whole family
Review: This book wasn't very terrifying, but it had some scary moments, (one, to be exact). That isn't where the appeal of the book lies. The appeal lies in Jessie's struggles with the voices in her head, and her own damaging past. The voices all seem to take on a certain character of their own, and they become like real people not just to Jessie, but to the reader as well. The memories of her childhood that Jessie has become real for you as well, as she unveils them piece by piece. The highlight of this book for me, though, was when she finally devised a method to get her handcuffs off. I actually became so sick to my stomach and light-headed that I had to rush to the toilet bowl then lie down on the couch for 15 minutes before I could continue reading. I've never had to do anything like that before in my life, and I had read many a gross scene before. King's descriptions are so vivid and realistic, you can feel things as if they are happening to you, and not Jessie. Just another example of what a superb writer King is, and what a master of his genre he is, also. Although, there were some drawbacks. Many of the occurances in the book were seen a mile away. (the dog, for instance.) There was also a considerable amount of fluff at the end about how things went after she was free, and at times the plot seemed repetitive and slow, but all in all, it was good. I suggest this one to someone who would like to see just what King is capable of.


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