A famous writer of popular romance novels is rescued after a car crash by a former registered nurse who also happens to be his big fan. She also happens to be crazy, which the reader soon realizes together with Paul Sheldon, the writer. Instead of taking him to a hospital, Annie keeps Paul in her isolated house. Since he is bedridden, he cannot do much about it. Things go relatively well until ...

I just recently within the last couple days finished reading "Duma Key" Written by Stephen King. This is the first Stephen King novel I have ever read that is why I gave my level of experience a low rating. I can't really compare this novel to any of his other novels because I haven't read any other novels by Mr. King.That being said by this novel alone I am very impressed and...

I am a horror lover at heart. When went in for surgery a few months back, needed a book to read. Stephen King’s The Cell was my selection. It took me many months to finish.The book starts out heavy and strong. You know within minutes what is going to happen, but you are unsure if what you are reading is reality or fiction.The book soon falls to the boring side and the reader is left with ...

Unlike other King works, I find Cell a different kind, altogether. Here the story is unputdownable at the most. It is a very chilling horror story with a lot of detail. The story is about cell phones being used to distribute a dark power that possesses human beings that speak to or overhear cell phone conversations. The chilling moments come into existence, when cities and cities of people ar...

I first saw a movie adaptation of this book and liked it. I saw the book version on sale at Waldenbooks and decided to check it out to see if it was better or worse than the movie. After thoroughly reading the book, I've come to the conclusion that the movie does it almost no justice at all. The book is more descriptive than the movie and changes between the two were easy to spot. The ...

Once again Stephen King delivers with another great book. I picked up Insomnia at the nearest bookstore because the cover made it out to look like a genuinely creepy book.The story begins with a mixture of "daily life" with mystery slowly seeping it's way in. There is no supernatural antagnoistic force at the beginning, but instead it is one of the debates we deal with everyday: t...

I am a big fan of King’s. But not of this novel’s. That’s the tagline. I just read the novel because it is one of the latest novels by the king of horror. I found it a sloppy read. Though I must admit, some readers I found in Amazon rated it as a good read. But I wouldn’t say so.  The story is centered around the wife of a Pulitzer prize winning novelist, Scott L...

Stephen Malkmus was the lead singer and song writer for the very influential indie-group from the 90's, Pavement. Their new album known as Real Emotional Trash features many of the aspects of the old pavement sound - Malkmus seems to either be mumbling about while the groaning guitar plays in the background or he's clearly singing his catchy tunes. The album sounds somewhat like The V...

My husband and I love camping. This is one of our favorite things to do together so when the opportunity came up to go to Fort Stephens Camp Site we immediately agreed to go. We went with my sister, my niece, nephew, and brother in law. There was so much to do. Both kids had a blast. The campground is located about 15 miles from Seaside, 2 miles to the beach, and about 58 miles from the Tillamo...

I purchased this DVD because it was on sale. I thought that Stephen King’s movies will not be disappointing but I was wrong. This movie is even harder to digest than most of horror movies I have ever watched. It’s about a boy, Alan Parker, who wants to hitchhike to a hospital where his mother is taken care because she has a stroke. This boy is not just ordinary boy. He once committe...

Band of Brothers, by Stephen E. Ambrose, is a great non-fictional account of Easy Company, the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, during World War II.  The book follows the men of E Co. from the boot camps to Normandy to the end of the war in Europe. Aside from a few of the factual inconsistencies this is a great book that peers into the lives and trials that these men underwent during ...

Let me preface all of this by stating that I am not usually a fan of self-help books. I know they help a lot of people, but I think most of them are filled with meaningless drivel that egomaniacs churn out in order to earn a book. This is why I was so blown away by The War of Art. Pressfield breaks down all motivational factors into one concept: resistance.He explains how resistance is the forc...

  I love reading books and simply enjoy both fiction and non fiction. Last Year my husband gifted me 7 habits of highly effective people written by Stephen R. Covey. It is a self development book which has sold over 15 million copies in 38 languages since its first publication (1989).I loved to receive the copy of my most desired book. No doubt it is one of the most fantastic books of Step...

With the recent release of 1408 on DVD from Dimension Films, folks will undoubtedly seek out the original short story.  They'll find it here, with--appropriately--thirteen other finely-honed Stephen King shorts.While these stories are not all classic King supernatural scare-fests, they certainly meet the description of the subtitle: 14 dark tales.  The mundane has gone seriously a...

I was introduced to the I Ching when I was about 22 years old in South Africa. I knew nothing about this oracle because my parents were extremely religious and were against anything that could be considered non-Christian. When I first say my friend throw the coins, it was so interesting that when she gave the coins to throw, I used to throw them for hours and hours. And no, I wasn't interes...

The Green Mile, written by Stephen King is a novel about a group of men living the rest of their days on death row, also known as the green mile. One man, known as John Coffey, is on death row after being falsely accused and convicted of murdering two little girls. Coffey is a giant of a man, towering over everyone around him. He is what many people may refer to as a gentle giant. Throughout th...

Dolores Claiborne, written by famous novelist, Stephen King, is about a woman accussed of murdering her elderly employer. As the story unfolds, the reader finds that the main reason for the accussation is that Dolores killed once before and was never even charged with the crime due to a lack of evidence. Steohen King creates a mother's worst nightmare in this book as he, through the eyes of...

The Langoliers is the first Novella in a series of 4 written by Stephen King called Four Past Midnight. The Langoliers is One Past Midnight.In the novella a group of individuals find themselves on an air flight from hell. A handfull of them fall asleep and when they wake up they find that hundreds of their fellow passengers have vanished. Not just vanished but vanished and left behind odd objec...

This novella is the second novella in the Four Past Midnight series written by Stephen King. This is Two Pas Midnight: Secret Window, Secret Garden. You may remember this novella was turned into a film a few years ago called Secret Window.The story line is about an author (Mort Reiney) who has just gone through a messy divorce and is living in a lake side cabin alone for awhile. A southern man ...

I've been a big fan of King ever since I read Carrie in junior high. I was browsing the horror section of Waldenbooks for something new to read and spotted this gem. A vampire horror book by Stephen King sounded too good to be true. I started reading as soon as I got home.The book starts off as a story of attachment to a small town where Ben, one of the story's characters, spent some ti...