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From a Buick 8 - Stephen King
From a Buick 8
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The state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret in Shed B out back of the barracks ever since 1979, when Troopers Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox answered a call from a gas station just down the road and came back with an abandoned Buick Roadmaster. Curt Wilcox knew old... show more
The state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret in Shed B out back of the barracks ever since 1979, when Troopers Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox answered a call from a gas station just down the road and came back with an abandoned Buick Roadmaster. Curt Wilcox knew old cars, and he knew immediately that this one was...wrong, just wrong. A few hours later, when Rafferty vanished, Wilcox and his fellow troopers knew the car was worse than dangerous. Curt's avid curiosity took the lead, and they investigated as best they could, as much as they dared. Over the years, the troop absorbed the mystery as part of the background to their work, the Buick 8 sitting out there like a still-life painting that breathes -- inhaling a little bit of this world, exhaling a little bit of what world it came from. In the fall of 2001, a few months after Curt Wilcox is killed in a gruesome auto accident, his eightee-year-old boy, Ned, starts coming by the barracks. Sandy Dearborn, Sergeant Commanding, knows it's the boy's way of holding onto his father, and Ned is allowed to become part of the Troop D family. One day he looks in the window of Shed B and discovers family secret. Like his father, Ned wants answers... From a Buick 8 is an audiobook about our fascination with deadly things, about our insistence on answers when there are none, about terror and courage in the face of the unknowable.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9781416524311 (1416524312)
Publisher: Pocket Books
Pages no: 487
Edition language: English
Series: KOLEKCJA MISTRZA GROZY (#8)
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NiWa
NiWa rated it
3.0 Schmählicher Garagen-Horror
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...
The better to see you, my dear
The better to see you, my dear rated it
3.0 Unknowables
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...
Aprille Legacy
Aprille Legacy rated it
4.0 From a Buick 8
Fantastically creepy.
Lornographic Material
Lornographic Material rated it
2.0 From a Buick 8 Review
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...
asandwich
asandwich rated it
4.0 From a Buick 8
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...
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