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Bag Of Bones 
| 80% Recommended by our customers. Publisher: Scribner Catalog: eBooks Release date: 2004-01-07 Media: Kindle Edition Format: Kindle Book Number of pages: 752  Tip: compare prices with similar booksAuthor:
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 Written on January 26, 2008 Summary: Incredible Imagery I read this book once before when it first came out, I'm now reading it again and I'm just floored by his literary ability! The imagery and metaphor in this book is incredible and I actually feel like I'm there, though I've never been to Maine. The story is very "Stephen King", and quite cliche in my opinion but you'll forget that after a few pages as he tells this story was such skill and mastery you get completely lost in the words. Written on January 25, 2008 Summary: Some Meat On These Bones This is my favorite Stephen King novel so far. Mind you, I haven't read 'em all, but about half anyway. If I were forced to catagorize, I'd put this with the more traditional ghost stories, and frankly, I kind of prefer these. There seems to be a bit of one-upmanship going on in the genre where losing your soul for eternity or simply dying just doesn't carry the same bang that it used to, and it's starting to border on the absurd. I mean, just how mauled and mutilated do you have to get before the creators will evoke a scream from you? So if you're in the mood to get off the slash'em-up merry-go-round for a turn, and slow it down a little, this might be just what the good doctor ordered. King sure can turn a phrase when the mood strikes and apparently it strikes pretty often in 'Bag of Bones'. I think this is some of his best writing in my humble opinion. There are plenty of other reviews here that'll give you the outline of the story, so I won't waste your time doing it again here, but if you ever read Ghost Story by Peter Straub, I'd say 'Bag of Bones' has a very similar demeanour. So if you liked that one, chances are pretty darn good you'll like this one.  Written on January 10, 2008 Summary: bag of bones--stephen king I've read many King books that I thought were excellent, but Bag of Bones was boring to say the least. Having one character dominate the entire book was a good effort on his part, but it had me climbing the walls waiting for something terrible to happen. Thoughts and scary dreams--which the scary dreams were few--wasn't what I was in the mood for from a Stephen King book. I guess you could call it interesting reading from certain individuals. If he's going to write horror than do it and not fool his fans with experiments. During the third part of the book, nothing at all happened to encourage me to read any further. I expect murder and mayhem at least--it dosen't have to be constant--just give us a little taste at the beginning so we have someting to look forward to. He's been writing a long time and I know the urge to stray to new horizons is tempting if not irresistible. Stephen King writes horror and that's what I want.  Written on December 27, 2007 Summary: What a mess. King's worst work. The novel is such a pointless mess. I don't know where to begin. This will be short because I've already wasted too much of my time with this senseless POS: - The story is long, tedious, uneventful and lacks any kind of focus. - None of the relationships in this novel ring true for me. Most of the characters in this book are inane and serve as empty card-board set pieces. - The lead character, Mike Noonan, was just a helpless mess. A very passive character for which I had no empathy. This is a "haunted lake house" kind of novel. The lead character is a 2nd-rate writer who has a spell of writers block after his wife dies. He starts having nightmare visions. He dreams of the lake house they owned. He decides to go to the lake house for a while. Then he meets Mattie Devore. He gets involved in a custody suite between her and her wealthy grandfather over her child. Things kind of unravel from there when a turn-of-the-century blues singer's ghost shows up to haunt the cabin and his wife's ghost shows up to save him. . . ponder that for a moment. . . then . . . anyway. . . I just thought the story was really stupid, the writing was totally uninspired, the setting was unimaginative. I've read several of King's novels including: The Stand, The Shining, Tommyknockers, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Misery, 4 Past Midnight, and probably others. This is EASILY HIS WORST WORK. Written on November 10, 2007 Summary: Absolutely, must-read. I spent about three days with this book a few summers ago, and it still comes to mind every now and then. Good books do that to you, and I have to say that this is probably my favorite King book since "It." Bag of Bones is a nail-biting, hair-pulling, foul-mouthed, nightmarish story...that also somehow manages to be beautiful. Only King can write a novel that scares the you-know-what out of you (oh, you'll be hearing things go bump in the night after putting this thing down each sitting), and yet is able to leave you with the impression that something beautiful has been written. It's a book that I always reccomend to people. This story is so real, so freakin' Maine. The characters that drive the story could be anyone you've ever had live next door, or that flirty, depressed young mom at the laundromat. Just read the damn book. You won't regret it. |
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