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Summary: Perfect Stephen King
Review: This book is def one of his. Very much a horror book, but lots of pondering moments and never dull with him. I truly felt I could smell the car and felt just like I was there, as in The Stand I did as well. Wonderful book!!! I hope he does decide to write more and not stop writing.
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Summary: YUCK
Review: This book is complete crap. One of the all time boring books. If King has written a worse book than this, I havent yet read it. Avoid at all costs
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Summary: A little different...
Review: This book leaves alot of questions unanswered because life does. That's the point. The final seen with the father and Sandy is beautful and alone makes the book worth reading.
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Summary: This explains it all
Review: Does anyone not see the connection between the Buick and the Dark Tower? One has to read King's "Hearts in atlantis" to truly appreciate this tale.
SPOILERS****
The Buick is a car belonging to the Low Men, agents of the Dark Tower's Crimson King. Doesn't anyone remember the way King described the Low Mens' cars in "Hearts in Atlantis"? They were almost alive...I believe that this particular Buick acts as a doorway to a level of the Dark Tower we haven't seen before. King's the kind of writer who rewards readers for reading his other books and "From a Buick 8" is no exception.
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Summary: My comment on the novel
Review: From a Buick 8 is about a car mostly, but it isn't anything like Christine. It is typically similar to Dreamcatcher and the car basically is haunted. Strange alien creatures come out dead fromt the car that left the people from troop D pounder indeed. This book by Stephen King is great, with beautiful twists and turns and fresh imagination, but it doesn't bring anything new to the table. This is one of his best work, but parts and pieces of it were from his previous works. Read if you are a big fan or just a newbie. This is one that shouldn't be missed.
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Summary: Boring
Review: I have read most of King's books. I can honestly say that this is the most boring book I have read by him. I haven't even finished it and I find myself feeling like I have homework whenever I pick it up (I have a thing about finishing any book I start). I also keep finding myself skipping paragraphs because they are soooo wordy (for lack of a better adjective :o)).
I hope he does better in the future.
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Summary: Stephen King--at last--grows old
Review: We are told after many years turning out books at the rate of the late Agatha Christie and Isaac Asimov, that the master is retiring. And after reading this book, and hearing "Riding the Bullet," I believe him. It seems that having reached a presumably comfortable late middle-age and having had a brush with Death, that Mr. King is beginning to ponder the meaning of it all--or rather if there is a meaning.Those expecting a straight monster story will be disappointed. The titular character is more a symbol of the Mystery of Life (and dare I say it--existential angst [yech]) which the characters muse over. What is this thing? Who does it belong to? Is it Evil? Can these questions be answered? That is what this family of State Troopers (especially the Sargeant) sit on the smoking bench and talk about over ham sandwiches and iced tea. For an author who over the years has loudly denounced being pretentious and "literary" and exhalted telling a story. It's a mystery indeed that he has written a character based novel about a "Symbol" where nothing much happens as his swan-song. Oh well, to paraphrase the protagonist in "Riding the Bullet," read the book take your button and go.
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Summary: ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Review: I have been a King fan all my life, but this book left me wondering if maybe it is time for King to retire. I forced myself to read 275 pages, hoping it would get better, but i realized that i really no longer cared what happened and i put the book down, never to be picked up again. The story just keeps repeating itself, a "lightquake" takes place, something is ejected out of the trunk, no one really knows what that something is, what it's purpose is, or where it came from, and you never discover the answers to any of these questions. This book may appeal to those who haven't read King from the beginning of his career, but for this "die-hard" classic King horror fan this book put me to sleep.
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Summary: Not Your Typical King Novel
Review: I'm not sure this would ever have been published if someone other than King had written it. Mind you, that's not a bad thing. But this is not the usual King scarefest; it's one of his quieter works. There's no Major Menace, no Big Scary Something that is threatening the characters. The biggest issue is really a more ordinary one-- will a young man recover from the untimely loss of his father? There is the titular car-that-is-not-a-car that has periodically spit out otherworldly stuff, but nothing that has threatened life as we know it. It is a mystery, and one that King pointedly tells us he is not going to explain. But mostly this is a meditation about how an older generation salvages those who come after and how we live with the Big Black Something out in the shed and whether we allow its unknowable, almost random, issuance to dominate our lives, or not. It's a thoughtful work, very warm and human and skillfully structured. It's not particularly scary, but it does linger a bit on the psychic palate when it's done.
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Summary: What?
Review: What is this book about? About a third of the way through, I realized I didn't care. Its now on the shelf and I still don't care. It should be a writers job to keep us entertained at least halfway through a book, Buick 8 can't even do that...
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