false 896259 <![CDATA[Hearts in Atlantis]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179269442m/896259.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179269442s/896259.jpg Bobby's mom takes in a lodger, Ted Brautigan, who turns the boy on to great books like Lord of the Flies. Unfortunately, Ted is being hunted by yellow-jacketed men--monsters from King's Dark Tower novels who take over the shady part of town. They close in on Ted and Bobby, just as a gang of older kids menace Bobby and his girlfriend, Carol. This pointedly echoes the theme of Lord of the Flies (the one book King says he wishes he'd written): war is the human condition. Ted's mind-reading powers rub off a bit on Bobby, granting nightmare glimpses of his mom's assault by her rich, vile, jaunty boss. King packs plenty into 250 pages, using the same trick Bobby discerns in the film Village of the Damned: "The people seemed like real people, which made the make-believe parts scarier."

Vietnam is the otherworldly horror that haunts the remaining four stories. In the title tale, set in 1966, University of Maine college kids play the card game Hearts so obsessively they risk flunking out and getting drafted. The kids discover sex, rock, and politics, become war heroes and victims, and spend the '80s and '90s shell-shocked by change. The characters and stories are crisscrossed with connections that sometimes click and sometimes clunk. The most intense Hearts player, Ronnie Malenfant ("evil infant"), perpetrates a My Lai-like atrocity; a nice Harwich girl becomes a radical bomber. King's metaphor for lost '60s innocence is inspired by Donovan's "sweet and stupid" song about the sunken continent, and his stories hail the vanished Atlantis of his youth with deep sweetness and melancholy intelligence. --Tim Appelo

]]> 11602 47 3166850 book 1999 Hearts in Atlantis total:9407|5:1976|4:3059|3:3030|2:1084|1:258| 9407 33632 11260 334 3389 3.75 737115 33085 81339688 3053862 11602 0340818670 9780340818671 260 <![CDATA[Hearts in Atlantis]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480303m/11602.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480303s/11602.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11602.Hearts_in_Atlantis 3.57 8442 Bobby's mom takes in a lodger, Ted Brautigan, who turns the boy on to great books like Lord of the Flies. Unfortunately, Ted is being hunted by yellow-jacketed men--monsters from King's Dark Tower novels who take over the shady part of town. They close in on Ted and Bobby, just as a gang of older kids menace Bobby and his girlfriend, Carol. This pointedly echoes the theme of Lord of the Flies (the one book King says he wishes he'd written): war is the human condition. Ted's mind-reading powers rub off a bit on Bobby, granting nightmare glimpses of his mom's assault by her rich, vile, jaunty boss. King packs plenty into 250 pages, using the same trick Bobby discerns in the film Village of the Damned: "The people seemed like real people, which made the make-believe parts scarier."

Vietnam is the otherworldly horror that haunts the remaining four stories. In the title tale, set in 1966, University of Maine college kids play the card game Hearts so obsessively they risk flunking out and getting drafted. The kids discover sex, rock, and politics, become war heroes and victims, and spend the '80s and '90s shell-shocked by change. The characters and stories are crisscrossed with connections that sometimes click and sometimes clunk. The most intense Hearts player, Ronnie Malenfant ("evil infant"), perpetrates a My Lai-like atrocity; a nice Harwich girl becomes a radical bomber. King's metaphor for lost '60s innocence is inspired by Donovan's "sweet and stupid" song about the sunken continent, and his stories hail the vanished Atlantis of his youth with deep sweetness and melancholy intelligence. --Tim Appelo

]]> 1999 4 0 true Tue Dec 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 17 17:04:55 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 18 09:22:32 -0800 2009 more...]]> 81338206 3050768 11602 0340818670 9780340818671 260 <![CDATA[Hearts in Atlantis]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480303m/11602.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480303s/11602.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11602.Hearts_in_Atlantis 3.58 9407 Bobby's mom takes in a lodger, Ted Brautigan, who turns the boy on to great books like Lord of the Flies. Unfortunately, Ted is being hunted by yellow-jacketed men--monsters from King's Dark Tower novels who take over the shady part of town. They close in on Ted and Bobby, just as a gang of older kids menace Bobby and his girlfriend, Carol. This pointedly echoes the theme of Lord of the Flies (the one book King says he wishes he'd written): war is the human condition. Ted's mind-reading powers rub off a bit on Bobby, granting nightmare glimpses of his mom's assault by her rich, vile, jaunty boss. King packs plenty into 250 pages, using the same trick Bobby discerns in the film Village of the Damned: "The people seemed like real people, which made the make-believe parts scarier."

Vietnam is the otherworldly horror that haunts the remaining four stories. In the title tale, set in 1966, University of Maine college kids play the card game Hearts so obsessively they risk flunking out and getting drafted. The kids discover sex, rock, and politics, become war heroes and victims, and spend the '80s and '90s shell-shocked by change. The characters and stories are crisscrossed with connections that sometimes click and sometimes clunk. The most intense Hearts player, Ronnie Malenfant ("evil infant"), perpetrates a My Lai-like atrocity; a nice Harwich girl becomes a radical bomber. King's metaphor for lost '60s innocence is inspired by Donovan's "sweet and stupid" song about the sunken continent, and his stories hail the vanished Atlantis of his youth with deep sweetness and melancholy intelligence. --Tim Appelo

]]> 1999 4 0 true Tue Dec 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 17 16:50:33 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 17 16:54:03 -0800 2009 The novel Hearts in Atlantis is a magnificent book due to Stephen King’s ability to create a great exposition, the way the characters relationships with other characters develop, and the writing style of the Stephen King which enhances the reading experience of the book. If your fami...more...]]> 62250239 1880447 1033784 0743436210 9780743436212 2 <![CDATA[Hearts in Atlantis]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180388769m/1033784.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180388769s/1033784.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1033784.Hearts_in_Atlantis 3.86 7 Bobby's mom takes in a lodger, Ted Brautigan, who turns the boy on to great books like Lord of the Flies. Unfortunately, Ted is being hunted by yellow-jacketed men--monsters from King's Dark Tower novels who take over the shady part of town. They close in on Ted and Bobby, just as a gang of older kids menace Bobby and his girlfriend, Carol. This pointedly echoes the theme of Lord of the Flies (the one book King says he wishes he'd written): war is the human condition. Ted's mind-reading powers rub off a bit on Bobby, granting nightmare glimpses of his mom's assault by her rich, vile, jaunty boss. King packs plenty into 250 pages, using the same trick Bobby discerns in the film Village of the Damned: "The people seemed like real people, which made the make-believe parts scarier."

Vietnam is the otherworldly horror that haunts the remaining four stories. In the title tale, set in 1966, University of Maine college kids play the card game Hearts so obsessively they risk flunking out and getting drafted. The kids discover sex, rock, and politics, become war heroes and victims, and spend the '80s and '90s shell-shocked by change. The characters and stories are crisscrossed with connections that sometimes click and sometimes clunk. The most intense Hearts player, Ronnie Malenfant ("evil infant"), perpetrates a My Lai-like atrocity; a nice Harwich girl becomes a radical bomber. King's metaphor for lost '60s innocence is inspired by Donovan's "sweet and stupid" song about the sunken continent, and his stories hail the vanished Atlantis of his youth with deep sweetness and melancholy intelligence. --Tim Appelo

]]> 1999 5 0 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 05 15:58:45 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 16:20:54 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 60454637 203289 228134 0671024248 9780671024246 38 <![CDATA[Hearts In Atlantis]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172884001m/228134.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172884001s/228134.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/228134.Hearts_In_Atlantis 3.65 533 1999 5 0 false Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 17:07:06 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 17:44:07 -0700 2009 1
It's a collection of stories that interweaves through the lives of several characters and tells how events early in their lives affected everything that happened after. It flows easily from one story to ...more...]]> 58616987 1074042 11602 0340818670 9780340818671 260 <![CDATA[Hearts in Atlantis]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480303m/11602.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480303s/11602.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11602.Hearts_in_Atlantis 3.58 9407 Bobby's mom takes in a lodger, Ted Brautigan, who turns the boy on to great books like Lord of the Flies. Unfortunately, Ted is being hunted by yellow-jacketed men--monsters from King's Dark Tower novels who take over the shady part of town. They close in on Ted and Bobby, just as a gang of older kids menace Bobby and his girlfriend, Carol. This pointedly echoes the theme of Lord of the Flies (the one book King says he wishes he'd written): war is the human condition. Ted's mind-reading powers rub off a bit on Bobby, granting nightmare glimpses of his mom's assault by her rich, vile, jaunty boss. King packs plenty into 250 pages, using the same trick Bobby discerns in the film Village of the Damned: "The people seemed like real people, which made the make-believe parts scarier."

Vietnam is the otherworldly horror that haunts the remaining four stories. In the title tale, set in 1966, University of Maine college kids play the card game Hearts so obsessively they risk flunking out and getting drafted. The kids discover sex, rock, and politics, become war heroes and victims, and spend the '80s and '90s shell-shocked by change. The characters and stories are crisscrossed with connections that sometimes click and sometimes clunk. The most intense Hearts player, Ronnie Malenfant ("evil infant"), perpetrates a My Lai-like atrocity; a nice Harwich girl becomes a radical bomber. King's metaphor for lost '60s innocence is inspired by Donovan's "sweet and stupid" song about the sunken continent, and his stories hail the vanished Atlantis of his youth with deep sweetness and melancholy intelligence. --Tim Appelo

]]> 1999 3 0 false Fri Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 21:32:46 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 21:39:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 57100319 1693763 11602 0340818670 9780340818671 260 <![CDATA[Hearts in Atlantis]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480303m/11602.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480303s/11602.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11602.Hearts_in_Atlantis 3.58 9407 Bobby's mom takes in a lodger, Ted Brautigan, who turns the boy on to great books like Lord of the Flies. Unfortunately, Ted is being hunted by yellow-jacketed men--monsters from King's Dark Tower novels who take over the shady part of town. They close in on Ted and Bobby, just as a gang of older kids menace Bobby and his girlfriend, Carol. This pointedly echoes the theme of Lord of the Flies (the one book King says he wishes he'd written): war is the human condition. Ted's mind-reading powers rub off a bit on Bobby, granting nightmare glimpses of his mom's assault by her rich, vile, jaunty boss. King packs plenty into 250 pages, using the same trick Bobby discerns in the film Village of the Damned: "The people seemed like real people, which made the make-believe parts scarier."

Vietnam is the otherworldly horror that haunts the remaining four stories. In the title tale, set in 1966, University of Maine college kids play the card game Hearts so obsessively they risk flunking out and getting drafted. The kids discover sex, rock, and politics, become war heroes and victims, and spend the '80s and '90s shell-shocked by change. The characters and stories are crisscrossed with connections that sometimes click and sometimes clunk. The most intense Hearts player, Ronnie Malenfant ("evil infant"), perpetrates a My Lai-like atrocity; a nice Harwich girl becomes a radical bomber. King's metaphor for lost '60s innocence is inspired by Donovan's "sweet and stupid" song about the sunken continent, and his stories hail the vanished Atlantis of his youth with deep sweetness and melancholy intelligence. --Tim Appelo

]]> 1999 3 0 false Sat May 23 17:34:39 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 17:46:09 -0700 2009
In reality, the only story tha...more...]]> 56600551 424175 228134 0671024248 9780671024246 38 <![CDATA[Hearts In Atlantis]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172884001m/228134.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172884001s/228134.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/228134.Hearts_In_Atlantis 3.58 9407 1999 3 0 false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 07:26:15 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 07:28:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 70175154 1248754 11602 0340818670 9780340818671 260 <![CDATA[Hearts in Atlantis]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480303m/11602.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480303s/11602.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11602.Hearts_in_Atlantis 3.58 9407 Bobby's mom takes in a lodger, Ted Brautigan, who turns the boy on to great books like Lord of the Flies. Unfortunately, Ted is being hunted by yellow-jacketed men--monsters from King's Dark Tower novels who take over the shady part of town. They close in on Ted and Bobby, just as a gang of older kids menace Bobby and his girlfriend, Carol. This pointedly echoes the theme of Lord of the Flies (the one book King says he wishes he'd written): war is the human condition. Ted's mind-reading powers rub off a bit on Bobby, granting nightmare glimpses of his mom's assault by her rich, vile, jaunty boss. King packs plenty into 250 pages, using the same trick Bobby discerns in the film Village of the Damned: "The people seemed like real people, which made the make-believe parts scarier."

Vietnam is the otherworldly horror that haunts the remaining four stories. In the title tale, set in 1966, University of Maine college kids play the card game Hearts so obsessively they risk flunking out and getting drafted. The kids discover sex, rock, and politics, become war heroes and victims, and spend the '80s and '90s shell-shocked by change. The characters and stories are crisscrossed with connections that sometimes click and sometimes clunk. The most intense Hearts player, Ronnie Malenfant ("evil infant"), perpetrates a My Lai-like atrocity; a nice Harwich girl becomes a radical bomber. King's metaphor for lost '60s innocence is inspired by Donovan's "sweet and stupid" song about the sunken continent, and his stories hail the vanished Atlantis of his youth with deep sweetness and melancholy intelligence. --Tim Appelo

]]> 1999 4 0 false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 14:01:23 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 14:08:32 -0700 2009
Ted's role in some shady, dystopian Universal Plan is never explained: only that he has some power the...more...]]> 66215335 2593734 11602 0340818670 9780340818671 260 <![CDATA[Hearts in Atlantis]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480303m/11602.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480303s/11602.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11602.Hearts_in_Atlantis 3.58 9407 Bobby's mom takes in a lodger, Ted Brautigan, who turns the boy on to great books like Lord of the Flies. Unfortunately, Ted is being hunted by yellow-jacketed men--monsters from King's Dark Tower novels who take over the shady part of town. They close in on Ted and Bobby, just as a gang of older kids menace Bobby and his girlfriend, Carol. This pointedly echoes the theme of Lord of the Flies (the one book King says he wishes he'd written): war is the human condition. Ted's mind-reading powers rub off a bit on Bobby, granting nightmare glimpses of his mom's assault by her rich, vile, jaunty boss. King packs plenty into 250 pages, using the same trick Bobby discerns in the film Village of the Damned: "The people seemed like real people, which made the make-believe parts scarier."

Vietnam is the otherworldly horror that haunts the remaining four stories. In the title tale, set in 1966, University of Maine college kids play the card game Hearts so obsessively they risk flunking out and getting drafted. The kids discover sex, rock, and politics, become war heroes and victims, and spend the '80s and '90s shell-shocked by change. The characters and stories are crisscrossed with connections that sometimes click and sometimes clunk. The most intense Hearts player, Ronnie Malenfant ("evil infant"), perpetrates a My Lai-like atrocity; a nice Harwich girl becomes a radical bomber. King's metaphor for lost '60s innocence is inspired by Donovan's "sweet and stupid" song about the sunken continent, and his stories hail the vanished Atlantis of his youth with deep sweetness and melancholy intelligence. --Tim Appelo

]]> 1999 3 0 false Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 16:48:56 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 00:29:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 44920184 1969264 11602 0340818670 9780340818671 260 <![CDATA[Hearts in Atlantis]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480303m/11602.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480303s/11602.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11602.Hearts_in_Atlantis 3.58 9407 Bobby's mom takes in a lodger, Ted Brautigan, who turns the boy on to great books like Lord of the Flies. Unfortunately, Ted is being hunted by yellow-jacketed men--monsters from King's Dark Tower novels who take over the shady part of town. They close in on Ted and Bobby, just as a gang of older kids menace Bobby and his girlfriend, Carol. This pointedly echoes the theme of Lord of the Flies (the one book King says he wishes he'd written): war is the human condition. Ted's mind-reading powers rub off a bit on Bobby, granting nightmare glimpses of his mom's assault by her rich, vile, jaunty boss. King packs plenty into 250 pages, using the same trick Bobby discerns in the film Village of the Damned: "The people seemed like real people, which made the make-believe parts scarier."

Vietnam is the otherworldly horror that haunts the remaining four stories. In the title tale, set in 1966, University of Maine college kids play the card game Hearts so obsessively they risk flunking out and getting drafted. The kids discover sex, rock, and politics, become war heroes and victims, and spend the '80s and '90s shell-shocked by change. The characters and stories are crisscrossed with connections that sometimes click and sometimes clunk. The most intense Hearts player, Ronnie Malenfant ("evil infant"), perpetrates a My Lai-like atrocity; a nice Harwich girl becomes a radical bomber. King's metaphor for lost '60s innocence is inspired by Donovan's "sweet and stupid" song about the sunken continent, and his stories hail the vanished Atlantis of his youth with deep sweetness and melancholy intelligence. --Tim Appelo

]]> 1999 5 0 false Fri Jan 30 20:57:52 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 21:01:24 -0800 2009 more...]]> 64865780 1705056 11602 0340818670 9780340818671 260 <![CDATA[Hearts in Atlantis]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480303m/11602.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480303s/11602.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11602.Hearts_in_Atlantis 3.58 9407 Bobby's mom takes in a lodger, Ted Brautigan, who turns the boy on to great books like Lord of the Flies. Unfortunately, Ted is being hunted by yellow-jacketed men--monsters from King's Dark Tower novels who take over the shady part of town. They close in on Ted and Bobby, just as a gang of older kids menace Bobby and his girlfriend, Carol. This pointedly echoes the theme of Lord of the Flies (the one book King says he wishes he'd written): war is the human condition. Ted's mind-reading powers rub off a bit on Bobby, granting nightmare glimpses of his mom's assault by her rich, vile, jaunty boss. King packs plenty into 250 pages, using the same trick Bobby discerns in the film Village of the Damned: "The people seemed like real people, which made the make-believe parts scarier."

Vietnam is the otherworldly horror that haunts the remaining four stories. In the title tale, set in 1966, University of Maine college kids play the card game Hearts so obsessively they risk flunking out and getting drafted. The kids discover sex, rock, and politics, become war heroes and victims, and spend the '80s and '90s shell-shocked by change. The characters and stories are crisscrossed with connections that sometimes click and sometimes clunk. The most intense Hearts player, Ronnie Malenfant ("evil infant"), perpetrates a My Lai-like atrocity; a nice Harwich girl becomes a radical bomber. King's metaphor for lost '60s innocence is inspired by Donovan's "sweet and stupid" song about the sunken continent, and his stories hail the vanished Atlantis of his youth with deep sweetness and melancholy intelligence. --Tim Appelo

]]> 1999 4 0 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Fri Jul 24 21:40:44 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 21:44:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 67176445 1452657 542830 0684853515 9780684853512 22 <![CDATA[Hearts In Atlantis]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175651383m/542830.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175651383s/542830.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/542830.Hearts_In_Atlantis 3.63 284
In Part One, "Low Men in Yellow Coats," eleven-year-old Bobby Garfield discovers a world of predatory malice in his own neighborhood. He also discovers that adults are sometimes not rescuers but at the heart of the terror.

In the title story, a bunch of college kids get hooked on a card game, discover the possibility of protest...and confront their own collective heart of darkness, where laughter may be no more than the thinly disguised cry of the beast.

In "Blind Willie" and "Why We're in Vietnam," two men who grew up with Bobby in suburban Connecticut try to fill the emptiness of the post-Vietnam era in an America which sometimes seems as hollow -- and as haunted -- as their own lives.

And in "Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling," this remarkable book's denouement, Bobby returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope of redemption, and his heart's desire may await him.

Full of danger, full of suspense, most of all full of heart, Stephen King's new book will take some readers to a place they have never been...and others to a place they have never been able to completely leave. ]]> 1999 4 2 false Sun Aug 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 20:23:14 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 18:56:22 -0700 2009 1 Stephen King fan, but I somehow missed reading this one until now, even though I’ve owned it since it was first published in hardcover. Here, SK goes all literary with an ode to the 60s, the baby boomers, and to lost innocence.

Hearts In Atlantis is not a novel exactly, i...more...]]> 72637578 883477 11602 0340818670 9780340818671 260 <![CDATA[Hearts in Atlantis]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480303m/11602.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480303s/11602.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11602.Hearts_in_Atlantis 3.58 9407 Bobby's mom takes in a lodger, Ted Brautigan, who turns the boy on to great books like Lord of the Flies. Unfortunately, Ted is being hunted by yellow-jacketed men--monsters from King's Dark Tower novels who take over the shady part of town. They close in on Ted and Bobby, just as a gang of older kids menace Bobby and his girlfriend, Carol. This pointedly echoes the theme of Lord of the Flies (the one book King says he wishes he'd written): war is the human condition. Ted's mind-reading powers rub off a bit on Bobby, granting nightmare glimpses of his mom's assault by her rich, vile, jaunty boss. King packs plenty into 250 pages, using the same trick Bobby discerns in the film Village of the Damned: "The people seemed like real people, which made the make-believe parts scarier."

Vietnam is the otherworldly horror that haunts the remaining four stories. In the title tale, set in 1966, University of Maine college kids play the card game Hearts so obsessively they risk flunking out and getting drafted. The kids discover sex, rock, and politics, become war heroes and victims, and spend the '80s and '90s shell-shocked by change. The characters and stories are crisscrossed with connections that sometimes click and sometimes clunk. The most intense Hearts player, Ronnie Malenfant ("evil infant"), perpetrates a My Lai-like atrocity; a nice Harwich girl becomes a radical bomber. King's metaphor for lost '60s innocence is inspired by Donovan's "sweet and stupid" song about the sunken continent, and his stories hail the vanished Atlantis of his youth with deep sweetness and melancholy intelligence. --Tim Appelo

]]> 1999 4 1 false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 05:44:04 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 17:40:29 -0700 2009
Ki...more...]]> 40053372 313037 11602 0340818670 9780340818671 260 <![CDATA[Hearts in Atlantis]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480303m/11602.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480303s/11602.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11602.Hearts_in_Atlantis 3.58 9407 Bobby's mom takes in a lodger, Ted Brautigan, who turns the boy on to great books like Lord of the Flies. Unfortunately, Ted is being hunted by yellow-jacketed men--monsters from King's Dark Tower novels who take over the shady part of town. They close in on Ted and Bobby, just as a gang of older kids menace Bobby and his girlfriend, Carol. This pointedly echoes the theme of Lord of the Flies (the one book King says he wishes he'd written): war is the human condition. Ted's mind-reading powers rub off a bit on Bobby, granting nightmare glimpses of his mom's assault by her rich, vile, jaunty boss. King packs plenty into 250 pages, using the same trick Bobby discerns in the film Village of the Damned: "The people seemed like real people, which made the make-believe parts scarier."

Vietnam is the otherworldly horror that haunts the remaining four stories. In the title tale, set in 1966, University of Maine college kids play the card game Hearts so obsessively they risk flunking out and getting drafted. The kids discover sex, rock, and politics, become war heroes and victims, and spend the '80s and '90s shell-shocked by change. The characters and stories are crisscrossed with connections that sometimes click and sometimes clunk. The most intense Hearts player, Ronnie Malenfant ("evil infant"), perpetrates a My Lai-like atrocity; a nice Harwich girl becomes a radical bomber. King's metaphor for lost '60s innocence is inspired by Donovan's "sweet and stupid" song about the sunken continent, and his stories hail the vanished Atlantis of his youth with deep sweetness and melancholy intelligence. --Tim Appelo

]]> 1999 2 1 false Sat May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Sat Dec 13 21:43:47 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 22:01:45 -0800 2008
Stephen King is a master storyteller, but I have trouble ...more...]]> 41264823 273273 11602 0340818670 9780340818671 260 <![CDATA[Hearts in Atlantis]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480303m/11602.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480303s/11602.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11602.Hearts_in_Atlantis 3.58 9407 Bobby's mom takes in a lodger, Ted Brautigan, who turns the boy on to great books like Lord of the Flies. Unfortunately, Ted is being hunted by yellow-jacketed men--monsters from King's Dark Tower novels who take over the shady part of town. They close in on Ted and Bobby, just as a gang of older kids menace Bobby and his girlfriend, Carol. This pointedly echoes the theme of Lord of the Flies (the one book King says he wishes he'd written): war is the human condition. Ted's mind-reading powers rub off a bit on Bobby, granting nightmare glimpses of his mom's assault by her rich, vile, jaunty boss. King packs plenty into 250 pages, using the same trick Bobby discerns in the film Village of the Damned: "The people seemed like real people, which made the make-believe parts scarier."

Vietnam is the otherworldly horror that haunts the remaining four stories. In the title tale, set in 1966, University of Maine college kids play the card game Hearts so obsessively they risk flunking out and getting drafted. The kids discover sex, rock, and politics, become war heroes and victims, and spend the '80s and '90s shell-shocked by change. The characters and stories are crisscrossed with connections that sometimes click and sometimes clunk. The most intense Hearts player, Ronnie Malenfant ("evil infant"), perpetrates a My Lai-like atrocity; a nice Harwich girl becomes a radical bomber. King's metaphor for lost '60s innocence is inspired by Donovan's "sweet and stupid" song about the sunken continent, and his stories hail the vanished Atlantis of his youth with deep sweetness and melancholy intelligence. --Tim Appelo

]]> 1999 0 1 false Thu Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Dec 30 02:04:07 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 07 20:31:37 -0800 2009 در صورت تمایل، جهت مشخصات فیلمی که بر اساس این کتاب ساخته شده‌ است؛ می‌توانید از لینک زیر استفاده بفرمایید
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0252501]]> 80736512 3035261 11602 0340818670 9780340818671 260 <![CDATA[Hearts in Atlantis]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480303m/11602.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480303s/11602.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11602.Hearts_in_Atlantis 3.58 9407 Bobby's mom takes in a lodger, Ted Brautigan, who turns the boy on to great books like Lord of the Flies. Unfortunately, Ted is being hunted by yellow-jacketed men--monsters from King's Dark Tower novels who take over the shady part of town. They close in on Ted and Bobby, just as a gang of older kids menace Bobby and his girlfriend, Carol. This pointedly echoes the theme of Lord of the Flies (the one book King says he wishes he'd written): war is the human condition. Ted's mind-reading powers rub off a bit on Bobby, granting nightmare glimpses of his mom's assault by her rich, vile, jaunty boss. King packs plenty into 250 pages, using the same trick Bobby discerns in the film Village of the Damned: "The people seemed like real people, which made the make-believe parts scarier."

Vietnam is the otherworldly horror that haunts the remaining four stories. In the title tale, set in 1966, University of Maine college kids play the card game Hearts so obsessively they risk flunking out and getting drafted. The kids discover sex, rock, and politics, become war heroes and victims, and spend the '80s and '90s shell-shocked by change. The characters and stories are crisscrossed with connections that sometimes click and sometimes clunk. The most intense Hearts player, Ronnie Malenfant ("evil infant"), perpetrates a My Lai-like atrocity; a nice Harwich girl becomes a radical bomber. King's metaphor for lost '60s innocence is inspired by Donovan's "sweet and stupid" song about the sunken continent, and his stories hail the vanished Atlantis of his youth with deep sweetness and melancholy intelligence. --Tim Appelo

]]> 1999 5 0 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Dec 12 01:01:15 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 12 15:42:37 -0800 2009
Upon reading, I was absolutely mistaken. The first story, Low Men in Yellow Coats, is signature King, sacred and t...more...]]> 53821119 810550 11602 0340818670 9780340818671 260 <![CDATA[Hearts in Atlantis]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480303m/11602.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480303s/11602.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11602.Hearts_in_Atlantis 3.58 9407 Bobby's mom takes in a lodger, Ted Brautigan, who turns the boy on to great books like Lord of the Flies. Unfortunately, Ted is being hunted by yellow-jacketed men--monsters from King's Dark Tower novels who take over the shady part of town. They close in on Ted and Bobby, just as a gang of older kids menace Bobby and his girlfriend, Carol. This pointedly echoes the theme of Lord of the Flies (the one book King says he wishes he'd written): war is the human condition. Ted's mind-reading powers rub off a bit on Bobby, granting nightmare glimpses of his mom's assault by her rich, vile, jaunty boss. King packs plenty into 250 pages, using the same trick Bobby discerns in the film Village of the Damned: "The people seemed like real people, which made the make-believe parts scarier."

Vietnam is the otherworldly horror that haunts the remaining four stories. In the title tale, set in 1966, University of Maine college kids play the card game Hearts so obsessively they risk flunking out and getting drafted. The kids discover sex, rock, and politics, become war heroes and victims, and spend the '80s and '90s shell-shocked by change. The characters and stories are crisscrossed with connections that sometimes click and sometimes clunk. The most intense Hearts player, Ronnie Malenfant ("evil infant"), perpetrates a My Lai-like atrocity; a nice Harwich girl becomes a radical bomber. King's metaphor for lost '60s innocence is inspired by Donovan's "sweet and stupid" song about the sunken continent, and his stories hail the vanished Atlantis of his youth with deep sweetness and melancholy intelligence. --Tim Appelo

]]> 1999 5 0 false Mon May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 08:38:34 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 12:51:07 -0700 2009 most of his stories, in one way or another, link childhood and growing up with the adults they, and we, become.
I guess this shouldn't be that much of a revelation that I've unearthed,
given that he's a strong character...more...]]> 82099996 3074310 542830 0684853515 9780684853512 22 <![CDATA[Hearts In Atlantis]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175651383m/542830.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175651383s/542830.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/542830.Hearts_In_Atlantis 3.58 9407
In Part One, "Low Men in Yellow Coats," eleven-year-old Bobby Garfield discovers a world of predatory malice in his own neighborhood. He also discovers that adults are sometimes not rescuers but at the heart of the terror.

In the title story, a bunch of college kids get hooked on a card game, discover the possibility of protest...and confront their own collective heart of darkness, where laughter may be no more than the thinly disguised cry of the beast.

In "Blind Willie" and "Why We're in Vietnam," two men who grew up with Bobby in suburban Connecticut try to fill the emptiness of the post-Vietnam era in an America which sometimes seems as hollow -- and as haunted -- as their own lives.

And in "Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling," this remarkable book's denouement, Bobby returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope of redemption, and his heart's desire may await him.

Full of danger, full of suspense, most of all full of heart, Stephen King's new book will take some readers to a place they have never been...and others to a place they have never been able to completely leave. ]]> 1999 2 0 false Sat Dec 26 14:23:04 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 26 14:26:58 -0800 2009 more...]]> 65649205 2401192 11602 0340818670 9780340818671 260 <![CDATA[Hearts in Atlantis]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480303m/11602.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480303s/11602.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11602.Hearts_in_Atlantis 3.58 9407 Bobby's mom takes in a lodger, Ted Brautigan, who turns the boy on to great books like Lord of the Flies. Unfortunately, Ted is being hunted by yellow-jacketed men--monsters from King's Dark Tower novels who take over the shady part of town. They close in on Ted and Bobby, just as a gang of older kids menace Bobby and his girlfriend, Carol. This pointedly echoes the theme of Lord of the Flies (the one book King says he wishes he'd written): war is the human condition. Ted's mind-reading powers rub off a bit on Bobby, granting nightmare glimpses of his mom's assault by her rich, vile, jaunty boss. King packs plenty into 250 pages, using the same trick Bobby discerns in the film Village of the Damned: "The people seemed like real people, which made the make-believe parts scarier."

Vietnam is the otherworldly horror that haunts the remaining four stories. In the title tale, set in 1966, University of Maine college kids play the card game Hearts so obsessively they risk flunking out and getting drafted. The kids discover sex, rock, and politics, become war heroes and victims, and spend the '80s and '90s shell-shocked by change. The characters and stories are crisscrossed with connections that sometimes click and sometimes clunk. The most intense Hearts player, Ronnie Malenfant ("evil infant"), perpetrates a My Lai-like atrocity; a nice Harwich girl becomes a radical bomber. King's metaphor for lost '60s innocence is inspired by Donovan's "sweet and stupid" song about the sunken continent, and his stories hail the vanished Atlantis of his youth with deep sweetness and melancholy intelligence. --Tim Appelo

]]> 1999 4 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Fri Jul 31 08:13:08 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 08:19:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 58699225 1052791 11602 0340818670 9780340818671 260 <![CDATA[Hearts in Atlantis]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480303m/11602.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480303s/11602.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11602.Hearts_in_Atlantis 3.58 9407 Bobby's mom takes in a lodger, Ted Brautigan, who turns the boy on to great books like Lord of the Flies. Unfortunately, Ted is being hunted by yellow-jacketed men--monsters from King's Dark Tower novels who take over the shady part of town. They close in on Ted and Bobby, just as a gang of older kids menace Bobby and his girlfriend, Carol. This pointedly echoes the theme of Lord of the Flies (the one book King says he wishes he'd written): war is the human condition. Ted's mind-reading powers rub off a bit on Bobby, granting nightmare glimpses of his mom's assault by her rich, vile, jaunty boss. King packs plenty into 250 pages, using the same trick Bobby discerns in the film Village of the Damned: "The people seemed like real people, which made the make-believe parts scarier."

Vietnam is the otherworldly horror that haunts the remaining four stories. In the title tale, set in 1966, University of Maine college kids play the card game Hearts so obsessively they risk flunking out and getting drafted. The kids discover sex, rock, and politics, become war heroes and victims, and spend the '80s and '90s shell-shocked by change. The characters and stories are crisscrossed with connections that sometimes click and sometimes clunk. The most intense Hearts player, Ronnie Malenfant ("evil infant"), perpetrates a My Lai-like atrocity; a nice Harwich girl becomes a radical bomber. King's metaphor for lost '60s innocence is inspired by Donovan's "sweet and stupid" song about the sunken continent, and his stories hail the vanished Atlantis of his youth with deep sweetness and melancholy intelligence. --Tim Appelo

]]> 1999 3 0 false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 18:52:46 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 19:02:32 -0700 2009 Hearts in Atlantis is composed of five interconnected narratives, set in the years 1960-1999. Each story is ro...more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=896259