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Summary: spine tingling thrill
Review: This was just one of those stories you could live through the eyes of the main character. It was plausable, and that is what made it the most terrifying. If you've ever had one of those days where everything has gone wrong, go read about one of those weeks.
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Summary: Nearly great, still extremely good
Review: Stephen King needed to take his own advice from "On Writing" and trim this book by 75 pages or so. There's very little dialogue in the story, and the internalizations become redundant and tiresome at times. Even so, the story soars in the last 100 pages with some of King's best writing. Truly scary, with King's brilliance frequently shining through.
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Summary: Only fair
Review: I like Stephen King's horror books. I like them a lot. I especially like them a lot when they don't get all cluttered up with a lot of unnecessary twists and turns. Why he felt to keep adding to the heroine's problems as the story went along I don't know and I wish he hadn't. The basic plot was plenty complicated enough. My favorite character was the dog!Let me add that this book outlines just about everything that a couple should NOT do if they try to play bondage games or other BDSM games. "Real" BDSMers negotiate what they're going to do ahead of time, don't bring real-world issues into their play, make sure that they have a safeword in use, and if they're going to be playing bondage games at an isolated cabin way out in the woods they tell their friends first so that their failure to return will be noticed and the person in bondage can be rescued. Of course if this couple had used a safeword this would have been a 30 page book! King did not do his homework about SM before he wrote this and it shows. My favorite King books are Misery (smile), Thinner, and The Stand. My favorite SM books are SM 101, Screw the Roses and The Loving Dominant.
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Summary: a stephen king fan's worst nightmare
Review: This is the worst Stephan King book I've read. It's slow and lacks plot; it's a concept rather than a story. A woman finds herself trapped in her house- with only her "voices" to keep her company. Not much plot can develope with one character. Bits of this book show traces of the much better novel "CUJO." If King had done this as a short story it might have worked.
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Summary: a bedtime story...
Review: Imagine being trapped on your bed while handcuffed to the bedposts. In the Stephen King's thriller novel, Gerald's Game, Jessie Burlingame is about to find herself in this situation. During a little sex game, Jessie's husband Gerald is dead on the floor after a freak accident which occurred during a sexual interlude in their summer home. Now Jessie is handcuffed to the bed, with her husband dead and now she is alone in a house out in the woods of Maine. Or is she? With a hungry dog outside of the house, a stranger hiding in the shadows, and the voices in Jessie's head, maybe she isn't alone. Triggered by her ordeal, Jessie has to deal with her troubling secrets she doesn't want people to know about. I found this book to be very interesting. From the death of her husband, to Jessie's gruesome attempt to escape out of the handcuffs, Gerald's Game is a great book. Although the pace of the story slowed down in some parts throughout the book, it picked up quickly and made the book hard to put down. This is the first Stephen King book I've read, and with stories like Gerald's Game, I would like to enjoy more of King's novels. If you like psychological thriller/horror books, then Gerald's Game by Stephen King is the book for you.
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Summary: Fair enough.
Review: The plot concerns a woman who is tied to her bed by her huband and then her husband dies leaving her to get out of the handcuffs alone. It's not much plot, but at the end I would say it kind of picks up.
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Summary: A coup for King.
Review: Taking a break from universe-expanding fare like The Tommyknockers and Insomnia, King strips down to one key character in a static situation, and takes us into a horrific (but human) world of guilt, helplessness, and fear. Don't let the kinky premise -- husband dies while his wife is handcuffed to the bed for sex games -- scare you off. It's really just a device to get our protagonist alone and helpless. Unlike your average hack writer, however, King has something in mind for this helpless female other than voyeurism and violent exploitation. King's going for more than tittilation and cheap scares. He's going for deep psychological terror and dread, not just presenting them but exploring the hows and the whys. The most interesting parts of the book aren't the fingernail-biting scary parts, of which there are plenty. The most intriguing is when our main character is alone with her internal dialogue. King makes the female voice utterly convincing; a difficult trick for a male writer, especially one with such a distinctive voice of his own. If your average horror novel is a bucket of popcorn, this one is a four-course meal. Dig in, if you have the stomach for it.
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Summary: SCARY AS HELL
Review: THIS BOOK WAS ONE OF THE MOST TERRIFYING BOOKS I HAVE EVER READ. IT REALLY SCARED ME AT NIGHT WHEN I WOULD READ IT. I LOVE THIS BOOK AND I HOPE IT IS TURNED INTO A MOVIE VERY,VERY SOON!
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Summary: Great At A Horrifying Mind Game
Review: How many of us, when reading a book, place faces to the characters whilst reading? This is something I did when reading "Gerald's Game." I placed Blondie lead-singer Deborah Harry as Jessie, the wife who reluctantly goes along with her husband's sometimes strange sexual requests. What follows is a harrowing tale of how when left alone to wander, the mind can make the most indepensible things seem horrifying and make your worst nightmares come true. From childhood repressions come back, to necrophilia, it's all covered in this terrifying novel that is by far and wide, one of the hardest things I've had putting down.
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Summary: The first and best King book I've ever read
Review: This book floored me when I read it years back... This book got me back into reading again. After hearing a girlfriend of mine talking about it I went and picked it up. Boy am I glad I did! The majority of the books takes place in one locale, with one character, with some cool tie overs to Dolores Claiborne. It's interesting to see how King can fill a whole book with one character with no one to talk to but herself, but King pulls it off brilliantly. Don't underestimate this book
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