Revival : A Novel (CD-Audio)

from NPJacobsen

I have read a lot of Stephen King novels in my day. I have become accustomed to them starting slowly with his character developments and back stories setting the stage for the meat of the story. Sometimes they seem rather mundane to me, but Mr. King usually rewards the patient reader. In "Revival...

from NPJacobsen

I have read a lot of Stephen King novels in my day. I have become accustomed to them starting slowly with his character developments and back stories setting the stage for the meat of the story. Sometimes they seem rather mundane to me, but Mr. King usually rewards the patient reader. In "Revival...

from stephanie_M

An absolutely horrifying account of two men, their ties in life, the favors they had done for each other, and their decent into the ending, let's say. Shades of Frankenstein all over the place, and with research to back it all up, as well. The audiobook was a revelation; David Morse is a phenomen...

from Meredy

Six-word review: Predictably weird, adequately entertaining fantasy thriller. Extended review: Query for the universe at large: did any work of fiction prior to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (published in 1818) entail the harnessing of lightning in the service of some unnatural goal? Apparently the...

from eleanor_eader

King went for the slow, literary burn with this one, building to a crescendo in good Gothic horror style. There's a Frankenstein comparison here that makes for a clever thematic misdirect; the Lovecraftian essence to which we should be paying more attention is a persuasive undertow to most of the...