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Summary: Bag of Bore
Review: I love Stephen King. I have been reading him since he wrote Carrie back in the '70's. Lately, I find his books to be getting somewhat boring and hackish. After the overly ambitious and self-indulgent tomes, Desperation and The Regulators; I was hoping for something better. The book starts with a bang and then whimpers along. Towards the end the book fizzles out like a old sparkler. The scariest thing King can come up with is a mean old rich man, a vengeful ghost and a town who seems to share a collective consciousness. When the big revelation is that most people in the town named their kids with names beginning "K", I wonder; what has King come too? He's done much scarier ghost stories (The Shining), more scarier little towns with a dark secret (It, 'Salem's Lot, etc.) and books that had more menace in their margins than a page of this book. King needs a vacation.
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Summary: Best Ever
Review: Classic Stephen King. I couldn't put it down. Remember all the details as you read; the ending is awesome. Having grown up in Maine, I could picture every scene and character.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: I am a huge SK fan and this book was wonderful, I couldn't put it down. The ending was gripping when we transformed from love to horror. I love the entire ghost storyline, especially the fridgedator people and when he had "dreams". I didn't see any resemblance to Rebecca at all. It was quite a change from the horrific Desperation (my favorite SK horror book) and Bag Of Bones comes in second place to my favorite SK non-horror book, Insomnia.
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Summary: Bag of Bones is not his best.
Review: Bag of Bones could not capture me in the first 100 pages and as I read it the more I thought that maybe this is Stephen King's book that he had kept in a safe deposit box all these years waiting for the opportunity to sell it. Like Tom Clancey, more and more we are seeing a lot of book that takes a lot of energy to carry and sometimes not worth it. Stephen King is the best of Horror writers and he needs to return to the basics and keep scaring the bejesus out of us. Sorry, two stars for this one. Four and five for most of his others.
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Summary: I couldn't put it down!
Review: I felt, via the main character Mike Noonan, as if I were just given an insight into Steven King's psyche as no other King book before this had done. I wonder if this was a meant as a quasi autobiograohy. The book also provided some fun commentaries on relationships of top selling authors to their Agents or Publishers and what they go through to stay on top. I've often wondered (worried) what Steven King is really like as a person to dream up and write the 'no holds barred' images he creates within his books. Could it be that I now have an answer to my curiosity? I've been a fan of his from the early 1980's and 'Bag of Bones' is my favorite since 'The Dead Zone'. The main character, Mike Noonan, seemed so real, I finished the book feeling as if I were saying Good-bye to a good friend. The only other books I've read recently (within the past few years) which can compare in terms of character development has been Anne Rice's Witching Hour series.
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Summary: Not your usual King....but well worth the read
Review: This is not the kind of book that King usually writes, but boy was it hard to put down. It starts out very slowly and confuses the reader until about a quarter of the way through. But once it hits the high mark, look out! I found myself reading till 2 or 3 am every night. I just couldn't put it down. Thanks for the great book Mr. King.
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Summary: Make it Stop!
Review: I am on page 350 of Bag of Bones and can honestly say it belongs in the slump of books like Insomnia, Rose Madder, and the dreaded Dark Tower books. This book goes no where! It is so boring. I thought Stephen King was at the top of his game, publishing the awesome Desperation (can't wait for the moive) the near classic status Green Mile, and the best of the bachman books, The Regulators in one year. But Bag of Bones looks like a bunch of dumb loose ends that stay loosends. He should stay with horror and suspense, he is not very good at romance novels from the looks of it. And from the title of his next book being Hearts in Atlantis, a.k.a. Why We're In Vietnam, I can only pray it was better than this 530 page depressing narrative.
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Summary: King, like Noonan, gains more depth
Review: I've read everything King has written and wanted to stop somewhere along the middle because each story became the last until there wasn't anything beyond the supense or horror and occasional relationship issues. With Bag of Bones, King makes "The Zone" a real place. The relationships carry the day and the questions Noonan asks himself are answered with compassion, pathos and humanity. It's a step he began with his writer in "Salem's Lot." This time we see not just the external plot action, but the internal action. Life has enormous costs for anything we want, reparation will always be due, but once in a while we win through--that's one subtext I enjoyed in this book.
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Summary: Starts great, then loses itself.
Review: First let me state that I am a Number One Fan of Mr. King. I have read everything he has published - loved most of it, tolerated some of it. This much anticipated story starts out classic Stephen King, giving me the creeps, but halfway through starts to wander and seem to lose its way. The ending was not as lame as say, Needful Things, but I agree that Mr. King should stick with his classic, no-fail formula for success. We love it when he writes his "classic stuff". Renee L.
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Summary: amazing, his best book since the shining
Review: i am a huge stephen king fan. i would have to say that "Bag of Bones" is one of his best. it has the wonderful creepiness of his book the shining. After you read Bag of Bones, you will never look at refrigerator magnets the same again!!! stephen king rules!!
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