It s a love story done Stephen King style and so perfectly done that my first thought after finishing was to read the novel a second time The characters are so genuine and universal that everyone will love them, and the story is both magical and heart breaking at exactly the same time.

All I can say is that getting to the last page was a relief Reading this novel was like staring at a cow for five hours.

It started out fairly well Youngish widow going through her brilliant writer husband s papersybe 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 done wonderful [...]

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, that s fine, to each his own as the saying goes I ve 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 frequently, respect the hard work that went in to creating a published book.Some of Stephen King s critics have been nasty, defaming not only his writing ability b [...]

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 too much al [...]

As I read Lisey s Story by Stephen King, I am reminded why I love King s work so much It is constantly changing, constantly evolving Each book is a different experiment Each book is a different tale yet no two are the same.King has gone beyond the horror genre with Lisey s Story and written a, dare I say it, literary masterpiece Its part horror, part love story, part tribute to a woman s husband It s part creepshow, part romance and absolutely unclassifiable King has written a novel that, while [...]

Smucking smucking oh my god so much smmmmuckkking Do you know what i mean, babyluv Can you feel this smucking annoyance towards this smucking book Sure you can Every great artist produces a smucking turd every now and again Smuck the smuckers who think everything has to be so smucking perfect all the smucking time annoyed at all the smuckings Yeah me too Try reading 300 pages of that plus other made up language that repeats itself in almost EVERY paragraph To be honest, the last 200 pages I did [...]

She would have thought two years was enough time for the strangeness to rub off, but it wasn t time apparently did nothing but blunt grief s sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced In an interview with Rolling Stone, Stephen King named Lisey s Story as the best book he ever wrote It s a deeply personal story with a passionate marriage providing a strong anchor at its core, which King pulls from his relationship with his wife Tabitha But, it s also covers a wide range of themes includi [...]

This book was selected for my NJ Bookclub because it has similar themes to our last read, Bag of Bones I ve previously read this one, or listened, because it was an audiobook, and so this time I read read it I loved the experience of the audio the reader is great and the audio definitely brings the story to life in different ways than the text itself does, but reading this with my very own eyeballs is rewarding in its own way First, it s a active, involved experience Audio is very passive, righ [...]

Major bomb actually strikingly pretentious The search for anything salvageable in this junkyard is an impossible task You owe it to yourself, invest your time on something better May possibly tie for worst Stephen King novel with Insomnia Or The Tommyknockers Or

Si est s leyendo esto, significa que yo ya no estoy Creo que mi vida ser corta, pero el tiempo que he tenido y te aseguro que ha sido magn fico te lo debo a ti Me has dado tanto Te pido que me des un poquito m s, que leas estas ltimas palabras, las m s dif ciles que he escrito jam s Romanticismo, drama, terror, misterio, suspenso, fantas a, qu m s Excelente libro Es una novela diferente de King A muchos no les gust por esperarse una historia llena de terror, horror y asquerosidades, y no es tan [...]

A love story A Stephen King love story Curious what color is your pool

Lisey Debusher Landon is the widow of Scott Landon, the Stephen King stand in here, an author who achieved fame in his early 20 s and never let go, soon becoming and then remaining a best selling novelist King weaves several time lines, Landon s bizarre childhood and his relationship with his father and brother, the courtship of Landon and Lisey, an assassination attempt on Landon by a psycho, Landon s later illness, and the present Lisey, two years after Scott s death, is still tidying up his a [...]

I have such a love hate relationship with this book For one, it s full of twice used ideas Everything you find inside Lisey s Story is taken part and parcel from other King novels The idea of being haunted by a spouse and one half of the marriage being an author is Bag of Bones to a Tee You have the lush other world just beyond ours that is wonderful during the day, and horrible after dark, via Rose Madder Then you have the character of Zack McCool who is John Shooter from Secret Window, Secret [...]

There was a lot they didn t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart Scott still speaks to Lisey, in her mind He tells her to follow the clues, follow the bools Her husband, a famous writer, died a few years ago She spends nights remembering him, remembering his life, his near death, his other world I think most kids have a place they go to when they re scared or lonely or just plain bored They call it Neve [...]

This is the first King I m reading in about 25 yearsA 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 of my time on this It s waaaay too long I no longer care [...]

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.Lisey s St [...]

As King grows older, his books seem to turn ever emotionally overwhelming and wistful and this one, particularly, very sweet Lisey s Story has a thread of fundamental wrongness going through it that keeps the suspense going the horror side of King s narrative is strong as ever, the descriptions of the physical hardships are engrossing and captivating in a level that makes you feel terribly uncomfortable, but there s another thread of horror, a very human, everyday thread, about love and loss, a [...]

Lisey s Story is a bit of an oddball in Stephen King s body of work along with Gerald s Game from what I ve heard, although I haven t read it myself because of its near absence of plot and snail like pace However, what it lacks in plot, it makes up in characterization and introspection So if you don t like being inside characters heads for hundreds and hundreds of pages without much action going on, then this book is not for you As for me, I find sharing Lisey s thoughts and discovering with her [...]

4.5 stars NO SPOILERS HERE Oh, as usual, I assume that you have already read the synopsis.Firstly, smucked, smucking, smuck If you re about to read this book, these are terms you ll come to know very well I should have counted the times and started a sort of jelly baby count competition Now that it s saidI loved this book BUT, it was all a little bit too smucking lyrical at times and although this is usually one of Kings draw cards, when Lisey thinks, sometimes that rhythm becomes all too convol [...]

UPDATE 8 25 2016.I am going to try this one again, since I ve read of King s books now, and after reading some of the Dark Tower books I am sure I will have a better appreciation of this great book.I also should say I think this was my first King read I had not been acquainted well with his universe Yet, what I said about the scare I had was true I watch horror movies all the time NOTHING scares me, but there was a point in this book where I got so freaked out I couldn t pick it up again for an [...]

O, WOW This is why I idolise King He can take any topic throw in a crazy stalker and a celebrity author with a vivid imagination and bring to us a story that will live in us for ever Not many male or female authors can write from the viewpoint of the opiste sex, but King is so good, you ll believe you are reading a female author s work.This is a must read for ever married couple out there It truly teaches about love so strong and during that not even worlds apart can the lovers be separated, not [...]

Evo knjiga je kraj mene ve nekih pola sata i svaki put kad je pogledam , vrati se ona knedla koju sam uspio na silu progutati Emocionalno me je toliko istro ila i mislim da nisam u mogu nosti ta no prikazati koliko mi se pri a dopala Prelijepa pri a o Lisi i njenom sje anju na pokojnog mu a , sa dovoljnom dozom krimija , malo horora i puno puno nostalgi ne atmosfere Stvarno sam u ivao.Po etak jeste konfuzan , i to se same pri e ti e , ali i prijevod je tu pomogao mada , da ga ne ocrnim Prevodila [...]

Kad god razmi ljam o Kingovim pri ama, one ostave ili pozitivan ili negativan utisak i ta no znam zbog ega, me utim, Lisina pri a je prva zbog koje imam pome ane utiske Pretpostavljam da deo razloga le i u nesposobnosti da svarim pro itano Jedna stvar je sigurna, a to je da mi knjiga nikako nije legla na prvo itanje.Polazi te pri e po iva na realnoj situaciji ta se de ava sa rukopisom jednog autora kada on iznenada premine i ne postoje detaljne instrukcije Kako se sa gubitkom, ali i nizom drugih [...]

I went on a bool hunt that covered 513 pages of typewritten text and when I came out to the other side, the one where one does not eat fruits after dark, I was not afraid of anything.Interestingly enough, I was ten, the same age as Scott when he lost both Paul and his dad, when I read my first Stephen King novel I ll never forget the experience of reading Salem s Lot It took me two days to consume what would become the portal to all things King for the next 25 years My love affair with Mr King s [...]

I loved you then and I love you now and I have loved you every second in between This is a book about Lisey Landon, the widow of a famous author, Scott Landon There are two main stories within the book that of Lisey s story in the present, and that of her dead husband s life Lisey is clearing out her husband s writing space in their home which leads to a series of events that force her to recall memories and realities about her late husband I loved this book And I mean LOVED it Initially, I foun [...]

Warning, this review contains spoilers I ll tell you something, Lisey, he d said, novelists labor under tremendous handicaps Reality is Ralph, showing up after three years, and no on knows why But a novelist can t tell that story Because it creaks a bit, old boy I read Lisey s Story 9 years ago when it was first published Sadly, I didn t really care for it As a matter of fact, I usually tell people that it is my least favorite King novel For me, it creaked a bit.Recently I have become pretty act [...]

Lisey s Story is half horror story, half semi autobiographical ode to King s wife Lisey s deceased husband, a former best selling novelist named Scott Landon, is certainly not Stephen King, but those familiar with King can see a lot of him in Landon.Two years after Landon s death, Lisey finds herself being stalked by a deranged lunatic, and to save herself, she must call upon help from her crazy older sister, her dead husband, the dark secrets buried with him, and her own will The story has all [...]

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 this book is 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 evil monster who is [...]

The last of my 12 month Stephen King reading challenge 2015 Lisey Landon s deceased but not yet absent husband a haunted but famous novelist Scott Landon leaves his beloved wife with quite an eerie treasure hunt to solve after his demise Since I ve been reading King all year , it s easy to compare this to his other books old and new This is probably the most literary of King s endeavors, with an almost kinder and gentler storyline about some not all pretty likeable folks who actually care about [...]