Pet Sematary
by:
Stephen King (author)
Dr Louis Creed is uneasy as he drives his family, wife Rachel, children Eileen and Gage, and cat to their new home, a rambling white-frame house on the outskirts of Ludlow, New England. The children are tearful, Rachel is short-tempered. But the place is just perfect and the family meets Jud...
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Dr Louis Creed is uneasy as he drives his family, wife Rachel, children Eileen and Gage, and cat to their new home, a rambling white-frame house on the outskirts of Ludlow, New England. The children are tearful, Rachel is short-tempered. But the place is just perfect and the family meets Jud Crandall, an old and wily neighbour. He takes them exploring and shows them the Pet Sematary, where local children have buried their pets for generations. Only Eileen is slightly disgruntled. After all, her beloved cat is going to live for ever...
źródło opisu: Book Club Associates, 1984
źródło okładki: zdjęcie autorskie
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Format: papier
Publish date: 1984 (data przybliżona)
Publisher: Book Club Associates
Pages no: 367
Edition language: English
Series: KOLEKCJA MISTRZA GROZY (#3)
Having recently viewed the new 2019 movie Pet Sematary I was eager to have a reread of the Stephen King classic. Strange to say that the author is probably viewed more of a horror writer, but I beg to disagree. His characters are very troubled and the people that he writes about are human just like...
Stephen King's legacy will be vast, I have no doubt. We'll still read him hundreds of years from now, just as we have with Poe and Dickens and many others. Of all his master works, however, I take the somewhat unpopular stance that Pet Sematary is his magnum opus. Re-reading it now only confirms thi...
Audience: Adult Format: Audiobook Library Copy Louis Creed, who had lost his father at three and who had never known a grandfather, never expected to find a father as he entered his middle age, but that was exactly what happened..." - beginning of first sentence The first sentence sounds so ...
Wow. So this is marked as a favorite, I have only read this one twice. It's a lot to sit through. At times you hope there is going to be a break or some sort of happy ending. Instead we get a book about consequences and things perhaps set in motion by something dark that wanted to ruin a happy famil...
Read for "In the Dark, Dark Woods:" I've reviewed this novel already, and that review can be read here. My thoughts haven't changed much, though Pet Sematary was more effective on me during this reread than ever before.