Gerald's Game failed to pass the fifty page test for me. As a Stephen King fan, I was truly disappointed with this book. Boring, boring, boring!!! ( )

Stilren! ( )

As with many of King's works, I find his books that deal with real people to be far scarier and more entertaining than the books that involve supernatural (and many times silly) monsters and beings. Gerald's Game, Dolores Claiborne, The Shining, Misery, Cujo are terrifying without being ridiculous. ( )

The scariest book I have ever read, this books take place in ONE room. From the beginning, the setting is classical in it's chilliness; in the first few paragraphs you know something is amiss. Gerald and Jessie, a married couple, have come to their lake house for the weekend. It is totally secluded, and as soon as they arrive they rush to their bedroom for activities, leaving the screen door open and banging in the wind, and in the background you can hear a wild dog barking and a chainsaw running a few miles into the woods. During some confusion while trying to play a risque game of bondage, Jessie ends up hurting Gerald bad enough that he doesn't get up after falling off of the bed. This leaves her chained to the bed in handcuffs. Soon, the sun begins to set, and night closes in around her. She is completely vulnerable to all of the creepy sounds and creeks in the night, to the stray and starving dog that finds his way inside, to her own haunted and troubled thoughts and memories, and worst of all, vulnerable to the horrible thing that is hiding in the bedroom corner when she awakens from a nightmare during the first night. Is it real or imagined? Because of her emotional state throughout the book, you won't find out until the shocking and unforgettable conclusion just what or who it was that had been watching her from the shadows. ( )

Talk about all the things that could go wrong during an intimate session with husband and wife! Yikes!! Makes you want to rethink your fetishes...just in case. ( )