Pet Sematary
by:
Stephen King (author)
"Sometimes dead is better...." When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true: physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son -- and now an idyllic home. As a family, they've got it all...right down to the...
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"Sometimes dead is better...." When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true: physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son -- and now an idyllic home. As a family, they've got it all...right down to the friendly cat. But the nearby woods hide a blood-chilling truth -- more terrifying than death itself...and hideously more powerful.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780743412278 (0743412273)
ASIN: B0073644WO
Publish date: 2001-02-01
Publisher: Pocket Books
Pages no: 576
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.