Bag of Bones

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Summary: Simply Brilliant
Review: This novel is a brilliant addition to any reader's collection. Stephen King is, truly, the world's greatest writer.

Bag of Bones is the haunting tale of an older writer whose wife has passed away. He travels to a summer home they shared and there meets a young woman who is caught up in a custody battle with her father-in-law over her daughter.

Brilliant writing, unforgettable characters, and a tale that will wrench tears from your heart, this story is sure to please any reader who has grown up enough to understand the human heart. Don't miss it.

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Summary: World through Michael Noonan
Review: "Bag of Bones" is an excellent tale. The first hundred pages doesn't move to fast, but after that the tale really picks up. King does a great job of turning the reader into Michael Noonan. Throughout the entire book you feel as if you see the tale through the eyes of Noonan. It is almost as if you are there with him smelling, seeing, and hearing the same thing that Noonan does. This to me is the greatest aspect of "Bag of Bones." I recommend this book to any person, whether they be a King fan or not.

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Summary: Snooze time
Review: I am so bored with this book - King seems more concerned about portraying small town dynamics than giving a riveting story - this "low wattage" approach to horror just isn't doing the trick. And the main character is just as bland as malt-o-meal straight out of the box. I'm not going to finish it- I've been granted two good horror scenes after 450 pages. King also seems to get lost in his plodding, overly descriptive language. Don't get me wrong, I've really enjoyed this about many of his other stories-- for instance "Dolan's Cadillac" and so many other of his short stories work because of his attention to detail. I like my horror served in big thick slabs that I can throw on the grill. I'm reading Anna Karenina for my character studies. I'm going to read The Drawing of Three instead. The Gunslinger was one wicked brew.

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Summary: Not typical King.
Review: I am a huge Stephen King fan, so naturally I was excited to read his then latest release, Bag of Bones. I was a little disappointed. It can not be classified as horror, which he is best known for. The book focuses on the loss of his wife and his inability to continue writing, with a few ghosts thrown into the mix. If a reader does not read King regularly and is not accustomed to his style of writing, they might enjoy it.

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Summary: A new favorite by the Master
Review: Hauntingly beautiful, this tale tells the story of a lonely widower who goes to his vacation home to deal with the loss of his wife and other issues. King uses his usual mastery of the English language to draw us into this haunting tale of a man trying to deal with his ghosts, both real and imagined.

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Summary: King's best since "The Shining"
Review: "Bag of Bones was the first of Stephen King's books that I had read in several years, after being an avid fan in high school, and I was not disappointed. I was impressed with the depth of this book. It was not a typical monster story. The references to Daphne Du Maurier's "Rebecca", as well as other literature, were not lost on me. I saw "Bag of Bones", not just as a ghost story, but romance, and with a very strong message about moving on with your life. As in "Rebecca", King shows us that whether we like it or not, we are all haunted by the ghosts of our past, and only we decide the effect that these ghosts have in our lives. This is a wonderful book, that I think will become a classic read for years to come.

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Summary: Definitely one of King's finest...
Review: I've read about half of Stephen King's many books, but BAG OF BONES is by far (and so far) the best. The plot and events are truly unique. I love drama and horror, making Stephen King the perfect horror because he can stir your emotions, yet at the same time scare the hell out of you. BAG OF BONES contains both. Not that I care much for it, but this one included romance, but surprisingly King wrote wonderful romance. Even if you're not a King fan, you'll definitely relish BAG OF BONES :)

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Summary: A turning point for King
Review: Bag of Bones was the best by King in a while. I agree that he is not fully appreciated by critics but with this book he did receive critical acclaim. This book is haunting.

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Summary: Bag of Bones
Review: Mike Noonan is a novelist, the seventh best selling novelist in this world. Some of his books has almost sold as many as Tom Clancy. There are only one problem with this, ever since his wife, Johanna, got hit by a pickup truck in 1994 and died, with they're unborned child, have he had writers block. He finished the book he still was writing on, and then - stop. He have told his agent that he is still writing on something, but that's just a lie. Four years goes by. The only person he keeps contact with is Jo's brother Frank and his family. Mike's life is as lonely as it can be, but Mike hasn't notice that, not then. He has no work to go to, he gets sick even if he thinks of writing, he has no girlfriend, and really no friends. Jo wasn't just his wife, she was his best friend. He's either doing cross words or reading, the time he spends awake. At night his time goes away having nightmares. In the beginning the nightmares are mostly about Jo, but after a wile the nightmares is more and more about Sara's Laughs. Sara Laughs was Mike and Jo's summer house, now it just Mike's. Mike has almost not, and never spend the night there after her pass away. The summerhouse on the TR, which is a little town near Castle Rock. (Castle Rock is one of the towns king use a lot in his story's) The people who live on the TR is old Yankee's. Old narrow minded Yankee's. Sara's Laughs is named after Sara Tidwell, who where a black singer at the TR in the end of 1800. The reason Mike won't return to Sara, I think, is that he and Jo had so mush fun there. They spend all summer there, sometimes they cold stay almost all the autumn too, and the one of them who enjoyed that the most was Jo. In the nightmares Mike dream that he returns to the TR. He dreams that when he come closer up to the house he can sense a sort of evil. Some of the evil comes from behind the him on the path, like something is trying to get him, and some of the evil comes from something inside Sara, or is it Sara? He can even hear a child cry, and someone have taped some black tape over his "welcome to Sara's Laughs" sign by the path. There is also this voice inside his head who tell him to go away, to run. When he woke up, he had sometimes waked in his sleep, or he had just laid in his bed, kicking the pillows and duvets so they where all messed up. After almost three years Mike had to do something by the fact that he still had writers block. He had to take on novel out of the box. If he wrote to novels very close up to each other, he laid one of the in a box, in case of emergency's like this one. He had now only one novel left in his box, and this one he sent to his agent. After this he called Bill, cause he was going to Sara. Bill had been Mikes caretaker ever since he got Sara. He had always cared for Bill. Even though Bill was an old Yankee himself, he seem to care a bit about Bill and Jo. He was over seventy years, but strong as a twenty year old man. He said he could get Sara ready in one week, to 6. July. Mike was at Sara the fifth, he came up there late that night, and when he came he got that feeling of being watched like in the dream. At his "welcome to Sara Laughs" sign there where taped black tape, and when he unlocked the door he could hear a child sobbing. He almost ran back to the car to drive home, when he told himself that it where just the broken air-condition how made the sound, so he staid. At night he could hear a weak jingle form a bell in the living room. He knew the bell hang on Bunter, they're moose head. It was Jo who had put the bell there as a joke, but it had never been removed. It was sort of cute. Later that night, when he visited the toilet he could hear that kid sobbing again. Now he knew that Sara was hunted. Morning on 6. July, when Mike drew up to get a burger, he almost ran over a little child. He managed to brake up just in front of her. She couldn't be older that three years, she where wearing a little bikini. He parked his car, then went out and picked her up. She said at once that she was going to the beach all by her self, cause Mattie wouldn't take her. She had to do her laundry. I have to say that this section is a reason in itself to read the book. Is there something King is good at, so is that to write how kids think about things and say things. One of his biggest talent is to write about scared kid, but this kid was not scared, just cute. When the kid says her name Mike first thought it was Kia, who was the name he and Jo had planned to give their kid, but then he hears that it was Kyra. Then Mattie comes with her truck, and she tanks Mike thousand times for taking Kyra out of the road, then ask him please not to tell about this to anyone. She said she had enough trouble with the old people here, if they didn't knew about Kyra running around by her self. She also told him that her husband was dead. Mike understands by the name of her dead husband that he was son of a many billionaire who lives there. Max Devore. The same night he gets a phone from Max. He want to know if it where true that Kyra where walking alone in the middle of the road. Mike tells him that that is not true, that Kyra and Mattie was walking along the side of the road. When Max says that he is lying, Mike just hang up on him, he coundt know that this old man was dangerous as hell...

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Summary: 1998 Bram Stoker Award Winner
Review: This book is the best. I know it has received mixed reviews from the people out there, but it really shines. There's just so much passion in the story that it just puts you in awe throughout your reading. One of King's best books in a long, long time. Truly deserving, it's not a surprise, it's King's most commercially successful book of all time. Topping more than 1.6 million copies sold when still the paperback hasn't yet hit the streets.

King is definitely changing his style of writing and is exploring new realms of wonders through and through. I like the way he's going, having defined a whole genre all by himself, he's now weaving paths and moving through the cutting edge of what and how literature can be taken if depth and a little twist is included. I just wonder if critics would finally see through and notice the length of time spent on writing this.

This book won a 98 Bram Stoker award. Trust me it was for naught. It truly deserved that right.