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Summary: Confusing and Exciting
Review: This book kept me up for 3 nights in a row. I kept snacking while I read it and I couldn't put it down! I agree with the main character Billy in that it was his wife's fault when he struck and killed the old Gypsy woman. But I don't think he should have gone through such drastic measures to make sure she suffered. I enjoyed the story, but i was gravely disappointed at the ending. I give the book 3 stars.
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Summary: What happens next?!
Review: I loved this book. The beginning was great, the middle was great, the end was great (although there were a few changes I would have made pertaining to the stupid throbbing pie deal). I do wish that the disappointment of him deciding to do what he did in the last few sentances could have been done without, but what's upsetting to me may have been a wonderful suspenseful ending to another person. I really liked the way that it was exciting to follow the progress (or degress, rather) and to find out if he was just going to waste away or what.
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Summary: This one's a little confused
Review: I can go ahead and put my finger on what's wrong with the ending for you, but that'll have to wait until after I get through the preliminaries. It's really unfortunate that this was the last Bachman Book, since the next one was supposed to be Misery. In terms of raw storytelling and characterization, this is pretty much on par with King's average, but the construction of the book itself is severely lacking.This book is either intended to be a pretty bad story or a pretty confused tragedy. I cut it some slack and gave it three stars as a confused tragedy. The problem with this story in either incarnation is a truly terrible cast of characters. Generally speaking, you want your story to have a protagonist. This one doesn't, really--you can't identify with the gypsy because he's a jerk, and you can't identify with Billy because he's a cringing fool who refuses to take responsibility for anything. It's that flaw that led me to think of this story as a tragedy--Halleck's tragic flaw does eventually lead to his own downfall, as well as a number of other people's. As a tragedy, the book isn't so bad, especially since tragedies really aren't written any more. The problem that it faces here, however, is that there is absolutely no denoument. You jump directly from crisis to....nothing whatsoever. The story ends quite abruptly, as it had to, considering the way King wrote it, and that doesn't work for a story where there's supposed to be some manner of catharsis. Don't get me wrong--at least one of the characters is truly charming (the mobster), and that's to be envied, but even he can be hard to understand. This whole novel seems to have been written with little thought given to the direction that King wanted to take with it, and it shows in the final product. This isn't a bad book, but it's not one that I'd recommend to anybody other than a tried and true King fan.
Rating: 
Summary: Boring, Boring, Boring
Review: When Billy Halleck kills an old woman, he doesn't know what he is in for. Overweight, he suddenly begins to loswe weight. Hey this is great, or so he thinks. When the weight loss continues he suddenly becomes worried. With no medical explanation, what else can it be but a gypsy curse. How ridiculous. This is by far the worst book that I have ever listened to by Richard Bachman. The only reason I didn't give it 1 star is because we all know that Richard Bachman is a pseudonym for Stephen King. Folks, if your going to read something by this author, safe this one till last.
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Summary: A curse is forever and we are all darkness to the core
Review: This is not a Stephen King book, but a Richard Bachman book. A lawyer, one day, has some clintonian activity in his car with his wife while driving. he hits a jaywalking old gipsy woman and kills her. The police chief will excuse the driver. The judge will acquit him. But the father of the old lady will curse them three. And then it is a fight between the lawyer and the old gipsy man, a fight to death. The maffia will be brought into the picture and they will victimize the gipsies all along the Atlantic coast of New England. Finally the old gipsy man will take his curse back but in such a way that the lawyer will have to pass it to someone else, and he chooses his wife. But unluckily his daughter will be caught in the trap too and the lawyer will take the curse onto him again but with no possible return on the passing it on to other people. There is thus no escape, no future. The curse has to run its course to the end. This book is both suspense and total absolute fate. No way out of it. The simple reason why it is so fatalistic is because there is no light in man, just the dark side, dominant and all-invading. No fight between light and night, but only between night and night, between two darker shades of darkness. A thriller that has the taste of a moral tale about the deepest nature of man. But a moral that brings no salvation....
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Summary: Even I know that this is not one of his best!
Review: I have to admit that I have only read a couple of King's novels, but I can still tell that this is not up to his usual brilliance. Quite why Halleck does what he does at the end is a real mystery to me. It falls short firmly on this matter. It does have its moments, but they are by far and away outweighed by the failings of this novel. You can read worse books than this, but compared to King's other titles, it just doesn't cut it!
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Summary: Really Great Book
Review: This was a suspenseful bbok written by Stephen King. It was at a reading level for more advanced and more mature readers. I would suggest 8th graders and above to read this book. This book was about a man and his wife and daughter who's probelms all start when he runs over an old gypsy woman. Her father lays a gypsy curse on him and two of his friends also. He starts at around 300 pounds and within a month, weighs under 115 pounds. His family gets very worried about him because they think he has cancer. he finally tracks down the gypsy band and talks to the old gypsy man who laid the curse on him, who is the only one who can help him. The Gypsy helps him, but the ending is very messy. If you are someone who likes suspenseful books, with lots of detail and action along the way, I would recommend it. This book kept my attention the whole time and I finished it in the matter of a few days. let me tell you, I hate reading and I thought this book was very good. I even read during classes that weren't my english class and before that, I rarely even picked up a book to look at the cover. I think even if you are a person who likes fantasy this is a good book for you all to read. Because the plot is very unlikely and crazy. It makes you think about things that normally, you wouldn't think about and some things you have to figure out for yourself. This was a very well written book and I would suggest it to almost anyone.
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Summary: A good book that will keep you reading
Review: So many people in today's world want to lose weight and do, but what happens when you are losing too much weight at a deadly rate? It all started when Layer, Billy Halleck, the main character hits an old gypsy woman with his car and kills her. Shortly after this accident, Billy and his wife, Heidi, see an old gypsy man. This man brushes Billy's face and whispers the word "Thinner." From this point on Billy loses more and more weight that starts to scare him to death. He just might die if he doesn't find the cure in time. Will he survive? This book is pretty good over all and I would give it four stars. Stephen King has written some good books including Roadwork, Carrie, The Shinning, and The Green Mile. I would say that Thinner was one of his better books. The book is a little slow in parts but it interesting most of the time. I would recommend it to all readers, because I though the ending was really surprising. Enjoy!
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Summary: It's awful
Review: This book is tepid to say the best. Only one question, if you'd been allowed to remove a curse from you body and dump it into a pie shell, that made it look like a cherry pie, would you really leave it sitting on the kitchen counter, where you beloved wife and child would run across it? I think not.
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Summary: 1-dimensional
Review: King's own words describe his prose as a literary equivalent of McDonald cheeseburger with French fries and ketchup. Snip: (...)
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