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Summary: King has done it again.
Review: From a Buick 8 is a perfectly written novel and a very interesting one at that. Is this plot possible, or is this just another one of Stephen King's brilliant ideas? Can you just picture a "car" that is not really a car, doing things that a, normal car as you would say, would be doing, then just up and stopping all of a sudden? Then start doing it again. All of these problems that come from this car that really isn't a car. It is... I don't know what you could call the car except for what it is, a monster.
Ned Wilcox is a young adult, eager, hard working, and generous. I say he is hard working because he is outside the barracks every day that it snows during the winter busting his but just to snow blow the ten-foot drifts even though he doesn't have to. He mowed the lawn at the barracks; again, when he didn't have to. Why is he there you might ask? It isn't because he works there, it's because his father did work there until he died on duty. Ned Wilcox is not the main reason for the story. What is behind the Troop D barracks is what the story is about. The Buick 8 is a very strange "car" that produces things that are not humanly possible. The "car" has a wooden steering wheel the size of a yacht steering wheel. The dashboard is made of wood. The engine is just plain weird with a glass exhaust system. Stephen King has done it again and done it well. From a Buick 8 was written with such detail that it seems like he lived the story. He did a fantastic job on everything, except that I would have changed the names of the characters in the story. Some of them were difficult to pronounce such as the French name Jacubois. But other than that I loved the detail and ideas in the story. It kept me reading till I fell asleep. It was funny and thrilling at the same time. The novel was exquisite.
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Summary: From a Buick 8
Review: I enjoyed this book like no other. It has kept me curious and guessing the whole time. The detail and history of this book are extraordinary. All the possibilities and questions you come to while reading are thoroughly explored.
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Summary: Solid King thriller with an unusual twist
Review: "From a Buick 8" is not King's best novel, but its nowhere near his worst, either. Its an unusual little tale about the nature of our obessesion with dangerous and deadly forces, and about how there aren't always explanations for what we want. I found the book to be creepy, and it has an everpresent sense of dread looming over it. This is not exactly great material for a movie adaption, but a thoroughly enjoyable and spooky novel. Worth checking out.
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Summary: From a Buick 8
Review: This was one of the more enjoyable Stphen King books that he has done lately. I am a true fan, but I never enjoyed the gunslinger series. This is a good read, pretty far fetched at times, and I didnt find some of the creatures very scary, maybe a little silly. Still and all, this book was hard to put down and well worth the cash for the paperback. I would say sit back and enjoy the ride, in a Buick 8!
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Summary: Horror? No! - Sci Fi? Nah! - Tedious? Yup!
Review: I have always been a Stephen King fan, but his last half dozen books (except "Everything's Eventual") have been disappointing. I have found myself switching to Dean Koontz, who has written quite a few books to rival the great master. This one tries to draw from "Christine", "Tommyknockers", "Dreamcatcher" and even the Dark Tower series, and falls flat. The base line is okay - nightmare car doing nasty things - but it is extremely repetitive, not at all scary, and has some content that reminds you of vintage cheesy sci-fi movies. (Think of misshapen alien things oozing black gooey stuff) I kept turning the pages, hoping for the long lost spinal tingle and goosebumps reminiscent of "IT" and "Pet Sematary", but it just wasn't there. From a promising beginning, it flatlined to one of the most uninspired endings ever. Leave the problem alone and it will go away eventually. If you're a die-hard King reader like me, you'll read this one anyway, but it's not one of his best by any stretch of the imagination.
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Summary: Perfect Stephen King
Review: This book is def one of his. Very much a horror book, but lots of pondering moments and never dull with him. I truly felt I could smell the car and felt just like I was there, as in The Stand I did as well. Wonderful book!!! I hope he does decide to write more and not stop writing.
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Summary: YUCK
Review: This book is complete crap. One of the all time boring books. If King has written a worse book than this, I havent yet read it. Avoid at all costs
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Summary: A little different...
Review: This book leaves alot of questions unanswered because life does. That's the point. The final seen with the father and Sandy is beautful and alone makes the book worth reading.
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Summary: This explains it all
Review: Does anyone not see the connection between the Buick and the Dark Tower? One has to read King's "Hearts in atlantis" to truly appreciate this tale.
SPOILERS****
The Buick is a car belonging to the Low Men, agents of the Dark Tower's Crimson King. Doesn't anyone remember the way King described the Low Mens' cars in "Hearts in Atlantis"? They were almost alive...I believe that this particular Buick acts as a doorway to a level of the Dark Tower we haven't seen before. King's the kind of writer who rewards readers for reading his other books and "From a Buick 8" is no exception.
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Summary: My comment on the novel
Review: From a Buick 8 is about a car mostly, but it isn't anything like Christine. It is typically similar to Dreamcatcher and the car basically is haunted. Strange alien creatures come out dead fromt the car that left the people from troop D pounder indeed. This book by Stephen King is great, with beautiful twists and turns and fresh imagination, but it doesn't bring anything new to the table. This is one of his best work, but parts and pieces of it were from his previous works. Read if you are a big fan or just a newbie. This is one that shouldn't be missed.
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