La storia di Lisey

It's a "love story" done "Stephen King" style and so perfectly done that my first thought after finishing was to read the novel a second time. The characters are so genuine and universal that everyone will love them, and the story is both magical and heart-breaking at exactly the same time.

A very personal, slow, and calm tale A rare case of an emotional King King wanted to try something new and autobiographical at the same time, it reminded me of his experiment with telling a love story in one of The Dark Tower novels, I just can´t remember which one it was. Autobiographic inspiration Leggi tutto

“I loved you then and I love you now and I have loved you every second in between." This is a book about Lisey Landon, the widow of a famous author, Scott Landon. There are two main stories within the book - that of Lisey's story in the present, and that of her dead husband's life. Lisey is clearing Leggi tutto

Stephen King says this is the best thing he's ever written, but I doubt fans would agree. That's not to say it's a bad novel--it's not--but a symbolic romp through the mind of a literary prodigy isn't as relatable as his typical folksy horrors. It comes across egotistical and, occasionally, outright Leggi tutto

“She would have thought two years was enough time for the strangeness to rub off, but it wasn’t; time apparently did nothing but blunt grief’s sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced.” In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Stephen King named “Lisey’s Story” as the best book he ever Leggi tutto

This definitely was the most long winded and boring book I ever picked up by Stephen King. Lisey reflects about her deceased husband a famed author named Scott Landon. Zack McCool tries to threaten her to give the literary remains to a prof. Scott had an elder brother named Paul. Lisey some sisters. Leggi tutto

It started out fairly well. Youngish widow going through her brilliant writer husband's papers...maybe it was a thinly veiled biography of King's wife Tabitha? Maybe it would be good. Its initial promise wore thin after about the 70th time the word "smucking" appeared. After about the 5th time the ma Leggi tutto

Lisey Debusher Landon is the widow of Scott Landon, the Stephen King stand-in here, an author who achieved fame in his early 20’s and never let go, soon becoming and then remaining a best-selling novelist. King weaves several time lines, Landon’s bizarre childhood and his relationship with his fathe Leggi tutto

Smucking smucking oh my god so much smmmmuckkking!! Do you know what i mean, babyluv? Can you feel this smucking annoyance towards this smucking book? Sure you can. Every great artist produces a smucking turd every now and again. Smuck the smuckers who think everything has to be so smucking perfect a Leggi tutto