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Summary: Enjoyed being TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF
Review: After reading half of "Misery," I vowed never to buy another Stephen King book, but I was flim-flammed. I wanted to believe, despite the clear discrepancies... had a great read...and was disappointed in the end. Still, it was worth it.
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Summary: I feel so dumb!!!!
Review: I wish I would have read all the above reviews before I read this "diary" because then I wouldn't have been fasinated with finding out more about "Ellen." I found it a great read that I couldn't put down ( but that is probably because I thought it was true!!) Going on the website interested me enough to look at that school's other programs... somehow though they are all under construction. That is when I realized what was going on here.
The book is good as long as it's not believed. I kept telling myself when I was reading it that it read too good to be a true diary. Taking that into account I would still recommend the book because I did like it while I was reading it.
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Summary: Slow start, but good ending
Review: Don't be discouraged by the fact that this book starts out moving a little slow. It builds up (much like "Needful Things") to a good conclusion.
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Summary: The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red
Review: The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer, to me is one of the greatest books I have ever read. It's a diary of her life and emotions of living at Rose Red and her marriage with her husband, John Rimbauer. In her diary entries, she sometimes skips days, weeks, or even months in between each entry. The diary entries are written as a story then an entry describing her emotions. She writes about every thing, one being her sexual thoughts when with her husband. She goes through each day with the help of her personal handmaid named Sukeena.She also describes the child birth of her three children. The first was really a misscarrage, but the second was a boy by the name of Adam. The third was a girl by the name of April, she was born by a seasection and with a withered arm. After the seasection, it caused Ellen her ability to have any future children. Ellen becomes missing herself at the age of 70, and is still missing today. Overall, this book is great, the movie that was produced by Stephen King is nothing like the book. The movie was created by information from the diary. There is a web site to read diary entries that were not put into the book. These entries were not put in the book because Joyce Reardon felt that they were to personal to Ellen for readers to see... This book is really good and I would like to encourage others to read it.
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Summary: My Life at Rose Red is a real page turner
Review: This Book was excellent and interesting.
It kept my attention all the way through.
It was much better than the movie.
I am happy that I read the book after I seen the movie or
the movie would have been a great disappointment.
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Summary: To King, or not to King?
Review: This book is a must read for anyone who saw Rose Red... This fictional diary goes into detail of the history and mystery of Rose Red (a haunted mansion in Seattle Wa.) I personally thought that Stephen King wrote it... before I actually read it. After reading it, my impression is that Tabitha King (Stephen's published wife) actually wrote it, with a little input from hubby.
This book is a great read stand alone, if you never saw the movie, or it is a great read in concert with the movie. It is pretty accurate in it's descriptions of the late 1800's- early 1900's, and is in a beautifully bound and cut hardcover edition. WELL WORTH THE PRICE!
Shawn M. J. Mann
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Summary: I was duped!
Review: I was so interested in reading this book because we had lived in Seattle, and I thought "Red Rose" was an actual house. As I got into the book, which I thought read like a badly written romance magazine story, I began to suspect this was another Blair Witch
take-off.
Why an author feels they have to do this, I can't imagine. I would not recommend this book to anyone.
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Summary: Awesome Book!!
Review: I loved this book!! It really feels like a diary, it is so detailed, and really goes into Ellen Rimbauer's mind, and life. It is very scary and creepy. I recommend reading the book before watching the movie. I did the opposite. I still love the book and the movie!! I have never read a SK book before. I have always watched his movies though, and love them, however, Rose Red is my favorite!!! The book is wonderful, and it tells you things about RR that they don't tell you in the movie. Highly recommened for any Rose Red fan!!
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Summary: Concise King is Always Great Reading!!!!
Review: I have just finished reading this book and admit I was duped at first. I thought this was real. I missed any publicity that came with the book when it was first published, but after being drawn into Ellen's world and wanting this to be real, I did some simple research and realized I fell for the writer's and publisher's prank. I agree, this is Stephen King's work, and like all his shorter works of fiction, it's a fantastic and enjoyable reading adventure. If anyone needs proof of this being Stephen King, turn to page 190 where Ellen supposedly has written: "...this is not one of Poe's gory inventions of fiction: no young girl who can set schools afire; no dog that behaves as if possessed; ...". I've given this book five stars here, but this is for the entire package -- book, miniseries, web site and disguised writer. "Experience" this publishing "event." It's more than just a short read!
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Summary: Sounds a Little Familiar
Review: I am 3/4ths of the way through this story. It's starting to sound an awful lot like the "True" haunting of the Winchester House (except that house has rooms that go nowhere). The owner felt she had to keep building the house because it was cursed somehow because her husband fortune was made with the Winchester fifle. There was a shooting at the beginning of Rose Red. I hope the rest of the book holds my interest as it peaks and wanes at times. If you are a Stephen King fan, you'll love it.
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