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Summary: Good novel, great story
Review: The psychological thriller aspect of The Dead Zone is great. The concept is great. John Smith as a hero is great, if not tragic. What prevented the book from being great, in my opinion, was the lack of peripheral character development. Too many characters, not enough time, I suppose, which is probably a hazard of the trade. Other than that, however, the storyline was very interesting and thought-provoking, a welcome diversion from King's usual fare of gore-splattered horror (which I'm a sucker for as well). I'd recommend it.
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Summary: Interesting, Gripping book
Review: The Dead Zone is the book I would recommend to anyone who has never read a book by Stephen King because they think, "he's too scary" This book was written during the four or five years that King put out his best work...Salems lot, The Shining, The Stand. All are beyond classic but the Dead Zone is one of the more interesting ones in that the reader really gets to love Johnny Smith and is pulled in and totally encapsulated by the story.
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Summary: EXCELLENT....THE BEST!
Review: The Dead Zone-the name in itself evokes sentiments of loss, fear, downfall and most of all-Death. Set against the backdrop of 70's politics, Stephen King explores the life of the main character, John Smith, an easygoing, quite unassuming guy who spends four and a half years in a coma. He recovers, quite unexpectedly, only to realize that he has been gifted with the power to perceive the secret thoughts and deeds of men, and at the same time predict future events. On touching people he receives abrupt 'flashes', sensing things known only to themselves. He predicts the outcome of events in the lives of people into which he comes into contact and sometimes saves them from unknown danger. Johnny is intelligent, a former high school teacher actually, yet he possesses an appealing naivete, a simple, almost unpretentious nature that draws, maybe magnetizes the reader. This also proves to be potently dangerous. Already people have started to view him as a freak, a horrifying abnormality who can eerily sense things that exceed ordinary and rational reasoning. As one person remarked he was no better than a 'two-headed cow he had once seen in the Carnival.' The story resonates with sadness and forever reminds us of Johnny's plight. His feelings of despair, heartbreak over his lost true love Sarah, self-pity and most of all self-hate. Ultimately, he wishes himself dead. The story is intensely tragic, a replica of heart- rending sorrow. The main character is, in a sense, pathetic, and very likeable. The climax dwells largely on political aspects of that era, as Johnny seeks to save America, possibly the world, from a political misfit, who, if he is elected president, signals impending doom. The name in itself 'The Dead Zone' refers to a part of Johnny's brain that was irrepairably damaged during the accident. As a result, he is unable to 'see' certain things because the dead zone blocks them out. In a way, it plays a seemingly insignificant part in the novel since it, in no way impairs his judgement and if it does, it is only to a very small degree. Perhaps, it is an allusion to the book as a whole, in the sense that Johnny's life is irreversibly changed since he no longer lives an ordinary life. He is more like a living dead. An exceptionally touching novel, a definite tear-raiser. SIMPLY STEPHEN KING'S BEST!
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Summary: i loved it
Review: I thought it was a wonderful book but boy did i feel really bad for John Smith.
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Summary: King's political horror story
Review: The lead character of "The Dead Zone," the tragic hero Johnny Smith, is one of the most memorable that King ever created. This is not a pure horror story, it reads more like the anti-"Its a Wonderful Life." Smith has a near fatal accident, spends years in a coma an awakes with the ability to see the future (or at least, the bad things). He becomes convinced that a rising politician will one day set off global armageddon and tracks him across a mid-1970s landscape which even brings him into contact with a startled dark horse Presidential candidate named Jimmy Carter. Even though it may lack the gutteral horrors of some of his other novels, this is still one of King's best.
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Summary: Weird
Review: I am thirteen yeras old and i am an avid Stephen King fan. I have recently read "the dead zone" and thought it was really weird and scary about the hockey game and when they all fell through the ice. In the end, evil always backfires ie. when the psychic guy was trying to shoot Greg Stiltskin, he touched him and saw that he would commit suicide when he held up the baby to protect himself from the gun. I really do reccomend this book to everyone because if u are into psychic things etc then this will be brilliant. I really did enjoy this book. From Hannah (UK)
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Summary: Far and away one of King's best
Review: I read this book last summer and I couldn't put it down. Usually I read King is spurts because he can run away with the adjectives a little bit. All those that wish to argue please read the uncut The Stand first. Nevertheless I love King's work despite the need to occasionally pace myself with it. This book, however, was magnificent. I flew through it in two days (I never do that) and wished King had written more (pretty rare too). I would have to rank this book up there with The Green Mile and Salem's Lot.
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Summary: King without the gore
Review: In many ways this novel is a departure from King's usual fare.It still deals with the macabre, but less with horror and monsters than with the monsters inside regular people. A regular high school teacher is involved in an accident which puts him in a coma. When he revives, years later, not only has his life changed, but society in general has changed. He soon discovers that he has the ability to foretell future events, a blessing and a curse. In the end, he must decide how and if he will use this talent to alter the course of history. This is an intriguing and thought-provoking read. It raises interesting questions - something most King books fail to do.
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Summary: Low men, high moments
Review: Hearts in Atlantis was an endearing nostalgic book, a pleasure to read. It had frightening moments and nightmarish situations but there was a change in Mr. King's writing style. It would be difficult to explain this subtle change. Nevertheless, it is there and personally, all his fans will feel privileged if this change becomes part of his permanent style of writing.
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Summary: Dead Zone revew
Review: The book The Dead Zone was mostly good how ever there were some parts of the story that were a little dry,wordy and didnot help the story. Some patst of the story were kinda hard to falo because I persnly could not ynder stand who was speaking.there also was some valger langwige that as some tims was just unapproate.
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