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Summary: An Extraordinary Heart Warming Thriller!!!
Review: 'The Dead Zone' is a masterpiece written by the master himself! This is not a horror, but instead a heart warming thriller that will move you!Johnny Smith is a man with an ordinary name, who has lots of things that he cares about, taken away from him, after an accident puts him into a 4 1/2 year coma. When he wakes up, he has the power to see the future by touching a person or object. There are certain things that he can't see or will never know, such as not knowing first hand what happened, while he slept for 4 1/2 years. All of this info is stored in his subconscious or as he likes to call it, the dead zone. He doesn't like his new gift, (or curse) but feels he has a responsibility to help others. He goes through different episodes where his power is needed, until fate brings him to his ultimate task. Meanwhile a crooked and ambitious man is very power hungry. He is insane enough to cause something very terrible to happen. This is one of those books where, it is fate itself that puts the pieces of the puzzle together. This is a very touching story, that will have you feeling almost every emotion, that is humanly possible. From beginning to end the book will have you hooked. Definetly one of King's best!
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Summary: O.K. Novel With Too Many Sub-Plots
Review: The Dead Zone is a novel in which Stephen King creates many bad guys, and then doesn't do anything with them. In the first part of the novel, The Wheel Of Fortune, Johnny Smith, the herion is eventually hunting down a serial killer, and this is the good part about the novel. What I would have liked even more was some more in depth insight to the killer's identity, instead of revealing him as a no name. After that, Johnny realizes that Greg Stillson is a man running for the House of Represenatives, and Johnny sees he's a bad guy. Johnny finds out through the dead zone. At this point Johnny comes to a conclusion which leads up to the dumb ending, which could have been written so much better. Greg Stillson himself is not a great villian, but then again there are to many villians in the novel to count. King should have ended this novel after 267 pages and it would have been excellent. And we all would have had some clue to what the point of The Dead Zone was.
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Summary: Fantabulous!!!!!
Review: I absolutely loved this book!! Steven King is truly a master!! I couldn't put it down!! I've read a lot of King's stuff, but I was totally unprepared for the part with the pimps and the funny-looking clown. I was laughing so hard that I almost voided my bowels. And the part with the hot-dog salesman and the nudist colony? Such humor!!! And I thought he only wrote horror!! Two thumbs up, waaaay up for this funny (yet deeply touching) portrayal of a man and his obsessions with houseplants. Thank you Stephen King!!
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Summary: Overall letter grade=A+
Review: This might be King's best book ever. The story is intense and there are various sub-plots that are very interesting as well. A definite page turner.
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Summary: THIS BOOK IS INCREDIBLY, HANDS-DOWN, BEAUTIFULLY... decent.
Review: Great idea and intriguing story, but it's really tough to stick with. There's very little suspense of ANY kind (not even in a Green Mile sort of way) up until the climax. If you like your politics, though, this book is for you.
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Summary: Excellent, but...
Review: How can you trust the opinion's of some of these reviewers? For example, the person who recommends this book to "STEPHEN KING fans" (try to imagine his name in flashing neon letters, if you like). Or people who write all in upper-case letters, just to get attention. Or people who say that the book was confusing and therefore wasn't very good (ever tried actually thinking with your brain?). Okay, I just wanted to get that all off my chest. "The Dead Zone" is one of King's best early books, and John Smith, the man with the ordinary name and the extraordinary gift (or curse?), is one of his best characters. You can feel his torment of losing the girl he loved, his privacy and his dignity, all the while trying to come to terms with the terrible power that had been granted to him. A literary acheivement!
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Summary: King's best novel
Review: THE DEAD ZONE is, hands down, the best novel Stephen King has written to date. No E.C. Comics-style horror moves, no heavy-handed dialogue, none of the things that, for me, usually make him a one-time read and that's it. This story has a lead character who has three dimensions (four, if you count his psychic abilities)and tells about a good man with an obligation thrust upon him that he can't really run from. Johnny Smith and the people in his life are people we all know in one way or another, and when all is said and done THE DEAD ZONE transcends it's supernatural trappings and lets the story and the characters shine through. King has only sporadically achieved that balance in his subsequent novels, but he shows here that when he doesn't stoop to the cheap scare, he can write a powerful horror novel that stands up over time.
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Summary: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!
Review: The book "THE DEAD ZONE" is a good but confusing novel. i reccomend it for STEPHEN KING fans.
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Summary: NOT KINGS BEST, BUT NOT HIS WORST EITHER
Review: THIS BOOK HAS A VERY SLOW BEGINNING, BUT IF YOU CAN MAKE IT THROUGH THE FIRST 120 PAGES OR SO THEN IT IS HARD TO PUT DOWN. THIS IS DEFINETLY NOT HIS SCARIEST NOVEL, BUT IT STILL IS WORTH READING
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Summary: I loved the book The Dead Zone by Steven King
Review: but the thing was that I like the book so much that I wanted to rent the movie so I did that only because I had to see who was going to play the characters especially johnny. now I still love Steven King but I was very dissapointed with the movie I couldnt feel the movie like I could the book. But I truly give the book 5***** stars. A loyal reader S. Williams
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