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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scribner
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781416552512ISBN:1416552510
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Very Good. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scribner
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781416552512ISBN:1416552510
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Very Good. read more
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Description: Very good. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
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Description: Fair. Dust Cover Missing. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
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"¡Me gusta la pizza, que le voy a hacer! Un cocido, un bistec o una paella están muy bien, es comida sana, sin duda. Pero reconoced conmigo que de vez en cuando no apetece una buena pizza, con su queso fundido, su mozzarella, su atún, bueno, lo que sea. Pues lo mismo me sucede con Stephen King, que cada cierto tiempo me apetece leer alguna de sus fantásticas historias.
Pero, ¿es Stephen King un buen escritor? La respuesta es un rotundo y merecido sí. Aparte de se aportación a las letras norteamericanas, y yo diría que mundiales, esto es obvio, su narrativa es muy buena, sabe contar historias y crear personajes creíbles, es capaz de dotarles de una personalidad y psicologías propias mejor que muchos pseudo-escritores-intelectuales que están subidos en su propio pedestal de autosatisfacción. No voy a dar nombres, dejémoslo así.
Lo primero que llama la atención de 'Duma Key', si es que se ha seguido parte de la trayectoria de King, es que su prosa es más templada, y eso no es malo, pero echo de menos esa chispa que caracterizaba sus obras de los 80. La obra se desarrolla sosegadamente. King va desvelando la trama y sus misterios como el que va tirando de un hilo suelto en un tapiz, sin apresurarse. Aquellos que esperen fuegos artificiales no los van a encontrar aquí. La historia está contada por Edgar Freemantle, que tras un espantoso accidente, pierde su brazo derecho y su memoria se ve afectada. Su mujer no resiste más y pide la separación, entonces su psicólogo le recomienda un cambio de aires. Y aquí empieza la verdadera novela, cuando Edgar se muda a Duma Key, Florida, a Big Pink, una casa rosa junto al mar. Nada más llegar, se siente atraído a dibujar casi de manera compulsiva. Edgar, y el lector, se dan cuenta de que algo pasa en la zona. No es bueno contar más, sobre todo en una novela de King, aunque el último tercio del libro es puro King.
Para terminar, he de decir que 'Duma Key' es un libro muy bien escrito, posee esa "facilidad" para leerlo tan difícil de conseguir. Es pura literatura.
"Like many Stephen King efforts, Duma Key is a novel rattling around in a horror story. Or, possibly, it’s the other way around.
At its best, Duma is a buddy story, a portrait of two physically and mentally battered men seeking healing and redemption in friendship, art and ocean air. Mr. King obviously draws on his own physical rehab and his pain endows the story with grit and honesty. Of course, this is a Stephen King story, so witches and specters and malfeasances must muck around in an otherwise decent story. As a suspense writer, I find Mr. King highly overrated. A very few thrills are broken up by long stretches of chatty dialogue and tedious e-mail exchanges.
King’s strength is in writing about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, however, and the characters in Duma Key are particularly vivid. Freemantle’s battle with physical pain and anger, Wireman’s explosive secret and even Mrs. Eastlake’s losing battle against Alzheimer’s are all beautifully drawn and plot enough for most novels.
I suspect some clever screenwriter will rework the ending, write out the evil witches and haunted house, and end up with an Oscar. Until then, we’re left another half masterpiece."
"It must be nice to be Stephen King. Everything you write is automatically a bestseller -- no editor or publisher will ever tell you "no." But the flipside of such omnipotence is also evident in this book. A building contractor from Minnesota has an awful accident in which he loses one arm and also suffers brain injuries from which he slowly recovers. His wife leaves him so he moves to an almost deserted Florida key and begins painting strange works of genius. It turns out that evil has awakened in the swampy land and is giving his art its weird power. I hadn't picked up a King book for some years and horror is not generally my thing. But I had time to spare on a trip and fancied a good old-fashioned literary wallow. King's strength remains his ability to conjure a scary tale but there are also weaknesses here, some of which could have been fixed with good editing. The book is very looooooong. I know some King fans love and demand Dickensian length but the story did not support it. The characters are weak. One is described merely through tiresome use of Spanish. Another fairly major character has no character at all. The wife is a big nothing. I did not get emotionally involved with these people. When people I was supposed to care about died, I didn't care. King has a way of telegraphing plot developments. Three or four times, he writes, "I never saw her again," or "That was our final conversation." It's an old trick that wears out. Having said all this, King remains unmatched at describing pure evil and that's what accounts for his success I suppose. He knows what pain feels like and transmits that too. I'm glad people read his stuff because all reading is good and they could do much worse. They could also do a little better -- and so could he."
"This was my first Stephen King novel. I have always been apprehensive about his books because of their reputation for being SO frightening. As one who scares easily, I just stayed away from them. But I always felt I was missing out on a big piece of American pop culture so I decided on Duma Key as a good, middle-of-the-road scary book; scary, but not TOO scary. Turns out I was right. It gave me just the right amount of thrill without causing me to have to put it down in the middle and think every noise in the house is some evil, lurking THING out to get me! What captivated me about the book is Mr. King's talent for explaining the inner workings of someone's mind, their thoughts, fears, and creative processes, and this book is all about the creative process. You learn how a terribly injured person, who would almost rather die than keep living, straps on the belt of endurance and prepares for a hellava ride. Not only does he survive, but becomes better. I highly recommend this book."
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