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Summary: Best book I've read this year
Review: I really like it when all the characters look pretty
normal but you're not sure who's human and who's not -- who's gonna offer you a bag of potato
chips and who's gonna take over your body to do the devil's work. Sorta like real life. I finally finished reading Desperation last night. Next thing I read will be something exceedingly light, like Dave Barry in Cyberspace
or something with Dilbert or Dogbert in the title. Here's a tip for you: Read Desperation. It's great. When you finish it late at night on
your favorite couch or reading chair, you can go ahead and put on all the lights leading up to
your bedroom and then turn them out one by one as you exit each room. That way you'll never
have to be in total darkness until you get to bed. If you have The Clapper, you're in luck. Leave your bedroom light on, hide under the covers, then clap to turn the light off. Ignore any whispers or guttural sounds
until you fall into a deep sleep.
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Summary: The King has returned!!
Review: Mr.King had wimped out on us in some of his more recent
books, and with the exception of ROSE MADDER, the good versus
evil concept he is so famous for had almost fallen by the
wayside. But DESPERATION brings it back with a vengeance. The multiple main character concept could only be mastered
by the Stephen King of old. I found DESPERATION positively
riveting and impossible to put down.
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Summary: Drop that rucksack!
Review: Stephen King is back -- and in fine form. Paralleling one of this main characters, Johhny Marinville the literary lion, King shrugs off the heavy rucksack of "writing literature" to return magnificently to the horror genre. And what a delight to his fans. This tale is much more than exploding bodies, howling coyotes, decayed corpses and unlikely heroes. It's a classic tale of good versus evil. God versus the devil. King delves into a lesson in theology here -- the moral is "God is cruel" or is He?
Don't miss the triumphant return of the King of Horror. Open the book and step willingly into a world only Stephen King could create.
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Summary: Great King Book!
Review: The only part I Regretted about the story is that it had to end. Incredible imagery, great imagination, awesome plot development
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Summary: Great!! Right up there with The Stand.
Review: One of Stephen King's best, grabs you from page one and you don't want to put it down. King's best since The Stand. A "must read" for Stephen King fans
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Summary: Great Scare
Review: This is truly a great book. It combines the ambiguos origin plot of "Insomnia" with the multiple main characters of "The Stand" or the Langloliers". It is truly scary to the point of torturousness, while still keeping King's traditional tongue-in-cheek humor
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Summary: "The Stand" for the nineties.
Review: This book is absolutely, breathtakingly fabulous. King has drawn upon his thought-to-be forgotten style used in the writing of The Stand and The Shining to issue forth his greatest work of the 1990s by far. The characters are wonderfully developed and the plot line is both supernatural and yet completely believable. Some of the best fiction on paper today. The book begins to drag a little bit two-thirds of the way through the book, but once the action gets going again, you forget that it was dragging at all. You will find it very difficult to put this book down, and you will find King's style in this book is so well written that it is almost frustrating, if you can't read the book cover to cover in one sitting. King goes into more depth on the dark side of Christianity than he did in The Stand, and is more brutally honest about some of the truths of religion. This book is a must-read for anyone who liked The Stand, anyone who likes Stephen King, anyone who likes to read, and anyone who has eyes. Or can read in braille
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Summary: Welcome to the loneliest highway, and the deadliest...
Review: Just off Route 50 in Nevada lies the small mining town of Desperation, where a local cop has suddenly turned anything but lawman.
His victims were the lucky ones. But for a small group of survivors, desperation is no longer just the name of a town - it's a state of mind.
And it will take an extraordinary young boy to lead them through a living nightmare.
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Summary: Spine chilling story telling at its best!
Review: I have recently finished reading Desperation and I have to say, this book scared the daylights out of me. Trust me, I don't scare easy! Stephen King once wrote, "..a writer is someone who has taught their mind to misbehave.." Makes you wonder... Imagine travelling down one of the lonliest roads in America and then encountering 'The Cop From Hell'. This should give you a basic idea of where this story is coming from, but only just. This book tells the story of a group of people from very different backgrounds, thrown together by circumstance and who have to rely on on each other, but in particular a young boy called David and an old "has been" writer called Johnny, to escape from a nightmare town known as Desperation. What's great about this story is that at it's heart, it is a classic tale of good against evil, and if you want to enjoy a good horror story, you have to believe in the power of both. Coming from a "And a little child shall lead them" vein, King shows us how this group of people first experience disbelief, frustration then fear which leads them to desperation (both physically and emotionally). But as soon as they start to "believe" (espeically about what David tells them), we see their desperation end and the way out of their situation made plain. I'll not say any more than that. King's description of what happens to a body when it has been used up by the evil force in this tale, is pretty gory, so be warned! If you like scary stories that are scary, then this one is for you. If you have delicate sensibilities or are easily offended, then you really shouldn't be reading horror stories anyway. But be warned, this tale might give you nightmares! (Cue maniacle laugh).
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Summary: Deja Vu all over again
Review: Desperation is very good Stephen King that builds a sense of peril and has the readers turning page after page well after they were supposed to turn the lights out. However, the biggest surprise and pleasure is reading it with the Bachman (King) book The Regulators. It is such a weird deja vu experience having character you think you know in both books. Heros relegated to more minor roles and events playing out differently then you think they will because of your preconceptions. Overall a very enjoyable experience.
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