Stephen King: The Shining, Salems Lot, Night Shift, Carrie [Hardcover]

Stephen King (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 747 pages
• Publisher: Book Sales; 1st Ed(AsSuch) edition (March 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0905712609
• ISBN-13: 978-0905712604
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.8 x 2.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #483,156 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Among his most recent are the Dark Tower novels, Cell, From a Buick 8, Everything's Eventual, Hearts in Atlantis, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, and Bag of Bones. His acclaimed nonfiction book, On Writing, was also a bestseller. He is the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a must, June 17, 2000

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JEZ N W - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stephen King: The Shining, Salems Lot, Night Shift, Carrie (Hardcover)

This book is just great. I have never been one to go for the full vampire thing, but this book really is the best vampire story ever!PERIOD. I have now read it twice. Again King's prose is so lucid, once you get involved, becomes something more than a reading experience. There are at least two scenes in this book that will leave you clutching your chest in dread, a similar sensation to those who have seen the exorcist and clutched thier necks at the neck operation scene. Just read it and you will see what I mean. It also offers itself as an accurate social commentary on modern living, as is the case with many king subplots. Basically its a raw, dark and intense novel in parts. If you like books that get thier teeth in to you, then this is for you.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars King's early novels were his best, December 10, 2000

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don bass (Hoffman Estates, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stephen King: The Shining, Salems Lot, Night Shift, Carrie (Hardcover)

I had never read "Salems Lot", nor had I seen the movie. So when I noticed the recent publication in trade paperback I thought I would try it out. It was great. The plot, characters, setting and mood were wonderfully created, and Kings descriptions are magic. It brought me back to the early King works and it seems to me that most of these early books ("Christine", "The Dead Zone", "Different Seasons", "Cujo", "Carrie", "The Firestarter" and "The Stand") were written with better plotting than some of the later stuff. Maybe I'm just showing some disappointment with "Hearts in Adlantis", "Bag of Bones" "Needful things" and "Four Past Midnight" which were not as enthralling. The recent exception is "The Green Mile". Keep writing Mr. King and I'll keep reading.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply a great story, October 15, 2000

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the raven (denmark, me) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stephen King: The Shining, Salems Lot, Night Shift, Carrie (Hardcover)

Ive never been scared by any of King's novels, but have been fasinated by them, unable to put them down in this case. Salems Lot is a story of a town and the people that live in it. Eventually, a vampire comes to town in a manner that is told in an amazing way. It doesn't seem like your typical fantasy/horror story. This seems real!!! Its a great story that proved to me that King is a superb story teller.