From a Buick 8
by:
Stephen King (author)
WANT TO GO FOR A RIDE...? In a secret shed behind the barracks of the Pennsylvania State Police, Troop D, there's a cherry Buick Roadmaster no one has touched in years -- because there's more power under the hood than anyone can handle....
WANT TO GO FOR A RIDE...? In a secret shed behind the barracks of the Pennsylvania State Police, Troop D, there's a cherry Buick Roadmaster no one has touched in years -- because there's more power under the hood than anyone can handle....
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780743417686 (0743417682)
ASIN: 743417682
Publish date: December 1st 2003
Publisher: Pocket Books
Pages no: 496
Edition language: English
Series: KOLEKCJA MISTRZA GROZY (#8)
An einer Tankstelle in Pennsylvania. Ein Buick fährt an die Zapfsäule, der Fahrer - ganz in Schwarz - verschwindet, und die State Trooper bleiben mit einem gefährlichen Mysterium zurück ... "Der Buick" ist ein ungewöhnlicher Horror-Roman von Stephen King, dem es zwar nicht an schriftstellerischem Kö...
It does OK. There are some excellent passages on the relationship of the old with the young, and curiosity, and trying to find meaning to things that have no answers. And eldritch horror galore. Not one of those "Help me, I can't stop reading" page-turners that sometimes King pops on you, though...
There are many problems with this book, but they can all be summed up with a quote from the actual text:From page 297 of the hardcover, third paragraph, starting fourth sentence in: But--this is important--tell me a story, one that has a beginning and a middle and an end where everything is explaine...
There was something eerily familiar about the description of the Buick Roadmaster in this book that, at first, I just couldn't quite put my finger on. I just knew I'd read something about classic American cars that looked almost-but-not-quite-the-real-deal in a King book before.Then it hit me: Can-T...