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Summary: I loved this book
Review: Stephen King is the Bomb!!
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Summary: Read it and weep!
Review: And I mean it. This book isn't great just because it packs more scares than one could wish for, it's great because it sports the most touching story I ever came across. Tough guys will find it difficult to restrain their emotions after having shared Mike Noonan's (the main character) fears, hopes and nightmares. A literary roller-coaster. 'Bag of Bones' is as complex as its talented author. Oh, and I also recommend Stephen King's 'The Green Mile' if you liked this one.
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Summary: Wow
Review: I was practically speechless after I finished reading this book. I had spent 3 weeks reading it and I didn't want to stop. King found a new way to draw in old and new readers of his alike. He combined mystery, suspense, a little romance, and of course, his old pal, the good-old supernatural. King makes this book scary and intriguing by spooking us out in the most minute ways. How many other authors do you know who could make ordinary inanimate objects scary? Think "Christine" - the bad guy was a car! Those alphabet magnets on the refrigerator might make you look twice at them when you pass by. This novel is a wonderful story of an author who has lost his wife, and decides to return to their house by the lake named Sara Laughs (the house, not the lake) so that he may attempt to write again. It's strange going back to the house he and his wife once shared - it gets even stranger when ghosts appear. In town, he meets a little girl and her mother, who completely change his life forever. He gets deeper and deeper into the story of their lives and their families and ends up knowing a dark and hideous secret about some of the men in town. This book has instantly soared to a place in the top 5 list of my favorite Stephen King books. If you like this one, go read anything else by King...whatever book you pick, I know you'll like it.
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Summary: Easily the Best Book I have ever read
Review: I thought that Bag of Bones started slowly. It actually took me about a month and a half to get through the first 80 or so pages. But once he starts talking about his dreams of Sarah Laughs (his summer home)it's a page turner. I kept finding myself saying I need to go to bed, then I would realize that I had read 3 or 4 more chapters since saying that. It is easily the best book I have ever read. the Only one that comes close is the Green Mile. I am waiting for the movie, but in the meantime, I am into reading it again. It is about a Novelist that loses his wife at a young age. He then falls into a deep writers block for four years.He then starts having nightmares staring their summer home. He travels to this house that he hasn't been to since his wife died and along the way falls in love with a young single mother, helps her with a custody battle and has to learn to deal with the fact that his house is haunted, but by who? He also must come to gripps with the fact that his wife had, what he called, a secret life up there. Also, His writing ability has just returned, but why now? Why here? Read the book and find out
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Summary: Bag of Bones ; A Haunted Love Story for the Ages
Review: This book differs from the rest of King's work in the fact that it stirs your emotions with a love story as well as horror. You feel so sorry for the poor protagonist, because his love of a lifetime has died recently. Then he begins to be haunted by something in the couple's former vacation home. Your emotions are constantly being thrown around as you experience sadness, fear, hope, lost-love, and pure terror. King scores another TD long live the King(Stephen)!
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Summary: Run and buy!
Review: This book has done it for me. I've read it during my service in the army reserve last month,and enjoyed every part of it . While reading the book , I occasionally felt like I'm all alone in the dark ,facing the horrors Michael Nonan had faced . It's kind of hard for me to express all the emotions this creation made me feel . It's a remarkable book. I haven't read all of King's books,but from what I've read till now,this book seems to be one of his best. To end with ,I'd strongly recommend this reading,for me it was an unforgettable experience .
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Summary: Our Little Stevie, All Grown Up
Review: Poor Stephen King. His books sell millions of copies. They've been banned here and there. They've made him a fortune several times over. They've been made into great movies, classic movies, and amazingly awful movies. Still, they just haven't managed to receive the unqualified admiration of critics. We can't really be too surprised. His books are engaging, fun to read, and relatively novel, but they are not masterpieces of Western civilization. The Stephen King Ending is well-known as a disaster. A good fraction of his books end with the murder of giant space turtles, over-sized spider beasts, or, perhaps worse, a fizzle. His characters are often unbelievable, and his short stories are generally painfully underinspired. I also blame him for spawning "Trucks," "Maximum Overdrive," "Sometimes They Come Back... Again!" and countless other should-have-been-direct-to-video movies.In Bag of Bones, though, he overcomes a lot of his previous pitfalls. When I liked his characters, liked the plot, and liked the overall feel of the book, I feared that the protagonist would end up fighting a giant planet-eating sponge in the final chapter. When I got to the end, genuinely satisfied, it was great. Bag of Bones tells the story of a recently-widowered novelist and the dark conspiracy he uncovers when he tries to understand his wife's last few months. The facts of the backstory as well as the story itself are kept wonderfully murky until the end; we are not told straight away by the back of the books that this is one man's struggle against an evil car. It can only be called a ghost story, and a fine one at that. Running nearly a thousand pages, the book has several plots which touch on each other just enough to pique our interest without merging entirely into one massive jumble. The characters are, for the most part, all individuals. Although one or two seem to be mere "stock villains" or "stock protagonists," their simplicity works, and they're developed at least well enough to make them characters, not objects. Bag of Bones is not, perhaps, the 'definitive' Stephen King novel. I would not even call it my favourite. (I have a special place in my heart for Running Man.) It may well be his most sophisticated, however, and I am told that it speaks of things to come in his later and future writing. It is certainly worth a small investment of time and money for anyone who enjoys a good ghost story.
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Summary: Ho-Hum
Review: Let's face it! Stephen King, my favorite writer for years has lost it, and he hasn't found the touch of his muse for quite some time. Bag of Bones is hardly a horror story, it reads more like a (very) bad gothic haunted house story. King's protagonist, let me guess, is he a writer? travels to his old house to get away from life once his wife dies. He suffers from writers block. He hears strange noises in his house. And he falls in love with a woman half his age, whose daughter, may or may not harbor the secret that his wife took to the grave with her. The story lurches along, punctuated by King's familiar long introspective passages, corny dream sequences, and ridiculous attempts at horror as when our writer friend is attacked, and nearly drowned by a elderly man in a wheelchair. As usual, King uses all of his familiar foiables, children can see things that adults cannot, writers are brave when backed into a corner, (and not too drunk), small town characters are strange people, and of course the bad guys always get their comuppance in the end. Ho Hum! Sounds all too familiar to me. If you've read the Dark Half, or the wretched Tommyknockers, or any of his last ten or so novels, be prepared to know whats going to happen and to who long before they actually do in the story. And if you cannot see things coming, King will be sure to tell you ahead of time....and then take the next 20 pages or so, to lead you gently, but firmly up to that very point. Don't bother, by then you will have already lost interest.
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Summary: Nothing but a Bag of Bones
Review: Mike Noonans (Stephen Kings cheap twin brother)wife dies on the parking lot and so sucesfull writer suffers from desperate writers block. He starts dreaming about Sara Laughs, his other home near the Dark Score lake. Bt the cold, iron-taste water is just the little part of what he willl find there. Stephen King is the master of story telling, that is undeniable. Bag of bones is fun, interesting and creepy work, but when i was reading i thought: you can do better than that. Story is too simple for book that long (in the begining, it dont seem so, but when you read the whole story, you can tell the main plot in one line). This is not a bad book, not at all. Itis very good one. But King could do better than that. First read The Green Mile, Desperation and The Stand and you will see what i mean.
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Summary: King's most beautifully written novel!
Review: As an avid Stephen King fan, I am enthralled with Bag of Bones. I love the way he weaves in old faces, letting his other characters make cameos in this novel. He compliments his readers through Mike Noonan, a character that to me, is far from the "Bag of Bones" he claims storybook characters to be. This is a beautiful story, that makes you believe in ghosts. You will fall in love with the characters, and hate the bad guys as much as they do. This is a wonderful novel, and I believe it is the most literary of his books to date. This makes it different from the horror genre - but there are still plenty of scares! My advice - READ THIS BOOK!
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