Gerald's Game (Signet)
by Stephen King
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Author: Stephen KingEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1993-07-01
ISBN: 0451176464
Number of pages: 448
Publisher: Signet
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- ISBN13: 9780451176462
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of Gerald's Game (Signet)
Book Review: Class Project
Summary: 3 Stars
Have you ever read a book and ended up not knowing exactly what to think about it? Well, that is how I felt with Gerald's Game by Stephen King. The title was a little deceiving to me at first. I figured it was a book about a mass murderer that would first play games with his victims and then go on a killing spree. But I was really surprised to find out that it had nothing to do with that. I figured out that the title was actually very self-explanatory after reading the first couple of pages. To shortly summarize the book, it was about a husband and a wife that took an over night trip to their summer cabin. The couple, Gerald and Jessie Burlingame liked to play "kinky" games. The games got to be too much for Jessie and she started to get uncomfortable playing them. She became really worried when her husband would not stop even after she asked him to. At this point I was really enjoying the book. It kept me in suspense the whole time. Not to forget, the way Stephen King tends to describe the smallest details. Him doing so helps you get a picture in your mind of what is going on. But then Mr. King threw in something that I think he over did. He made Jessie start hearing different voices in her head. These voices were her different personalities that wanted to come out but could not. At this point I got somewhat confused because he talked about Goodwife Burlingame, the "good" girl and a voice named Ruth, the "bad" girl in her. Goodwife Burlingame was the voice telling her to, "Let hem do it, Jessie. Let him shoot his squirt. It's that stuff in his balls that's making him crazy, and you know it. It makes them all crazy." On the other hand, Ruth was the one that kept telling her, "The game's, not mine. We don't have to play it again, Jess, if you don't want to." Again, Mr. King described the voices so well that he helped me find my way back. But even with her struggling to stop him, her husband still continued to "play". The more she tried to stop him the more she realized that he was not playing anymore. The voices in her head then made her panic and to protect herself she accidentally pulled her feet back and ended up kicking him where no man wants to be kicked. Like most other murder books, he falls to the floor and dies. All this happened within the first chapter. Mr. King put too much into the first chapter that he did not have much left to put into the rest of the book. At the end of the first chapter and beginning of the second, Jessie came to realize what she had done. This is were I started to loose interest because Mr. King gave too many details on what Jessie was thinking. Not only did I loose interest but I even got bored because she kept repeating herself over and over. Her multiple personalities kept debating and this continued for almost the rest of the book. Stephen King broke up the continuation of her thoughts by explaining the way she struggled to get a drink of water from a glass that was near the bed. Here again, he gave great description and did a great job because there is not much you can do while trying to get a drink of water when you are still handcuffed to a bed.
He finally gets to a point were he lets Jessie think clearer. This caught my attention again because the way he made her get out of the cuffs was real "scary story" material. Mr. King then did what I he should have done all together. In the last couple of chapters he lets Jessie write her thoughts down journal form. This was better than he telling what she was thinking was because it let me see it through her eyes.
Overall Stephen King could have done better with this book. I felt as if I was on a rollercoaster ride because the story line would get real good but then he would drag it out too long that it would fall straight down. If he would have shortened the book by shortening Jessie's thoughts or putting them all into journal form at the end, the book would not have dragged out so long. It made it seem like it rattled on and on in some places but Stephen King, being the great writer that he is, compensated in other parts of the book.
Summary of Gerald's Game (Signet)
A different kind of bedtime story from Stephen King, as a game of seduction between a husband and wife ends in death. But the nightmare has only just begun...
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