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 enlarge | Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Scribner
Category: Book
List Price: $28.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  399 reviews
Sales Rank: 596
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Export Ed.
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 592
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.3 x 2.2
ISBN: 1416552510
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781416552512
ASIN: 1416552510
Publication Date: January 22, 2008
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 You have to read this one! August 9, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Duma Key is Stephen King at his greatest! This is a very very bizaar story. It starts slowly with the accident. Then Edgar's new life on Duma Key comes forth with the starting of his art. As the story moves along you discover that there is more to Edgars art that meets the eye and you really want to be very careful because that art may kill you!! Great classic by the author that invented the word eerie!! You have to read this!
Always Bet On A Sure Thing. August 8, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I lay in bed and finished reading the final pages of Duma Key. I've read nearly all of Stephen King's novels and I've enjoyed almost all of them but none of them anywhere near so much as I enjoyed this one. I have never in my life become so emotionally invested in the characters of a novel. I closed the book and sat up in bed, thrilled I had read it, crestfallen I was now through. It was after midnight but I wasn't tired. I needed something else to read. Yard sales, flea markets and used bookstores have proven a treasure trove of new reading material for me. I looked to my sagging bookcases, each shelf filled to or past capacity, the top of each case piled higher still with a slew of unread books stacked haphazardly one atop the other like gravity defying towers in a story by Doctor Seuss. Which one would I read next? I had any number of novels to choose from. Would any of them be as good as Duma Key? Would any of them even come close? Would I be willing to bet on that? With Duma Key still held in one hand I shook my head and grinned. I fluffed up the pillows. I swung my legs over and slid my feet back under the covers. I lay back down. I opened to page one. I began reading Duma Key again. Always bet on a sure thing.
An amazing novel, one of King's recent bests August 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book has quickly gone to the top of my favorite King novels. Personally I thinks it's his best since "Bag of Bone", which is another of my favorites.
Our man character has lost him arm in a work related accident and goes to remote little part of Florida to recover. His doctor tells him to try and do something he loves to relax and our man Edgar decides to start painting again. He turns out to be quite a prodigy but not only are his paintings good, they have the eerie power to foresee and change events.
What I also liked about the book is that besides the creepy and scary aspects of it, there's also a lot of heart and soul espeically between Edgar and his neighbour/friend Wiremen. Also there is a mystery going on too involving ghosts and murdered children, which compelled me to read even faster to find out what happens.
Such a great book. On my top ten King list for sure.
Impossible to put down. . . August 5, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Duma Key is a powerful and well-written book. It hooked me early on, and never let me go with the escalating action and suspense. It is one of the creepiest books that I have ever read. This story is one that stays with you long after you are finished reading. Don't let the 600+ pages scare you away, it reads quickly and is well worth your time. Overall, Duma Key is worthy of a 5 star rating.
Great novel August 4, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am an artist and a writer and Stephen King is still my favorite author. The Shining was the first SK novel I read and I have been hooked since. Duma Key was great. Christine was the inspiration for my 2nd novel The Palace Theatre..Thanks Stephen..The Palace Theatre
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