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| Original Title: | Lisey's Story |
| ISBN: | 0743289412 (ISBN13: 9780743289412) |
| Edition Language: | English URL https://www.stephenking.com/library/novel/lisey_s_story.html |
| Characters: | Lisey Landon, Scott Landon |
| Setting: | United States of America |
| Literary Awards: | Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel (2006), Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (2007), World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (2007) |
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Hardcover | Pages: 513 pages Rating: 3.68 | 65500 Users | 3541 Reviews
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| Title | : | Lisey's Story |
| Author | : | Stephen King |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | US/CAN |
| Pages | : | Pages: 513 pages |
| Published | : | October 24th 2006 by Scribner |
| Categories | : | Horror. Fiction. Fantasy. Thriller. Mystery. Supernatural. Romance |
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Lisey Debusher Landon lost her husband, Scott, two years ago, after a twenty-five year marriage of the most profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was an award-winning, bestselling novelist and a very complicated man. Early in their relationship, before they married, Lisey had to learn from him about books and blood and bools. Later, she understood that there was a place Scott went--a place that both terrified and healed him, that could eat him alive or give him the ideas he needed in order to live. Now it's Lisey's turn to face Scott's demons, Lisey's turn to go to Boo'ya Moon. What begins as a widow's efforts to sort through the papers of her celebrated husband becomes a nearly fatal journey into the darkness he inhabited. Perhaps King's most personal and powerful novel, Lisey's Story is about the wellsprings of creativity, the temptations of madness, and the secret language of love.(front flap)
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Ratings: 3.68 From 65500 Users | 3541 ReviewsWrite-Up Epithetical Books Lisey's Story
Reading this makes me think of all the literary critics Stephen King has had to put up with over the years. If a reader does not like his writing, thats fine, to each his own as the saying goes. Ive been on the outside looking in and in the minority opinion plenty of times, but I can usually see how someone could like a work, or even more frequently, respect the hard work that went in to creating a published book.Some of Stephen Kings critics have been nasty, defaming not only his writingLisey Debusher Landon is the widow of Scott Landon, the Stephen King stand-in here, an author who achieved fame in his early 20s and never let go, soon becoming and then remaining a best-selling novelist. King weaves several time lines, Landons bizarre childhood and his relationship with his father and brother, the courtship of Landon and Lisey, an assassination attempt on Landon by a psycho, Landons later illness, and the present. Lisey, two years after Scotts death, is still tidying up his
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 main character called her sister "Manda Bunny", the promise was not only rubbed off the book, it was replaced with a bit of sandpaper that grated directly against your nerves. Stephen King could have
I've been reading a lot of "New" Stephen King lately, books that I've put off reading because I was afraid that they would not be as good as "Old" Stephen King. I wish I had not, because while "New" King is different, he is still The King. I listened to it on audio, but kind of followed along in the book too, sort of. Mare Winningham did a good job reading, and after a while I got used to her voices, although I think that she added a bit too much to the story. She made certain characters sound
There's something special about Stephen King for me. I guess I'm a literary person at heart. Lots of Jane Austen and poetry, that's me.But I've always found King special. He recreates how I used to feel about Enid Blyton when I was a kid. Just a pleasure to read -- and once I pick up one of the books I can, if life permits, always finish it as a sitting. For me it's like eating a really delicious but slightly self-indulgent meal. Lemon mousse drizzled with good dark chocolate and whipped cream.
This is the first King I'm reading in about 25 years.ETA: I don't really like it much. I had it on my TBR list since it came out. I suppose I read a good review of it somewhere. I'm almost 100 pages in and feh. Not much has happened and while I don't dislike the protagonist I find her kind of vapid and not interesting. There is way too much made up language that is DUMB. So that doesn't leave much, IMO.I'm stopping at page 320. I am not wasting any more of my time on this. It's waaaay too long.
SOME SPOLIERS, NOTHING TOO SERIOUSGarbage. Stephen King has apparently lost all of his previously considerable talent. This book reads like a mismash of about 4 of his other books (most notably coming to mind, the Stand, Rose Madder and the Dark Half), and comes together like absolute crap. Booya moon is boring and uninteresting (the place is pretty much a sissyfied version of the territories from the tailsman with a character actually mentioning the territories at one point), and contains an
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