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The Dead Zone Kindle Edition

by Stephen King (Author)

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A #1 national bestseller about a man who wakes up from a five-year coma able to see people’s futures and the terrible fate awaiting mankind in The Dead Zone—a “compulsive page-turner” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution).

Johnny Smith awakens from a five-year coma after his car accident and discovers that he can see people’s futures and pasts when he touches them. Many consider his talent a gift; Johnny feels cursed. His fiance married another man during his coma and people clamor for him to solve their problems.

When Johnny has a disturbing vision after he shakes the hand of an ambitious and amoral politician, he must decide if he should take drastic action to change the future. The Dead Zone is a “faultlessly paced…continuously engrossing” (Los Angeles Times) novel of second sight.

Length: 420 pages

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File Size: 2100 KB
Print Length: 420 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0451155750
Publisher: Scribner (January 1, 2016)
Publication Date: January 1, 2016
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B018ER7L5W
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87 of 92 people found the following review helpful

Fortune and Fate

By Phrodoe on January 25, 2002

Format: Mass Market Paperback

The Dead Zone is one of Stephen King's best novels, a tale rich in every way. It's well-told, with excellent characters, loaded with symbolism and shocking events (oftentimes both), and full of the plainspoken yet lyrical prose that is King at his best. There is little in King's long and excellent list of titles that can surpass this novel.
We'll start with the basic story. A young teacher named Johnny Smith is "gifted," through a car accident that leaves him comatose for nearly five years, with a strange precognitive/telepathic ability. And here's the catch, evidence of King's genius if ever I've seen it: He has to be touching a person or object for the power to work. King takes this startlingly simple (and original) idea, and weaves it into the most complex, and intriguing, tapestry of his career.
King does a lot -- and I mean a LOT -- with this novel. Take the prologue, which so expertly sets mood, and tone, and character -- Johnny shows early flashes of his power, while the villain of the piece, Greg Stillson, kicks a dog to death in a dooryard outside Ames, Iowa. King literally takes you from one extreme to the other here, does so brilliantly, and continues to do so for the rest of the novel, as Johnny and Stillson are set on their inexorable collision course. But the novel is much more than that, as well. It's the story of Johnny and Sarah, who might've been his wife if not for intervening circumstances; it's the story of Johnny and his parents, Herb and Vera, a loving couple who find separate ways of dealing with Johnny's misfortune; it is the story of Johnny and the Chatsworths, a rich New England family whose son Johnny tutors ... and it is the story of Johnny and one Frank Dodd, a character as frightening as any King has created.Read more ›

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55 of 58 people found the following review helpful

Your Normal Psychic Dude, Johnny Smith

By Stacey Cochran on August 21, 2002

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Johnny Smith is a seemingly normal guy -- who becomes psychic! He's an English teacher in a small Maine town called Castlerock, and he's one of those guys that more straight-laced teachers tend to dislike as a fellow teacher, but the kind'a guy that the kids really love. He's funny, sincere, sensitive, intelligent -- something of a goof -- but an all-around really great guy. "The Dead Zone" is a very readable melodrama of his descent into a world where he can see people's future just by touching them. If he touches you and sees that you are gonna die in four days!....he can tell you not to go into work -- because he knows a gunman is gonna open fire on you and your fellow employees!

That is his dilemma. And the engaging depth to The Dead Zone is that it becomes a moral dilemma of severe proportions. Because when Johnny touches a state politician and sees that this buffoon of a politician will get elected president and will cause a massive war -- the question becomes: is it better to kill this one person and save the lives of millions, or to let nature take its course and let millions and millions of people die. And of course no one would understand Johnny if he explained that he saw the future and saw that this politician was gonna cause a nuclear holocaust. King builds to this crescendo of a moral nightmare by constantly showing Johhny being torn between living up to his gift and being viewed as a tabloid psychic, a total hokester, and a creapy guy whom people don't even wanna get near. It's the story about living with an abnormal mental gift.Read more ›

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44 of 46 people found the following review helpful

One of Stephen King's best

By A Customer on February 17, 2000

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I've read most of what Stephen King has read, including the outstanding novel "The Stand" and the amazingly suspenseful and strangely poignant "The Long Walk," which remains the only novel to genuinely scare me. However, no story by King has been as compelling, as emotional, and as well-written as his 1979 gem, "The Dead Zone."
The protagonist is as simple as the name he is given--Johnny Smith--and early in the novel the reader discovers that he has the ability to see into the future somewhat. A bit later on, Johnny gets in a severe car accident and stays in a coma for four and a half years. When he awakens, the world has changed completely. Vietnam is no longer the central issue of America, Richard Nixon has been impeached, and a young hotshot named Greg Stillson is attempting to run for the Presidency in 1980, the latter incident being a major subplot which will culminate in a shocking conclusion.
Also giving the novel its depthness is the love story regarding Johnny and his sweetheart prior to the accident, but who is married upon his awakening--the woman he loved more than anyone, a woman named Sarah Bracknell.
There is also an intriguing subplot dealing with a serial killer as well as one regarding the trials and tribulations of an academically struggling football player in high school.
All in all, this novel is gripping from start to finish, and its effect resonates long after it has been read. There is a big moral issue to contemplate throughout the novel--how should Johnny Smith use his powers? Johnny himself posed the question: "If you could go back in time and had the chance to kill Hitler, would you do it?"
This is my favorite Stephen King novel, and I anticipate reading it again sometime and knowing I'll have to wipe the beginnings of tears from the corner of my eye--the ending is very powerful, you see...

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Stephen King, The Dead Zone

Readability: Moderate to Easy. Full of common language: relatable phrases and cliché's. Simple, clear language. Explicit words found throughout. Read more

Published 23 days ago by D. M. Wilson

Five Stars

Very captivating from the first to the last page

Published 27 days ago by andrea clements

i was rly disappointed when i was reading all stephen books

eh... i was rly disappointed when i was reading all stephen books. more of a good story teller than a writer.

Published 1 month ago by Jason Lee

It has a touching love story. Interesting how the story could apply in...

Not your typical Stephen King novel. It has a touching love story. Interesting how the story could apply in today's current political environment.

Published 1 month ago by GPNet

Mr. King surely has come a long way

Mr. King surely has come a long way since "King's Garbage Truck" back when we both attended the U of Me Orono back in the late sixties. Read more

Published 2 months ago by Nickolas Trubov

Four Stars

Classic Stephen King.

Published 2 months ago by D. Brown

Two Stars

Very sad book, and the ending was terrible.

Published 2 months ago by brad storey

What would you do if you had insight into a person's life and future?...

I would classify it as "typical King" but that's not really fair because it implies that all of his books are alike, and they are not. Read more

Published 2 months ago by Kenman

A great read for anyone.

One of his better books. Not scary or spooky in any sense, but the story was woven very well and the ending tied up everything very well. Read more

Published 2 months ago by Amazon Customer

very cool story! classic SK!

Published 2 months ago by jared

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