» Duma Key: A Novel
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Manufacturer: Scribner
Duma Key: A Novel Details
Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781416552512
ISBN: 1416552510
Label: Scribner
Manufacturer: Scribner
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 592
Publication Date: 2008-01-22
Publisher: Scribner
Studio: Scribner
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Duma Key: A Novel Reviews
Customer Rating:Summary: The good old King is back, LONG LIVE THE KING !
Comment: This is the Stephen King that I grew up with and couldn't get enough of. And he's better than ever.
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Summary: 2/3 of the way to being a fine novel
Comment: Being a fan of King's early novels (The Shining, The Stand, The Dead Zone) through the Green Mile (which I read in serial form), I enjoy his writing. The first 2/3 of this book are a demonstration of everything that is right about King's writing. He writes with the now familiar modern references (to music, culture, etc), interesting and well-developed characters and solid pacing. However, at about this point in the book, when things need to begin to tie together, it (he?) loses me altogether. The plot, the writing, the "horror" and the characters all take a nose-dive. I won't go into a lot of details and include spoilers. Suffice to say that the supernatural and ghostly villains just don't "fit" after the excellent development of Edgar, Wireman, Jack et al and their relationships with Duma Key and each other. A tremendous disappointment with what could have and should have been a fine novel.
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Summary: One of his best!!!
Comment: A great read, one of my favorites by the king of horror. i read it in 3 days which for me is an amazing feat.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good King Good
Comment: Duma Key - All of the characters are interesting, I wanted to meet them in person because they become so real.
The story at times seemed wordy but a slow atmosphere is sometimes what is needed and it kept me interested in a hard to put the book down way until the very end and then I wanted more.
Duma Key - experience the read
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Summary: A good long book
Comment:
There are a lot of ghosts and goblins toward the end, but the very end is quiet, understated. Not a bad job. The first hundred pages are extremely good, and I'm sure the next five hundred would be a treat for a horror fan. I'm not one, really, but I thought the story ticked along quite well anyhow, with lots of interesting observations about painting and pain, gaining and losing. He's a good solid writer who's been through a lot, and puts it down honestly.
Like most of his books, it's way too long for my taste. But that's what makes horse races. I'm glad I read it.
Joe Haldeman
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BUT ALSO A SLOT FOR BLACKNESS TO POUR THROUGH...
A terrible accident takes Edgar Freemantle's right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. When his marriage suddenly ends, Edgar begins to wish he hadn't survived his injuries. He wants out. His psychologist suggests a new life distant from the Twin Cities, along with something else:
"I used to sketch."
"Take it up again. You need hedges...hedges against the night."
Edgar leaves for Duma Key, an eerily undeveloped splinter of the Florida coast. The sun setting into the Gulf of Mexico calls out to him, and Edgar draws. Once he meets Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick old woman with roots tangled deep in Duma Key, Edgar begins to paint, sometimes feverishly; many of his paintings have a power that cannot be controlled. When Elizabeth's past unfolds and the ghosts of her childhood begin to appear, the damage of which they are capable is truly devastating.
The tenacity of love, the perils of creativity, the mysteries of memory and the nature of the supernatural -- Stephen King gives us a novel as fascinating as it is gripping and terrifying.