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Summary: I'm torn on this one
Review: I really am, to tell you the truth. This seems to be precisely the sort of practice that King critiques in Misery--a wonderful story with a great theme suffers because of the debt that King owes to his readers to make the story "scary." The first four fifths of this novel are a wonderful examination of mortality and the impact that that concept has on the human condition. King really seems to have a great handle on the emotions that he deals with--I found myself moved to tears (and you would know this to be an exceptional occurrence if you knew me) at more than one point remembering losing my own father. If King had somehow contrived to do nothing more with this story than relate those ideas, I would ecstatically give this novel five stars. Just conveying that message, however, isn't enough for Stephen King, especially at this point in his career. The last fifth of the novel falls into a predictable routine (well, mostly, but I'll get to that a bit later on), introducing a lot of negative imagery and events for no apparent reason outside of trying to get a scare out of the audience. Particularly distressing is this attitude regarding how ambulatory corpses act--I saw a movie in a local store a few months ago that sums it up precisely: "The Dead Hate the Living." As the novel proceeds toward its conclusion it seems like King throws away a lot of the ground that he makes with regard to what I think is probably his central theme to adopt instead a group of hollow popular conceptions about death, horror, and how a story is supposed to be told. None of this is to say that the story itself is bad, mind you--King's storytelling is as good as ever, and somebody looking for a book to simply lay back and kill a few hours with probably wouldn't be disappointed here. I am haunted, however, by visions of what could have been with Pet Sematary, and that keeps me from giving is a perfect rating.
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Summary: underrated King, if not his best
Review: If you are a big fan of King's early books, then "Pet Sematary" is definitely a must read. The narrative and prose is impeccably crafted, the characters sharply realistic, the drama believable and ringing, and the horror has the lingering, unforgettable power of an EC Comics denouement. I have not read everything King has written since then, but it seems to me "Pet Semarary" was a watershed in his career. In latter and recent years he seems to have lost or neglected his great gift for scaring the daylights out of us. These days he seems to be writing way too much, writing way too much in the first person, writing way too much science fiction and fantasy, and forgetting that horror, real horror fiction was what he was great at. I believe that "Pet Sematary" was King's last great work of original, unpretentious horror (even though the premise was lifted from the W.W. Jacob's story).
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Summary: Still gives me the chills
Review: I read this book over five years ago and it still scares me. It's one of those books where you can see the ending coming and you just hope you wind up totally wrong. Stephen King doesn't mince words because it might make you too sad. He just plows right through with his bold imagery. I highly recommend this as a first book to anyone who hasn't read Stephen King.
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Summary: An A+++ Novel
Review: This has to be one of King's very best!! I 'still' enjoy reading it over, and over again. I was intrigued, and continue to be. I'd like to make my review more of a 'tips' type review, by saying if your easily confused, rent the movie first!! Seriously, the book is much better than the movie. However, it's less confusing to see the movie, read the book, then see the movie again. It details more on Rachel, and her religion for one. Second, Gage's death is noted different in the book, where as they come back to it. So all in all, this gets an above the rating star. And I highly recommend it, just make sure you check out both this novel, as well as it's movie to lesson any confusion.
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Summary: Death is a mystery..and burial is a secret
Review: One of Stephen King's better books, ("It" is still the best), Pet Sematary is the moving story of Louis Creed and his family as they try to make their new life in Maine. But a kindly old man named Jud Crandall inadverteldy shows Louis the mysterious burial ground with dark supernatrual powers. This secret will tempt Louis Creed until it ultimately unleashes a horrifying evil on his family. The writing style is fantastically fluid, and the tale will both move you and scare you. A must read.
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Summary: BEST KING BOOK EVER!!!
Review: This King novel is the best one yet. I loved this novel because it got right into the plot of the book. The story starts out when the Creed family moves into a new house in Maine. A happy family of four, and a cat. But what unspeakable evil lurks behind the house is for you to unfold.
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Summary: BURIED SECRETS
Review: Dr. Louis Creed moves from Chicago to rural Maine with his wife, Rachel and children, Ellie (5) and Gage (1). The fresh start in Maine appears to be the change Creed yearns for. A bad relationship with his father-in-law, the redoubtable Irwin Goldman and soured on city living, Maine appears to be the answer to his questions.Set in 1983-1984, Creed appears to be the picture of the 1980s YUPPIE (Young Urban Professional). Established in his career with the ability to relocate also point up to this very positive, professional image. Each character is drawn with realistic words; each character becomes vivid and believable, again evidence of a master storyteller. My favorite part in this book was Creed's "last happy day, 3/24/84," the day he spent flying kites with Gage, then just 2. Once settled in Maine, life and death appear to shift and the line dividing the two becomes blurry and indistinct, thanks to King's superb storytelling. A graveyard for pets dating back to the early 20th Century is near the Creed home and a very chilling secret lurks there. Death appears to lurk in every corner of the small town. First, the Creed cat is killed by a truck on the truck infested roadway near their home. Gage is killed in May of 1984 after he darts away from Creed and into the path of an oncoming truck. Rachel describes the agonizing death of her older sister Zelda in 1965 when Zelda was 10 and Rachel 8. Rachel's fear of death causes her to lash out at Creed when he gently explains the death of the cat to Ellie; she refuses to attend a neighbor's funeral and barely gets through Gage's. Creed uncovers the mystery of the Pet Sematary (so spelled by local children who have buried their pets there) and uses what he has learned to make the dividing line between life and death questionable and indistinct. This is one of King's best stories!
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Summary: Elegant expression of consummate horror
Review: This is one of the great American horror stories. The process of the Creed familys unraveling, into depraved madness is sharply written, filled with detail and truly holds the reader. You read the book again, because you can't believe what happened and because you want to find more details to explain it to yourself. A book to think of after three am, where everything dark seems possible.
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Summary: lost a week's worth of sleep!
Review: The first time I read this book, I was thirteen. It scared me so bad, that I could not sleep for a week. I did not read the book again until I was 20. Since then, I have read the book 5 times and it has become my favorite horror book. The reviews before mine describe the story pretty well, so I will not bore you with the particulars of the book, but give a general opinion. It is truly a mesmerizing and frightening book. What makes the book so scary to me, is the reality of it all, even the supernatural parts. It can take you over the edge and back, leaving you with goosebumps. I have not read another book that has struck a nerve the way that this one has, yet!
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Summary: The pet sematary almost there.
Review: I thought the book was bad and boring in the beging. Twards the end it got better. It also was freaky.I think you should be fifteen or older to read this book because it has a lot of foul language. Some times there is two much foul language in it. There is like three or more cures words in each chapter. The book gave me a lot of detial. Sometimes to much detial and it made me sick. This book can raise the hairs on your back. It can give you goosebumps as it did to me. I wouldn't recomend it to little kids because it has to much foul language and that could be a habbit. Then agian i would recomend it to anyone who wants read alot.
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