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  • Paperback: 608 pages
  • Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks (13 Oct. 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1444708090
  • ISBN-13: 978-1444708097
  • Product Dimensions: 13.1 x 3.8 x 19.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (85 customer reviews)
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If any of King's novels exemplifies his skill at portraying the concerns of his generation, it's The Dead Zone. Although it contains a horrific subplot about a serial killer, it isn't strictly a horror novel. It's the story of an unassuming high school teacher, an Everyman, who suffers a gap in time--like a Rip Van Winkle who blacks out during the years 1970-75--and thus becomes acutely conscious of the way that American society is rapidly changing. He wakes up as well with a gap in his brain, the "dead zone" of the title. The zone gives him crippling headaches, but also grants him second sight, a talent he doesn't want and is reluctant to use. The crux of the novel concerns whether he will use that talent to alter the course of history.

The Dead Zone is a tight, well-crafted book. When asked in 1983 which of his novels so far was "the best," Stephen King answered, "The one that I think works the best is The Dead Zone. It's the one that [has] the most story." --Fiona Webster --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Read this stunning novel and you will feel the hairs on the nape of your neck rise (Time Out)

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4.0 out of 5 starsBook Review: The Dead Zone by Stephen King (from: AntonySimpson.com)
By Antony Simpson on 15 April 2017
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In The Dead Zone John Smith wakes up from a 4 year coma with the ability to see the past and the future of the people he touches.

Some people see this ability as a gift from God. But for John, he sees it as a curse.

It all started 4 years ago when John, a Teacher, took his date Sarah, also a Teacher, to the Fair.

John is also known as Johnny in The Dead Zone and these names will be used interchangeably throughout this review.

All was going well until John tried his luck on The Wheel of Fortune. The first time he wins. Then the second and third time to. Again and again he wins. He just can’t loose, despite his head feeling like somebody is going at it with a jack hammer.

Meanwhile Sarah has become ill and is being violently sick after eating a bad hot dog. Johnny takes Sarah home and then calls a taxi.

Johnny’s taxi journey home is where it all goes wrong. A car driving on the wrong side of the road crashes into the taxi at speed, causing the deaths of the boy driving the car on the wrong side of the road and the taxi driver. John is propelled out of the taxi through the windshield and goes into a coma.

When Johnny wakes up, he discovers that everything has changed. His body is weak, despite being exercised with physiotherapy while he was comatose. His mind has a Dead Zone, a microscopic part of his brain that has been damaged. This Dead Zone causes him not to be able to imagine certain things and is perhaps also causing his new found ability to see people’s past and future by touching them.

John’s father seems to have dramatically aged much more than the 4 years that has passed. His mother who was always a religious woman, has become fervent religionist. Sarah is now married to another man and has a child.Read more ›
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Although Salem's Lot is my favourite novel, this novel is far more emotional, you really get to know the characters as there are far fewer characters than in Salem's Lot. This is only the 2nd time I've read this book, last read 20 or more years ago, and I appreciate it more now than I did then. A vampire town, a haunted and possessed hotel, this is more subtle, less scary monster, but far more scary in its own way.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe best King book I've ever read
By Mrs Madrigal on 13 Sept. 2006
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In On Writing, Stephen King says that The Dead Zone is one of the few plot-driven novels he's ever writen -- meaning he had the whole story thought out before he started writing it down. I don't know if that's what makes this one SUCH a winner, but it really stood out, to me, as a wonderful book.

Forget the film. What's brilliant about the book is that we get inside both the lead character's minds -- Johnny Smith, a typical all-American "good guy" who has the limited ability to see the future because of a childhood accident; and Greg Stillson, a bonkers nutjob who is campaigning to be the next US president.

When Johnny shakes Greg's hand at a political rally, he has a vision of Greg becoming the President and sparking World War III. Everyone else loves Greg -- Johnny is the only man who can stop him...

Does that sound corny? The way it's written is ANYTHING but. Several scenes at the end made me cry as I'd become so attached to Johnny Smith.

This is my favourite Stephen King book by a (Green) mile. It isn't his horror stuff -- nobody turns out to be a huge spider at the end -- but a wonderful, character-driven, gripping story.

Buy it!
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4.0 out of 5 starsKing at his best
By eternaloptimist on 7 Mar. 2011
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I thought this was a really entertaining and gripping story but not on a par with 'Needful things' which I couldn't put down. However, this is still King at his best: master story teller. Having recently read 'Bag of Bones' it was great to read a book written in the fast paced, gripping, articulate style of King's early days, albeit spoilt every now and then by typical King crude and unsophisticated language. I found the last one hundred pages boring which is why I didn't give this book five stars. I actually skipped them and still understood the ending, but the ending is really good and the moral of the story original, thought provoking and haunting. Overall an excellent read.
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5.0 out of 5 starsJust perfect.
By A. M. Kenny on 30 April 2017
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James Franco brings a real sense of Americana to the story and has a great way of delivery.

The story is a Stephen King Masterpiece
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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars
By s mciiandhu on 25 Mar. 2017
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As usual a great read. Great characters, especially like Johnny's dad. The story was superb.
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5.0 out of 5 starsLove it
By tonie lansdell on 23 Mar. 2017
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Stephen King at his best, love this story
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4.0 out of 5 starsFour Stars
By clinton m mcgregor on 29 April 2017
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excellent book
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