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  • 49 of 49 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Sarah_B

    3 Stars The Literary Equivalent To Vulture Puke. 17/01/2002
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages A great writing style, with just enough detail and imagery to make it good.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Oh God, don't get me started!

    Stephen King has, since my second grade schooldays, been one of my favorite horror writers of all time. He is comparable to the likes of Dean Koontz, in that he knows how to tell the tales that twitch and spin in his demented mind. When interviewed several years ago, the question was asked of him: “Where do you get your ideas?” He responded, simply, “I have the heart of a little boy......it’s in a jar on my desk.” (rough quote) – this is how terribly horror-oriented this grown man really is, and it’s part of the reason that I read his works with such ... more
  • 33 of 33 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Simoncook1

    1 Star I wish this book was even Thinner 17/01/2002
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages An interesting idea

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Poor writing and 2 dimensional characters and story

    Stephen King is renowned for his prolific talent of writing horror novels – more recently he has branched into sci-fi / fantasy – and has proved that he is more than just a ‘descriptive’ horror writer. From perhaps his most famous book that made it to Movies, Carrie, right up to his recent Movies based on short stories, The Green Mile and Shawhanks Redemption, King has proved to have a natural talent for storytelling. His stories capture the audience and draw them into the story softly, and more often than not manage to surprise the reader. His mind works differently to ... more
  • 14 of 14 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 5 bamamo

    Member since 20/02/2008

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    4 Stars A meaty story with a skinny ending...just like the main character 29/07/2009
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Kept my interest, action keeps picking up towards the end

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Ending was disappointing and obvious to me, not scary at all.

    I'll be the first to admit that of the Stephen King books I've read, I've been left slightly underwhelmed. But when my local library was refurbished, leaving the fiction shelves in a bizarre, hard-to-follow order, I somehow ended up at the horror shelves (which I'm not sure even existed pre-refurb) and decided to give him another try. This book was written under the name Richard Bachman. Thinner jumped out at me because, besides the fact it was easily the most colourful in the row with its bright orange spine, it wasn't ridiculously long. I tend to lose interest with books over about 400-500 ... more
  • 18 of 18 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    katykitten

    4 Stars Untidy endings leave me fustrated 25/03/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Keeps your interest because of the moral aspects, ie are they deserving of their fates, and is not over long.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages No happy ending!!

    I am a huge Stephen King fan. Not to the point of having read all his books, I think there at least 2/3 out of the 30 or so he has written that I haven't read simply because the premise hasn't appealed or because I maybe saw the film and it put me off! (guess that does make me quite fanatical really!). THINNER wasn't one of these books. I read it over one weekend about 6 years ago and loved it. The story revolves around a man who accidentally kills a gypsy in a car accident and gets off with a caution from the town Judge (who happens to be a friend) and because they don't seem to care too much ... more
  • 8 of 8 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    chunlex

    3 Stars Romany Weightwatchers? 05/01/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Even King's minor works are of a good standard

    Disadvantages Disadvantages The idea of a 'curse' is a bit woolly

    Nowadays Stephen King has a fixation with things like beams, dark towers and crimson kings. This book was written when he was more firmly rooted in reality... well a darkly amusing reality where dysfunction and pain bubble under the surface waiting to be discovered. I have always loved Stephen King's work, his tales often have a companionable quality about them. You could almost imagine him at your shoulder chummily imparting his tales of American horror to you whilst you read. Unlike a previous reviewer I think he is head and shoulders above Dean R Koontz who is formulaic and resorts to ... more
  • 23 of 23 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    LUMP

    5 Stars The Slim Fast Diet with a difference 20/05/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Short, sweet and entertaining

    Disadvantages Disadvantages depends on the reader

    Slim Faster, the miracle diet! Stephen King approaches something he normally leaves well alone in this book, although he does it in his normal style. Everybody knows that along with the gypsies come myth and magic, but not everybody believes in it. Billy Halleck, the main character was in a not unwelcome compromising position whist driving his faithful car down a street he drives downs all the time. The last thing he expected was to find one of the gypsies crossing between parked cars, just a few feet from the crossing, without looking for cars, and just stepped out. Obviously he hit and ... more
  • 18 of 18 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Gabrielle83

    3 Stars The diet which makes you thin ! 22/05/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Interesting characters, interesting story...

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Lenghts passages.

    This is my first review in English (I am French) and I hope you will understand my language. Please, don't hesitate if things are wrongs to say it to me, and give me some advices if you want. I'm open to everything =) I intended to speak about this book called "Thinner" a long time ago. A day, when I was in the FNAC (do you know FNAC in England and United States ?), I saw this book and I have been attracted by the story. And I have already read some books of Stephen King and Richard Bachman (his other name of author) and I loved them. So, I bought it... PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK I bought the ... more
  • 4 of 5 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    loulou6

    5 Stars Thinner - Stephen King 20/08/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages an easy King novel to get into

    Disadvantages Disadvantages don't go on a diet!

    It took me a little over a week to finish this book, which is darn good for me, it's a little different than most of his other books, some people will probably like that, since sometimes it can take about 300 pages for the action to start happening. Throughout the course of this book, we are faced with characters dealing with moral dilemas(nice cars those dilemas!). The book's main character, Billy Halleck, accidentally kills an old Gypsy woman in the road while his wife is performing a certain sexual act on him. Then the woman's father curses him, he starts to lose loads of weight until he's ... more
  • 1 of 4 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Musicbox

    4 Stars Makes you think! 08/07/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Well told plausible story

    Disadvantages Disadvantages none

    A great little book from Stephen King. Take a simple idea and hand it to King and let him do his job! A simple car accident, he wasn’t to blame, an angry gypsy, and a simple one word curse - take these ingredients and you have a classic tale with a good ending! Not the biggest book from King, but long enough to tell the story - a story which is all too plausible! No flying saucers or little green men just good honest storytelling! The kind of tale that you would hear at the pub over a beer, but told with the magic of King! ... more
  • 13 of 30 Ciao users found the following review helpful
    1 Star Quick review of Thinner - Stephen King by scarletpurity 27/07/2008
    An obese man - villain, of course, whatduyathunk - is cursed by a gypsy because the fat guy had caused an gypsy woman´s death. And fat guy starts to lose weight... to the bone. Disgusting, offensive and DULL-AS-DITCHWATER trash from sleazy, trashy and woefully overrated writer.
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