Pet Sematary

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Summary: Pet Semetary
Review: When the Creed Family moved to a small, but beautiful neighborhood, in Maine, they never expected to find evil flowing just beneath the surface. Physician Louis Creed has just been transferred to a University hospital vocation, wife, Rachel Creed is a gorgeous young woman, Daughter, Ellie is a charming young school aged child, and Gage, an adorable toddler make up the idealistic family. Next-door neighbors' Jud and Norma Crandall, an elderly couple who are both kind and endearing, make up the picture perfect setting. But lurking just behind the Creed family's humble abode, is an evil force that will change their lives forever. When the cat goes missing, the voyage into the unknown begins, leaving a family torn between two worlds.
I think Pet Semetery strips the raw emotion of people and casts it in a dark and dangerous light. It takes people, who on the outside look idealistic, and transforms them into crazed maniacs, driven by loss and grief. Pet Semetary challenges the mind to think beyond this world and to the next. It questions what really happens after we die, and more importantly what happens to those around us. Pet Semetary is both intellectually stimulating and extremely compelling. I think Stephen King has taken one of mans' greatest fears, death, and composed a novel fed by the trepidation humans have for it.
The only un-enjoyable part of the novel was the bits where Stephen King slowed the story way down to set the stage for another scene. Though the overall effect was ineffable, the wading through words and details became a tad precarious. Other then that, I found the book enthralling and addictive, to say the least. Stephen King is a genius with words. He has created a masterpiece. I recommend this book for people 12 years and up. Though the writing is incredible, the content can be gory and, at times, disturbing.

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Summary: Pet Sematary, a NO NO!
Review: The Creed family is an average American family. The family consists of two young parents, both successful, one cute as can be daughter, and a toddler son, just learning to speak and walk. Recently, they have moved from Chicago to the bucolic town of Ludlow, Maine. Located behind their new home is a mysterious cemetery, a pet cemetery to be exact. "Pet Sematary" by Stephen King is a semi-horrific account of the Creed family's struggles with magic, loss, death, and the immense power of a Micmac burial ground.
Although the back of this book clearly states that this is, "The most frightening book Stephen King has ever written," I beg to differ. This may be because I am one of today's desensitized youth, but I found this book to be not half as scary as it was disturbing and sordid. The descriptions of corpses and zombies were utterly repulsive. Also, I found the ideas in this book to be completely unoriginal, having been covered before in works such as "The Monkey's Paw," by William Wymark Jacobs. Stephen King once stated that he wished to write a book that was so terrifying that you could not bring yourself to finish it. It was tremendously difficult to bring myself to finish this one. This was not because of the fact that it was terrifying, but because of the fact that the majority (300 pages) of the center of the book was uneventful and seemed to be almost filler. Some may say that it was a suspense builder, but I found it to be soporific.
The only parts of this book that I can truthfully say I enjoyed were the last fifteen pages and sadly, they were painfully predictable. In a 410 page book, I find this to be repulsive as well as cheap. The only people I would recommend this book to, are hardcore Stephen King fans. For everyone else, stick to a more rewarding book.

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Summary: YAWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This book is CRAP,it's not scary at all.Nothing ever happens except dumb boring conversations with tons of swearing.I thought this book was supposed to be scary,it sucks.Get The Shining instead,that book is scary.

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Summary: A Daytime Book...
Review: One of the scariest books I've ever read. For some reason I get to read King's books at night, and can never sleep afterwards. Well, my suggetion is to read it on daylight, but lower the curtains. However, it's good to know that you can always step out of King's universe, and go to the sunlight, something you can't do at night...King's books, and this one is not different, terrify you, and yet, hold you in they're dark hug, and you just can't stop reading them...A good book, for daytime...

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Summary: Beyond the Cemetery
Review: A Review by Kevin

Louis Creed, his wife Rachel, and kids Ellie and Gage move to Ludlow Maine. They have a neighbor named Jud who becomes a very good family friend. One day he takes the Creeds to the pet cemetery in the woods behind their house. Jud tells them many stories about the history of the cemetery. During Thanksgiving Rachel, Ellie, and Gage fly to Chicago to meet her parents. While they are away Ellie's beloved cat Church is struck dead. Jud leads Louis to an ancient burial ground beyond the pet cemetery. There Jud tells Louis to bury the cat. That is when the troubles begin.

Stephen King brought the book to life with his Bone chilling descriptions. The way he described the smell of the cat and the looks of the dying college student were excellent. The story itself was excellent but dark. It is gruesome to think of dead bodies raising from the grave, and stealing bodies from a cemetery. The book was a little disturbing. The only problem with The Pet Sematary was the fact that it started out slow. The first seventy-five pages were just of the family settling in their new home and becoming friends with Jud. Even though the book started a little slow it was still an excellent read.

I highly recommend people to read The Pet Sematary. The story was colored with descriptions. This was my first Stephen King book and I loved it. If you haven't read The Pet Sematary yet, read it.

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Summary: Amazing King Read
Review: I am embarrased to admit how many times I have read this book! I first stumbled upon it in November of 1997 while I was going through a particularly rough time in my life. Believe me, reading this book did nothing to cheer me up to say the very least!

The story begins as an "everyman" from the midwest, Lou Creed, brings his family to their new home...a beautiful New England colonial on a sprawling peaceful acreage. Lou seems to have it all: a darling daughter Ellie, a caring wife Rachel and an adorable son Gage, who Lou loves to utter distraction.

Right away Lou meets "the man who should have been his father": Judd Crandell. Judd is strongly painted by King as a man who seen a lot, done a lot; having been "born in the very year 1900". He fills our anxious newcomer Lou with strangly "familar" comfort at a time when Lou stresses that moving his clan from the bustle of Chicago to this Maine "wilderness" may not have been the brightest idea. Lou is even pondering jumping into his car and high tailing it to the delightfully sugared fantasy world he holds dearly in his mind and brings out now and again to console himself: Disney World.
Lou quickly finds himself drawn to the aging man, who at 83 strangly seems as spry and quick as any 60 year old. Judd, who has lived in the Maine woods nearly his entire life, warns Lou of the sinister danger lurking nearby: "the rud" or rather infamous Route 15. Route 15 has claimed the lives of countless animals and pets over the many years.
Here is where King begins the story which gradually and surely leads to the most frightening bazaar terrors that our fine "everyman" Lou will soon encounter much to his own startling surprise.
Lou soon learns of the Pet Semetary which is practically in his back yard: a mysterious and perfectly mowed lawn of grass where spirals of graves honor dead pets; most which have been maimed on RT 15. Rachel immediatly is replused by the idea of a grave site dedicated to pets, but Lou is intriqued.

After tragically losing a patient, at the college where he works as a doctor, Lou finds strange things happening to him. He recieves a visit by the "ghost" of the dead patient in his dreams which leads him to the Pet Semetary and displays a hint of what is "beyond".
What is beyond is the ancient and mystic Indian Mimac Burial ground, a place that Judd knows all too well. When Lou's daughter's cat is killed in "the rud" on Thanksgiving night Judd knows just what to do. He takes his good friend Lou to the Mimac Burial Ground beyond the thorny dead fall of the Pet Semetary to bury the animal.
Little does the unsuspecting Lou know that the Mimac Burial Ground is well...special. Judd has decided to do his friend a favor: bring his cat back from the dead. The Mimac Burial ground has the power to "awaken" anything...or anybody that rests there.

King does a magnificent job of showing Lou's disbelief and then gradually acceptance of such a strange and unwordly event...his cat emerging from the hands of death. Lou tries and tries to convince himself throughout the story that everything will be ok and he has the power to work everything out. For instance he also reassures himself that his ghostly visitor occured from a night of sleepwalking. Little does Lou know that the power is not is his control at all but rather out to engulf in him in a "spiral" of fear, depression and terror very much beyond his comprehension. Lou's life begins to a downward spiral as his family discovers the cat is much different than "before". The worst, however, is yet to come.

On a beautiful May day RT 15 "decides" to claim Lou's beloved and precious Gage. After a mourning period, artfully and lovingly crafted by King, Lou decides yet again to make things ok. After all the is a way out of his grief: the Mimac Buriel ground. It is at his disposal and he can use it. After all, what can go wrong he wonders. So what if Gage turns out mentally stunted or even demon come to life? Lou will take care of that and make it "ok". He will simply put his son "down" if it does in fact come to that. King then tells a story, as told by Judd to Lou, that a Man named Bill Baterman lost his beloved son in WWII and decided to use the Mimac Burial ground to his OWN advantage... however his son Timmy awakened an "all knowing dameon". Lou does not listen and takes his own chance...fueling on pure, outragous grief of losing his 2 year old son he buries Gage in the burial ground and awaits the consquences. Judd has told him "a soil of a man's heart is stonier, a man grows what he can and he tends it". Now Lou must tend to what he has grown is his "garden" of secrets.

Lou learns throughout the story that he cannot always make everything ok. The burial ground is a power much bigger than he is or ever was and like the spirals the graves create in both cemetaries, Lou is spiraling to the point of pure insanity. An insanity he cannot help. A string of terror also spirals intensly which claims the lives of nearly everyone Lou holds dearest. All the while his mind goes back to Disney World, that magical place where "Oz the Gweat and Tewwible" still lurks in the sweet magic. Lou is now aware that Oz is out to get you, everywhere you go. There is no safe hiding place. Oz is not his bitter aging father law or the boss you love to hate. Oz is death; the coming misfortune, the anxiety and terror that await you in every breath. One cannot control one's fate, Lou realizes. Only our friend Oz has the power to give and take what he wants, when he desires to.

King uses a dynamite string of powerful diction and free stream thought to show Lou's half waking mind coming to realization of his friend Oz who is there and has always been there. Lou is going crazy and the spiral is nearly complete.

This book chilled me. Not just based on King's "scare tatics" of misty graveyards and monsters in the forest. But of the loses Lou goes through, especially the adoring relationship he has with Gage which is taken away by "Oz" in a mere second on RT 15. The thought processes in Lou's mind are also amazingly written by King...going from a moment of intense and anxious thought, of how he will get into the cemetary to get Gage out of his coffin, to blurting out a lyric of a Ramone's song.

I totally suggest this book to anyone who wants a disturbing, but well crafted read!

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Summary: Disturbing
Review: This story started out innocent enough but ends in madness and death (now we know it's a Stephen King book!). I thought the characters are fleshed out well, and I can't help but feel sad, angry or shocked when certain incidents happen to them. PS is not just about the value of families but also accepting death the way it's meant to be, and when the main character tries to change fate, hell is unleashed. There are some gory scenes, but I thought what made it disturbing was who the killer was in the end, and I still think about the ending hours later. This is a scary but tragic story, and I would recommend SK fans to read it (if they haven't already). One advice : Don't watch the movie, it doesn't do justice to the book.

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Summary: Pet Cemetary Was SWEEEET
Review: Pet cemetary was so cool. It kept me on the edge of my seat. And the way that King tied in stuff from real life, that made it even better! I give it 5 stars. Keep writin this stuff king!

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Summary: not enough
Review: a family moves to a place near a pet sematary in the woods. animals buried there do not necessarily stay dead. they come back....different. the family carries on like families do untill "the incident". an incident that makes someone consider the pet sematary in a new way. there are some lovely descriptions here, perhaps K's best and darkest. and the plot isn't bad. but it's not enough. too much about ordinary family life and stuff like that. the suspence suffers and the plot develops too slowly. frankly i can't see the reason for the book's popularity. you can do much better with SK easily. this is in fact probably the book SK has worked out the poorest. unnecessary dwelling, irrelevant sidetracks, etc.

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Summary: Life after Death
Review: The sheer horror this book plays on the mind is genious. There is nothing more heart breaking and terifying as the death of a loved one. Or is there? Suppose that loved one came back from the grave, only they were no longer themselves. They were merely a copy of themselves. Evil, and deadly. You cannot control death, and if you somehow do, the consequences are severe. This novel flows, making it an incredible read. The brilliance of the stories and the descriptions are what make this the best King novel of all. Your heart may not be able to take some of the details of a two-year old's death, burial, and ressurection, but your mind will retain it forever. Haunting.