- Paperback: 480 pages
- Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks (4 Oct 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 034095146X
- ISBN-13: 978-0340951460
- Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 3.1 x 17.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (57 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 139,859 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'A writer of excellence...King is one of the most fertile storytellers of the modern novel' -- Sunday Times 'One of the great storytellers of our time' -- Guardian
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'A writer of excellence...King is one of the most fertile storytellers of the modern novel' (Sunday Times )
'One of the great storytellers of our time' (Guardian )
'One of the great storytellers of our time' (Guardian )
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is probably not the most sophisticated or deeply plotted Stephen King book - it is one of his early works and that shows. Pet Sematary is, however, the most absorbing and haunting novel I have ever read and is full of a black humour that remains with you long afterwards.
The concept is simplicity itself - happy all-American family move to their dream house in rural Maine and make friends with the kindly old couple across the street. This, of course, is the world of Stephen King - so everyone has a secret and nothing is quite as it seems. The one thing you can be sure of is that nobody is likely to live happily ever after...
The book is certainly bleak and not to be recommended if you're feeling depressed ! But, however intense the emotions that it evokes, the joy of meeting some of King's most believable and sympathetic characters and the experience of discovering just what is out there in the woods behind the Creed house are certainly worth it.
I have read this book countless times, but have never forgotton the pleasure of discovering it initially, when every plot development was new. If you are about to read Pet Sematary for the first time I envy you - enjoy !
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
My advice to you is not to read this book whilst sitting alone in the house at night with only the cat for company because i can guarantee you that you will not be able to sleep.
This is the story of Dr Lous Creed, his wife Rachael and their two children, Ellie and Gage who move from Chicago to Ludlow, Maine. Here they become friends with an elderly couple across the street, Jud and Norma Crandall. One night Jud takes Louis up to the Pet Sematary and beyond to a magicial place, an indian buiral ground. From here on in this is truly Stephen King at his best.
I realised that this was not the best book to take to read on holiday whilst lying on a sundrenched beach, with nothing much to occupy my mind with during the day i found at night my imagination running wild and have to admit to having to sleep with the lights on.
After having read this book ask yourself one question - If you were in the same position as Louis Creed whould you do the same thing?
My answer: Under the circumstances and bearing the state of my mind, then probably yes. Quite a frighting thought.
If you are Stephen King's Number One Fan than this book is a MUST HAVE!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The moral of this story is 'be careful what you wish for'; Steve references W. W. Jacob's old classic 'The Monkey's Paw' in this book, and it soon becomes apparent why, as they deal with similar themes. In Jacobs' tale, a woman and her husband are given three wishes by a magical monkey's paw. Unbeknown to them, the paw is evil, and nothing good comes from it.
First they wish for £200 (it may have been slightly more or less) - they get it, but in the form of compensation when their son dies. The wife makes the second wish - that their son returns to them. In the dead of the next night they hear a horrible hammering at the door - as the wife runs to open it, hoping that it is their son, the husband is struck by a premonition that their son is not what they expect him to be, and quickly wishes him back into the grave he was buried in.
I mention the Jacobs story (probably slightly inaccurately - sorry about that), as the same issues are dealt with in 'Pet Sematary'; it's a creepy story, made quite difficult to read for some people as one of the central plot points concerns a road accident involving the central character's son - I know one person that couldn't finish the story because of that.
For me this is one of the best of Steve's early work, and is a great place to start if you are new to his stories. It's quite genuinely scary at times, and whips along at a cracking pace.
Recommended
First they wish for £200 (it may have been slightly more or less) - they get it, but in the form of compensation when their son dies. The wife makes the second wish - that their son returns to them. In the dead of the next night they hear a horrible hammering at the door - as the wife runs to open it, hoping that it is their son, the husband is struck by a premonition that their son is not what they expect him to be, and quickly wishes him back into the grave he was buried in.
I mention the Jacobs story (probably slightly inaccurately - sorry about that), as the same issues are dealt with in 'Pet Sematary'; it's a creepy story, made quite difficult to read for some people as one of the central plot points concerns a road accident involving the central character's son - I know one person that couldn't finish the story because of that.
For me this is one of the best of Steve's early work, and is a great place to start if you are new to his stories. It's quite genuinely scary at times, and whips along at a cracking pace.
Recommended
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