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by Stephen King
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Barbara's Booky Blog
Barbara's Booky Blog rated it 13 years ago
This book reminded me of why I stopped reading Stephen King's books. They are monotonous, tedious, and repetitive. The story is told from a third person point of view (or many POVs as it turns out). The cops of Troop D are retelling the 20 year history of the buick in shed B to Ned, one of the de...
tracehermanek
tracehermanek rated it 13 years ago
This book is King's worst. I'm only forging through it because I have read 46 King books and I would like to finish them all.
elisas8
elisas8 rated it 15 years ago
so i'm super-partial to stephen king and have pretty high expectations from him. this is not one of his better stories, until maybe the last quarter or thereabouts. don't be fooled about the car - it's nothing like christine (and not nearly as good, in my recollection), but this isn't just about a...
Marvin's Bookish Blog
Marvin's Bookish Blog rated it 15 years ago
I put off reading this novel because of my dislike for King's Christine which along with Cujo and The Cell ranks as my least favorite King novels. The good thing is that the author's Buick 8 is nothing like Christine. From a Buick 8 is a more introverted work in the style of The Green Mile or Hearts...
altheaann
altheaann rated it 16 years ago
One of the better novels I've read by him. Horror and aliens mix in King's typical small-town scenario.
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