5: I loved it
4: It was good
3: Average
2: Only so-so
1: I didn't like it
Never Read
Bracket #4: Pet Sematary (1983)
Pet Sematary, 1983
Please vote for Pet Sematary using the following scale:
5: I loved it
4: It was good
3: Average
2: Only so-so
1: I didn't like it
If you haven't read this book yet, please vote Never Read. Feel free to discuss your votes in this thread.
bears loved it, even though they were really scared
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My first King book. Maybe a nostalgic choice, but I feel, for me, it's King's best work.
This was also my first King book, so it'll always have a special place in my heart.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
Two votes for "Average"?Bring me their heads!
Make that three.
I vacillated between 3 and 4, but really, it was good, not great.
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
Not great? Not great?!
Just remember she's a Jane Austen fan so her opinions may be tainted on some matters.
Hit too close to home, but it was good.
5. One of my absolute favs. Also my first (I was about 9 or 10). Only book that I ever finished and IMMEDIATELY flipped back to the beginning and reread.
Sloth Love Chunk
Agree with Dags I must. It was good, but not great. I'll give it a 4, but I've never wanted to reread this one.
Margaret Emmie Mackey Catoe, you are, have been, and always will be my soulmate, and I love you.
Con todo mi corazon, por todo de mis dias. And I always will, in this life and into the next.
August 2, 1947 - September 24, 2010
Well, nice use of an SAT word thereOriginally Posted by Daghain
Ok, I'm going to reserve my vote until I really comes to terms on how I feel about this book. From a plotting standpoint it is a masterpiece. It grips you by the balls and does not let go. It's horrifying. And like I've said in other comments, King is a master in getting into a character's head. We see the father coming closer and closer to this horrible decision, we almost want to scream into the pages "NO! STOP!" The father on one level even wants to stop. But he can't. He's driven to take this terrible action, and we are with him every step of the way. And we understand why this is so. And that's why King is such a good writer.
So, where's the conflict? I don't think l'll ever want to read this again. After it was over I just felt BAD. Like I needed to curl up in the shower and let the water cleanse me from what I had just read.
This ranks as a top 5 King book, imo
Geoff
I think Pet Sematary is somewhat unique within the SK works, as it is the only true literary tragedy that I can think of in King's bibliography. I'm not sure what Louis's fatal flaw would be defined as, but I'm sure its there and that it lead to his demise, making it a definitive tragedy.
Sloth Love Chunk
Scariest supernatural horror book I've ever read by far, and I've read all of King's other than Duma Key. My favorite scary book is It, but it's not half as scary as this beast. So grim and hopeless! I wish there were more pitch black novels like this. Five stars easy.
Confusing the line between love for an individual and love for that individual's place in one's own life?
Was a great readi gave it a 5 ... actually thinking about this i might read it agin after ive finished the book im on!
I loved it personally. Very interesting and creepy.
What shocked me was that 3 people said they didn't like it
Exile them to Ludlow!What shocked me was that 3 people said they didn't like it
and make them read old physics textbooks everyday (I couldn't think of a worse punishmentExile them to Ludlow!What shocked me was that 3 people said they didn't like it)
That's very eloquently put. I was thinking simply "selfishness", but I think you might have nailed down.Confusing the line between love for an individual and love for that individual's place in one's own life?
Sloth Love Chunk
I do think that such confusion is a common problem in life, and I don't want to scoff for even a second at real love for real others, but I think that there's even more subtleties to this book.
Ever seen the movie Deadly Friend (1986, Wes Craven) ? If so, then I ask you; can we classify that alongside the Greek tragedies? I doubt it. Yet, unlike the novel, I don't find Stephen King's Pet Sematary (1989, Mary Lambert) to be substantially better than Craven's ham-handed treatment of Brice's theme.
Anyroa, my rating of Stephen King's Pet Sematary, the novel: 5
I read through the night and finished this one the first time I picked it up. Even though you know exactly what's going to happen, it still manages to maintain the tension and kick it up a notch periodically.
Louis...
It'll take a lot more than words and guns,
A whole lot more than riches and muscle.
The hands of the many must join as one.
And together we'll cross the river.
Puscifer, "The Humbling River"
Seeing as this was the first King book I ever read, and I was only 8 when I read it, I feel I should clarify a little bit.
I voted that I love it. I loved it when I was 8, and I've loved it every time I've read it since. It never loses love. <3 That book and I are like:
Random PM's are loved!
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