'Salem's Lot

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• Book Review: 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King Share

  The recent paperback release of 'Salem's Lot , Stephen King's second published novel, is a wonderful old-school vampire story, where the vampires aren't sparkly, or romantic, or James Dean cool — they are rampant, foul-smelling, and very, very evil. ... (read full critics)

  blogcritics published on Sat, 7 Jan 2012

• 'Salem's Lot [The Illustrated Edition]

  Shotsmag Reviews - 'Salem's Lot [The Illustrated Edition] by Stephen King 2006 is shaping up well for fans of thrillers by Stephen King. First we get Cell which was a tremendous return to form for the King, harkening back to his roots, and now we ha ... (read full critics)

  shotsmag published on Tue, 28 Sep 2010

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  Another all-time classic by Stephen King.

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  Stubob72556 said on Feb 17, 2008 | 1 feedback

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  When Stephen King was a horror writer

  An early work by Stephen King; a slightly obvious view of vampirism (decades before it became all the rage) in an interesting albeit at times a bit stereotyped story - and Stephen King's own fascinating explanation of the Roanoke Colony mystery fitted in.

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  Marco Piva said on Jan 28, 2010 | Add your feedback

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  Not many books can frighten me, but this one crawled underneath my skin when I was a teenager. Especially Marks storyline and the nighly visits did me in, brrr.

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  Sengaia said on Apr 27, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  s'alright suppose

  At last, relief! Done it, finished, phew, that was a bit long. And who's dumb idea was it to add in the writer's edit - the alternative endings, short stories, etc? UN NECESSARY.

  Although I bit intimidated by the size of this tome - first off I thought this was surprisingly good. I was reading it b ... (continue)

  At last, relief! Done it, finished, phew, that was a bit long. And who's dumb idea was it to add in the writer's edit - the alternative endings, short stories, etc? UN NECESSARY.

  Although I bit intimidated by the size of this tome - first off I thought this was surprisingly good. I was reading it because I'd avoided King in my youth and wanted a face-off with my prejudice. I also knew that an (awful) TV-movie had been made of this W-A-Y back, which I'd seen as a kid and had been scared poopless by it.

  Anyhow, it pages-turns alright and King is really quite paint-a-picture-in-your-mind descriptive, in the first quarter. But ultimately, the plot runs out of breath and plods along, becoming predictable and with some characters left a little sparse - then abruptly disposed of and also, frankly, TOO many characters, finding myself often having to think really hard about who someone was exactly - someone who was sometimes not detailed too well, in the story.

  I didn't bother with the "extras". Enough was enough, for me it was a novel that misfires and could have been better, probably if it'd lost a hundred and fifty pages - not gained any! Also, the edition I was reading, which I couldn't find on aNobii, had plenty of typos, which furrowed my brow a few too many times, pah!

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  mrpeterryan said on Jun 1, 2010 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 439 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0450031063
• ISBN-13: 9780450031069
• Publisher: New English Library
• Pub date: Jul 01, 1977
• Dimensions: 1161 mm x 710 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, Others and eBook
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