Desperation - Stephen King Reviews

I bought the hefty-looking Desperation from a market stall recently, knowing that the least I would get for my 95p would be a decent pennies-to-pages ratio. Having now compiled more or less all of Stephen King’s novels, I’d still only managed to read about a third of them (though not through lack of trying!) and on this occasion made the naughty ...

The copy I'm reviewing is a hardback copy priced £16.99 published in 1996, should be out in paperback for considerably less now. I've had this book since it was first released eight years ago, I have tried to read it twice before but both times gave up at about the same part. This time I'm on a bit of a ...

This is a terrifying read from the master of horror, Stephen King. It's a very fast paced page turner. This story begins with a couple driving through the Nevada desert on their way home to New York. Unfortunately for them, they are soon to be sidetracked to a desolate albeit forgotten little town named DESPERATION. Their deviation ...

Okay, okay...i know i said i was a huge fan of King and that i like all his books, but this one take the biscuit, really. Not exactly the best one he's ever written anyway...no prize winner certainly... Desperation in troduces us to a few different people, every one of them from very different backgrounds, but each having a shared ...

I picked up Desperation, by Stephen King in search of some release from exam stress....but unfortunately for my exams I found it very hard to put down. The title of the book refers to a lonely Nevada town, where strange things have begun to seep from an old mine shaft with a horrible history. The characters are introduced one by ...

87;hether you like this novel or not, whether you like King or not, you do have to admire the brilliance of the people who give Stephen King marketing advice. ?Desperation? was released in conjunction with Richard Bachman?s (a name long known to be Stephen King?s pseudonym) ?The Regulators?. Resurrecting ...

This is definitely one of my favourite novels, I finished it in four days simply because it sucked me in and wouldn't let go! The story generally goes like so; One by one, three groups of people get taken off Highway 50 in the middle of the Nevada desert by a supposedly insane cop. They are promptly taken to a desolate Desperation and ...

Without a shadow of a doubt Stephen King (also known as Richard Bachman) is, or are, my all time favourite authors. Most of his books score a perfect 10 from me, however from time to time he slips to a mere 9 and on the odd occasion to a mediocre 8. Desperation is a perfect 10. The very first page grabs your attention ...

Desperation is Kings best novel since Tommyknockers in my mind and if it wasn’t for his incessant character development I would probably read all his stuff. Sometimes it works but he throws it in as the tension is building, aghhhhhh.\ This one is set in the hot and scorched deserts of Nevada where in the small town of Desperation ...

I have long been a fan of Stephen Kings novels, reading the vast majority of his early works, including The Stand, Delores Claiborne, Misery and The Tommyknockers. I fell away from his more recent works as I felt that they were not his best works, these include Gerald’s Game and The girl who loved Tom Gordon. However the King ...

Another Bestseller by the master of horror and terror, Stephen King. This is a book of epic proportions, 720 pages! Released along side with The Regulators, both books appear to compliment each other with the theme of God vs Evil, Desperation being set in the desert and the Regulators has a suburban setting. Plot: Desperation is an old ...

Okay, I am a Stephen King nut and I thought this was one of his best books ever! And like all of his novels, they are keen and intelligent and a bit twisted. This book took me by surprise a lot even knowing Kings writing style quite well. It always amazes me how he can be so ingenious to scare his fans, even though we know what lurks around each ...

Desperation is, quite simply, fantastic. At 720 pages long, its not a quick read, but is just amazingly good. Some horror books and films are just very unrealistic, and the way they're written is so cheap and tacky you're more likedly to laugh at it than to cry (I Know What You Did Last Summer is a good example). Desperation is ...

This is a novel of sacred horror (King's first), and explicitly so. Like the second panel of a diptych, Desperation employs, with one major exception, the same characters as The Regulators, and the same source of horror: an evil force named Tak. (The novels aren't sequential, however; people who die in one can live, then die, in ...

I have to admit that I had to read this book twice. The first time I was completely confused and a tad disappointed by it. The second time I caught on to the story and was very impressed. This is one of those King stories where it takes you a while to figure out whether it is a horror or a chiller, but by about about a third of the way ...

Desperaration, this is the most scariest Steven King I have read, quite a thick book and took me a while to get through it. About a group of people who through fate are thrown together and this begins their fight to overcome one of the most evil presences there is. Lead by a special boy David who they have to put their trust in, ...

We follow a small group thrown of people thrown together by chance who have to combat the darkest evil force they could have ever imagined - the unformed. Substitute ‘person’ for ‘small group’ and that just about describes any SK novel! However what makes SK so compelling is the imaginative writing, the way the story ...