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Summary: I read it in three days! Couldn't put it down!
Review: I have been a King fan for about 18 years (I am 28) and this book, in my opinion, is as good as It, The Dark Half, and The Green Mile. I loved the fact that the lead character was an author, it almost seemed to be like Stephen King talking himself. I would like to hear him read the book so I might just get the audio version. All and all a great read!
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Summary: An excellent story from the King
Review: Stephen King's "Bag of Bones" is a novel with depth and compassion. It's also pretty darn scary.It is a ghost story that functions on a multitude of levels very successfully. The characters (both alive and dead) are richly drawn, the settings well crafted. The suspense is, well, like a Stephen King book. The plot darkens with mystery as events believed, at first, to be well understood are discovered to conceal deadly secrets. In all, an excellent Halloween treat.
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Summary: Bag of Bones is just that -- slim pickings.
Review: The story is meandering and disconnected. Again King appears to be feeling deeply sorry for himself as a poor-poor multimillionaire author, with another one of his softheaded character authors who gets into highly improbable trouble. This novel seems to have a more than usual high disregard for the reader's feelings (like in Pet Sematary), in that SK is again back to his lame old tricks of killing off just about every good character there is. For shock? Who knows? If there is supposed be a shock value ascribed to this sophomoric treatment of lead characters, it's of the dismally boring variety. I'm just glad I borrowed this book from the library. Though I can't say that valuable time wasn't wasted in reading the sucker.
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Summary: King at his best!
Review: I received this book as a birthday gift and managed to absorb it in one day. Truly, I believe it demonstrates that King need not be pigeon-holed into the "horror" genre when his work delves far deeper. Like "Rose Madder", this story goes into the mind of its main character and shows an astonishing depth of human emotion. A touching and haunting story that every King fan, as well as other readers, should appreciate.
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Summary: I feel this not up to King's great books.
Review: I have read them all I believe, and this is not one that I would rave about, just does not sound like King and I truly am disappointed it it after buying it. I am barely wading through it. His other books SO good, The Green Mile being one of his best of little books, couldn't wait for the next one to come out, wish he would write more like that. Just don't care that much for Bag of Bones. Sorry King. Maybe he needs a Vacation.?
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Summary: When Is Something Going To Happen?
Review: I am an avid King reader and went into this book knowing that it would not be his usual fare. Fine. I like his style of writing far more than his plots anyway. No, I have not yet finished the book, but I am 136 pages into it and would like to know: When is something going to happen?? This book is so ho-hum I can hardly believe it is The King doing the writing. I bought the book (although I would have anyway) immediately after reading the on-line 5-star reviews by the Amazon readers. I will plod on through this book, but so far the first 136 pages seem more like reading the entire volumes of Desperation and Regulators.
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Summary: He will always have fans, I'm not one
Review: I vowed I would never read another Stephen King novel after the horrendous pulp thriller, Misery, with the now famous psycho nurse (much improved on when it became a movie). I ought to have stuck by my promise instead of being teased by an interview King had with Charlie Rose on public TV in which King adamantly referred to his novel as a gothic romance. Nothing could be further from the truth. An epigraph from Rebecca and several allusions to Manderley do not make this book a gothic romance. This mish-mash of subgenres tries to be so many things at once but never actually settling on one long enough - a satire on American publishing; an exploration of the angst of a writer suffering from terminal writer's block; a story of love lost and the longing for sex (not love at all!) while trying to be true to the memory of a dead loved one; a half-baked ghost story complete with stolen gimmicks from 1970s ghost movies and topical references to early 20 century racism; a mystery about the secret life of the writer's wife... It's intriguing all right and never dull, but is it really King's entry into the realm of literary novel writing? I think not. He will always be a popular fiction writer and remain in the category of all his and Noonan's cohorts - the names of whom continually pop up throughout the storyline haunting Noonan as much (if not more) than the ghosts of his wife and the ancestors of the TR. I began to think that this novel was written years ago and sat on a shelf in a bank vault - just like Noonan did with four of his books - then materialized just when King needed it to serve his bank account. And will he ever grow up about his ideas of masculinity (the digs to short men, men without athletic physiques, men who won't get women based on their shortcomings, etc.)? Finally, that idiotic, patronizing, 3 year old idiom irritated the hell out of me. There are plenty of ways to convey a young mind without resorting to cutesy baby talk.
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Summary: As the screw tightens and other horror tales
Review: If you think this hunk of badly written junk is something, then you haven't read the tales of the great Southern writer of horror, T.N. His wonderful trip into the unknown called Splattered Raw, was a great novel turned into a feature film, about death, love and chopped off hands and feet. Now that is horror, not one more King creation, brooding over a bat, or a house that needs to be dusted and swept. Get the real master of horror, T.N. and let him create a great movie and get King outta here. VIVA LE PUBLIC ACCESS!
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Summary: Not one of his best...
Review: I was literally beside myself waiting for this book to come out. I had previewed the first chapter on-line and couldn't wait to see which direction it was heading. I am a huge Stephen King fan so I threw myself into this book with the usual gusto. The book held me captivated like all King novels, however, I was left feeling a little empty at the end of the journey.
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Summary: Ungood
Review: Book was more ungood then good. Usually it's the other way around with King. I think I should get double my money back for hanging in there to the end. My wife who is now on page 21 says she likes it so far. Maybe I should rethink my marriage.
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