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Lisey's Story Paperback – 13 Sep 2011

by Stephen King (Author)

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Paperback: 704 pages
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division; 1 edition (4 August 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781444707892
ISBN-13: 978-1444707892
ASIN: 1444707892
Product Dimensions: 13 x 4.5 x 19.7 cm
Boxed-product Weight: 431 g
Average Customer Review: 3 customer reviews
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 106,037 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2724 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Horror > Ghosts

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A wondrous novel of marriage, a love story steeped in strength and tenderness, and cast with the most vivid, touching and believable characters in recent literature . . . A dazzling novel - Nicholas Sparks

A psychological thriller of extraordinary sensitivity that takes the reader deep into the dark places in us all - Independent on Sunday

Thrilling, genuinely terrifying, beautifully textured and full of wonderful invention - Daily Mail

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Stephen King has been described by the Guardian as 'one of the greatest storytellers of our time', by the Mirror as a 'genius' and by The Sunday Times as 'one of the most fertile storytellers of the modern novel.' In 2003, he was given the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, for most of the year in Maine, USA.

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A SCHMUCKING MASTERPIECE!!!!!

27 February 2018

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On one level, this is a love story. Lisey Landon is still in mourning and trying to understand the sudden death of her famous writer husband Scott. On another, its a tribute to family. On yet another, its pure and classic King horror. And yet its also a fantasy. For grown ups. Its also a fable about the evils of commercialism, greed, jealousy, and the lure and pressures of academia.

It features quintessentially King writing, of course, and yet scattered throughout are phrases, paragraphs and even whole chapters of writing so stunningly beautiful that they are sure to leave you breathless.

The plot is divine. Step by step, chapter by chapter, part by part, it creeps up on you. Lying in bed in the dark. Suddenly wide awake. A creak in the hallway. A breath. Not yours. You live alone in the house. You. Realise. Suddenly. You. Are. Not. Alone.

This book is like this. The terror creeps up on you like a nightmare. It ebbs and flows like the tide. And as you approach the ending (oh, the ending!) and then you read the ending, and you think the story is over, and you keep reading but then THE ENDING comes (the REAL ENDING, the whole damn point of the book) and its shockingly, brilliantly, completely sad but beautiful and yet still overwhelming whenever you try to rap your mind around it.

I cant say too much about this book for fear of SPOILERS ruining it for the reader but there are heroes aplenty in LISEY’S STORY and surprise, surprise,its not just Lisey Landon. It’s not really her sister Amanda, either (even though she stands up and does her deeds when its her time to do so). I cant say who it is, obviously, but read the book and you will see. Read the book and your life might change. Your heart will certainly break. Your pulse will certainly rise, too. And your opinion of Mr King and his incredible story telling abilities will go through the roof, launch itself into space and begin orbiting of the sun before you know it. Stephen King is that good. Lisey’s Story is that good. In fact it’s a schmucking masterpiece.

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It was an interesting tale

19 April 2018

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Overall a great read. With many of Kings novels the characters are fully realised and relatable. My only objection was that the baddie came from no where. Maybe that was the twist.

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Sue

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18 April 2016

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Did not enjoy this book. Big disappointment.

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Jean Fleming

Another fantastic book by King!

5 October 2016 - Published on Amazon.com

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This book started off a little slow for me. I also wondered about the style and what King was up to with this novel, for somehow, it didn't seem like his writing. Then the storyline picked up' and I mean really picked up. How does one access an alternate reality? How does one travel to the world right next door that is gorgeous and so dangerous as the sun starts to go down. It's a world full of laughing horrors and an unthinkable long beast, but a world Lisey travel to in order to save herself from the real monsters who live in our world.

This book has stayed with me long after I have finished it. There is so much to think about, and one of the things I think about is love and the lengths some would go for it. I have heard that this is King's favourite novel. I think it is my favourite, too, and that is saying a lot from a long time King fan who started reading his work in the late seventies. I highly recommend this book!

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Guy McLimore

His best

26 September 2016 - Published on Amazon.com

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I love the works of Stephen King, even the ones that haunt and terrify me long after they are read. In some ways I love them most of all. But this is undoubtedly his best. Lisey Landon lives for me, as does the otherdimensional place where she and her late husband had a language and a love that was both unique in all the world and very much the same as all couples who bind themselves to each other in love.
Above all this book is about love. King's work is filled with people whose love overcomes (sometimes, but not always) the fear that haunts his world as well as our own. He's never been more powerfully in tune with both love and fear as he is in this book. (I typed the last word in the previous sentence as "bool" three times before I got it right. You'll understand later.)
If you have loved in a full and transcendent way, you will cherish Lisey's Story. If not, you'll at least know what you have missed.

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C. M Mills

Lisey's Story is a poignant examination of a widow's longing for reunion with her dead mate

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Stephen King is America's favorite novelist; rightly so! In Lisey's Story he tells a poignant about a young widow who laments the death of her famous husband Scott Landon. He is a famous popular author and he leaves Lisey with twenty million dollars. She has big problems:
a Evil men are seeking to obtain her late husband's manuscripts and unpublished works,. Her life is threatened. One day she finds a dead cat in her mailbox and she is beaten up and cut by l Dooley her insane tormenter.
b. Lisey's sister Amanda is dealing with serious mental issues and has an affinity for cutting herself.
c. Lisey wants to visit the magical pool where literary inspiration and her late husband's spirit can be found,. He was once the target of an assassination attempt and died in Bowling Green Kentucky when he collapsed.
The family history of the late Scott is scary. His father was a monster who tortured Scott and his brother. The scenes with the father are frightening and horrific.
The book switches from one time to another with rapidity and keeps you alert when you read the text.
The book draws you in with its story of love, loss and grief. Lisey is a good woman and King does well in his depiction of the workings of the female mind. This is an impressive book well worth your time and money.

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Theresa Sue

Another Labor Of Love

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Having been a fan of Stephen King since the beginning, I am blown away by the fact that he never disappoints. Have there been books that were greater than others? Sure. But I was never enthralled by one of Kings's books the way I was by The Stand...until Lisey's Story.
Although he claims in the afterward that "my wife is not Lisey Landon," I found myself making comparisons and wondering, just wondering, how much of his perspective on a woman's thoughts, feelings and experiences came from his lifelong marriage to his wife Tabitha. I'll never know, of course. And while the aspects of the supernatural and the horrific are still here, there is a tenderness, a deep, sweet love that is the heart of this book. I wept at the end. So as not to "spoil" I'll say no more. For I have wept at the conclusion of other Stephen King books. But this one is straight from the heart. You'll be doing yourself a favor to read this book. Oh yea, I LOVED IT!

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Rita Arens

The scariest part already happened, but she doesn't realize it yet.

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Though some of the other reviewers here took issue with made-up words, it's skill with dialect and dialogue and the way we use words to generate intimacy and reflect our personas that are at the core of my respect for Stephen King, novelist. It's very difficult to write any form of dialogue containing slang or dialect without losing people, and though King clearly lost some readers with his african afghan, I loved it all. We think everything is funny when we're young, we laugh to connect with others we've just met, and we form new languages to establish trust and intimacy before they are really there. We laugh with high school friends about stuff that wasn't funny, but it was funny back then because we wanted to laugh together and feel accepted by each other when we were fragile in our egos, before we grew up and knew who we were. That Lisey and Scott still use the language of young people even after being married for twenty-five years spoke of the depth of their relationship.

I've seldom read a book in which I so quickly became convinced of the love shared by Lisey and Scott. This was particularly impressive because Scott's dead. He is dead the whole book long. And Lisey is not nearly as interesting as Scott, but she manages to carry us beside her through the entire novel because we need to know what Scott saw in HER. We do find out in the end. Even though I didn't like bits and pieces of this novel, I am giving it five stars because I am still thinking about Lisey and Scott's relationship months after reading this book. AND THEY DON'T EXIST. -- Rita Arens, author of contemporary young adult novel THE OBVIOUS GAME (InkSpell Publishing, 2013) The Obvious Game

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