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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #12854 in Books
- Published on: 2011-12-27
- Released on: 2011-12-27
- Original language:
English - Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.89" h x
1.50" w x
4.18" l,
.69 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 672 pages
Product Description
Ben Mears has returned to Jerusalem's Lot in the hopes that living in an old mansion, long the subject of town lore, will help him cast out his own devils and provide inspiration for his new book. But when two young boys venture into the woods and only one comes out alive, Mears begins to realize that there may be something sinister at work and that his hometown is under siege by forces of darkness far beyond his control.
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69 of 75 people found the following review helpful.
Today's Readers are Jaded
By Karen E. Rice
Today's readers, first becoming introduced to Stephen King, are jaded. They have been spoiled by the explosion of more graphic and explicit entertainment of late. When I first read 'Salem's Lot as a young teen, I was horrified, terrified, petrified. It was (and still is) brilliant storytelling. I was scared, not by the graphic scenes (which were few) but by the *implications* and the unwritten horror, there between the lines.I feel sorry for today's readers who seem to have little or no imagination left. For us old fogies, who discovered King in the dark, under the sheets and with a flashlight after Mom went to bed and knowing she'd take the book away *for good* if she found you reading it, 'Salem's Lot is a delicious masterpiece of terror.This Kindle edition was a great treat. I downloaded it without reading much about the edition...what was there to "know?" It was 'Salem's Lot, the only King novel to give me NIGHTMARES. As I was reading, I remembered a short story about "The Lot" from one of King's other books, about a guy who left his wife and kid in a snowbank in the car...and I was straining to remember the name of the story or the book it was from....imagine my delight at the "end" of 'Salem's Lot to discover it wasn't THE END...there was MORE! The story I was trying to recall was "One for the Road" and there was another one I hadn't read before called "Jerusalem's Lot" and then there were the "deleted" or edited scenes from King's original plan for 'Salem's Lot....oh the joy! You hate to see a good book end, and so I was happy that 'Salem's Lot didn't end quite so soon. :)For unimaginative readers who desire an author to spell out lot of blood and gore and graphic sex, 'Salem's Lot is not for you. For the rest of us, who love to curl their toes at the unspoken, who break out in goosebumps at the subtlety, who long to feel the emotions and terror of the characters....'Salem's Lot welcomes you.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful.This Book Made Me A Fan
By SerenityFL
Salem's Lot was the very first Stephen King book I ever read. I was 13 years old and already had an overactive imagination before this book walked right in to that imagination, smacked it around and demanded recognition and respect.For many weeks after reading this book, I was petrified to look out my bedroom window at night lest I see a vampire hovering there, asking to be let in. To this day, I cannot watch that particular scene in the movie adaptation.I love a good thriller; a book that will scare the ever loving garbage out of me and this is THE book that did it. This book had such an impact on my 13 year old mind that I have been too scared to pick it up and read it again in over 20 years. However, now that I have a Kindle on the way, I'm adding it to my soon to be built up electronic SK library. And I will read it again.This time I'm leaving all the lights on.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.How Vampires Should Be
By Derrick Hibbard
This was the first book by Stephen King that I read, and I still remember being completely terrified while reading it. To this day, I'm still nervous about looking out my windows at night and seeing a vampire kid at my window. 'Salem's Lot is modern storytelling at its best. The characters are well-defined and the plot moves along at a nice pace, until you get to the last third of the book and you can't put it down. The battleground between good and evil lays the ground work for King's masterpiece, The Stand, and explores the meaning of both good and evil as it relates to fallible people in a war against an evil in pure form. Despite the thought-provoking qualities, the entertainment value of this book is hard to beat. It's chilling and fun, and easily one of my favorite King books.
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