It is not uncommon for Stephen King to write about men with extreme anger issues. If a female author were to write a character like Norman she would be called a man-hating harpy. He is a caricature, even in the chapters written from his perspective, his thoughts consist entirely of hate and rage. No...
Stephen King once famously proclaimed himself the Big Mac and fries of literature — meaning his works are popular and enjoyable, albeit perhaps lacking in nourishment. I heartily disagree with that assessment, for the most part. Novels such as IT, Dolores Claiborne, and The Dead Zone are intricate, ...
Rose is a woman on the run from her super abusive husband. As the story goes along, the reader learns what a truly terrible person he is. He's a cop so she has to really hide. After Rose finds a painting, things take on a supernatural twist. The story has suspense, thriller, dark fantasy and hor...
Pretty standard King page-turner. I'll admit, I lost a lot of interest in the book once the romantic sub-plot with Bill became a thing. I just sort of coasted along with the story after that. Weirdly? I found Norman's PoV to be far more interesting and engaging than any other. He's just such a nas...
Now I remember why I didn't like this the first time I read it. It wears out its welcome a good 60 pages before the end. We get our denouement, and then we're made to wade through a goodly chunk of book before we can call it done. Still, Rose Madder is okay. I think what keeps this book pretty middl...
(1.5 stars) I'm so sorry that I didn't like this book. This was my first Stephen King book and I was quite disappointed, it was slow and very difficult to follow. I actually loved how it started and all the struggling that Rose has to overcome during the beggining of the book. Such a shame that it d...
After 14 years of being beaten, Rose Daniels wakes up one morning and leaves her husband — but she keeps looking over her shoulder, because Norman has the instincts of a predator. And what is the strange work of art that has Rose in a kind of spell? So, here we are at my latest Stephen King re-rea...
"Do I really have any other choice?" Rose shrugged. "Only bad ones, dear. But it's better if you want it. It will make the Turning easier." "Does it hurt? The Turning?" Rose smiled and told the first outright lie. "Not at all." Doctor Sleep - published a very short while ago, making...
This is the closest King will ever get to writing a believable female character and he's still pretty far off. Loved his descriptions of the Rose Madder painting and the quasi Greek universe it leads to.
The set-up is straightforward: one day Rose walks away from her home with nothing but her husband's ATM card, fleeing the abuse she's suffered for 14 years. He's a cop, a detective, good at his work, so we know he's going to come after her. There's gore and violence and something otherworldly and it...
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