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Rose Madder (Mass Market Paperback)

by Stephen King (Author)
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Mass Market Paperback: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc; Open market ed edition (Jun 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0451186362
  • ISBN-13: 978-0451186362
  • Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.6 x 3.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,428,001 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Amazon.co.uk Review

After 14 years of being beaten, Rose Daniels wakes up one morning and leaves her husband -- but she keeps looking over her shoulder, because Norman has the instincts of a predator. And what is the strange work of art that has Rose in a kind of spell? In this brilliant dark-hued fable of the gender wars, Stephen King has fashioned yet another suspense thriller to keep readers right on the edge. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.


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aRiveting, engrossing, packed with suspense.a
a"People"
aA boiling hot shocker.a
a"Cleveland Plain Dealer"
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A fantastic introductory book for new born King fans!, 15 Feb 2002
By A Customer
This review is from: Rose Madder (Paperback)
Wow! This is a great book! If you're really into horror, suspense and you love frighteningly realistic gory bits in a book, then you have got to read this!
The storyline of Rose Madder is really good. It might seem quite simple to outsiders to King's work but once you're only a couple of pages into it, you begin to see him twist our world into something quite different...
Throughout this book there is enough suspense to catch hold of even the hardiest of readers and I guarantee that you WILL NOT be able to put it down! Norman is a really strong character who everyone will love to hate, and who brings most of the suspense into the book with his wicked ways. Any sane female who reads this book will love Rosie as to me, she is the ultimate in girl power! She grows so much as a character and i promise, you will travel along with her, feeling her triumphs, her emotions and generally rooting for her when she has to finally face her past.
The ending of this book some might say seems....well...unfinished? No way. If you've got the imagination, then you'll realise that Stephen King has left us with just enough to think about...
Rose Madder was the first Stephen King book I ever read and since then I have gone on to read about 26 more but it still remains one of, if not my favourite book.
Watch out...Really Rosie is definately a big deal!
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars frustrating, 4 Sep 2001
By yoyomagoo@hotmail.com (Redhill nr london) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Rose Madder (Paperback)
King has written many good books, but this one is disappointing. it is superbly told, and very compulsive up to about pge 300-ish, where a supernatural element is intorduced to the story which does not work at all and seems far fetched and silly, compared to the rest of the story. if he had only kept this book to a chase-thriller then i would rank among his best, but alas. His imagination has actually got the better of him.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Thrilling and exciting, 15 Aug 2000
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This review is from: Rose Madder (Hardcover)
A must read for all King fans.A step away from the norm, but a gripping tale of struggle against the odds and with King's style of a twist some-where in between. Rosie Daniels,fleeing from her violent,sick husband after 14years of hell and a miscarrage to boot,ends up having to face her fears when she has gone for refuge at a womans hostel,meets the man of her dreams and finds a new start,only to have to fight her past and her ex.A brilliant read
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I don't like all horror, but I remember liking this. I wanted to keep turning the pages, I really felt the character's pain. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Xen William

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book and super service
What a superb read, I couldn't put this book down! Whilst some avid Stephen King fanatics are not keen on his books written from a womans perspective, I loved this book as much... Read more
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Rose Madder is an excellent read, I can't recommend it enough. It starts off rather slow, but Rose's journey from Buffalo to Chicago (for some reason the names of the cities are... Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars Honest book but from King I expected more and better on this topic
This is a very readable book by my favourite author and I do not regret that I read it. But stil, I believe that this is one of the (very few) Stephen King's books which I enjoyed... Read more
Published on 5 Sep 2007 by Maciej K.

4.0 out of 5 stars Brutal realism and far fetched fantasy combined.
Stephen King has created a REALLY nasty piece of work in the character Norman Daniels - the leading ladies' ever-more demented cop husband. Read more
Published on 30 Aug 2007 by J. D. Aspinall

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As an avid Stephen King reader I purchased Rose Madder as soon as hit the shelves in 199 whenever and couldn't wait to dive in. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars A welcome break.
Some people see this as a stop-gap story that King wrote whilst waiting for the timing to be right for the Dark Tower series to continue. Read more
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I thought this book was good because it was very interesting to read, and the drama King used was amazingly written and powerful. Read more
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This book started off promisingly, but I must say that once it started to get supernatural I was a bit put off. Read more
Published on 11 May 2005 by pyrokeet

2.0 out of 5 stars Dismal
Not one that I enjoyed. King seemed to cast off his usual ease with story telling for this book which seems forced and unnatural. Read more
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