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Title: Rose Madder by Stephen King ISBN: 0-451-18636-2 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: June, 1996 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.91 (220 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful
Comment: King truly establishes himself as a writer when he does well at what a lot of male authors won't even attempt - he makes the main character a woman and really gets deep into the problems that women have. Books like Dolores Claiborne and Gerald's Game and this one, are the books that really make me adore Stephen King. He deals with the tough issues these women face or have faced. Most of the time it is some form of abuse that they had to go through, but that's fine. Those are really tough and serious issues and I admire Stephen for having the guts to write all that. Rose Madder is a brilliant tale of a woman who has had enough. She leaves her abusive husband in the middle of the day, and embarks on a life changing journey. The descriptions are vivid and flavorful, the characters believeable and likable, and the story line is one that only King could think of. I don't want to ruin it for you, so I'll just say that it is a very well written and enticing story. You won't be disappointed.
Rating: 5
Summary: Combining the modern thriller with mythological justice
Comment: The story opens with the heroine, Rose Daniels, huddled against a wall, in terrible pain, suffering a miscarriage from her husband Norman's abuse. Nine years later she wakes one morning to find a drop of blood on her pillow, legacy of the previous night's nosebleed.
As if waking from a dream, she sees her future - death might be a sweet release but helpless crippling is the more realistic probability. Already her kidneys are damaged. Rose flees, taking only her purse and her husband's bank card.
Thus far the violence has taken place off-stage and the reader experiences it in horrific fragments as the core of Rose's life. The terror that travels with her is palpable and riveting. Like Rose, we expect Norman, a canny and experienced cop, to pounce on her at every street corner, enraged at her audacity.
But, through the kindness of strangers, Rose Daniels becomes Rosie McLendon (her maiden name), discovers friendship at a battered women's shelter and begins to put her life together. The day before she moves out of the shelter she stops in a pawn shop to see what she can get for her ostentatious engagement ring.
The ring is a phony but the pleasant young proprietor is willing to trade it for a mediocre painting of a classical scene which Rosie suddenly has to have. The painting of a woman on a hill in a rose madder chiton calls out to her although the temple at the foot of the hill is clearly out of perspective.
Rosie also gets a job out of the encounter - a customer who admires her voice turns out to be a producer of audio books - and a romance with the shop owner, Bill.
Meanwhile, Norman is on his way. King begins to alternate between Norman's unraveling psyche - a polluted and vile but cunning place - and Rosie's continued blossoming.
While Norman becomes more and more savage, Rosie enters the realm of the painting in the book's first supernatural scene which is, while obligatory, not half as scary or involving as her real life.
The painting seems to embody some version of the Furies - female earth dieties who exact retribution from human transgressors. The leader, the one Rosie identifies with, is no fairy godmother. A dangerous creature, consumed by madness and some leprous disease, she demands a perilous mission from Rosie which involves crossing the river of forgetfulness and entering a dead version of the garden of Eden as well as outwitting the Temple bull in a maze.
For the climax, King no longer spares us the violence up close. There's lots of blood and gore as well as supernatural interference on both sides.
A page-turning good read.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of Stephen King's BEST!
Comment: Rose Madder is about a woman who is abused my her cop husband Norman. Then one day, she justs gets up and leaves him for good.
She takes the Greyhound to another city, and starts a new life, with the help of a abused woman's program, she gets a job making audio books, and moves out of the boarding house, and into a apartment.
But when her husband Norman comes home and she is not there, he uses his detective skills and is now on a murdering rampage on trying to find her, and killing the people who helped her.
Then she meets a guy named Bill, he is nothing like Norman, he is sweet and gentle, she meets Bill because he works in a pawn shop, and that is where she finds this magificiant painting.
She buys it, and puts it in her apartment, but she notices that it is alive! She then has this dream of El Toro chasing her into this dark area of the painting, and trying to kill her.
Norman then comes back into the picture with the beating of one of the women at the boarding house, almost killing her.
She then notices that the woman in the painting needs help, she is a black woman with a white dress on, and the only way to get rid of El Toro is to get inside the painting and kill El Toro for good.
Norman then finds this mask of El Toro and he wears it when he goes out to kill. Then he takes it off and talks to it like it was real. Anyway, this is a good book, so I am not going to spoil the ending, but it is good.
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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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Title: Gerald's Game by Stephen King ISBN: 0451176464 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 10 July, 2001 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 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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