Pet Sematary
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Pet Sematary
by Authors:
Stephen King
Released: 01 February, 2001
ISBN: 0743412273
Paperback
Sales Rank: 59155
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Customer Review #1:
 Now what will he do.....
Pet Sematary is an extremely descriptive book; it plays every scene that needs detail with the most that anyones imagination could offer. King explains everything in small detail, but leaves just enough for your imagination to take over. He is a wonderful writer and can ensnare you into his writing within the first chapter. Though I wouldnt recommend this book for those that are faint of heart.
Louis Creed, doctor, husband, and father, moves to a new house. His first day there he has already met his neighbor and friend Jud. Jud takes them up a winding path up to the pet sematary and shows them some of the pets gravestones. Upon returning from the sematary his daughter Ellie is having diificulties dealing with death. She doesnt want Church, their cat, to die. He explains to her that its a natural part of life and happens to everyone at some point. Also adding that Church had quite a while in front of him, Louis didnt know how wrong he was. While Ellie, Gage(his son), and Rachel(his wife) were in Chicago fof Thanksgiving, Chruch got ran over. Jud took Louis to a sacred burial ground to bury the cat. The next day the cat returned, alive, but he isnt quite himself. Church become tipsy and seems to have lost his sense of gracefulness. He seems...dead. Now what will Louis choose when his 2 year old son, Gage, is killed?
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Customer Review #2:
 King At His Best
If you look at the critical acclaim pages of nearly any Stephen King book, you will find that a vast number of sources probably proclaimed the work "Sheer Genius!" "Gripping and Terrifying" and, more often than not, "One of the Scariest Books Id Ever Read". Ordinarily, I think it fair to say these claims are exaggerations--but not in the case of Pet Sematary.Ive read a good deal of Stephen Kings novels (more than half of them), and this one is by far my favorite. It has parts that you wouldnt want to read home alone late at night, but it is far more interesting than just monsters jumping out of shadows... What made this book so terrifying for me was that it was about human nature, and human reaction to death. The main character in the novel, Louis Creed, unleashes horrors into the world trying to ressurect his dead loved ones...and after the horrors are dealt with, he does it again. Pet Sematary is a deeply emotional book that explores just how far we would be willing to go to cheat death. If you read just one Stephen King novel, make it this one.
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Customer Review #3:
For me - this is the scariest book ever written
Different people have different ideas about what is "funny" - same with "scary". If snakes or spiders or great-white sharks scare the peedoodle out of you, then your reaction to a story about them might be different than it might be for, say The Crocodile Hunter.Stephen King is prolific beyond belief. He is sometimes redundant. In Pet Sematary he wrote a story so compelling that I literally could not put it down, yet at the same time so horrifying that I practically screamed at myself NOT TO TURN THE NEXT PAGE!!!! King knows a thing or two about humans and human relationships, and in Pet Sematary he creates a realistic family that you care about.... then he does absolutely TERRIFYING things to them. Without giving anything away - I have to say that one of the reasons that this book affected me so deeply is that I had recently become a Dad back when this book first was released, and this book hones in on a new parents worst nightmares, then just gets worse and worse and worse. If you like being scared by a book, and you cant think of anything worse than seeing your child killed - this book might hit you like it hit me. I repeat: This is the scariest novel I have ever read. As an aside: The "scariest book ever" was turned into a fairly cheesy movie. I give the book a solid 5 stars, but wouldnt rate the film any higher than 2 or 3. Another aside: My personal choice for "scariest movie" is "The Exorcist", while I found the novel of "The Exorcist" fairly bland and not paced well enough to scare me.
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