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Lisey's Story - Community Reviews back

by Mare Winningham, Stephen King
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The Girl who Reads
The Girl who Reads rated it 12 years ago
One of the best King books till date!
tamabam
tamabam rated it 12 years ago
Kealan Patrick Burke
Kealan Patrick Burke rated it 12 years ago
While I struggled a bit to get into and enjoy this one, it ended up being a lot better than I expected, or had been led to believe by the legion of King fans who have little good to say about it. I found it, in the end, to be an interesting exploration of love and particularly marriage, an appealing...
hystericalcheezit
hystericalcheezit rated it 13 years ago
This book fucking drove me crazy. I think Stephen King wrote this book especially just to piss me off. Seriously. I loved it, but I got so attached to Scott, and he's fucking DEAD, and it just kills me. And the last part, when they're talking about how he died, and it's because he ate fruit after su...
Unabridged Chick
Unabridged Chick rated it 13 years ago
I spent my teenage years glutting myself on '70s-era Stephen King and burned out, vowing never to give him another minute of my time. Then I married a devoted Stephen King fan who has pestered me to read one of her favorites since forever. Upon signing up for the R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril VI readi...
Amadan na Briona
Amadan na Briona rated it 13 years ago
Lisey's Story is half horror story, half semi-autobiographical ode to King's wife. Lisey's deceased husband, a former best-selling novelist named Scott Landon, is certainly not Stephen King, but those familiar with King can see a lot of him in Landon.Two years after Landon's death, Lisey finds herse...
Death by Book Avalanche
Death by Book Avalanche rated it 14 years ago
Read this a while ago...definitely not the best Stephen King book out there but it was ok. It was a bit too repetitive in parts.
Ana V.
Ana V. rated it 14 years ago
oh, King, King, King! You have done it, once again! I was so scared while reading, I couldn't believe it! I think that a horror/paranormal story should have in it a very powerful and outstanding force of evil in it, and this is surely what happened in "Lisey's Story". The evil .. thing.. was just s...
Addicted to Book Crack
Addicted to Book Crack rated it 14 years ago
"Lisey's Story is the story of Lisey (pronounced LEE-see) Landon, who is the widow of a famous and wildly successful novelist, Scott Landon. The book tells two stories--Lisey's story in the present, and the story of her dead husband's life, as remembered by Lisey during the course of the novel.It ha...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 14 years ago
Narrator.............: Mare Winninghamblurb - Lisey Debusher Landon lost her husband Scott two years ago, after a twenty-five year marriage of the most profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was an award-winning, bestselling novelist and a very complicated man. Early in their relationshi...
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