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Summary: Thrilling reading
Review: That's just another excellent, thrilling book of the master..
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Summary: I Know What I'm Talking About
Review: For those of you who think that Stephen King writes only horror fiction, think again. In Bag of Bones, King delivers a different but outstanding story. King brings out his romantic side with enough horror and suspense to remind you who the author is. After four years, Mike Noonan, a best-selling novelist, is still grieving his wife's death. Noonan travals to his summer home and gets caught in a struggle between his new love and a psychopathic millionaire. On top of this, Noonan's summer home is haunted. I loved this book and you will too. If you haven't purchased Bag of Bones yet, put it on your Christmas list.
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Summary: King's best work
Review: Stephen King is like a breathe of fresh air to modern literature, and yes I said literature. I truly believe that he will still be read a hundred years from now in classrooms as a kind of Dickens of our time, popular and written off by most critics, but endearing. His characterizations by themselves make him better than most writers today, and his imagery makes him one of the best. All through his career he has given us great things, but in this book it's different. In Bag of Bones he gives us his best work so far, a great story, wonderful characters, and a surreal small town atmosphere that he can create better than any other writer alive today. Take the three parts at once dream sequence for example. This is not the work of a hack writing only for money, this is a riveting and extremely well-written section of a book filled with such parts. The rock- throwing scene by the lake was also especially good, showing the reader pure evil in mind movie realism. People who have dismissed King should immediatly pick up Bag of Bones, they will find out what they have been missing by skipping him. It was wonderfully written, beautifully plotted, and actually quite creepy as well (the refridgerator magnets, the knocking on the basement wall). But then, who really cares if the critics like him or not, as long as people who know can recieve enjoyment from King's work. Read this book, and you'll be happy that you did.
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Summary: A Good Read That's 200 Pages Too Long
Review: I know exactly what I'd give Mr. King for Christmas: an editor with sharp scissors who would cut go through his verbiage the way Maxwell Perkins did for Thomas Wolfe.This is an excellent story that's deeply moving. The theme of loss is dealt with profoundly. But I'm three years older than King and I don't know about him but I'm wearing bifocals: wading through 529 pages isn't as easy as it used to be. Cutting a couple of hundred pages wouldn't touch the references to REBECCA, or those to characters from THE DARK HALF and NEEDFUL THINGS which are kind of a wink to faithful readers. Not an ounce of emotion would be left out. The observations about the process of writing and the pains of dealing with the publicity machine would remain intact. Just whittle down what's there.Were the book shorter, its impact would be stronger. King is dealing with powerful subject matter in the story of a bestselling author whose wife died suddenly and is faced with serious writer's block, combined with his accidental involvement in a custody battle with a demented billionaire. The characters are vividly drawn and the story is compelling, and there are many unexpected twists. The supernatural elements are so skillfully inroduced that they are easy to believe.King has again proven himself to be America's greatest storyteller. Historians will probably look back on him as America's Charles Dickens. Books without plots will win writers critics' praise (Joyce's babbling, incoherent ULYSSES being declared the most important novel of the century comes immediately to mind; as an undergraduate, I considered people of the "I couldn't make head nor tail of that thing, so it must be profound beyond my understanding," school of thought to be several bricks shy of a load, and age hasn't tempered this.), but thank goodness people who buy books are usually too smart to fall for such notions.Mel Brooks said that no movie should be over ninety minutes, because that was the longest he could stretch a bag of Raisinettes. I say that no book (except for maybe THE STAND, which I have read three times) should go over three hundred pages, because that's as much as most people are comfortable reading at one sitting.Mr. King, God bless 'ya.
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Summary: Bag of Bones
Review: I like this book because unimaginable things happen one after another. Also, I cannot stop reading because I want to know what is going to happen next. Besides, I feel like I am in the story because the story is discrptive. Lastly, I like the most the endding.
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Summary: King's talent for suspense allows you to overlook the slo
Review: S.K. is an awesome writer! After reading his books I always have a lingering feeling and find myself thinking of the characters long after the book is finished. This book was written in a different style than I am used to seeing in King's books. It was far from boring, but not quite fulfilling. I read the book quickly; it held my interest although I often felt annoyed at the emotionally unstable protagonist. Bag of Bones was a good read, but it lacked the unexplainable feeling I enjoy after finishing a Steven King book.
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Summary: Keeps you interested...
Review: As usual, King has the ability to keep the reader interested in the story, page after page. While not his best work, it still rates far ahead of most modern-day fiction. If the author was anyone other than King, I'd give it 5 stars, but King's standards are so high, he only gets 4 for this one...
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Summary: The Best Book I've Ever Read!
Review: Ladies and Gentlemen I have to say this is the best book I've ever read. Once I started the book it caught me. The mystery through each chapter is awesome. You always have to read the next chapter. This is Stephen's best book.
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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: I'm a German exchange student in the US and I got to read Bag of Bones as my first Stephen King book. I must say I was overwhelmed. King wrote so lively and fascinating... although I didn't understand everything I read this book in 3 days, during class, in my bed, when I drove somewhere... I always carried it around, and there was no time when it started to be boring or so. Thumbs up for this masterpiece!
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Summary: A good spooky love story.
Review: This is a good story to read is if you had lost a love one or if you miss someone. This has a good story and it is a good book to read. But don't take this book if you are planning to get a book that is easy to read in about 5 days. But if you want to take the risk, it is fine with me. I would recommend this book to anyone over 13 years of age, and who like to read Stephen King books.
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