Buick 8

You ever make a meal comprised only of a bunch of leftovers that don’t really match? That’s how you end up eating half a Salisbury steak with the sweet-n-sour chicken from last night’s take-out. Stephen King loves doing that only it’s with books instead of food. Here we have a hunk of Christine serve Leggi tutto

I think I’m in an unpopular opinion situation but as GR is glitching as I write this, who knows!! Either way, I enjoyed the book! I didn’t find it boring at all! I like books that ramble on And I loved the audio, although, I think I missed a few things!! But I didn’t like the dog part damn it! The e Leggi tutto

From a Buick 8: a Novel, Stephen King From a Buick 8 is a horror novel by American writer Stephen King. From a Buick 8 is a novel about our fascination with deadly things, about our insistence on answers when there are none, about terror and courage in the face of the unknowable. First published on S Leggi tutto

I often wonder if 'Buick' counts as metafiction: a story told within a story which is, in a way, 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... Leggi tutto

2.5 Stars OMGOSH, I really can't believe I'm rating a Stephen King novel 2.5 Stars, but From A Buick 8 turned out to be a real "clunker" of a read for me. The story begins enticingly when a mysterious man dressed in black rolls into a gas station for a fill-up and forthwith disappears leaving his evil Leggi tutto

“It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only… Only who really wants to?” Unpopular opinion here, but for me From a Buick 8 has always been one of King’s favorites. What can I say - you love what you love. Well, how do I love Leggi tutto

There are many problems with this book, but they can all be summed up with a quote from the actual text: From page 297 of the hardcover, third paragraph, starting fourth sentence in: But--this is important--tell me a story , one that has a beginning and a middle and an end where everything is explaine Leggi tutto

I don't think this is the best novel I've read. It's not even Stephen King's best. It is my favorite though. It's the novel I've reread most often. This was at least my fifteenth reading of it and I still had fun.

"How does it feel, how does it feel? To be on your own, with no direction home A complete unknown, like a rolling stone!" -- Bob Dylan Why do I choose Dylan lyrics to open a review? Two reasons - 1.) author King's title was inspired by the track called 'From a Buick 6,' from Dylan's 1965 album Highway Leggi tutto

I avoided this novel for years, in fear that it would be a 'Christine' part 2 situation. Well, I was wrong. It's actually an extremely better novel, in my opinion. Scarier? No. More exciting? Definitely not. More entertaining? No. Better written? Yes. George A Romero used zombies to explore deeper m Leggi tutto