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Title: Desperation by Stephen King ISBN: 0-451-18846-2 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: April, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.13 (508 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: "License and Registration, please. Tak!" The Master at work.
Comment: "Desperation" is one of Stephen King's finest works, a riveting scream of a horror novel that gets right to work, grabs the reader by the throat, and insists, all 500+ pages of gore-dripping goodness of it, on being read straight thru 'til morning.
The secret of Uber-horror writer Stephen King's success is amazingly, masterfully, insidiously simple: he takes harmless little slices from ordinary life and then, bit by bit, lets the Horror seep in. Certainly King's world features ghosts, vampires, deranged scientists, spooks, dopplegangers and madmen galore, but the protagonists are every-day, commonplace men and women who venture out of their sun-dappled suburban subdivisions to do battle with Evil.
King plays a fine riff on this eternally yummy and harrowing theme in "Desperation", which begins as Peter and Mary Jackson, driving back to New York from a trip with relatives in the Pacific Northwest, get pulled over by a policeman on a particularly desolate Nevada stretch of Highway 50, the loneliest highway in America.
See, that's it, right there: King knows that it's a peculiar, highly particular, completely inimitable, spooky and slinky funny feeling you get down in the pit of your stomach when you peer into the rear-view mirror and see those red-and-blue police flashers. It's embarrassing, being pulled over, and it's---let's admit it---just a little scary and confusing. You know exactly where your driver's license and registration is, but you fumble it all the same, don't you, while the stony-faced trooper is peering in, maybe shining a flashlight into your car's interior.
Looking for---what? Guns? Drugs? Bodies in the trunk?
Anyway, King moves at 120 miles per hour into the guts of this grim little Nevada spookshow creepfest, introducing us to an interesting variation of the American nightmare: the Super-sized Highway Patrolman with a *really* bad attitude. And since this is King territory we've ventured into, rest assured there's plenty more wrong with the little All-American Town of Desperation, Nevada, than a really angry representative of the Law.
The pacing is all first-rate, and "Desperation" is a singular page turner: I started just before 7 at night, and got done in the wee hours of the morning, just before dawn. It's chock full of gore---King is not one to skimp on the red sauce, but he's brought a vat of it to this picnic---and it's got some good, nasty, cover your head with the blanket and read the book by flashlight Honest-to-Goodness Scares here, too.
So what do you have here? You have a 6 foot 7 super-sunburned cop who brings an entirely new meaning to the phrase "Walking Tall"; you have something ancient, Evil, and extremely hungry lurking in the old China Mine at the edge of town; you have some of the best characters in King's repertoire, particularly John Edward Marinville, the Norman Mailer/John Updike-esque Great American Author who is crossing the country on a Harley trying to write the next Great American Novel---and runs into the Great American Nightmare instead.
So grab "Desperation", clear off at least a day on the calendar, get some batteries for the flashlight, pull the covers over your head, and if that trooper asks you for your license and registration---well, just say Tak!
Rating: 5
Summary: Truly Frightening King
Comment: I had nearly given up on Stephen King, some time after "The Dark Half", but I plugged along to the truly abysmal "Bag of Bones"... I didn't expect much from "Desperation". However, from beginning to end, I was riveted. Having spent much time exploring some of the more remote parts of the Southwest deserts, I could easily picture an isolated Nevada town being taken over by an ancient evil force (hey, there's Las Vegas for an example.) In "Desperation", King's characters are all quite believable, strong; they are people you know. (Especially Cynthia, for those of you who've read "Rose Madder".) I can compare this book to "The Stand"- people of variant backgrounds coming together and fighting evil, finding strength within themselves and each other. But, best of all, the book truly scared the daylights out of me- I will always get a chill when a police car approaches me on a lonely Nevada highway. Who's to say that it won't be a malevolent force at the wheel, and where can I run in the desert?
Rating: 5
Summary: excellent
Comment: this had to be the best book i have read all year...the book was well written...i recommend this book to any person that like suspense....there were days where i couldnt put the book down...the writer leaves you wanting to know what was going to happen next...excellent .......A MUST READ.......
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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: Rose Madder by Stephen King ISBN: 0451186362 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Dreamcatcher by Stephen King ISBN: 0743467523 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 25 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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