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Lisey's Story - Stephen King

 
Description: ISBN 0340898933 / Author: Stephen King / Genre: Horror / Who would have thought that Stephen King would right another novel about a successful writer and his mysterious sources of inspiration? The inside cover says: Lisey Landon lost her husband Scott two years ago, after a ... more
Lisey's Story - Stephen King ... twenty-five-year marriage of profound, sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was a celebrated, award-winning, novelist. And a complex man. Lisey knew there was a dark place where her husband ventured to face his demons. Boo'ya Moon is what Scott called it; a realm that both terrified and healed him, that could eat him alive or give him the ideas he needed to write and live. Now it's Lisey's turn to face her husband's demons. And what begins as a widow's effort to sort through her husband's effects becomes a perilous journey into the heart of darkness.

Newest Review: ... difficult to like the book. Persevere, though, and Lisey's story brings its rewards by the bucket load. Partly, this was due ... more

 ... to my own discovery that it's a better book if you try and make the time to read longer sections at once: the plot becomes more coherent, the characters' behaviour more understandable and events slowly start to join up and make sense. However, it's still true that the book takes a fair old while to get into the meat of the plot - the parts which regular King readers will recognise as unmistakably his style. I'm not saying that the first 100 pages are irrelevant or should have been edited out - it's just th...more

sparkymarky1973
Premium Review Lisey's Story - Stephen King: Ignore the critics-King may be down but with this novel he i ... (498 words)
by sparkymarky1973 - written on 26/07/07 (Very useful, 44 readings)
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After reading the other reviews of this book (Thank god I read the novel before reading any of them) I have decided I might just be the only Stephen King fan who actually loved this book.... but then Cell got very mixed reviews too and I thought that was pretty darn neat too. This latest novel from King starts when Lisey Landon is clearing out her late husband's study some time after his death along with her slightly estranged sister, Amanda. Her husband was a very successful author and has left behind what she assumes is all manner of unpublished manuscripts and newspaper/ magazine cuttings of all his guest appeareances over the years. Gradually over the ...

SWSt
Crowned Review Lemme tell you a story... (1080 words)
by SWSt - written on 30/06/08 (Very useful, 137 readings)
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After the disappointment of Blaze, I was initially a little reluctant to return to a Stephen King story so soon. However, when I was able to pick up a copy for just 99p, I thought I might as well give it a go. The basic story sees an author's widow - Lisey Landon - trying to come to terms with her husband's death, whilst facing perils of her own, both natural and supernatural. Initially, my worst fears were confirmed. This almost 700-page tome seemed to return to the worst years of King's books - you know the ones I mean. The Tommyknockers era, when even the author admits he was so out of it on drink and prescription drugs that he didn't know what he was ...

QueenElf
Crowned Review Lisey's Story - Stephen King: Lisey's Story - Obsession or Escapism? (1634 words)
by QueenElf - written on 02/04/08 (Very useful, 131 readings)
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Lisey's Story - Obsession or Escapism? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I received this book as part of my recent birthday present from my daughter and son-in-law, who know my long-term love affair with King's books. I finished it three days ago and naturally was going to review it. Then I read the other reviews and I must admit that it knocked my confidence to even attempt to write a review. I'm in one of my depressive moods and that shakes my faith in my own writing. However, I thought about it and decided that someone has to stand up and fight in King's corner, even though it might be seen as a losing battle. King has taken some knocks lately, even I ...

 

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