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Summary: Pet Sematary
Review: This book shows the reader a lot about death; how death is the ultimate and no matter how much you love someone, once they're dead, there's no comming back. Except in Dr. Louis Creed's case who just moved to the small town of Ludlow with his wife Rachel, daughter Ellie, and son Gage. Not to mention his black cat, Church. Everything seems great at their new place, even their new neighbors Jud and Norma Crandall. The only problems are Route 100, which is the road right in front of their house with very fast moving trucks zipping by at all hours, and the Pet "Sematary" at the end of a small path in the woods right at the end of the Creeds property. One night Church is hit and killed by one of those trucks while the wife and kids are out of town, and Lou's neighbor, Jud, takes him beyond the Pet "Sematary" to an old Indian burial ground to bury the cat. The next day, the cat comes back to the house, seemingly alive, but more clumsy and "non-Church like." Then, later, Lou Creeds little boy, Gage is hit and killed by a truck. Louis will go through the ultimate test: bury Gage and bring him back, or realize that sometimes dead is better. This novel is superb if you like horror and any reader who likes Stephen King will love this book.
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Summary: Pet Semetary
Review: The book Pet Semetary by Steven King is one of his best books ever. Eventhough I only gave it three stars, in most peoples eyes it would probably be five. Its a perfect example of a book made into a movie, and as usual the book was definetly much better then the movie. Overall the book was very intense and usually hard to put down, the way Steven King wrote the book, made it seem every page had something exciting on it. The only thing I didnt like about the book was the way it ended. The way it ended left room for a sequal and I my personal opinion the sequals always ruin the name of a good book.
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Summary: Fantastic ! ! !
Review: I read this book after being introduced to King via Carrie and Firestarter and I have to say its one of the scariest novels I've ever read. I did not sleep a wink the night I finished it - I read it in one sitting -. When I was done I tried re-reading certain parts of the book to diminish its scare value but that didn't work. I was so wigged I did not keep the book in the bedroom with me. The parts that stood out in my mind most vividly were the images of Louis unearthing his son's body at the cemetery, digging with his bare hands up at that insidiously creepy Indian Burial Ground or the memory of baby Gage coming back to life to wreak havoc. Whew!Another first rate horror novel is Phantoms by Dean Koontz.
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Summary: The scariest book I have ever read!
Review: I read this book 16 years ago and then just re-read lately. It takes my prize for the book which forever haunts my thoughts about the evil side of life. It is the scariest, most chilling, penetrating novel of all time. A must read.
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Summary: Don't do it, Doc...
Review: I thought the film had me petrified, and films don't normally scare me much, and then I read the book. I suppose knowing the images from the film helped my imagination to run further amok, but I have to hand it to King for freaking me out majorly. The fear was pretty intense, but a little sick. All that is left for me to wonder about is that I believe there is a little truth behind all fiction - I only hope in this case I'm wrong. I'd recommend this book a hundred times over. But reader beware, you're in for a scare...
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Summary: Stupendous
Review: Very well written. I liked it a lot! King in his form
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Summary: One of his best--but very, very dark.
Review: I first read this book as a teenager--God, was it really 15 years ago? Loved it then, like it now. I must've reread it a dozen times, because the characters caught hold of me. King sketches his characters broadly but carefully, making their dialogue come alive--Jud Crandall is particularly likeable in this regard--and making their emotions ring true... Which is what makes the horror so unsettling. This is one of King's darkest works, as it deals not simply with supernatural terror, but REAL terror, like the death of a child, or the realization that people can be cruel and evil with little provocation, or the guilt that comes with hiding things. One of the effective ways King achieves his horror is in having Jud Crandall tell his stories about what happened many years before in the town of Ludlow. God, those stories, of Timmy Baterman, of Jud's own dog, wreaked havoc on my imagination as a teen; one of the very few times that simply reading has induced in me the feeling of physical fear, as if I myself might be in danger. I've read countless horror novels, and this was one of the few books to do that to me! It's not really fun. Still, I recommend "Pet Sematary" highly. It's dark and somber and very real--King playing for keeps.
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Summary: An Excellent Book By An Excellent Author.
Review: Once again Stephan King has done it again. Pet Cemetary was a great book. The plot of the book, the way he described everything was just excellent. The entire book was spine tingling and made you believe every word of it. It was excellent. Read it!
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Summary: The best book by King when he used to write real terror
Review: This book is simply the best horror book by Stephen King I've ever read during my whole life. And I doubt if I'll live to read a better one. What touched me in this book was not the horror itself. What makes this book a must-read & re-re-read is the plot along with the characters. That's the most human book of Stephen King, the one where he could tell the world "I'm one of the best writers of this planet!". And yes, he really is. If you pay attention to the inner feelings, the ones that are not described in the book but the ones the author makes the reader wonder about, you'll face feelings, emotions and people that are inside us all, but that we rarely show to the world outside because the mankind lost the capacity to move, the capacity of be touched by things, of letting your heart cry... That's what Stephen King works in here: the true emotions, the feeling of losing and don't knowing how to go on without the ones that go... Things like that. If you want a book of wonderful story, if you want a book of true feelings, that's your book.
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Summary: One of King's best.
Review: By the way, is anybody else perplexed by Horror writers' need to set everything they write in their hometown? This is a great read, pretty scary and macabre. Comes through in my head very clear, all the evil presences and whatnot. You can totally feel the main character quickly exhausting his mental resources in a futile attempt to hold on to his sanity and as he slips away he takes you with him. Horrifyingly fun ride through decay and death that will leave you laughing maniacally at your own reflection.
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