Advantages: Well...it's a long book, so the price per page is fairly low. Disadvantages: Did it need to go on, and on, and on, and on?
...most of the population of Desperation with work, either directly or by serving the mining community. Closed down several years before, it has been reopened, and the evil released.
The good are a bunch of people, mostly travellers who happen to be passing near to Desperation on the nearby Interstate. None of them have any business in Desperation and would simply pass it by at 55 miles an hour if they hadn’t been unfortunate enough to be singled out ... ...Apart from those who were travelling together in a family unit, there’s no links between any of them, apart from their desire to be somewhere else.
As is often the way, their group is whittled down, mostly through various random killings, which seems apt given that they were supposedly thrown together in fairly random circumstances, to a manageable size. It is this group that can manage an escape and attempt to battle the evil that is in Desperation, ...
Soho_Black 15.06.2004
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Advantages: Promising beginning, some very good characters, can be used as a very effective door-stop Disadvantages: 720 pages when perhaps half that would have sufficed, very disappointing ending
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 decision to judge Desperation by its cover and dive into straight away. It had a certain dark, minimalistic ... ...on that mammoth series.
Desperation was first published in 1996, in that continually uncertain period whereby fans weren't sure whether King's next book was going to be a rip-roaring classic or a waste of space. Desperation presents elements from both of these categories, with my ultimate view of it being somewhere in-between; a fine introduction brimming with potential being severely negated by a half-baked and forgettable second half.
The story ...
tom1clare 15.10.2005
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This book is really one of the better books out there. It sort of stinks as a whole that everybody doesn't love it.
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Scapp70 05.09.2004
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Advantages: Page turner, good solid read Disadvantages: Religious aspect may put people off
...case) against Evil. Desperation is a lowly populated mining town in Nevada, a group of people are stopped whilst travelling along a main road nearby seemingly by a policeman. They are taken group by group to the town of Desperation and imprisoned in the jailhouse.
What follows is their escape from imprisonment, to hiding unsucessfully in the town then to taking on the Evil that has been uncovered down the recently re-opened mine.
Some of the group ... ...that Desperation does have it's moments and delivers both in plot and characterisation, making it a readable, enjoyable and unsettling experience.
I would recommend this novel because it's well-written, fast-paced, chilling, menacing and gory too. But it is, as with all Stephen King's books, a good story well told. ...
kitty17 11.07.2004
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Advantages: Two ways of viewing the same story concept from different angles Disadvantages:
...re-arranged- a married couple in Desperation are a young pair of siblings in The Regulators for example.
The themes are good v evil, and also how various people and personalities cope in the face of sudden and horrific adversity. As usual King/Bachman handles these with authority, and the characterisations in both books is concise and fautless. In each book, the initial scene set is innocent enough- a cop picks up a couple on finding drugs in their ... ...guy stops at a store for directions and cigarettes in the middel of a long journey. Things quickly get very weird, on a rising scale throughout the books. The couple notice odd things about the cop- he slips swearwords and odd sounding phrases in his speach, and becomes increasingly unstable during the drive. The guy in the shop witnesses a vicious driveby killing of a paperboy. One by one other people get hauled into the horrific scenarios that ...
bannonc 24.07.2000
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Advantages: Great story and characters Disadvantages: Religous theme may but some off, don't let it.
Desperation. Small Nevada mining town, just off Highway 50. Population: Few.
The story begins with a couple, Mary and Peter driving a relatives car along Highway 50 to New York. When a cop, Collie Entragen (sorry, that's not spelt right) pulls them over for a missing license plate they think they have nothing to worry about, that's until he finds a stash of dope in their car, and carts them off to jail.
The Carver family suffer a similar fate, ... ...and says it was planted by some convict, and drives them into town for safety.
Later on writer Johnny Marinville, travelling on his Harley happens to be taking a leak, when Collie drives by. Surprise, surprise, Collie happens to find dope (same lot that was it Mary and Peters car) in his bag, and he's off to jail too.
When each of the families/ people arrive in town they notice that it is strangely quite, and the cop seems far from normal. He's ...
bjlangley 07.02.2001
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Advantages: much terror Disadvantages: Too shortly
There I go for my second opinion in Ciao! United Kingdom. I wait be able excuse to me for any failure that it(he,she) could have in my English, which as you could have verified it is not very good. The above mentioned thing, to apologize. 'Desperation', one of many books of the author of Maine, Stephen King. I me read it it does little and I would like to think of it here, since in Ciao! Spain I did not do it, and I do not believe that it does it. ... ...a ripe writer, a young couple and a policeman possessed by a malignant entity come from the deepest of the Earth … and, like not, a solitary highway, the Inter-state one 50. This way, with these prominent figures, and someone more we start seeing as the book is taking shape. This way a drama develops, when the policeman is taking them little by little to a village, called Desperation, where I surprise something happens, since the village this one ...
Xantitxo 03.02.2004
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...seemingly abandoned mining town called Desperation and soon are joined by another group of hapless passers-by who have been arrested on various pretexts for reasons they are to discover include not just murder but a takeover of their bodies by evil forces, once trapped in the mine but now loosed on the world.
One of the group is a 12-year-old boy who, as in other King novels like The Shining and The Langoliers, unwittingly possesses the special ...
Mohammed 26.07.2000
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Advantages: gripping storyline, graphic horror Disadvantages: too many creepy crawlies!
...Green Mile and Desperation.
Desperation tells us of travellers heading down highway 50, the loneliest highway in
America and the town of Desperation just off it. These travellers include a family of four
headed on their annual holiday to Lake Tahoe, a young couple going home to New York
and a once famous writer struggling to make a comeback.
All these travellers are stopped along their way by a police man, who for different reasons
stops them ... ...What follows is a pretty horrific, graphic description of the situation in Desperation, once
a thriving mining town, but now appears to be deserted.
The story follows the band of travellers desperate attempts to stay alive amid some dire
circumstances.
I managed to read this book in 2 days although it did give me some nightmares! ...
LICARUS 12.01.2001
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Advantages: Superb story grips you from the start Disadvantages: A strong religious element
...master of his art and Desperation is outstanding.
The action starts straight away on Highway 50, Nevada, as the first signs are apparent that something isn’t right… We soon meet a Cop, Collie Entragian, who seems to want some more people to kill along with the townsfolk he’s already butchered. I don’t need to say more as you’ll be gripped from the beginning and will soon catch up. You’ll be able to walk around Desperation in your mind, re-living ...
steve_frazer 04.07.2000
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Advantages: Terrific Story and Characters Disadvantages: Occasionally too gory
I loved this book! I couldn't put it down. I admire Stephan King's vast imagination in creating this time-tested tale of Good vs. Evil. Will the hero - an eleven-year-old boy who claims to speak to God - prevail? Or will the man who is falling apart from the inside out beat them to the prize?
A group of travelers is stopped while traveling by a policeman, and then taken captive in the small mining town of Desperation. Some of them are strangers, ... ...to escape from the evil man's (and his pet's) clutches.
Of course in a horror, people die. But in this horror we aren't just idly reading through saying, "She should have seen THAT coming". King really put an effort into making the characters believable - and they are. Our cast of characters includes a young boy and his suburban family on a road trip, to a published middle-aged alcoholic with a motorcycle.
It wasn't as suspenseful as some of King's ...
courtneyk 15.12.2004
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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 ...
steve0898 16.08.2007
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Advantages: Great from the start. Disadvantages: Very long.
Desperation is about a group of travellers who get taken to a small town in the Nevada desert - Desperation - by a cop. They all get taken for various reasons, some willingly (at first), and some reluctantly. They soon find that Desperation is deserted, well except for something evil they'd rather not know anything about that is. And they have to fine a way to escape, before they all end up dead.
The minute I read the first line of Desperation, ... ...quite a bit in order to really get into the story, but I was really impressed with how the start of this book got you really into it with the first line. This story has one of the most detestable villains ever. (How many evil villains decompose in front of their victims? Not very many.) The characters are all likeable (even though some can be rather dislikeable at times!), and whenever something happens, you find yourself desperately wanting no harm ...
Kesi13 08.02.2007
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Advantages: Good plot that has a beginning and an end Disadvantages: none!
Desperation is Stephen King at his best weaving a tale of horror that will have you looking into the shadows for monsters! I think King tells a story best when you feel that it could just happen! It has a beginning and a middle and thankfully an end too. I hate it when a book just kind of dies in the last few pages and doesn’t seem to conclude. There are believable characters, and you get the chance to get to know them, and befriend them, even the ...
Musicbox 08.07.2000
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Advantages: Great story, hard to put down Disadvantages: Heavy book to read in bed
I have to say this is one of Kings best novels. It has it all. The excitement, the mystery, the writing that keeps the reader on edge the whole book thru. When i read this book i really felt that King had found his right element. Again he scares his readers in a smart way that makes one think. That is what i like so much about King. The depth of his novels, the fact that there is a mystery there to tease you all thru the book. I would really recommend ...
lillajen 25.03.2004
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