Rose Madder

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Summary: The worst book ever.
Review: I thought Insomnia was bad. Oooooooh was I wrong. With a thin plot, fantasy like settings that don't work out as a good horror book. It was long and easy to put down. Infact it was so easy to put down it took me four months to read it. I understand that a lot of people liked it but it wasn't that good. Although it started out good with a battered women running from her abusive husband. With good characters and a original plot (Unlike 'Salem's Lot, The Shining, and The Dark Tower) King should have done better.

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Summary: Excellent----except maybe for the end.
Review: Well, since this is the first time I've ever read a King novel I have to say that my opinion will be a little slighted but after I read "Rose Madder", I immediately went online and ordered "IT". I absolutely loved this book. I usually stick to the classics but I happened upon "Rose Madder" and could NOT put it down. The characters were very real and likeable, although the dialogue was sometimes forced. The story line really kept my pages turnng but I have to admit that I was a little disapointed at the end. However, I really did enjoy the book and it seems that now Stephen King has one more fan among the many. Cheers!!

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Summary: An outstanding novel by the master of suspense!
Review: This novel proves that Stephen has not lost his touch. It'll keep you in suspense with each turn of the page. Also, one feels for the characters, especially Rose who's trying desperately to escape her abusive and tyranical cop of a husband. She ends up at D & S, and with their help makes it on her own -- for a while anyway. Then hubby finds her and all hell breaks lose. By the way, hubby has a secret fetish that'll cause your flesh to curl.

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Summary: A good idea ruined by Stephen King-stupidness.
Review: In my opinion, the last good novel this guy wrote was Misery. Since trying to stay awake through Insomnia and loathing Regulators, I've decided to give the rest of his novels 100 pages before I decide to trash it or stay with it. Live is just too short to waste time when there are so many far superior authors out there. If I didn't keep getting these Stephen Kings as gifts I probably wouldn't bother at all. On to Rose Madder. I have to admit, by page 80 I was very hooked. Everything went along quite nicely until around page 300, when the patented Stephen King-stupidness kicked in. You know what I mean: the villian starts spewing that gawd-awful baby-talk...."Anna-Anna-bo-Banna, banna-fanna-fo-Fanna". Give me a break. When is King going to grow up with his readers? He's still writing for 16 year-olds. I'll rate this one a 4 for those over 35. If I had read this at age 16 I would probably have rated it a 9.

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Summary: Initially good
Review: This was my first stephen king novel i read, i felt it had strong start and was very suspenseful UNTIL the ending. The storyline is rather simple which domestic violence, but it has a rather "different" ending which i believed slowed down the momentum brought forward from the beginning of the novel.

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Summary: i'm really rosie and i'm rosie real....
Review: ROSE MADDER would have to be one of the most imaginative and magicalbooks King has ever written. It could never have reached the same epicproportions as 'The Stand' or 'IT', but it was never written to be that way.ROSE MADDER is a brilliant book in it's own right, and once I started it I couldn't put it down until every single page had been read and savoured. Thisis a brilliant story that sweeps you from the real world into the world of RosieReal and back, leaving you with that tingling feeling you get once a King book hasbeen devoured. Not one of his best, but King seems to border on Adult Fantasy moreoften that horror now, and in that genre as well as the old, he excells, and soarsto be the greatest author of all time

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Summary: GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Mohammad Shihab ([e-mail]) Not his best novel yet, simple story but King still manages to write 600 pages and make you not want to leave the story till you've finished.

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Summary: I think it was good.
Review: I think that this was a really good book and think that King should write more things on women harassment. The way he wrote the book really made me realise what a good author he is.

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Summary: ONE OF KING'S BEST!!!!!
Review: This book was incredible!!! I read it, then my mother read it then two or three of my friends read it and all of them thought the best of this book. I was a little disapointed, though, because some of the people who left reviews were quite harsh when giving their opinions on the book. Stephen King never ceases to amaze me with his page-turning thrillers!!!!!

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Summary: Excuse me. What is this?
Review: To paraphrase Homer Simpson: Boooooooooring!! Jesus H. Christ! Makes you wonder what the Hell is King taking us for. Are we Constant Readers, or are we Absolute Idiots to buy this kind of thing?? Not that it doesn't have it's good part here or there, I am not saying that, but I'll say this: King becoming moralistic?? Writing about "real life dramas of wives being beaten"??? Ooooh come on Mr. King! We are tired of being cheated out anymore! Do us a favour and re-write the good old stuff. Who knows, re-read Pet Sematary or The Shining and get your cogs oiled.