The Dark Half - Stephen King > Reviews

Advantages: A shorter book than some others, so quick to finish
Disadvantages: Occasionally you need to really stretch belief

...written well. This is not the case with The Dark Half. I have always enjoyed the humour put forward as King's 'relationship' with Bachman (yes, I have a weird sense of humour) and I really enjoyed the analysis side of this book of the two parts of a personality that makes up a successful horror writer. As a writer myself, I know the oddness of balancing a productive 'normal' life with the cruelty and weirdness you bring to your writing. The story ... Read review

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...is a considerable comeback from the mechanical silliness of his previous one, ''The Tommyknockers,'' which was possibly his worst. One key to what makes ''The Dark Half'' work is that it combines what was successful in two of King's earlier books the threat that the dead world posed to the living in ''Pet Sematary,'' along with the problems of being a successful writer that were so bloodily exploited in ''Misery.'' This mix may sound grotesquely contrived ... Read review

Advantages: Great concept for a story.
Disadvantages: Has a tendancy to sometimes over do the descriptive bits and waffle.

...with this one! I loved it, the whole idea that there could be something sinster and macabre lurking behind a medical condition had me really spooked for a while. I was thinking..'what if?', whilst reading..ewwwwww...a chilling thought! I really like the way you almost get to know his characters intimately too, listening to their thoughts, almost like you aretaken for a while into someone elses head. So, after reading this book, I hope that ... Read review

Advantages: One of King's best book.
Disadvantages: None really.. it can be quite gruesome I guess!

...King fan, but will be the first to admit that some of his books havent quite lived up to usually very high standard. Over the last few years, I have abstained from reading any of his work, as in and out of uni and post grad things was unable to really commit to a book like this, but have recently got back into it - and this is the best I have read for a very long time. This is typical King. I read this book in a matter of days - not because its a ... Read review

Advantages: Really an interesting book
Disadvantages: Really fearfull

...love, but they also are the messengers who lead men in the world of the dead. George Stark: year of birth 1973, year of death 1988, epitaph 'Not a Very Nice Guy'. It seemed only a joke or a stupid idea for a bit of advertising, that of 'bury' George Stark in the cemetary of the country, with a gravestone, to publish a beautiful service on People, one of those services that readers like a lot and that, more than this, should attracts a lot ... Read review