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Tarfumes.com - Lisey's Story
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Manufacturer: Scribner
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Scribner
Manufacturer: Scribner
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 528
Publication Date: 2006-10-24
Publisher: Scribner
Release Date: 2006-10-24
Studio: Scribner
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Lisey Debusher Landon lost her husband, Scott, two years ago, after a twenty-five-year marriage of the most profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was an award-winning, bestselling novelist and a very complicated man. Early in their relationship, before they married, Lisey had to learn from him about books and blood and bools. Later, she understood that there was a place Scott went -- a place that both terrified and healed him, that could eat him alive or give him the ideas he needed in order to live. Now it's Lisey's turn to face Scott's demons, Lisey's turn to go to Boo'ya Moon. What begins as a widow's effort to sort through the papers of her celebrated husband becomes a nearly fatal journey into the darkness he inhabited. Perhaps King's most personal and powerful novel, Lisey's Story is about the wellsprings of creativity, the temptations of madness, and the secret language of love.
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Summary: How many ways are there to say it differently?
Comment: King brings the horror to your homes, ladies. (and gentlemen) This is the type of book my wife avoids as her OWN imagination is bad enough. She can imagine the WORST possible scenarios to kidnapping, assault, abduction or home invasion but King is, of course, king. Unsettling and a bit monstrous, the title is a subterfuge to relax the reader before the hammer falls. (or axe, or blade...)
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Summary: Longtime King reader
Comment: I have read almost all of King's books, and Lisey's story is one of my favorites. I think he really crosses into some great literature here. It starts out a bit slow, but gains serious momentum. I thought the backstory was the most engaging part of the story. King always does seem to have alot of backstory. In a way, I think its the "real story" in his books, with a more simple sort of "boogie man" story happening in the present. In this book, the two flow together perfectly. If you enjoy most of his books, you will probably love this one.
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Summary: A Rich Read
Comment: I see many people complaining about the language. I think the use of the personal intermarriage lexicon is a further rebuttal of the modern shallow manner in which people interact just as Cell was a comment on what he deemed to be the detrimental impact of the ubiquitous gadget phone on public life. Mr King embraces characters who are in touch with visceral experiences rather than carefully packaged prefab interaction. The wry humor and worldly wisdom throughout the novel is a fitting antidote to the mundane spiritless outlook espoused by modern corporate culture. The point of the novel is to celebrate imagination as much as love. I didn't think this was a perfect story by any means. I question whether anyone could really convince themselves that they intend to permanently turn their back on a fairy world with a magic healing pool. But this tale had a LOT of heart.
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Summary: Lisey's A Dud
Comment: Stephen King is the master of characterization with contemporary American characters. I read his books for that, I don't buy the supernatural part, but enjoy them anyway. Not LISEY'S STORY. Lisey is a dud. Even though she is reliving her life with her dead husband, Scott, two years after he died, she displays no other interests in her entire life BUT Scott. This is not normal or believable, and makes her irretrievably dull. King skillfully peels back petal after petal of flashbacks about their lives together, naturally still vivid as she grieves. But other than having a family saturated with mental illness she must come to the rescue of regularly, she's not a fully rounded character. And what is with the baby talk? Smucking for Pete's sake. Along with other silly and annoying terms supposedly coined by Scott. Everyone knows what she means by smucking, so King should have her use the "f" word or nothing--as most adults born after the 1950s often do, especially in books; and forget this dopey made-up language. Scott also has a family shot through with mental illness, maybe Scott, too, depending on whether you believe his little excursions into cookoo land, though that is supposed to be the supernatural part. I gave up on the book maybe a quarter through and skimmed the ending. Disappointing from such a consummately skilled writer.
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Summary: Steven King
Comment: Steven King is the absolute best writer that ever was. He stands right next to Edgar Allen Poe!!! If you want a book that you can't put down I recommend that you purchase any one of the many books that Steven King wrote!!!
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