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Summary: Riviting New England Yarn
Review: Even if you have seen the movie, nothing can prepare you for the tale that King spins. You fallow Louis Creed in a hypnotic jorney finding things that no man dare explore. As is stated in the book. "he soil of a Man's heart is stoner"
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Summary: A riviting tale
Review: I think "Pet Sematary" was a great book. I would recommend this book because it was very suspenseful and exciting. It is a great story that shows that resurrecting someone isn't such a good idea. This book is one that can crawl up your spine. This book may contain some rather vividly gory details but it's not as bad as some things on the television. This is why I recommend this book to be read.
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Summary: Haunting
Review: Pet Sematary is a black fairy tale, simple and elegaic, with a generous dash of EC comics horror tossed in. King mercilessly targets himself and his fears of inadequacy as a husband and father (as he did in The Shining). His "throw-away" descriptions are always pitch-perfect, atmospheric, and evocative. His characters and storyline deal with myths and primal fears that strike a nearly universal chord. This is his darkest book, revolving around the death of a child and Death in general, and it feels intensely personal. It may also be his best. Haunting.
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Summary: Classic - tragically not read because of the movie
Review: If you've seen the movie - and only the movie - you've missed some things. It is true to form in many ways, but tears those painfully vivid images from your imagination. This is truly a must for anyone starting out with their Stephen King collection and is always good for a second, third or fourth read.
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Summary: Genuinely Scary.
Review: When Edgar Allen Poe pretty much single-handedly invented the horror genre, he did it by combining unique and gory topics with a poetic approach to prose that, while difficult for many modern-day readers to enjoy, certainly accomplished one thing: atmosphere. You cannot read a Poe story without seeing black, feeling gloom, and all but hearing the creaky doors and floorboards and smelling the dank and musty rooms he describes. Stephen King achieves this as well in Pet Sematary (a clever title).King books are always well-written and usually creative, but not always truly frightening. Pet Sematary is the scariest King book I've read yet. Though not poetic, he creates an atmosphere in this book that literally changes the mood of the reader. The basic plot involves antagonist Louis Creed's discovery of a pet cemetery located on a sacred Indian burial site near Ludlow, Maine. When Creed's cat dies, he buries it there, and is then shocked to find the cat restored to life a few days later. The Creed's son is later killed by a truck, so of course Creed digs him up and reburies him in the special pet cemetery in the hopes that he, too, will be reanimated. Suffice it to say that the cat, though alive, is not quite the same, and you'll have to read the story to find out what happens to the son. This one is chilling. --Christopher Bonn Jonnes, author of Wake Up Dead.
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Summary: One that can be read over and over and over again.
Review: I first read this book when I was 15 years old. It has the best graphics, plus, the story itself is great. I have read this book 13 times and plan to read it again very soon. The way Mr. King writes, makes it seem like it could accually happen. That is one book that you don't want to read after dark.
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Summary: One of the most thrilling and emotional King books
Review: This is one of the best books I've ever read. I picked up my copy in a library sale a long time ago and read it thinking I wouldn't like it much but then discovered how great it was. This book really brought out my feelings, especially towards the main characters who go through emotional as well as physical struggles. Plus, the ending to this was so well written and so well done by Stephen King that the atmosphere was definitely set up well here as to accomodate pure terror. This book and the film based upon it really left me into a depressing mood after reading it and watching the film. Despite this, there are very few books or films that will truly scare me or make my feelings come out, but this one definitely pulled it off. That means that I definitely gave this five stars and recommend reading this.
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Summary: AWESOME!
Review: "Louis felt a hopeless crawl of horror in his belly. That jutting bone, those dried clots of blood." This is just one of the many gruesome scenes in Pet Semetary by Stephen King. I enjoyed reading this story because I like scary stories. I hope everyone enjoys reading this as much as I did. I found that I could not predict anything that was coming next in the story. Some titles do not correspond with the story at all; this was not the case with this particular story. I found I enjoyed this story because it was suspenseful and scary. This story would be enjoyable for those who like to try and predict parts in the story. I never came upon any boring, drawn out, scenes. Every time the story would lack action, I would find emotional suspense that followed. I could tell what each character was feeling and this made the story more realistic. When one character felt upset, King made sure the reader could decipher every emotion. At one point in the story the family cat dies. The father was very upset to learn this. King wrote that his heart was pumping and his head was saying "no please". Those two sentences alone that King added showed the emotional suspense the character was going through. Another character in the story named Gage had his feelings shown too. King used his pout on his face and his tears to show he was sad or scared. In the scene where Gage used them, he could have been both and I believe that King was trying to show this to his audience. King uses the characters to demonstrate how extreme the story is. While using the characters to do this he helps his audience to see how traumatic an incident can be when faced with one in real life. The story showed some spiritual history along with superstitions. The spiritual history made the book much more interesting. King speaks of the Merimac Burial grounds and how they came to be. Without the information we received on the burial ground, I would have not found it to be as frightening as I did. The superstition was the burial ground had powers to give people a different perspective on how the afterlife works. The superstition in the story is a lot like The Monkey's Paw by Edgar Alan Poe. The spiritual background was of our earlier Indians. The Merimac Burial ground was located in Ludlow Maine. I would someday like to see if the burial ground exists and maybe would like to see if it really holds the powers the people of Ludlow claim. My overall opinion in the book is that the story is enjoyable to read. I hope that everyone is convinced to read this story now. The story contains a lot of excitement and suspense. Anyone who like's scary stories that have good facts and a great plot should definitely read this one. I have read other Stephen King novels, The Dark Half, Rose Madder, and Gerald's Game, and I am a very big fan of his work. I would and will read more of his books in the future and may do some other Stephen King book reviews.
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Summary: Unfulfilled expectations
Review: A couple of friends had told me this was King's scariest book ever, so I decided to give it a try, right after "Bag of Bones". Well, Bag is better. "Pet Sematary" has two very touching passages, but neither is scary: the final pages of Part 1, and the final pages of Part 2. Both of them, not coincidentally, on fatherhood, life and the inevitability of death ("Oz the Gweat and Teweeble"). Particularly the dream at the end of Part 2 seems to me the epicenter of the book, it is very good. But unfortunately a potentially strong metaphor (the Micmac burying ground) for the human inability to deal with loss in general and death in particular was missed. Instead we have Chucky slashing family and friends. And the Wendigo cameo appearance as Big Foot - frankly. The refrigerator ghost in "Bag of Bones" gives the reader more chill for the buck. As a side note, observe that there is at some point in the story a child with premonitory dreams and perhaps psychic abilities, and an adult man possessed by evil forces, as in "Bag of Bones" and "The Shining" also. Recurrent King themes?
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Summary: Not real scary,but a good read
Review: This is one of the first king stories I read.I would recomend it. Gage is hilarious.
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