false 22076 40 Stephen King, an evil car, and a teenage boy coming to terms with the fragility and randomness of life.... Wait, haven't we read this before? Diehard King fans, worry not. Aside from the titular car playing a main role in the story, <I>From a Buick 8</I> could not be less like King's 1983 masterpiece, <I>Christine</I>. If anything, this story resembles King's serial novel <I>The Green Mile</I>, with reminiscing police characters flashing back on bizarre events that took place decades earlier. <p> The book's intriguing plot revolves around the troopers of Pennsylvania State Patrol Troop D, who come into possession of what at first appears to be a vintage automobile. Closer inspection and experimentation conducted by the troopers reveal that this car's doors (and trunk) sometimes open to another dimension populated by gross-out creatures straight out of ... well, a Stephen King novel. As the plot progresses, the veteran troopers' tales of these visits from interdimensional nasties, and the occasional "lightquakes" put on by the car, are passed on to the son of a fallen comrade whose fascination with the car bordered on dangerous obsession.<p> Unlike earlier King works, there is no active threat here; no monster is stalking the heroes of the story, unless you count the characters' own curiosity. In past books, King has terrorized readers with vampires, werewolves, a killer clown, ghosts, and aliens, but this time around, the bogeyman is a more passive, cerebral threat, and one for which they don't make a ready-to-wear Halloween costume--man's fascination with and fear of the unknown. While some readers may find this tale less exciting than the horror master's earlier works, <I>From a Buick 8</I> is a wonderful example of how much King's plotting skills and literary finesse have matured over his long career. And, most of all, it's a darn creepy book. <I>--Benjamin Reese</I> 2818729 book 2001 From a Buick 8 total:5446|5:644|4:1267|3:2079|2:1071|1:385| 5446 17052 6709 202 3 2 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Wed Jan 23 10:30:57 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 10:30:57 -0800 2008
Most of us, at least among the Stephen King fans on the planet--and we are legion, much to the dismay of academics around the country--met the news of King's announced retirement with surprise and outrage. The man can't retire. Who could fill ...more...]]> 4 2 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 06 11:22:05 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 06 11:22:05 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 15 00:59:42 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 01:07:02 -0800 2009 about stories, and our obsession with endings and with finding out. Principally, though, it's a rollicking good horror yarn in which the creepy is layed on with a trowel until you just want it to stop.....more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Aug 07 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jan 11 02:38:40 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 14:41:21 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false true Thu Oct 15 17:29:52 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 17:40:25 -0700 2009
Underneath this, however, is an interesting and unconventional human interest angle. The story of...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 13:16:15 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 14:48:46 -0700 2009 Christine which along with Cujo and The Cell ranks as my least favorite King novels. The good thing is that the author's Buick 8 is nothing like Christine. From a Buick 8 is a more introverted work in the style of The Green Mile or Hearts...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 16:44:49 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 16:40:25 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Jul 07 18:26:48 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 13:21:25 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 1 1 false false Fri Jun 29 14:52:02 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 29 14:53:16 -0700 2007 I read this a while ago, and I remember being really excited because it had just been published and was brand-new, and then I read it and was vastly disappointed.
There's basically an evil car with a portal to another evil universe in its trunk or something. Not very good,...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 12 19:19:35 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 19:33:23 -0700 2009 From A Buick 8 was my second "official" experience reading the works of Stephen King, the first being The Colorado Kid. I was somewhat surprised by how much the two stories have in common, though I enjoyed Buick much more.

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The car isn't actually a car, it's a kind of portal to another dimension, which of course chased away all my doubts that this would be a 'silly' horror story. As a King novel, it's nothing more or less than any d...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 11:56:09 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 12:09:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Dec 28 18:09:24 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 18:12:30 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Thu Aug 21 10:42:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 20:09:21 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Fri Mar 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 14 15:23:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 14 15:27:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Mon Feb 02 12:22:46 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 12:36:22 -0800 2009 once Cars that come to live, have a mind of their own and are wicked, bad, mean are things I like to read about. When I was young, there was a show broadcasted: Knight Rider. I was ad...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Mon Nov 10 06:41:00 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 10 06:41:14 -0800 2008 1 Let's start with the negatives. To me, this novel felt a lot like a short story that had b...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Mar 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 18 09:32:54 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 09 03:11:34 -0700 2009 happens beyond some old guys telling a story -- but I did like it. It's a story about stories, I think, how they don't really end, and I'm actually s...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Aug 21 10:33:20 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 02 09:59:06 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Sat Dec 15 19:58:53 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 15 20:01:05 -0800 2007
Narrator: James Rebhorn, Bruce Davison, Becky Ann Baker, and more .
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio, 2002
Length: 13 hours and 15 min.

Publisher's Summary
The state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret in Shed B...more...]]>