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Summary: Rose Madder
Review: This book is excellent. I can really relate with the life of the main character. The book starts out with a wife Rose Daniels of an abusive husband. She can't get the courage to leave him and she has been taking these beatings for around fourteen years. Finally one day she gets the courage to leave him and she moves away. It seems that everything will be all right from here on out but what she doesn't know is that her husband can't live with out her and is looking for her. This book is written from what seems like a person who has been in an abusive relationship there self. Stephen King puts you in this book he makes you feel like you are the one doing all the actions through out the book. I would definitely recommend this book but I would have to say it should be read by a more mature reader. There are a few dry parts in the book but over all it is great and you wont be able to put it down from the time you pick it up or at least I had a hard time putting it down.
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Summary: King Gets Better With Time
Review: WOW! What a book. I had not read any Stephen King in years, not since The Tommyknockers was released. I think I managed to wade through half of that book, and then could stand no more of the same stuff he had churned out for years. But, what a difference a day, or in this case several years, makes.I read this immediately following Bag of Bones, the best Stephen King I have ever read. After racing through that, Rose Madder was recommended to me, as being another King book that offered something different. Demons of a different kind. Demons of the past, but demons that were just as real as the creatures of his prior novels. Rose, the novel's central character, extricates herself from an abusive marriage, and leaves her life behind to start over when she has finally had enough of her husband, Norman. Suffering physical and emotional torture for years, she finally summons the courage to run. Norman isn't quite so eager to split, though, not until he 'punishes' Rose for daring to mistreat him so. Starting over in a new town, with a new life, and finding new life in herself, Rose sinks into a false security of relative anonymity. She finds an old painting in a junk shop, of a woman in a 'red' dress, which seems to call to her to buy it for her new apartment. The painting continues to haunt and mesmerize her, and eventually becomes her salvation, for just when she thinks she has escaped her former life, found a new career, and perhaps a new love, the demons of her past come back to haunt her, in the form of Norman, bent on making her pay for her 'crimes' against him. This book blends just the right amount of fantasy with reality as the story builds to a rather climactic finish, as hunter becomes hunted, predator becomes prey. This is one of the strongest King novels I can ever recall reading, and proof that his writing gets better with time. In Rose Madder, he takes a very different turn and explores real humans and their emotions just as vividly as his horrific creatures have been. I recommend this book to King fans and non-King fans alike.
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Summary: You'll never see this on Oprah's book club.
Review: While the themes are something Oprah has touched upon - it's a little too out there! This book has so much to it. It will endear more female fans to Stephen King as well as please the typically male fan base. It's interesting to have a book that can inspire fear, sorrow and inspiration all within a few 100 pages.
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Summary: Very Well Done!
Review: I enjoyed this book! I also enjoy a lot of stephen king's writtings and found this to be right up there on my list of his good books! Good job!
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Summary: WOW!
Review: This is the first Stephen King book that I have read. His movies are so exellent it inspired me to read one of his books. The book I chose was Rose Madder. Wow, was it good! It gave me a feeling of suspense mixed with the facts of reality. After 14 years of abuse,Rose found the courage to leave Norman. Going to extreme measures Norman does every thing to get her back. Through out the book Stephen King gives very specific detail of everyones character, allowing you to enter the minds of each individual. Rose will give you a feeling of accomplishment,and Norm gives a sense of hate and disgust. King has definately created a story that will keep you on the edge of your seat wanting to read more and more. I would definately recomend this book.
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Summary: King is the MAN!!
Review: "I'm really Rosie, and I'm Rosie real... you better believe me, I'm a great big deal." Stepehn King has done it again. I have read almost everyone of King's novels and i would have to say that this ranks near #1. This is a great story of a woman named Rose Daniels/Rosie McClendon. She's a wife of fourteen years and has been abused by her husband almost since day one. Rosie finally gained enough courage to leave the abusive relationship and finds herself in a strange, new world. As her life is moving at a very good pace, she has no idea that her husband has begun a search. The way that King writes his characters in this novel makes them easy to love or to hate. Rosie's outgoing personality makes her prone to meet new people and find new experiences. Overall I would say that this book is a very good read,it keeps you in the book from day one, you never want to put it down. I would recommend reading this book to anyone.
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Summary: Rose Madder is ok
Review: Rose Madder by Stephen King is all right. I chose to rate this a three because I have read much better books by King than this. Rose McClendon-Daniel's is an abused wife. Her husband is a strong, smart police officer. When Rose decides she has had enough, she walks out of his life. He is outraged and humiliated. He sets out to find her in the new city where she has started her new life with the help from a few kind strangers. There are many twists and surprises that keep you reading, and you want to see what's going to happen next. There are some really funny parts in this book, for example the confrontation between Norman and a large lady named Gert. This book is a light read, even though it looks big. Some parts may require some thought, but most read easily. It does not take long to read, I finished in a weekend. I recommend it to those that like Stephen King and are looking for something quick to read.
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Summary: A Terrific Story
Review: Rose Madder was a wonderful story about a women who escapes an abusive relationship. During her course of self discovery, her husband is on a course of his own discovery... insanity. This book is great for readers who are not fans of horror books. It is a story about a women's journey and her will to live.
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Summary: Rose Madder
Review: At first I was very discouraged to read this book because of it size. I wasn't used to reading books over 400 pgs. long, but once I started reading I couldn't put it down. What I loved about this book was the characters and the way he described them. Very detailed. The most favorite part of my reading was from one of the main characters, Norman. Stephen King not only gave a description of Norman, but described the roots of his thoughts as well, which led me to know more about this character than any other character in the book. As I read this book I found myself laughing at some parts and sad at other parts of the book. To me this book was like an all in one. Suspense, drama, comedy, and horror. Truly this book was a great enjoyment to me. This was the first Stephen King book I have ever read and I have to admit it has been one of the best books I've read so far. This is definetly a book worth reading.
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Summary: A Must-Read for any woman-Fantastic
Review: I don't know what I liked more, the characterizations(his description of Anna really DOES remind one of Bea Arthur) or the imagery; they all rang true. Stephen King is the first writer I've read that can make monsters of men without having to give them supernatural powers and at the same time make seemingly IMPOSSIBLE situations entirely plausible. The other great thing about this book is that none of the violence is gratuitous; it's part of the plot and each character.
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