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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: 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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Summary: It should have been better
Comment: I thought I would never get to the good part and there had to be a good part because its Stephen King after all. Well, I struggled through the not so bad part finally realizing it was a really great book. It turns out to be one of those books you have to stop 3/4 the way through and think about what you have just read. When I did that I realized no matter what he said it is quite a bit of biography. He usually tells us that what ever we are reading is not biographical but this book has quite a bit of his past life in it.Not as dreadful as the book but if you follow this with "On Writing" as I did you see the joining.I think this was a paen to his wife. She has been a great help to him in his writing, talking about it, editing, just listening. This was the book to her, for her. Then the final part zipped back to the King we are familiar with.Terror, sweat in the dark of the night, even "it was a dark and stormy night". lol To me, it's one of those books I might have to read again, at least the first part since I took it so slightingly. My strong suggestion is do not give up just because nothing jumps out at you for many,many pages. He is making the setting for the last half. The husband in the book is a very sad man with a horrible past. He shares it with her because he knows she is strong enough to take it. She doesn't think she is but finds the strenth he knew was there all along.
It's a love story with a background in Stephen and Tabitha King's life. She had to be a strong woman to put up with the child in Stephen. But he describes her as a joy in his life and enjoying going along with whatever he wanted except for the bad parts. But I digress into "On Wrinting". I have to recommend that as a quick follow up to appreciate "lisey's Story". It is a strong love story that will not disappoint.
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