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Advantages: Great action
Disadvantages: Could make you paranoid

I first read this novel about four years ago and remembered that I could not put it down, so when I was clearing out books to sell on Ebay I thought I’d read it again as I could not remember the exact ending. *THE STORYLINE* The novel is centred on the main character, Spencer Grant, and his adorable dog, Rocky. Grant is a loner and from the first chapter there are clues to his obvious torment of things in his past. A chance encounter with a waitress ...
...hope of a new life, but all is shattered when on his return visit to her, he finds she has fled. Curiosity leads him deep into her world, with false names and a life on the run, although who she is running from is unclear to him. He endeavours to find this mysterious woman. Eventually, he learns she is being chased by an unknown agency for the information she possesses, Grant knows he must help her, as the same people are now chasing him. *MY OPINION* ... Read review

Advantages: funny, well crafted, descriptive
Disadvantages: not a piece of bad here. with the exception of the silly blurb.:P

...others may have already said, Different Seasons is King's finest example of literature outside the horror genre. He has been marked out as a horror writer for years and this really shows me can do almost anything. I think by far the best short story in here is Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, the tale of a man wrongly sent to jail for 2 life sentences. Loads more people have seen the brilliant movie starring Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins ...
...exellent read, they must read it themselves. The writing is great, with respect to detail and twists in the plot. The characters are well defined, you really get to feel for the them. The book has the strange ability to wrench the heart while at the same time constantly make you giggle to yourself, as it is peppered with King's trademark humour throughout. It's really just a story of Hope("Hope Springs Eternal) and how it can strengthen a person ... Read review

Advantages: addictive style of writing - you cant put it down!! short book (under 200 pages)
Disadvantages: Fluency of book not so good at times - repetitive phrases throughout, gets annoying!

Demon Seed is a science fiction novel by Dean Koontz - the story is about a divorced 30 something woman called Susan, who lives in a large mansion alone in the country - due to being abused by her Father and also her ex-husband, she has a state of the art security system installed in the house - voice controlled lights, heating, electrical appliences, security camera's inside and out, electronic metal shutters for all the windows. Meanwhile, her ...
...Adam 2, which is the first independant thinking computer in the world - the most intelligent computer ever created! What he didn't know was that Adam 2 was capable of feelings, needs, love & lust! Adam 2 manages to take control of Susan's security system in her house, and watches her, day & night, every day falling deeper in love with her - until he finally locks down the house so she cant escape. His plans. . . to create a child with Susan, and ... Read review

Advantages: Good for when you're travelling
Disadvantages: none

I don't go out of my way to read Stephen King books and was given this as a present. Oh my God! I've read it three times already. Apart from the fact it's a typical King MASSIVE Hardbook I could not put it down. It's about various individuals traveling through the Nevada dessert who are brought together to a small, what appears to be empty, town by a cop. Without spoiling the plot the cop isn't all he seems and neither is the town. Dark forces are ... Read review

Advantages: the language, narrating, catchy
Disadvantages: I don't think there are any

Stephen King - Dolores Claiborne This book was actually the first of Kings' I've ever read and maybe that's also why it's stuck in my memory the best and somehow had the most of impact on me. I think that's what books do, when you're a teenager and you read about stuff that could have pretty much happened to you, too. It's also the only of his books I've read in Czech instead of English and I feel compelled to look up the original version and get ...
...to police investigators. Storyline Dolores Claiborne is an elderly lady who tells the story of her most recent life and the events that had put her to where she finds herself at the moment, that is, in an interrogator's office to make a statement about her involvement in the murder of Vera Donovan, Dolores' late employer. Dolores pleads not guilty, but right away she confesses to killing her husband Joe St.George. The murderer was not the gardener ... Read review