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    <body><![CDATA[I am a Stephen King junkie.  I started reading him in high school and quickly tore through just about everything he'd ever written, and then started buying every new book he put out.  Being a Stephen King fan is kind of like being a geek for Dragonlance or comic books - reviewing his work seems bord...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5417786">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Easily my favorite Stephen King novel ever, and I've read a wide cross section of different eras of his stuff.  This is a ghost story...it's about being haunted, both by spirits and by memories.  It's a book about loss and grief, but also a suspenseful mystery with a super spooky atmosphere, set in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2149307">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am enjoying what I think is perhaps Stephen King’s best novel, ever.<br/><br/>The opinion on Stephen King’s best work differs depending on who you talk to; but for me, it will always be Bag of Bones.<br/><br/>It’s the one novel of Kings that I’ve read more than any other (nine times) a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45347255">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Where to begin? <br/><br/>This is my favorite King book so far. And that's really saying a lot, because I like a lot of King stuff.  <br/><br/>The strength of Bag of Bones (a completely appropriate title on so many levels once you get through it), lies in its completely realistic starting point....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36270450">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like many Stephen King books, the characters he creates seem almost real. Throughout Bag od Bones, the central character, Mike Noonan, obviously parallels King's life. You come to think of Mike as someone who really existed. Of course if Mike really existed, then the Sara Laughs story must be real-a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28227965">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Slow moving. I quit halfway through, switched to an action novel which cleared my head and allowed me to continue the laborious trudge.<br/><br/>The best thing about this novel, aside from reaching the end (660 pages… it could have been pared back to 450 and I would have been happy), was its int...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8327349">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Summery: Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls Sara Laughs, Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway. There, he finds his...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6501310">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Stephen King remains my favorite author, even though almost nothing I have read after <em>Bag of Bones</em> --which he published in 1998--, although I have loved, has quite thrilled me as much as this masterpiece, which I am now reading with the same grip for the <em>third time</em>. Mike Noonan's slow descent from m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2974972">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I LOVE this book! I think the thing that makes Stephen King one of my favorite writers isn't that his books make me lose sleep but that they usually involve great flawed heroes. Like most Kings novels the first quarter of the book is calm set up and the end is a roller coaster of calamity. Well the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19280558">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not afraid to say that Stephen King, when he's writing garden variety horror that you buy to distract yourself during a layover, is unentertaining. Blah blah blah sex fantasy, blah blah blah generic character exchange. I was thoroughly unimpressed by his character development (or lack thereof) a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3108846">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I guess it was bound to happen. I read a Stephen King. I have to admit  that much of the reason lay behind his decision to leave Viking for Scribner's, Viking having decided that $17,000,000 for Bag of Bones was a little too hefty. After reading the novel, I suspect the decision was as much his agen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45418546">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another author who's main character is an author. I wonder why author's do that?<br/><br/>At any rate, this book had some freaky moments, and some &quot;huh?&quot; moments, and was just sad from start to finish.<br/><br/>Mike is reeling after the unexpected and sudden death of his wife. He quest...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56812307">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Engaging, page-turning ghostly yarn, and thankfully a quickish read, as it weighs in at 732 pgs Pocket Book edition. It took more than my beach vacation to finish.  Mike Noonan is frozen in grief and mired in writer's block after his young wife's tragic death.  He seeks sanctuary of sorts at their l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52719951">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the things I have always liked best is just a simple ghost story.  No monsters coming to get you in the middle of the night, no cars that have a malevolent life of their own, no undead cats or small children trying to kill you.  Just a story about what might happen beyond death, and the unres...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57452633">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like all mediocre Stephen King books, this one had intensely memorable scenes - notably the Sara Tidwell flashback near the end, which was so visceral that it was the only thing saving this book from 2 stars. The plot I found it a little thin on the plausibility meter (Sara's curse was to have her a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39354998">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The narrator of Bag of Bones is a mid-level selling fiction writer, and there is something a little odd – even jarring – about King doing this particular ventriloquist act. For the first one hundred pages or so I was not only taking in the plot, but wondering if he just wanted to take a look at ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69933519">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my first time reading <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3389.Stephen_King" title="Stephen King">Stephen King</a>, and it was recommended to me by a friend who adores him. I really enjoyed this book once it got really into the story. I found it slightly slow starting, and I had a hard time picking it up at times because I felt that there really wasn't anything going on...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66469329">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent book.  In true Stephen King form, the book flows and is written extremely well.  As I recall, I never hit a part that I felt I needed to skim to get back to the meat of the story.  However, anyone who has read much of Steve knows that some books end great while others just sort of...end.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44357286">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first Stephen King book that I read in a long, long time.  I travel a lot, and I just canceled my Sirius Radio subscription. I needed something else to listen to, so I figured that I'd go back to Stephen King books.<br/><br/>I really did enjoy the book. While Mr. King's voice is not the greates...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79008403">more...</a>]]></body>
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