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Title: Desperation by Stephen King, Kathy Bates ISBN: 0-14-086318-4 Publisher: Penguin Highbridge Audio Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 6 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.13 (525 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Made me a convert
Comment: I had always avoided King because I think of myself as preferring "serious" literature. Desperation changed my mind about the horror genre entirely, and although I have since read several more of King's novels, it remains my favorite. People have complained this book is a rehash of previous works, but many solid writers re-visit themes and motifs that have particular meaning for them. No one criticized Hemingway for it. I'm not a big horror fan in general, but the real horror in this book is internal and familiar to almost everyone. Belief vs. skepticism. Insecurity and guilt. What if? Sure, there are a lot of memorable action scenes, but what fascinated me more is the unusual re-telling of the Book of Job. This book reminded me of some of Philip K. Dick's religious sci-fi novels. There's a tremendous amount of passion and soul-searching here. The writer is obviously the author's alter-ego, which adds another layer of depth. One of the other reviewers mentioned that Desperation caused him/her to seriously evaluate his/her religious beliefs. That's pretty impressive for a mass-market paperback, and I had the same reaction. The book can be read on at least three different levels, and it holds up on all of them. Just reading people's reviews made me want to go through it again.
Rating: 5
Summary: a very overlooked King book
Comment: this is probably my favorite Stephen King book. I have read it 3 times, each time during lengthy trips across the world, and ech time I've read it it was as if it was my first. It is a very great book for me. For some reason I can imagine things in the book PERFECTLY, or at least in a way that makes the book truly come alive for me anyway. Each place they went to hide from Entragian was a place that I had been in in my life before or at the time I first read it. For instance the seedy, abandoned theater that they took to for shelter was the pornon theater that my father had purchased when I first read the book. And the way taht the theater was described didn't prove me wrong at all but actually made it seem like, in a wierd way, he was talking about the same building. But, either way that you imagine it, you are bound to enjoy it, because it is truly an excellent book. very creepy and...I guess that atmospheric would be an ok word to describe it. It picks up really fast..like right when it starts..Anyway. I Strongly reccomend this book as well as the sequel written under King's pseudonym, The regulators. You are sure to enjoy them.
Rating: 5
Summary: Desperate attempt at insanity
Comment: This book was about the fourth Stephrn King book that I read, I found it to be amzingly inventive. It starts off with Mary and Peter Jackson, driving down a lonely highway in Nevada, after Mary sees a dead cat nailed to a road sign she becomes uncomforatble. Soon a strange police cruiser appears to be stalking them and after a while they are pulled over. Things lead to another from here, I would elaborate on the plot more but I have a helluva head ache so I'm signing off.
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Title: The Regulators by Stephen King, Richard Bachman, Charles O. Verrill ISBN: 0451191013 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Insomnia by Stephen King ISBN: 0451184963 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Bag of Bones by Stephen King ISBN: 067102423X Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King, David Palladini ISBN: 0451166582 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 10 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Rose Madder by Stephen King ISBN: 0451186362 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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