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gayga (2127 KP) rated The Dead Zone in Books

Dec 11, 2017  
The Dead Zone
The Dead Zone
Stephen King | 1979 | Horror, Science Fiction/Fantasy
9
8.0 (26 Ratings)
Book Rating
The ending is great (0 more)
A bit long winded compared to the (0 more)
Another awesome Stephen King book
I enjoy this book because even though the whole premise of someone who wakes up after being in a coma and finds they are psychic is a bit far fetched.

I found that the bits about Johnny and his mum were a bit long winded compared to the film but in general I thought it was a great film.


Possibly I should have read the book first as the differences between the two did jar a bit. Overall the majority of the film was true to the novel.
  
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Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated The Chalk Man in Books

Mar 2, 2018  
The Chalk Man
The Chalk Man
C.J. Tudor | 2018 | Thriller
7
7.7 (11 Ratings)
Book Rating
Unnerving thriller with lots of different threads
While elements of this psychological thriller seem far-fetched, there's something ghoulish and almost Stephen King-like in its approach.

Following the narrative of Ed, the teacher recounts his childhood with his friends and the time they found the dismembered body of a young woman. In the meantime, chalk drawings keep appearing, and take a life of their own.

While the ending is startling and worth listening to the finish, at times the back and forth narrative from past to future becomes convoluted and can be hard to keep track, let alone concentrate. A good thriller, but with a lot of loose ends.
  
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Jena (9 KP) rated Coming Home (The Toki-Girl and the Sparrow-Boy #1) in Books

Oct 20, 2019 (Updated Oct 20, 2019)  
Coming Home (The Toki-Girl and the Sparrow-Boy #1)
Coming Home (The Toki-Girl and the Sparrow-Boy #1)
Claire Youmans | 2019 | Science Fiction/Fantasy
9
9.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
The feelings the author manages to invoke for the characters is brilliantly done without being over worded. The author portrays a great respect for the country and time period that many do not. (0 more)
The switching of locations can be a little confusing. (0 more)
Amazing details
The book was given to me free by Voracious Readers Only and Claire Youmans. I genuinely enjoyed the book, it was different to my usual genre of books generally of the Stephen King and Dan Browns like.
But Claire Youmans portrayal of the characters drew me in so I needed to know what happened to Azuki and Shota in the end
  
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Phoebe Robinson recommended On Writing in Books (curated)

 
On Writing
On Writing
Stephen King | 2012 | Biography
9.2 (23 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"I don’t really read Stephen King—I just can’t read scary things because it stays with me too long—but I truly liked his memoir of the craft of writing. It’s the most accurate depiction of what writing is like and it’s not necessarily glamorous the way we’ve seen it on “Sex and the City,” where you sit down and bang out an article in 30 minutes. He’s good at mining his personal life and letting that inspire his creativity. That’s the ideal way to go about writing, to be informed by your life and use it in a way that can entertain other people."

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Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated The Dreams In The Witch House in Books

Jan 16, 2021  
The Dreams In The Witch House
The Dreams In The Witch House
H.P. Lovecraft | 2021 | Fiction & Poetry
7
7.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
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The Dreams in the Witch House
By H.P. Lovecraft

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Plagued by insane nightmare visions, Walter Gilman seeks help in MiskatonicUniversity's infamous library of forbidden books, where, in the pages of Abdul Alhazred's dreaded Necronomicon, he finds terrible hints that seem to connect his own studies in advanced mathematics with the fantastic legends of elder magic. "The Dreams in the Witch House," gathered together here with more than twenty other tales of terror, exemplifies H. P. Lovecraft's primacy among twentieth-century American horror writers. greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale. (Stephen King)