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Summary: I didn't want to put it down.
Review: This book kinda started out slow like all of King's books, but when it started, it kept going. I like this book the best so far. I think there should be a sequal to it because I want to know what happens to Mike and Ki. Keep on writing like this and you will have me as your number one reader.
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Summary: A more subtle kind of scare
Review: Stephen King seems to have entered the age where the ghosts of our own pasts have more immediacy than creatures of the fantastic. I have realized finally, with this book, that a more mature kind of King book is emerging and we will have to get used to it. I really enjoyed the locations, the atmosphere, and the plots within plots that were rendered in King's unique and highly readable style. It took me a while to get through it, but if you stick with it, you will find it is a satisfying book. This book and the Green Mile have the same kind of melancholy and wistfullnes about them. Green Mile was by far the more powerful story, but if this represents the "new" King, he could have picked far less rewarding territory. I am hoping he still has at least one more white-knuckle, 3AM-with-the-bathroom-light-on, hellza-comin-thru-my-front-door-and-there's-nowhere-to-hide horror novel in the pipeline.
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Summary: King unlocks his spiritual side in this ghostly tale of love
Review: Kings best read yet! Stephen King has truly outdone himself with "Bag of Bones". An epic ghost story that transcends the 20th century, the book creates a tapestry of emotions: love and hate; loss and discovery. Set in the beautiful mountains of Maine, (a place readers have come to know and love)"Bones" seems to be alive with more description of the land than in many of his recent novels. The book reveals what the power of true love can accomplish over the greatest of odds, turning inanimate objects and fear into living breathing spirits. Unlike some other King novels, "Bones" gives us time to truly fall in love with Mike Noonan, Mattie and Ki. The characters were drawn so vividly I felt what they were feeling and understood what they were going through, even thought I've never experienced anything remotely close to their experiences. King uses mystery and spirituality to create the horror (especially the Sara Tidwell scenes)instead of his usual gore, finally building to the climactic end. After finishing "Bones", I felt like I had gone through a spiritual awakening with Mike, rather than the usual journey through horror that King usually lays out for his readers. It is by far the most mature King novel I have ever read. I look forward to more of this type of novel from King.
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Summary: This is definately one of King's best!
Review: As a fourteen year old reading a few of King's novels, the best one I have read(other than Misery) is Bag Of Bones. The romantic horror story kept me on the edge of my seat as I finished this book in only a week.
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Summary: King returns to "ghost-story" roots...
Review: I've read everything King's published (to my knowledge). This is one of his better books. For a while, King floundered about somewhat, writing books about amorphous energy sources ["Tommyknockers," "It"], and then seemed almost to wander into the introspective, passive world of the mind ["Gerald's Game"]. But, in "Bag of Bones," King seems almost to have returned to the more traditional, romantic ghost stories that sparked his interest in the macabre when he was young. True, this book has a bit of a slow start, but we King regulars are not unfamiliar with this pace. And "slow" does not, in this case, imply boring. The scenes are being set. I do think that the racial commentary which was a subtext was unusual for King, but he handled it well enough. And, as with *almost* all King's books, he ties up all his loose ends at the end of the book; answers all our questions--and he does it well. I recommend this book; in particular I recommend it to those who enjoyed early King.
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Summary: King departure with Koontz-like tale which is muddy at end.
Review: King creates interesting characters in whom the reader can invest compassion and committment. The story became rather supernaturally muddy at the point when our hero's deceased wife assisted him in delivering the 'bag of bones' into at least a temporary purgatory. The little girl and her murdered mother were good characters, and it may be interesting to see how the girl and male hero develop in the inevitalbe sequel. A long-time King fan, I have been disappointed with his recent efforts. However, Bag of Bone was good reading, but perhaps not quite up to par with Koontz series Fear Nothing and Seize the Night.
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Summary: Too slow moving and redundant for Mr. King.
Review: I found this one to be much too slow moving for Stephen King. Seemed as though he dragged it out to achieve the maximum amount of pages to justify the price this time!
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Summary: Great read - shame about the title.
Review: Stephen King surely has enough clout by now to move away from marketing oriented sales gimmicks. The title Bag Of Bones is pretty much irrelevant to the story - ok so it refers to what all of us are beneath the surface and questions what we are, what we know about ourselves - but I can't help thinking that this is more a ploy to entice readers who are interested in blood and guts. "Sara Laughs" would have been a more relevant, evocative and spooky title. That's my ha'penny worth, anyway!
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Summary: Make no Bones about it, this is a great read!!
Review: Just wanted to let all those would be Stephen King readers out there know, If you want to start somewhere, this is it! This book combines all he qualities that true fans have come to love over the years. The dream sequences, the vividness. You can almost feel a ghostly hand of a long dead loved one, wrapping around your neck as you flip through the pages of this amazing, but never ordinary ghost tale. This story brings a little more life to the idea that so many of us have often been faced with. When someone close to you passes on, which one of us hasn't lay awake at night, almost feeling them in the bed or watching from some dark corner of the room? We always wonder if they are really there. In this work of " The Master" it becomes all to real a possiblity. Enjoy, but not feel silly if you have to sleep with book cover face down on the night stand. And what every you do, don't look under the bed.!!!
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Summary: The King just writing another book...
Review: Now, i know there are enough reviews already in this database but i though that i might just as well add my little commentary. Here is it: It's 700 pages in the paperback. I KNOW that Kings takes time to get going... but he does not get going after 100, after 300 but only after 500... and that's just a bit too long. There are however some very good moments in this book. It really got to me when Mattie dies. However i don't think that his racial commentary adds anything new to what's out there already. He can do much better and will, i'm sure... fingers crossed. I still like Stephen King a lot, don't get me wrong here! He's one of my favorite authors.
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