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Title: From A Buick 8 : A Novel by Stephen King, James Rebhorn, Bruce Davison, Becky Ann Baker, Peter Gerety, Stephen Tobolowsky, Fred Sanders ISBN: 0-7435-2095-5 Publisher: Audioworks Pub. Date: 24 September, 2002 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 8 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.28 (245 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A lesser King effort
Comment: Stephen King's latest non-series novel is a passable but not very exceptional book that captures most of what makes Stephen King books great without actually being great itself. In part, this is due to the book being something of a rehash of his older books, in particular, Christine (evil car), the Tommyknockers (ancient alien artifact) and the Green Mile (a team of law officers holding a secret). Unlike the wholly mediocre Dreamcatcher - another King novel that revisits old themes - this one is at least okay, although it is not much more than that.
The story is mostly related as a prolonged flashback about some small town state police who acquire an abandoned car. The man who abandoned it has disappeared and the car itself is distinctly unusual in appearance. Shortly after putting it in storage, one of the officers disappears as well. Over the coming days and years, the car does some strange things, occasionally radiating vast amounts of light or spewing out alien creatures which die quickly.
The biggest problem with this current book is that not much goes on. Yes, there is a strange car, and yes, it does strange - and dangerous - things, but it only does a few actions of any significance, and there is rarely a sense of real menace about the car. Most of the story deals with trying to solve the mysteries of the car, which are considerable. Nonetheless, there is also a sense that it's little more than a mild distraction to these characters, kind of like a sleeping tiger in a cage that only represents a threat if you are in the cage with it at the same time it is awake. Otherwise, it is merely interesting. In addition, the characters themselves are almost all blandly benevolent; the few nasty characters which King does so well appear only briefly.
There is a saying in the book - used several times - that curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. Unfortunately, the book itself, while peaking my curiosity, did not really satisfy. I will be back, nonetheless. King is good enough to merit additional readings, but I hope that they are better than this one.
Rating: 1
Summary: Disappointing at best
Comment: There should be a limit to how many novels an author can write about a supernatural car. King should have stopped after "Christine" which I found to be far better than this current effort.
The only way I made it all the way through this book was on the hope that it would eventually become exciting...it never happened.
I can't believe that this will be King's last novel. He has given me hours of enjoyment and terror with his previous works. It is unfathomable that this is poor effort will be his swansong.
Rating: 5
Summary: King has done it again.
Comment: From a Buick 8 is a perfectly written novel and a very interesting one at that. Is this plot possible, or is this just another one of Stephen King's brilliant ideas? Can you just picture a "car" that is not really a car, doing things that a, normal car as you would say, would be doing, then just up and stopping all of a sudden? Then start doing it again. All of these problems that come from this car that really isn't a car. It is... I don't know what you could call the car except for what it is, a monster.
Ned Wilcox is a young adult, eager, hard working, and generous. I say he is hard working because he is outside the barracks every day that it snows during the winter busting his but just to snow blow the ten-foot drifts even though he doesn't have to. He mowed the lawn at the barracks; again, when he didn't have to. Why is he there you might ask? It isn't because he works there, it's because his father did work there until he died on duty. Ned Wilcox is not the main reason for the story. What is behind the Troop D barracks is what the story is about. The Buick 8 is a very strange "car" that produces things that are not humanly possible. The "car" has a wooden steering wheel the size of a yacht steering wheel. The dashboard is made of wood. The engine is just plain weird with a glass exhaust system.
Stephen King has done it again and done it well. From a Buick 8 was written with such detail that it seems like he lived the story. He did a fantastic job on everything, except that I would have changed the names of the characters in the story. Some of them were difficult to pronounce such as the French name Jacubois. But other than that I loved the detail and ideas in the story. It kept me reading till I fell asleep. It was funny and thrilling at the same time. The novel was exquisite.
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Title: Everything's Eventual : 14 Dark Tales by Stephen King ISBN: 0743457358 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 30 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, Book 5) by Stephen King, Bernie Wrightson ISBN: 1880418568 Publisher: Donald M. Grant/Scribner Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Black House by Peter Straub, Stephen King ISBN: 0345441036 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: By the Light of the Moon by Dean Koontz ISBN: 0553582763 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Desperation by Stephen King ISBN: 0451188462 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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