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Summary: Rather good.....
Review: As this book goes on one comes to appreciate it quite well. The terrifying serial killing husband is well depicted and described in a thrilling way. The one thing that shadows this piece is the out-of-this-world travelling through a painting. In the dreamsequence this is acceptable, as for the return in the end it's just a dissapointment. Rosie's double (..or is it..?) could be intervened some other way. The painting could still have the encouraging effect on her without being a portal. All in all it's a readable story...the true King reader are after all most likely to find the supernatural ingredients all too few.
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Summary: Almost 5 stars
Review: I would have given this book 5 stars except for the out-of-place fantasy sequence in the middle. I think it detracted from the story because it seemed like it came from The Dark Tower novels (don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of the Dark Tower, just not in the middle of an otherwise somewhat reality-based novel). Mr. King's portrayal of the abusive husband who's also a serial killer on the side is chilling. I can imagine that's really how people like that think. And once again, his understanding of the battered woman is evident.
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Summary: Great book
Review: this was the 2nd book that I read by him and I thought it was fantastic. This book not only went into detail but It built up suspence and it also made you think. Not to mention that it had some crusom parts which Stephen King is good for...
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Summary: Not quite there..
Review: Like many of the other reveiwers found, this book started good! But the fantasy ending just didn't quite work. I'm a lover of his fantasy novels (for a real treat, read Insomnia), but this book proved, in the end, to be 150 pages too long. The 'dream' sequence halfway through was wasteful, as it was just repeated 'for real' later, and the book would have been better with just one trip 'through the woods'. Some very good unsettling parts, and the painting being an interesting and encouraging metaphore for Rose was a great idea, but it just went too far, maybe king decided he wanted to play it safe and stick with the tried and tested methods of his usual works? Not as refreshingly new as i thought it would be.
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Summary: Good at first but then...
Review: Rose Madder is the story of a woman who has been abused by her husband for fifteen years and decides enough is enough and leaves while he is away at work. I felt this book was a fantastic piece of literature up until King made it into a fantasy type of story. It was really believable at first, both the story and the characters. I was hooked into it the moment I picked it up and through most of it I could not put it down. I was curious to see what would happen to Rose on her quest to escape her horrible life and her husband, Norman, was one of King's best villians. I know King is a horror writer and tends to add a bit of the supernatural to his novels but I think this one should have been the exception. I feel he ruined a perfect story by adding the silly stuff at the end. But overall, I would still recommend this book. It was one of his best. P.S. Please read my other reviews.
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Summary: viva ze bool
Review: i thought it was a great book until it turned into fantasy. too drastic a switch, in my opinion, because the book was so believable.
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Summary: A real thriller will chase you all the way to the end!
Review: It takes a surge of real courage for a long-abused wife to get out of the lair of her monstrous husband who is brutal enough to kill his own unborn child without any remorse at all. That Norman creature would make you shudder and shudder whenever you think of him! And Rosie really deserves a credit for having the guts as well as brains to turn her life around - even with the help of a magical painting. There is a couple of minor slips in the plot, however. The part where Rosie wanders nude into the fantastic realm of the painting is a bit bogged down and the ending turned out to be less than happy, when Rosie still has the feral instinct to kill her new husband and daughter. Overall, it is quite an imaginative and thrilling picture of a brave housewife fleeing her sadistic captor of a husband!
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Summary: Sorry, Steve, but this one just didn't cut it...
Review: Hey, you win a lot, lose a few...but others seemed to have loved it, so more power to you. I was thrilled by the beginning, irritated by the end. Nevertheless, it was a creative attempt, and I always admire that in any artist. I just wish King had stayed with reality instead of suddenly jumping into fantasy. Nothing wrong with fantasy, but it just didn't "go" here, at least for me. I finished it, but it was a grueling experience. I kept hoping it would get good again. Also - the ending was a feminist tract. And I am a dyed-in-the-wool feminist. I just don't love blatant politics with my fiction. Now, for a subtle feminist novel, one that really packs a punch in that area, read Deloris Claiborne - it's a masterpiece of courageous womanhood against the odds.
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Summary: Rose Madder
Review: I deeply admire Stephen King for his intelligence and contribution to society. I really enjoyed this book, especially the reality-based part. In fact, I read a straight 12 hours one day in order to finish the book. Both main characters kept my undivided attention throughout the story. However, on page 322 there was an editing error that had Norman shooting people without a gun in his pocket. Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed the reading, and I would recommend this book to others.
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Summary: PAINFUL
Review: To sum it up...I tried to read this book twice and never got to page 200. A little voice told me not to finish the book and I'm glad I listened because I read a synopsis that revealed the pathetic ending of the book. The beginning was realistic and barely held my attention. Toward the middle and end of the book King dives out into a wild tangent with a laughable fantasy plot involving the painting rose madder. If you hated the book Insomnia, then definitely avoid Rose Madder.
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