Pet Sematary (BBC Radio Presents)

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Summary: A great, bizarre horror story
Review: "Pet Sematary" is one of my favorite Stephen King books simply because of how weird it is. It's the scariest one he's written, along with "'Salem's Lot." This one is about a nice little family who moves out to a rural area in Maine. The father is a doctor, the mother a housewife, and they have two little kids and a cat named Winston Churchill. They go walking with their new neighbor, and discover an animal graveyard in the woods behind their house. But further in the woods, beyond the "Pet Sematary," is an ancient Indidan burial ground which supposedly raises who or whatever is buried there back from the dead, but they come back a bit more evil than they were in their past life. This is one of the best King books because it is very bizarre, but is not for a reader with a weak stomach. If you want a scary, gruesome book with a twisted plot, than this is the one to get.

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Summary: Beyond the Cemetery
Review: A Review by Kevin

Louis Creed, his wife Rachel, and kids Ellie and Gage move to Ludlow Maine. They have a neighbor named Jud who becomes a very good family friend. One day he takes the Creeds to the pet cemetery in the woods behind their house. Jud tells them many stories about the history of the cemetery. During Thanksgiving Rachel, Ellie, and Gage fly to Chicago to meet her parents. While they are away Ellie's beloved cat Church is struck dead. Jud leads Louis to an ancient burial ground beyond the pet cemetery. There Jud tells Louis to bury the cat. That is when the troubles begin.

Stephen King brought the book to life with his Bone chilling descriptions. The way he described the smell of the cat and the looks of the dying college student were excellent. The story itself was excellent but dark. It is gruesome to think of dead bodies raising from the grave, and stealing bodies from a cemetery. The book was a little disturbing. The only problem with The Pet Sematary was the fact that it started out slow. The first seventy-five pages were just of the family settling in their new home and becoming friends with Jud. Even though the book started a little slow it was still an excellent read.

I highly recommend people to read The Pet Sematary. The story was colored with descriptions. This was my first Stephen King book and I loved it. If you haven't read The Pet Sematary yet, read it.

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Summary: For me - this is the scariest book ever written
Review: Different people have different ideas about what is "funny" - same with "scary". If snakes or spiders or great-white sharks scare the peedoodle out of you, then your reaction to a story about them might be different than it might be for, say The Crocodile Hunter.

Stephen King is prolific beyond belief. He is sometimes redundant. In Pet Sematary he wrote a story so compelling that I literally could not put it down, yet at the same time so horrifying that I practically screamed at myself NOT TO TURN THE NEXT PAGE!!!!

King knows a thing or two about humans and human relationships, and in Pet Sematary he creates a realistic family that you care about.... then he does absolutely TERRIFYING things to them. Without giving anything away - I have to say that one of the reasons that this book affected me so deeply is that I had recently become a Dad back when this book first was released, and this book hones in on a new parent's worst nightmares, then just gets worse and worse and worse.

If you like being scared by a book, and you can't think of anything worse than seeing your child killed - this book might hit you like it hit me. I repeat: This is the scariest novel I have ever read.

As an aside: The "scariest book ever" was turned into a fairly cheesy movie. I give the book a solid 5 stars, but wouldn't rate the film any higher than 2 or 3. Another aside: My personal choice for "scariest movie" is "The Exorcist", while I found the novel of "The Exorcist" fairly bland and not paced well enough to scare me.

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Summary: Don't bury "Pet Sematary" among your other books!
Review: I definately think that Stephen King's "Pet Sematary" is among his best works! Although the movie version of "Pet Sematary" was one of my favorite movies as a kid, it is -as expected of a Stephen King novel/screenplay-miles away from being comparable to the book. The grief and deep personalities of the characters are simply shocking. One unforgettable aspect of "Pet Sematary" is it's depressing, gradual downward-spiral. That's the thing that keeps you saying," I can't possibly get any worse!" while you are reading it, and keeps you thinking, "What would've happened if THIS didn't occur?" after you've read it. Anyone who has read this book can attest to that. Even though Stephen King had said in the book a few times that "something" was causing the events to happen in their precise manner,I always wonder what may have become of the Creed family- as well as Church and Jud- if the cards had fallen differently. Say, what would the outcome have been if Louis chose Derry over Ludlow, or even if Victor Pascow had chosen another day to go jogging? Well I guess we all know what would have happened if things would have been different-it wouldn't be a Stephen King book!

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Summary: One of the best horror novels ever written.
Review: I've read Pet Sematary three times, and, being an avid Stephen King fan I am apt to say this is definitely his scariest book (followed close by The Shining). By making us care with very real characters, King makes us sad and horrified by the sense of unavoidable destruction of an happy, all-american family. We can't help but read while the characters make very unwise, yet very understandable choices.
Stephen King delivers in Pet Sematary a stunning performance, making this a very fast-paced story with no boring parts. Like in The Shining there is no conventional bad guy, but an evil place with evil purposes that corrupts people, like the poor Gage Creed, making the horror much more psichological than physical. So this is most definitely a must buy to all people looking for a great horror novel- you won't be disappointed!

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Summary: Now what will he do.....
Review: Pet Sematary is an extremely descriptive book; it plays every scene that needs detail with the most that anyone's imagination could offer. King explains everything in small detail, but leaves just enough for your imagination to take over. He is a wonderful writer and can ensnare you into his writing within the first chapter. Though I wouldn't recommend this book for those that are faint of heart.
Louis Creed, doctor, husband, and father, moves to a new house. His first day there he has already met his neighbor and friend Jud. Jud takes them up a winding path up to the pet sematary and shows them some of the pet's gravestones. Upon returning from the sematary his daughter Ellie is having diificulties dealing with death. She doesn't want Church, their cat, to die. He explains to her that it's a natural part of life and happens to everyone at some point. Also adding that Church had quite a while in front of him, Louis didn't know how wrong he was. While Ellie, Gage(his son), and Rachel(his wife) were in Chicago fof Thanksgiving, Chruch got ran over. Jud took Louis to a sacred burial ground to bury the cat. The next day the cat returned, alive, but he isn't quite himself. Church become tipsy and seems to have lost his sense of gracefulness. He seems...dead. Now what will Louis choose when his 2 year old son, Gage, is killed?

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Summary: way too much for the issue of death
Review: This is one heck of a Stephen King book...This is my first Stephen King novel and I absolutely love it.

Dr. Louis Creed with his wife Rachel, daughter Ellie, son Gage & their cat Church, moved from Chicago to Ludlow...Everything seemed to be perfect, from their friendly neighbors, (old guy Jud Crandall and his wife Norma) to Louis' job...Until one day, the family discovers the Pet Sematary, wherein Jud told them that people buried their pets in that place...Ellie, who was barely 6, learned and denied the tragic issue of death...She realized that her most valuable posession, her cat Church, would also die...This issue came to its toll between Louis and Rachel...But it didn't stop there...Later on, Louis would terribly learn about the true tale of Pet Sematary- that if you bury the dead, it could come back to life.

This book is something you won't put it down...You will be eager to know what is the real score behind the Pet Sematary and how will it (horrifyingly) affect the Creed family..This book wasn't 100% scary at all- except for the first parts and the final chapters of the book, which were pretty creepy...And yes, from what I have read in "Pet Sematary", I'm sure I'm gonna start a Stephen King collection.