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From a Buick 8 by Stephen King - 2 stars
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Sep 25, 2017 12:58PM
Sad to say, this is one of the most boring books I've read lately. It's the fourth book I read by Stephen King, and I was definitely expecting more. I loved The Stand and The Shining, while I didn't much care for Carrie, but that's probably just because I was too young when I read it. This book was recommended to me by a regular reader of my blog, so I thought it would be good, since the reader was supposed to know my tastes by then. Nope. I didn't find it full of horror and I didn't find it suspensful. The last 50 pages or so weren't bad, quite thrilling in fact, but that's certainly not enough to make up for the first 300. I thought this might have read better as a short story of no more than 100 pages. I found it incredibly repetitive and wordy. The same kind of stuff keeps happening throughout the novel - now, I understand that the Buick is a strange object, not really a car at all but rather something like a door to another dimension. That's all right. But I didn't need for that to be repeated time and time again. I didn't need to see the same (or at least, similar) things happen again and again. That's just plain boring. This novel was just not for me, but this doesn't mean I won't keep reading King's books.
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I recommend any of the following: IT, Needful Things, Pet Semetery, Dr. Sleep or Insomnia. They are all scary and good (in my opinion). Hope you enjoy!
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