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Summary: MR. KING, PLEASE GET TO THE POINT!!!!!
Review: After 300 pages I am putting this book down FOREVER..Extremely thin plot, routine characters (evil rich-man in wheelchair, trailer-trash single mother, etc.) Critics always complain his books are too long...this time, they're right. Reminded me of FREEDOMLAND, where a 250 page story idea (or 1 hour Law and Order episode) was blown up to over 700 pages! I want to OLD Stephen King back! (Dead Zone, Firestarter, The Stand, Cujo...)
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Summary: I could not put it down.
Review: I bought this book for my husband and picked it up and thought " I wonder what this is about?" That was about 11p.m. It was 3 a.m. when I finally put it down. I carried it around at work, and hated for this book to be over. A winner in every way.Stephen King: You the Man!
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Summary: Not the typical Stephen King scary, but still awesome.
Review: "Bag of Bones," is not the usual Stephen King horror that keeps you up at night, but it is still a great book. The plot twists, and chilling detail, throughout the book make it a must-read for all Stephen King fans.
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Summary: Excellent - except for an unsatisfying ending
Review: An excellent effort by King, with his usual attention to detail and some wonderfully drawn characters, is unfortunately allowed to end rather weakly. Very unclear resolutions (intentional ?) of threads involving the 'current world' villans and the ghosts of the past. Overall though, an excellent book.
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: Bag of Bones is another massive hit by Stphen King. This man is one of a kind...you'll never find any author like him, never. This novel is to be read and believe me who misses it, ah, he's missing a thrilling novel that'll never be forgotten!!
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Summary: Oh, Ayuh
Review: For those of you who have been less than thrilled with Stephen King in the 90's, this is a shot in the arm of the pure good old stuff. I just finished this novel, and for my money, it's his best (outside of the Dark Tower series) since I don't know when. Before The Dark Half or the Tommeyknockers. Here's the best part: King leaves behind most of the little quirks that have annoyed me in the past: subtext in parentheses, over-cutesy details, etc. The one he does keep (main character is a best selling novelist; probably my least favorite King trend, but at least Roland of Gilead hasn't started writing yet) actually works here; the writer's block is convincingly unnerving. When he breaks it by using his typewriter, it made me wonder if he hadn't gone back to the old antiquity, himself. Kind of like going back to his roots. Perhaps Stephen King isn't the very deepest writer in the world, but he is on of the best storytellers, and in a way, that's even better. This is a chiller that really chills. Check it out.
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Summary: OK, not great
Review: This book reminded me of my experience reading "Needful Things." King's enthusiam lies in the character development. Most of the interesting aspects of the book are simple scenes meant to further our understanding of the characters. At times this is quite gripping, but like "Needful Things," the character development exceeds the storyline and I was unsatisfied with the ending.
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Summary: The Best King Book Ever Written
Review: Stephen King has outdone himself again. This time he gets you where it hurts. King has progressed past just scaring you to death, this time he moves you in the most unexpected fashion. The real story here is about a love that will never die. He is moving onto a whole new level here,and I am honored to go with him. This truly is a haunted ghost story.
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Summary: King tries to Escape from the Horror Genre . . .
Review: . . . and creates a nightmare. I've read almost all of King's books (not the Dark Tower stuff, and I couldn't slog through Insomnia). This book is terrible! I skimmed the last 150 pages and read the Epilogue. The first 100 pages of the book dealing with Noonan and the death of his wife, and then the plot with Mattie and Kyra, prove that King can write straight fiction. I was engrossed in the aftermath of his wife's death and rooting for his involvement with Mattie and her daughter. Even the haunted house part was ok. But merging it all together was horrible. And by the way, someone posted on around Feb.19th, speculating that King's wife, Tabitha King, perhaps was ghosting for him. If this is the result, what an insult! Tabitha King is a wonderful writer in her own right, and I encourage people to read Pearl, One on One, and The Book of Reuben. Don't expect any scariness beyond the day-to-day frights of life.
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Summary: Bag of Bones is not a ghost story; just a story
Review: Bag of Bones is considered to be a ghost story. But to me, in every ghost story there is a ghost who frightens the main character. In this story, Brian Noonan, haunted by his writer's block, is never in danger from the ghost of the town, the black people, or the Whitmoores. How can I get excited over a ghost story where the main character is never in danger? Although I commend King on trying something different, this story is not an achievement, but rather a feeble attempt to flush out town secrets. His characters are quite devloped, as usual, but there is no urgency created in them. What I mean is the characters are underachievers. There is so much more that Noonan, his girlfriend, and the child prodigy should have done in this book. These characters achieved nothing by the end of this book. The evil ghosts were never destroyed, the Whitmoores were never expunged, the child prodigy regressed into a normal child, and Noonan never understood the death of his wife. This book leaves alot to the imagination. I normally like imaginative stories filled with strong characters (It, The Stand, The Green Mile), but this story leaves the ending up to the reader, and in this case, it simply doesn't work.
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