Duma Key didn't impress me very much. I just wanted to write this tiny review to remind myself why I keep giving 3 stars to 'meh' Stephen King books. It's just such comfy writing! Even in stories that I don't enjoy so much, such as this one, Rose Madder and The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, the writing...
It's been a few weeks since I completed Duma Key and I can't say the wait improved my opinion of it. It's a good King novel but, frankly, I can't remember much of it already. If all I can say is it is "good" then it's not necessarily a memorable King novel. Good character development, some real haun...
This is 5-star, fantastic read from Stephen King, whom I had not read for at least two decades, and what a welcome back this has been! Wow! The story is about a building contractor who after a debilitating accident, begins life anew as an artist. But his works are far from benign. Artistic and creat...
I almost gave it 4 stars... so, call it 3 1/2?There were a couple of points I wanted to mention:- the main character painted with oils, but there was never mention of how long it takes oils to dry. it was written to sound like the painting would be done, then ready to cover with a sheet in the morn...
When Edgar Freemantle loses an arm in an industrial accident and his marriage breaks down he decides to move to Duma Key in Florida to convalesce. He makes some new friends (the only neighbour Elizabeth Eastlake and her carer/lawyer Wireman), slowly heals (physically and mentally) and starts paintin...
It sounds cruel to say this, but I kind of miss the old coke-snorting alcoholic who wrote Cujo and The Shining and The Dead Zone and Misery and a lot of those scary-ass short stories in Skeleton Crew and Night Shift, et al. That doesn't mean I'm not glad that Stephen King sobered up and no doubt ext...
I’ve always been a coward when it comes to reading Stephen King. Seeing his name on a book cover automatically makes me turn around and run away. It’s nothing personal against King. It’s just that I tend to shun anything with horror…from movies to haunted houses to books. King being “The King of Hor...
Aaaaaaaand Stephen King manages to do it right one more time! Not like he's been doing it for the last 30 years an more, no, no. Though it's a bit different from his other books and it has, at some points, some clichee in it, it's still really good! Of course, after years of reading his books and wa...
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