From Amazon:
For twenty years the officers in Pennsylvania State Police Barracks have kept a secret in Shed B. A vintage Buick which lures the troopers to come and take a look. Now young Ned Wilcox, son of the recently deceased officer Curt, has started hanging around the Barracks. One day he can't resist peeking through the windows. And it's time to share the secret. So the veteran troopers sit Ned down on the smoking bench and tell him every skin-curdling detail - from the Buick's arrival to the terrifying lightshows and what it sucks in and breathes out. For the Buick is a conduit to another world. As King puts it, "when we confront the deep and authentic unknown, we glimpse that place where our familiar universe stops".

This on is going out on a perpetual bookray. Let me know if you would like to participate. Here are the participants so far:
Prospero, Germany
Leanne345, England
moonglow18, Alabama - skipped
Wildflower67, New Jersey
Appaloosatb, Minnesota
Sherria, Connecticut
Kirlepigen, Denmark
MaiSpritt, Denmark
bilbi, France
Ferengie, Germany
Lyssian, Illinois
jamieh2003, West Virginia
ladyofunicorns, New Mexico ***
WarEagle78, Alabama
JesseBC, Illinois
Chaparal,Belgium
stemon12, Germany
mysteryfan03, Missouri
nmarshall88, Tennessee
caligula03, California

1. Please make a journal entry showing that you have
received the book as soon as you get it.

2. When you receive the book, please also PM the
next person in line to get his or her mailing address.

3. Make a journal entry letting us know what you
think of the book including a favorite quote if
you like. Journal when you are sending the book
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4. Mail the book to the next person on the list.

Happy reading everyone!

It's in the mail to Prospero in Germany. Enjoy!

Had it today in my mail, will read it soon as possible. I was very surprised - I expected a pocket-sized book, but it's a paperback edition. Cool.

Well - I tried to finish ist. Really. It tried it again and again - but this King-Book is the worst I've ever read. The first 20 pages are okay, the usual King-stuff - strange things happened in a very normal american society - but then it's getting boring. Really, really boring. I'll send it this week to England.

FRELL, I forgot to release it. Send it today, Wednesday 20. August to Liverpool... Frell...

Got this today - thanks, shall read ASAP and write any comments!

Not as good as some of Kings other books but i still enjoyed it - will pass it on today to wildflower67 (moonglow wanted to be skipped)

"From A Buick 8" arrived in my mailbox today. I will be able to start it by the end of the week. Thanks for sharing this book tutmarie! :o)

Released on Saturday, November 22, 2003 at Post Office on Tuckahoe Rd. in Marmora, New Jersey USA.

I couldn't finish this book, I only made it to 80-something pages. This book didn't even seem to be written by Stephen King, as it lacked many of the endearing qualities of his usual writing. I didn't care about the characters or the plot, and I felt no pull to come back to the book to find out what happens. Really, I love most of Stephen King's books and I am disappointed in this one. I decided to stop trying and pass it on to the next participant. It was mailed this morning via Media Mail.

Recieved today - it's a good thing it was well packaged, as the post office obviously wasn't too gentle with it.

This definately wasn't King's best work. If it had been a different author, I think I may have enjoyed it more, but I expect so much from King that I was a bit disappointed. I'm not sure exactly what about it I didn't like, but it just wasn't as fast-paced as some of his other works. Some links to Christine, which I also recently read, were very close, as if he were just changing a few details and calling it a new book. However, I did really like the descriptions of the things that came out of the trunk.

Received this on Saturday, starting it tonite. I'll journal again when I've finished it.

This definitely wasn't King's best work. It never really sucked me in, and I never really got caught up in any of the characters. It all just felt rather 2 dimensional, unlike some of his other work. The story felt like recycled Christine, to a degree. There was just nothing fresh and shocking like I expect from King.

Having said all that, it wasn't a bad book, it just wan't as good as I've come to expect from "the master".

I've sent a PM to the next person on the list, and will send this out as soon as I get an address. Thanks for sharing it!

I received this book this week, but I think it was a misunderstanding as I don't read Stephen King's books. Until then, I'll pm the next person on the list and wait for Margaret Atwood's book to arrive.

Got it in the mail to day from canada! Thanks KarinAlyssa for th shift shipping and thanks Tutmarie for the oppurtunity to read it this way.

well... thats the thing about boyfriends using your computer and don't erase the changes they have made and girlfriends (me) that dosen't see it - sorry!! ;0D

well...

For once I read the others entries before making my own and I must say that I didn't have any trouble reading it to finish and I am not disapointed in any way.

Having said that I should probably state why I read the others entries before writing my own and it was because of my mixed feelings about it. I'm not thrilled nor dissilusioned by the authors lacking skills (even though the links to "Christine", an old american car, the car is the source of evil etc is apparant as any stories by the same authors about so similar topics would be). It is not a typical storyline by King, but isen't he allowed by us, the readers to try new things? And even fail at it? I for one would hate to any writer to stop working on evolving themselves.

I must say that the book is okay. The story is okay and the characters are okay and even empatic at moments. The best classical King-stuff are definitely the descriptions of the unknown and alian "other" emerging from the Buick's trunk and I especially enjoyed the realisation of the characters in the scene after they have killed the "monster" and they look at them selves and NOT LIKING WHAT THEY SEE. In a King book the monster allways gets the knife - symbolic or real, but rarely do the characters in a truly american heman style question the actions afterwards,at least not in a negative way that is.

All in all a fine story with occasional brilliant moments - the descriptions of the alien and the what I would call the aftermath.
I liked it even if it isen't a typical King-book.

Thank you Tutmarie for the loan ;0)

Got this one at today's BC MeetUp and have put it in my TBRRA (right away *G*) pile :oD

Well.. guess I agree with the rest of you - definitely NOT the best SK book I have read either :o/ Never really got "absorbed" in the story, like I normally do, and never really... I don't know - an OK book, but not nearly up to Mr. King's usual standards!!

Mailed it on to France yesterday, so hopefully it will be arriving soon :o) Thanks to tutmarie for sharing this one - and bon voyage, dear book :oD

I've just received the book today, thanks a lot. Well, I'll try and read it ASAP.

Well, er, I didn't finish the book. I found that the style was dull, I'm with an impression of "cut and paste".
Before giving up the book, I read the journal entries and it seems that I'm not the only one to be disapointed by this book. I haven't read King's recent works and if they are as this one, I may have done well not to read them.
It's strange because I enjoyed most of his previous works. In this book, there was no anticipation of fear, for example. The characters tell a boring story :"ok, the car's eaten the guy !who cares ?" I was in that state of mind whereas I should have been watching my own car with careful eyes or not reading the book alone... You know what I mean ;-)
Well , let's wait for ferengie's opinion...

Well, the book certainly took it's time to arrive here, and when it finally came I was on vacation, so this entry is late, but I read it this weekend already and it will continue it's journey as soon as I get the addy of the next one in line...
As an avid Stephen King reader I expected more of it...somehow it did not grip me as most of his other books did...

RELEASE NOTES:

sent to Lyssian

Sorry I didn't make a post when I received the book, I was caught up in all sorts of things!

I rather liked it, actually. Some was slow (especially right after Chuck Palahniuk's Lullaby!) but I really liked the creatures. Especially the "thinking creature", as they called it. I had to put the book down and think about that for a few minutes. :)

I finished it, and will send it out on Monday (with luck).

I received this book and am adding it to my ring/ray tbr crate. When I have read it, I will make another journal entry.

I don't know why this didn't get journaled a while ago. It was ok. It really didn't fit with Stephen King's other books. I probably would never read this again.

I am contacting the next person on the list (or so) to see if they are still interested in reading it.