*Bag of Bones
by Stephen King | Horror | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 067102423x Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 067102423x Global Overview for this book
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Bag of Bones is partly inspired by Daphne du Maurier's classic Rebecca, but there's more than homage in this novel of horror and romance. Like du Maurier's Manderley, King's scary old place (on the shore of Maine's remote Dark Score Lake) is haunted by the late lady of the manor. There are many gory ghosts afoot, though: men, women, and wailing kids. The hero, a thriller novelist, stirs up hell's plenty of angry shades while investigating his wife's death. It turns out she either had a dark secret herself or was onto some dread scandal lurking in Dark Score Lake. As in King's previous book, Wizard and Glass, the fabric of reality is thin, and nosy narrators are in peril of plunging right out of this world and into a rather hostile otherworld.
Bag of Bones is a writer-haunted book, too. The spirits of Herman Melville and Ray Bradbury are deeply felt, and so are the tale's two romances (the hero muses on his marriage and falls for a young single mom with a marvelous, psychic daughter). There is also good-humored satire of the real bestseller book world--the hero complains that "the publicity process is like going to a sushi bar where you're the sushi." In its deep concerns with love, sprawling families, the writer's life, endangered children, and good old-fashioned storytelling, the book resembles a John Irving novel. It is also absolutely classic Stephen King, packed with nifty turns of phrase, irreverent wit, and lurid ghouls who grab you from beneath the bed while you cower under the covers.
Bag of Bones is partly inspired by Daphne du Maurier's classic Rebecca, but there's more than homage in this novel of horror and romance. Like du Maurier's Manderley, King's scary old place (on the shore of Maine's remote Dark Score Lake) is haunted by the late lady of the manor. There are many gory ghosts afoot, though: men, women, and wailing kids. The hero, a thriller novelist, stirs up hell's plenty of angry shades while investigating his wife's death. It turns out she either had a dark secret herself or was onto some dread scandal lurking in Dark Score Lake. As in King's previous book, Wizard and Glass, the fabric of reality is thin, and nosy narrators are in peril of plunging right out of this world and into a rather hostile otherworld.
Bag of Bones is a writer-haunted book, too. The spirits of Herman Melville and Ray Bradbury are deeply felt, and so are the tale's two romances (the hero muses on his marriage and falls for a young single mom with a marvelous, psychic daughter). There is also good-humored satire of the real bestseller book world--the hero complains that "the publicity process is like going to a sushi bar where you're the sushi." In its deep concerns with love, sprawling families, the writer's life, endangered children, and good old-fashioned storytelling, the book resembles a John Irving novel. It is also absolutely classic Stephen King, packed with nifty turns of phrase, irreverent wit, and lurid ghouls who grab you from beneath the bed while you cower under the covers.
Journal Entry 2 by CJWorkingGirl at Englewood Drive in Lemon Grove, California USA on Saturday, August 25, 2007
Released 16 yrs ago (8/25/2007 UTC) at Englewood Drive in Lemon Grove, California USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
RELEASE NOTES:
Giving to my sis who is a SK fan.
Giving to my sis who is a SK fan.
woohoo, my sis gave me 3 SK's today, I have read 1 of them but I will release it for the SK challenge. Tnx sis this is like xmas in the summer.
Journal Entry 4 by 
sha
at Ralph's Shopping Center Near Jamacha in Rancho San Diego, California USA on Saturday, February 18, 2012
sha at Ralph's Shopping Center Near Jamacha in Rancho San Diego, California USA on Saturday, February 18, 2012
Released 12 yrs ago (2/18/2012 UTC) at Ralph's Shopping Center Near Jamacha in Rancho San Diego, California USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Released for the never judge wk 7 challenge.
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Release paragraph shamelessly stolen from AuntNub. :)
Hello!
If you are new to BookCrossing and find this book and this site, welcome! Enjoy the site, the book and hopefully the BookCrossing community. I hope you'll join BookCrossing (doesn't cost anything to join!) and if you do, please consider using any previous reader of this book, or me, sha, as the member who referred you. Or if you prefer, you can remain anonymous!
If you are an old hand at BookCrossing, thanks for picking up the book! Either way, I hope you'll journal so all the previous and future readers can track this book's journey. Thanks, and happy Crossing!
Release paragraph shamelessly stolen from AuntNub. :)
I just found this book at the Ralphs in rancho San Diego. I'll start reading it tonight then let you know where I release it . Looks like it's been hanging out there for a while . It's still in good shape just a little dusty and some cobwebs
