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Summary: Part 2
Review: Sorry, forgot to mention Misery and his short story collection Everything's Eventual. Cycle is also just as good as those ones too.
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Summary: One of King's very best
Review: All I have to say is this one ranks right up there with King's other magnificent novels like Hearts in Atlantis, Cujo, The Dark Tower trilogy, The Dark Half, Creepshow, Insomnia, The Eyes of the Dragon, The Running Man, Gerald's Game, Dolores Claiborne, and The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. For me those ones and Cycle of the Werewolf are Stephen King's absolute best novels. Please pick this one up any way you can. You will surely not be disappointed in it, believe me.
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Summary: A calender that became a book that became a movie...
Review: The story behind Stephen King's short 'novel' Cycle of the Werewolf is actually far more interesting than the book itself. Once upon a midnight dreary, when King hammered away at the typewriter 24/7, he was asked to draft a story for a calender - twelve 500 word chapters to keep fans comfy throughout the year. King eventually came up with a werewolf story, with a full moon occuring each month to keep the tale well spiced, and got to work. While the first few chapters were no problem, just attacks setting up the werewolf threat, but once King had to introduce a character to do battle with the lycanthorpe, he found himself in trouble. The chapters ran too long. When he asked if a little book was okay, the publisher who pitched the idea to King was all smiles - for a BOOK by Stephen King might sell better than a CALENDER. The end result was a sketchy little dance King did more out of a desire to see if he could rather than telling a story we badly wanted to tell. Bernie Wrightson delivers some slam bang illustrations (far better than the work he did for the Creepshow comic book tie-in, albeit that is more fun to revisit than Cycle is) that get the book's rather unique origins down. Nonetheless Cycle of the Werewolf remains a curiosity piece for King fans more than a satisfying read and is worth getting for the drawings more so than the text. It's a little surprising that, with so little to work with, King crafted one of his better screenplays, Silver Bullet, from this source story, fleshing it out nicely as a feature film.
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Summary: Exciting and Suspenseful
Review: This is an o.k. book. It's not as long as Steven King's usual books, but it's exciting and suspenseful. You won't be able to put it down. The werewolf is someone you would never suspect. It's got twelve months of terror and the pictures are pretty gross, but that makes it even scarier. If you like scary books but don't like to read a lot, this might be the book for you.
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Summary: Boring!
Review: I'm a big fan of Steven King novels, but this is not at all up to his usual standards. Its too short and its really boring. I wasted my money on it, so don't waste yours.
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Summary: Good movie, not so good book........(explains below)
Review: Howdy, Now usually I don't say this about books based on movies but the movie was better. I read the book thinking it would be more detailed. it wasn't. To my utter disappointment, I was shocked to see that is was thinner then Stephen King's usual workings. So all in all, I rate it a 4 because it wasn't as good as it's movie offspring.
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Summary: Neither here nor there
Review: Having never seen this book before I ordered it,I was expecting one of King's long novels. There isn't much,physically,to the book. I read most of it at work and found myself driving home very quickly that night!
Between the text and art,it reminds me of the comic books King is a fan of,especially in his youth. As I try to own every book he writes,I don't know why I waited so long to get this. It wasn't the worst thing I've read by him (anyone read The Regulators?!),but it wasn't his usual fantastic self.
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Summary: Jumping At Every Bumping
Review: From the back of the book "Terror began in January- by the light of the full moon. The first scream came from the snowbound railwayman who felt the fangs ripping at his throat. The next month there was a scream of ecstatic agony from the woman attacked in her snug bedroom". It's obvious from the title of the book that none other then a good old-fashioned werewolf is killing the folks of Tarker Mills, Maine. What's not obvious is the way in which Stephen King brings this story to life. Not being one of Mr. King's longer books this one is none the less just as good. Though written in a style that I thought was more for preteen or teenage readers, it was a good book. This book will keep you riveted from beginning to end as well as having you jump at every sound you hear. If you have a pet, make sure you wrap up in a blanket or long pants because if it brushes up against you, you just might find yourself screaming. Another aspect of this book that you will enjoy is Kings method of describing the people, places and THINGS that go bump during a full moon without a lot of unimportant facts or description. If you're a King fan, make sure to pick up a copy of this book today. Being one who has read many King novels, I have to rate this as one of my favorites. Also, don't forget to see the movie, it's not bad either.
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Summary: Too Short
Review: This book is an ok read, but not anywhere near King's best. Maybe if he had've expanded upon the story it could've made a great novel. Now it seems rushed and made just for a quick buck. Luckily, the story is good enough to keep you interested and the pictures are amazing. But there are problems with the pics too, some show things that don't happen until a few pages later and it really spoils some things. But it's a werewolf story and that's got to be good for something.
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Summary: Cycle of the Werewolf
Review: Readable, competent, sort of basic horror fiction. Nothing wildly original about it, but then it came out in the early 80's. Has the nice humanistic side of much of King's writing. Brought down by the art, in my opinion -- static, boringly representational stuff.
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