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A truly dark romance that is thrilling from beginning to end. I've read this book more times than I can count and will probably read it over that many times more. I also highly recommend listening to the audiobook. Mare Winningham's voice is just perfect for reading this story out loud. (  ) Bcushman | Jun 17, 2013 |  This book was a long time in the reading(listening). It was fairly depressing from beginning to end, with the only bright spots being the descriptions of daytime Boo'ya Moon and the Pool. Otherwise, the lives of Scott, Lisey, her sisters, and his family were just gloom on top of gloom. It was very much a story about how to cope with gloom and darkness in our lives, and I'm okay with that, I'm just going to need to move on to something much more cheery. At some point in the middle of the story, Dustin commented that there's really "no editor in the world who can tell Steven King what to do, anymore, is there?" and I agreed with him. Stretches of the story seemed to drag on and on, full of needless or repetitive detail. This became funny when, in the author's note, King soulfully protests against this accusation, nearly word-for-word. So if his first draft got as much editing as he claims, I'm profoundly grateful to his editor and hope she keeps up the good work. :p PS: My 2 stars truly do mean "it was okay." I feel very "meh" about it in the end. (  ) Snukes | Jun 14, 2013 | Replace "Booya" with just plain "boo". DellaWanna | Jun 7, 2013 | It took me a while to get into this book but once I did I was hooked. (  ) Marlene-NL | Apr 12, 2013 | This book was just not interesting. I made it maybe 150 pages and found myself bored and I couldn't care less about the characters. Recent Stephen King novels have had that problem. I am hopeful that Duma Key is better. walterqchocobo | Apr 8, 2013 | no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0743289412, Hardcover)Since his first novel was published in 1974, Stephen King has stretched the boundaries of the written word, not only bringing horror to new heights, but trying his hand at nearly every possible genre, including children's books, graphic novels, serial novels, literary fiction, nonfiction, westerns, fantasy, and even e-books (remember The Plant?). With Lisey's Story, once again King is trying something different. Lisey's Story is as much a romance as it is a supernatural thriller--but don't let us convince you. Who better to tell readers if King has written a romantic thriller than Nora Roberts? We asked Nora to read Lisey's Story and give us her take. Check out her review below. --Daphne Durham Guest Reviewer: Nora Roberts But with Lisey's Story, King has accomplished one more feat. He broke my heart. Lisey's Story is, at its core, a love story--heart-wrenching, passionate, terrifying and tender. It is the multi-layered and expertly crafted tale of a twenty-five year marriage, and a widow's journey through grief, through discovery and--this is King, after all--through a nightmare scape of the ordinary and extraordinary. Through Lisey's mind and heart, the reader is pulled into the intimacies of her marriage to bestselling novelist Scott Landon, and through her we come to know this complicated, troubled and heroic man. Two years after his death, Lisey sorts through her husband's papers and her own shrouded memories. Following the clues Scott left her and her own instincts, she embarks on a journey that risks both her life and her sanity. She will face Scott's demons as well as her own, traveling into the past and into Boo'ya Moon, the seductive and terrifying world he'd shown her. There lives the power to heal, and the power to destroy. Lisey Landon is a richly wrought character of charm and complexity, of realized inner strength and redoubtable humor. As the central figure she drives the story, and the story is so vividly textured, the reader will draw in the perfumed air of Boo'ya Moon, will see the sunlight flood through the windows of the Scott's studio--or the night press against them. Her voice will be clear in your ear as you experience the fear and the wonder. If your heart doesn't hitch at the demons she faces in this world and the other, if it doesn't thrill at her courage and endurance, you're going to need to check with a cardiologist, first chance. Lisey's Story is bright and brilliant. It's dark and desperate. While I'll always consider The Shining, my first ride on King's wild Tilt-A-Whirl, a gorgeous, bloody jewel, I found, on this latest ride, a treasure box heaped with dazzling gems. A few of them have sharp, hungry teeth. --Nora Roberts (retrieved from Amazon Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:09:41 -0400) Two years after losing her husband of twenty-five years, Lisey looks back at the sometimes frightening intimacy that marked their marriage, her husbands successes as an award-winning novelist, and his secretive nature that established Liseys supernatural belief systems, on which she eventually comes to depend for survival.… (more) |
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