Pet Sematary - a true classic (Pet Sematary - Stephen King)

Member Name: Cooldog666

Product:	Pet Sematary - Stephen King
Date:	12/12/05 (156 review reads)
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Advantages: Good detailed Plot, Gripping in places, can read or watch again and again... a true classic

Disadvantages: After watching the film version before reading book, i unfortunately found it predictable

Ok, so with this i watched the film version first, the only one of Stephen Kings that i did, and i was then hooked on his books and films.

After moving from Chicago to Maine, the Creed family meet an old man who shows them the childrens local animal graveyard, this was the final resting place of the old man's dog "Spot".

About 50 years earlier, Jud Crandall (the old man) buried his dog in the old indian burial ground, which was claimed to be "sour" land.

It all gets going when Church, the cat gets run over by one of the trucks that speed along in between the Creed and Crandall households whilst the little girl, Ellie was visiting her grandparents. Judd shows Louis Creed the place of "sour" ground, and told louis to "bury his own". This i feel is to make a statement of responsibility for what you create as a result.

Church comes home, the following morning, and Louis is shocked to find a dead mouse land in his bath.

A cyclist called Victor Pascow is killed, and dies in the surgery where Louis worked as a doctor, then Gage, the little boy dies by being hit by a Truck whilst chasing a kite into the road.

Louis has a fight with his father-in-law at Gages funeral, which certainly does add tension and depth to a sad storyline.

Louis decides to bury Gage in the Burial Ground, even though at this point Victor Pascow is haunting him, to try and warn him of the dangers, and that the ground is "sour". Louis takes no notice and digs up Gage and buries him...

Gage comes back looking very different, and starts causing mayhem with his fathers scalpel, first by stabbing his mother, Rachel. In the end Louis injects Church to kill him, and enters the house to find his friend Judd Crandall who gets sliced at the ankle to knock him over, then his mouth, then stabbed repeatedly by a 3 year old... a very graphic part of this book.

In the end he injects Gage, but takes his wife to the Burial Ground... the book and film end slightly differently but basically Louis Creed disappears.

i know this was a long review, but i enjoyed the book so much i had to point out as much as i could to share with you, thankyou for reading!!!

Summary: An excellent book, with a typical King cameo performance in the film, he always picks his own parts