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Title: From a Buick 8 : A Novel by Stephen King ISBN: 0-7432-1137-5 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 24 September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.26 (212 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Say it ain't so - King to retire J.D. Salinger style!
Comment: From a Buick 8 is reported to be King's last novel (other than the final 3 books in the Dark Tower series, scheduled to come out over the next few years), and King chooses an interesting topic to serve as an epilogue to his amazing career: curiosity - and the obsessions and fear that it can unleash.
King writes about the power the unkown can have over us and the best parts of "From a Buick 8" deal with the various reactions characters have to the mysterious events that fill the pages of this book.
This book starts out strong - the first 100 pages can be considered "vintage King". The middle act gets a little repetitive, but the conclusion plays out well (although some Constant Readers will be frustrated that all of the "loose ends" aren't tied up).
Wisely, King leaves things somewhat ambiguous at the end. I liked his approach - I think many readers will find that this story stays with you, leaving you curious at the end and still wanting more. This is intentional, and ties in well with the novel's themes. Fans of the gungslinger series, however, may get some of their questions answered as I suspect King's Buick (or maybe its creepy driver?) may find its way into Roland's tale.
Recently, King has commented that although Buick 8 and the Dark Tower finale are his last novels, he will continue to write...he just won't publish. I thought of this statement as I closed the final pages of "Buick 8" and wondered how many other Constant Readers would become curious, much like Curtis Wilcox, wanting to know why King is retiring or trying to imagine what books he may write, never to publish?
In conclusion, this is a solid King novel, not his best, but very good. I think King could have trimmed about 50-100 pages from the text and left us with one fewer "autopsy" or "light quake" scene - also, keep track of how many times characters puke in this book, definitely a King record.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not Much Action
Comment: I did like this book better than 'Christine'though. I liked the setting the story was in and the characters were more likeable as well. However, while there were supernatural elements, the story itself was pretty slow going. There were only a few scenes that had you biting your nails. This isn't one of King's scariest.
Rating: 5
Summary: Better than a lot of his most recent work
Comment: To begin with, "From a Buick 8" is by no means a perfect novel. It lacks depth and the story pretty much stays on a straight course without becoming mired in detail. However, it is most certainly entertaining, and at <400 pages, the story moves along very quickly. I'm not quite sure what many reviewers are expecting from Stephen King (another "The Stand"?), but I personally enjoy a straightforward horror story. He hasn't written anything like this in years, and I personally am very happy with this as the last novel that he ever writes. An unusual object with strange behavior. Monsters spewing forth from another dimension. What else do you want? After laying the eggs "Everything's Eventual", "The Black House", and (god help us) "Bag of Bones", I would think that long-time Kings fans would gobble this book up. I guess that shows how very different people are.
The good news for all the nay-sayers is that King has said that he will not write any more novels after this. This may or may not be true, but I would definately bet that he won't write any more horror books. The bad news is that we are now stuck with Dean Koontz. Again, God help us.
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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: 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: Dreamcatcher by Stephen King ISBN: 0743467523 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 25 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: By the Light of the Moon by Dean Koontz ISBN: 0553801430 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 24 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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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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