The Dark Half - Stephen King

...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 ...
...absorbed into his body in the womb). The brother wants credit for the writer's success, angry at being 'killed off' in the latest book. Parallels with Misery exist, but are not big enough to detract from this book in its own right. The bringing to life of the monster within type of theme is handled beautifully, and I feel King created a really good read with more than his usual panache. ...

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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 ...
...Faustus meeting the fat lady with the hatchet. And, in fact, "The Dark Half" does have its problems getting out of the ground, so to speak. We learn first that Thaddeus Beaumont got good news and bad news when he was an 11-year-old. He discovered his talent as a writer. But he also started having violent headaches Thaddeus Beaumont is the writer in question. This culminates in a convulsion. Surgery reveals something startling - first an eye, then ...

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...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 I never ...

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...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 ...
...- then something happens in the book and you HAVE to know what happens next.) I read quite a few of his books recently (Everythings eventual, dark tower, four past midnight, Hearts in atlantis) and this is definitely the strongest of that batch. Its an excellent book - and it has the archetypal King realism in the content which can sometimes actually horrify you. The first chapter had me reading with my hand over my head as if that would protect ...

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...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 of other ...
...wife Liz in front of the photographer of People, close to the graveyard, with a spade in a hand and a half-witted smile on his face. No! Goods knows why, but it seemed no more so a great idea..., on the contrary: it seemed quite a little gloomy idea and this, my dear friends, let me tell it to you!, this indeed is a great stupideness! Why should a cardboard gravestone be gloomy, when it just covers only the shadow of the memory of a fantastic character, ...

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