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by Stephen King
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Portable Magic
Portable Magic rated it 5 years ago
Warning, this review is full of spoilers, and I didn't feel like trying to figure out where they all were and hiding them individually. So don't read if you don't want to be spoiled. I was disappointed when I read this book for the first time, not long after its publication. I was still a very sh...
Reading is my ESCAPE from Reality!
Reading is my ESCAPE from Reality! rated it 5 years ago
Audience: Adult Format: Audiobook/Owned "Thinner," the old Gypsy man with the rotting nose whispers to William Halleck as Halleck and his wife, Heidi, come out of the courthouse. - first sentence I've been listening to Stephen King books on audio recently. All of them have been re-reads and I ...
Abandoned by Booklikes
Abandoned by Booklikes rated it 6 years ago
It's weird. I think I may have read this book before, but now after finishing it this weekend, I have doubts. I maybe just watched the movie and that's where I was recalling most of my information from. I honestly don't like the Bachman books that much that Stephen King wrote. I recall "The Long Wal...
Cody's Bookshelf
Cody's Bookshelf rated it 8 years ago
Synopsis: “You can’t do anything…It’s gone too far. You understand, Halleck? Too…far.”Attorney Billy Halleck seriously enjoys living his life of upper-class excess. He’s got it all­—an expensive home in Connecticut, a loving family…and fifty extra pounds that his doctor repeatedly warns will be the ...
The Book Frog
The Book Frog rated it 11 years ago
Thinner is one of Stephen King's Richard Bachman books, the handful of books that he wrote in the late seventies to mid-eighties and published using the Bachman pseudonym. Why did the best selling author in the world publish under a pseudonym? Well, depending on what you read or what you choose to...
Book Talk
Book Talk rated it 12 years ago
I'm not exactly familiar with King's works but Thinner was an enjoyable read! Enjoyable in a sense that it provided me with the right amount of creepiness to maintain the interest but not too much to deter myself from reading it any further.As the title clearly suggests, Thinner is a story about Bil...
A Few Thoughts
A Few Thoughts rated it 13 years ago
I really liked this one. Good silly/spooky fun. I wouldn't call it scary, but I enjoyed it. It also differed just enough from the movie version to be interesting.
Booklog
Booklog rated it 13 years ago
A fun read. The Bachman stuff is super bleak, and this novel is no exception. King's usual narrative style is present though and the story unfolds with a taught clip that seems to be missing from his newer more pondering and meditative works, but there's nothing really deep here. In Thinner we have ...
Death by Book Avalanche
Death by Book Avalanche rated it 14 years ago
Great book! Very disturbing...
TheBecks
TheBecks rated it 14 years ago
I really enjoyed this book. It's dark and has a kind of bitterness, and I liked that quality a lot. But first, the thing that I thought didn't really work: Billy's starting weight of 246 lbs. Billy is 6'2, so while 246 lbs on that frame would make him overweight, it is by no means the "pig fat" obes...
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