Lisey's Story
by Stephen King
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Author: Stephen KingEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2006-10-24
ISBN: 0340898933
Number of pages: 528
Publisher: Scribner
Book Reviews of Lisey's Story
Book Review: It should have been better
Summary: 3 Stars
I thought I would never get to the good part and there had to be a good part because its Stephen King after all. Well, I struggled through the not so bad part finally realizing it was a really great book. It turns out to be one of those books you have to stop 3/4 the way through and think about what you have just read. When I did that I realized no matter what he said it is quite a bit of biography. He usually tells us that what ever we are reading is not biographical but this book has quite a bit of his past life in it.Not as dreadful as the book but if you follow this with "On Writing" as I did you see the joining.I think this was a paen to his wife. She has been a great help to him in his writing, talking about it, editing, just listening. This was the book to her, for her. Then the final part zipped back to the King we are familiar with.Terror, sweat in the dark of the night, even "it was a dark and stormy night". lol To me, it's one of those books I might have to read again, at least the first part since I took it so slightingly. My strong suggestion is do not give up just because nothing jumps out at you for many,many pages. He is making the setting for the last half. The husband in the book is a very sad man with a horrible past. He shares it with her because he knows she is strong enough to take it. She doesn't think she is but finds the strenth he knew was there all along.
It's a love story with a background in Stephen and Tabitha King's life. She had to be a strong woman to put up with the child in Stephen. But he describes her as a joy in his life and enjoying going along with whatever he wanted except for the bad parts. But I digress into "On Wrinting". I have to recommend that as a quick follow up to appreciate "lisey's Story". It is a strong love story that will not disappoint.
Summary of Lisey's Story
Lisey Debusher Landon lost her husband, Scott, two years ago, after a twenty-five-year marriage of the most profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was an award-winning, bestselling novelist and a very complicated man. Early in their relationship, before they married, Lisey had to learn from him about books and blood and bools. Later, she understood that there was a place Scott went -- a place that both terrified and healed him, that could eat him alive or give him the ideas he needed in order to live. Now it's Lisey's turn to face Scott's demons, Lisey's turn to go to Boo'ya Moon. What begins as a widow's effort to sort through the papers of her celebrated husband becomes a nearly fatal journey into the darkness he inhabited. Perhaps King's most personal and powerful novel, Lisey's Story is about the wellsprings of creativity, the temptations of madness, and the secret language of love.Since his first novel was published in 1974, Stephen King has stretched the boundaries of the written word, not only bringing horror to new heights, but trying his hand at nearly every possible genre, including children's books, graphic novels, serial novels, literary fiction, nonfiction, westerns, fantasy, and even e-books (remember The Plant?). With Lisey's Story, once again King is trying something different. Lisey's Story is as much a romance as it is a supernatural thriller--but don't let us convince you. Who better to tell readers if King has written a romantic thriller than Nora Roberts? We asked Nora to read Lisey's Story and give us her take. Check out her review below. --Daphne Durham
Guest Reviewer: Nora Roberts
Nora Roberts, who also writes under the pseudonym J.D. Robb, is the author of way too many bestselling books to name here (over 150!), but some of our favorites include: Angels Fall, Born in Death, Blue Smoke, and The Reef. Stephen King hooked me about three decades ago with that sharply faceted, blood-stained jewel, The Shining. Through the years he's bumped my gooses with kiddie vampires, tingled my spine with beloved pets gone rabid, justified my personal fear of clowns and made me think twice about my cell phone. I've always considered The Stand--a long-time favorite--a towering tour de force, and have owed its author a debt as this was the first novel I could convince my older son to read from cover to cover.
But with Lisey's Story, King has accomplished one more feat. He broke my heart.
Lisey's Story is, at its core, a love story--heart-wrenching, passionate, terrifying and tender. It is the multi-layered and expertly crafted tale of a twenty-five year marriage, and a widow's journey through grief, through discovery and--this is King, after all--through a nightmare scape of the ordinary and extraordinary. Through Lisey's mind and heart, the reader is pulled into the intimacies of her marriage to bestselling novelist Scott Landon, and through her we come to know this complicated, troubled and heroic man.
Two years after his death, Lisey sorts through her husband's papers and her own shrouded memories. Following the clues Scott left her and her own instincts, she embarks on a journey that risks both her life and her sanity. She will face Scott's demons as well as her own, traveling into the past and into Boo'ya Moon, the seductive and terrifying world he'd shown her. There lives the power to heal, and the power to destroy.
Lisey Landon is a richly wrought character of charm and complexity, of realized inner strength and redoubtable humor. As the central figure she drives the story, and the story is so vividly textured, the reader will draw in the perfumed air of Boo'ya Moon, will see the sunlight flood through the windows of the Scott's studio--or the night press against them. Her voice will be clear in your ear as you experience the fear and the wonder. If your heart doesn't hitch at the demons she faces in this world and the other, if it doesn't thrill at her courage and endurance, you're going to need to check with a cardiologist, first chance.
Lisey's Story is bright and brilliant. It's dark and desperate. While I'll always consider The Shining, my first ride on King's wild Tilt-A-Whirl, a gorgeous, bloody jewel, I found, on this latest ride, a treasure box heaped with dazzling gems.
A few of them have sharp, hungry teeth. --Nora Roberts
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