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Summary: King's Legacy to Literature
Review: In 500 years...when the art of story telling will take who knows what form...I often wonder how popular writers from our own era will be judged..will any stand the test of time? in the way that Shakespeare...Mark Twain..Chaucer Dickens and too many others to mention have.
Pet Sematary is one of my favourite King books. I've never particularly found his books to be scarey but that probably reflects more on my own warped mind that any fault of his...and in someways I am tired of hearing him denigrated as "oh that horror writer"... I've read hundreds of books...seen hundreds of plays ...and watched hundreds of movies....I've read pulp fiction...the classics...greek tragedies...poetry ..shakespeare..great works have a feel about them...they are evocative...beautifully written..make you think..feel..they take you somewhere you don't always want to go...build a world inside your head...Pet Sematary does this...it's account of the grief of the characters involved is so well portrayed it compares easily with the classics of any age. It is the 20th Centuries greatest Tragedy...in the manner of the great tragedies written in the past...where the ascent of a character is followed by his sharp fall because of some flaw...pride...arrogance...greed...King adds grief to that list of tragic pitfalls.
I am probably preaching to the converted here a little I suspect..but if by any chance you have never given Stephen King a go...then try him..don't be put off by the horror genre...not all his books are classics for sure...but Pet Sematary and IT are two that are. I defy anyone not to feel the grief and pain involved...not to marvel at the beautifully descriptive prose..and despite the macabre happenings of the novel...not to empathise entirely with its' protagonists.
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Summary: Didn't live up to expectations
Review: When I got Pet Sematary, I thought it would be as good as The Shining. It wasn't. What I bought was boring, slow moving, and hardly scary. The only real scares come in the last 30 pages of the book. NOTHING HAPPENS UNTIL THEN!
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Summary: Over-rated?
Review: I think Stephen King is the most over-rated author in the universe. I've found that the movies adapted from his books are better, which I find unusual since the books are usually better. I remember reading this book in one sitting because I couldn't believe it was so bad. I didn't even find it scary. But how can you write gory and scary scenes as well as the movies? Is this a trait of the genre? I've read 'Carrie' and 'The Stand' which I thought were better. Again though, the movies were better. I guess I'm really not a fan of horror novels, so this whole review is suspect. I've never read any other horror author.
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Summary: My introduction to Stephen King
Review: In 1984 I purchased my first Stephen King book. The book was Pet Sematary and my Life has never been the same since. I found Pet Sematary to be one of Mr. King's most frightening works ever. I let my mother borrow the book when I was finished and she refused to read it a night. This book always has and always will be one of my favorites. It has been a long roller coaster journey, but I have read nearly every Stephen King book written. As any reader of King can attest to, Mr. King's writting is sometimes uneven and downright ponderous. There have been times that I said I would not read Mr. King's next book, then he completely restores my faith in his writting (Desperation and The Regulators). It is my opinion that Stephen King has many more scary books up his sleeves.
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Summary: One of Stephen King's best.
Review: WOW. This is definitely one of Stephen King's best books. I didn't think it was that scary, but it was amazing how many great quotes were in this book. I loved reading the stories about all the animals in the 'sematary'. Characters are well written and react exactly how anyone else would.
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Summary: Excellently crafted commentary on responsibility & loss.
Review: To the editor: Give it up. Evolution is a lady, and she loves that Stephen King. Guy books may come and go, but the King owns the good stuff. Stephen has taught me all I know about evil, and the longing for lost time, place and people will tear you apart. Sometimes dead is better. If you are still not clear on that Chaos v. Complexity theory, watch Jurassic Park fifteen times in a row in the company of the most vulgar psychotic you can find. Cardiac rehabilitation need not require surgery. Lover. As for those of you coming in search of an actual Richard Bachman sighting, Estes Park is closed for the season and the King has left the building. But It's true, and Macky is really haunted. Boo! Marley Shakespeare Pagan
Boulder, Colorado
1/18/98
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Summary: Analysis.... PLEASE
Review: I am writing an project about "Stephen King", I am almost finish, and I only miss an analysis over the book "Pet Sematary", and I just wondered if anybody already had written one? I have read it, and I think it is quite a good book, but not one of the best King has written. PLEASE if you have written, just anything about "Pet Sematary", mail it to me, and I will be you thankful for the rest of my days.(If you want, I will send you my whole project).
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Summary: "Sometimes dead is beter Louis"
Review: IN 1982 Stephen King completed a novel entiteled "Pet Sematary" but refused to put it on the market for he felt that the public was not ready for a novel so horrifying. A year later Stephen King finally allowed the novel to be published, and it's a damn good thing he did, for this novel is an absolute masterpiece of modern literature. While reading this book I was astounded by the magnitude of Stephen King's brilliance. The way the plot is set up is tuly amazing, And it was very interesting how he illustrated the way the evil beyond the "Pet Sematary" preys on grief and circumstance and uses a person's rational thought and logic to influence their thinking and silence any guilt or thoughts that may ruin the spirits materplan, thus making the character's more succeptible to the cemetary's dark temptaions. This novel is so well written that the reader can truly understand how The main character was manipulated and compelled to do what he did. The book also has a general eeriness about it that will haunt you well into your sleep. The main factors that make this book so frighteningi are the twisted and extremely vivid imagery, the style in which it is written, which invokes feelings of great and consists of alot of clever foreshadowind which is subtle yet very ominous, and of course as in all of Stephen King's work the character's are portrayed so realistically that they are easy to relate to and the reader will often almost feel for them as if they were actual people rather than ficticous charactes. This gives the book a frighteningly human quality. And as the book's brilliantly constructed plot progresses and then climaxes in a frenzy of pain, violence, and utter horror, the author explores certain aspects of death and the dark side of human nature that few philosophers and writers have even concieved of. On the overall this is an ingenous book but I must advise you that this novel is profoundly disturbing and invokes feelings of unrelenting terror and extreme repulsion, but for those of you with a strong stomach and a taste for the macabre this is a must read. -Steven Peluso age 14
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Summary: King tingles the spine and turns the stomach!
Review: Probably King's best book to date. But NOT one to recommend. It reeks of evil. It is a horrifying tale, and one that is just to spooky to forget. If King himself says he had problems writing it, because it scared even him, imagine us! Anyway, it is a MUST for anyone who likes King.
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Summary: The Book Pet Sematary is a classic Stephen King Novel!
Review: Are you interested in beginning to read Stephen King? Well, I think you should read Stephen King's CLASSIC GREAT NOVEL "Pet Sematary". This book is a scary one...yes indeed! But, you will enjoy every minute of it's horror, and all the rest of the spooky thing's involved!! Think of this: You move to a house. Right by the house is a path that leads to a Pet Sematary. Some old guy across the street takes you there and tells you stories. Freaky stories! He brings you to the Pet Sematary when your daughter's cat dies, and then brings you over a deadfall, which leads to an old Micmac Indian burial groud to bury the cat. Then, the next day, you see the cat walk into your garage! The cat goes crazy, smells, and smothers RATS!! That's freaky!! Now, what do you think is gonna happen when a human get's buried up there? That human is gonna eat like an animal, and kill like a wild one!! And Louis Creed, (M.D. may I add) gets a patient with his brain showing, Victor Pascow, almost dead, and begins to talk to him abo
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