false 472343 29 Six months after a crane crushes his pickup truck and his body self-made millionaire Edgar Freemantle launches into a new life. His wife asked for a divorce after he stabbed her with a plastic knife and tried to strangle her one-handed (he lost his arm and for a time his rational brain in the accident). He divides his wealth into four equal parts for his wife, his two daughters, himself and leaves Minnesota for Duma Key, a stunningly beautiful, eerily remote stretch of the Florida coast where he has rented a house. All of the land on Duma Key, and the few houses, are owned by Elizabeth Eastlake, an octogenarian whose tragic and mysterious past unfolds perilously. When Edgar begins to paint, his formidable talent seems to come from someplace outside him, and the paintings, many of them, have a power that cannot be controlled. 3041864 book 2007 Duma Key total:6709|5:1864|4:2704|3:1594|2:417|1:130| 6709 25882 9596 1505 5 21 false false Sat Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 15 21:33:27 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 06 23:19:43 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 9 false false Fri Apr 04 22:53:39 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 14 09:29:12 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 9 false true Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 03 11:32:38 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 03 11:36:10 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 9 false false Sun Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 28 18:29:12 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 10 21:57:07 -0800 2008 word, has a profound impact upon me. I'm in the middle of the book, and I'm terrified to finish it, but I can't stop turning the pages...

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Irony alert: in this lengthy review, I accuse King of writing far more than necessary!

On balance, this is a pretty good book. I'm not sure I'd give it a full 4 st...more...]]> 4 4 false false Tue Mar 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 25 12:55:19 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 19 12:15:06 -0700 2008
Once a decade or so, Stephen King goes through a terrible writing slump, and I inevitably find myself wondering if King is finally past it. It happened in the early eighties (Christine, Cujo, Firestarter, et al.), the early nineties (culminating in ...more...]]> 5 3 false true Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 21 18:29:36 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 25 10:33:24 -0800 2008 slow burn o...more...]]> 1 4 false false Tue Feb 05 07:40:15 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 27 07:00:05 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 05 07:40:03 -0800 2008
400 pages in and pretty much out of patience. The stuff I've always dug--the sense of dread in the every day--bubbles up now and ag...more...]]> 4 3 false false Sun Aug 30 00:44:15 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 10:08:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 4 false false Sat Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 21 07:35:28 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 11 08:27:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 5 false false Mon Jan 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 14:55:35 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 14:55:47 -0800 2009 A building contractor from Minnesota has an awful accident in which he loses one...more...]]> 2 2 false false Thu Nov 06 09:15:04 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 06 09:41:53 -0800 2008
My reviews always include the section of the book w...more...]]> 3 2 false false Fri Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Aug 01 11:32:40 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 01 11:33:04 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 5 false false Sun Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 29 16:24:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 13 02:07:20 -0700 2009 read a lot of King, and this is among his best. I know some people feel that after his accident he lost his touch for the creeping horror that made him famous, but I assure you that is not the case. This book proves that King not only still has it, he's still improving.
...more...]]> 5 4 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Apr 22 09:54:29 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 22 23:57:42 -0700 2008 Many of King's fans have been upset with some of his later work because of the lack of true terror. Others were pleased because there was a bit more variety or literary quality. Me, I feel that I can't say his books ever got better or worse.

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