Stephen king is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Miners at the china pit have accidentally broken into another. His recent work includes the institute, elevation, the outsider, sleeping beauties cowritten with his son owen king, and the bill hodges trilogy. Desperation is the authors best novel since the early 1980s. Located off a desolate stretch of interstate 50, desperation, nevada has few connections with the rest of the world.
That would be my singlesentence synopsis if someone were to ask me what desperation is all about. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. King manages, for the most part, to keep the tension up throughout the novel, which makes it one hell of an uneasy read. I just wished it didnt have to rely so much on god as a device. Desperation is the 37th or 38th book published by stephen king. It was published in 1996 at the same time as its mirror novel, the regulators, itself published under kings richard bachman pseudonym. Stephen kings desperation is a 2006 american horror television film based on stephen kings novel of the same name. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or. It was made into a tv film starring ron perlman, tom skerritt and steven weber in 2006.
Hardcover paperback tv movie dvd first edition release date. But getting out is not easy as it would seem i see holes like eyes. It is a place, though, where the seams between worlds are thin. Desperation desperation is the 37th or 38th book published by stephen king. Mr stephen king, with desperation and the regulators, has demonstrated that he is undoubtedly a master. Desperation is a horror novel by american writer stephen king. Recommend this book for any christian conservatives looking for a good horror book. Reader kathy bates, who has portrayed various king characters in films such as misery 1990, contributes a beautifully restrained reading.
Taken together, one after the other, it is an amazing reading experience i am a very experienced. Still, much of the story is intact, and the abridgment is extraordinarily long, with a running time of nine hours. For if the regulators is a work of secular horror, this is a novel of sacred horror kings first, and explicitly so. If you have ever read a stephen king novel however, you know it is way more complex than that. The biblical influence on stephen kings desperation. Desperation is one of the downright scariest books ive read, and the scares come early. It was published in 1996 at the same time as its mirror novel, the regulators, itself published under kings. Miners at the china pit have accidentally broken into another dimension and released a horrific creature known as tak, who takes human form by hijacking some of the towns residents. It doesnt matter if one reads one book before the other. However, king managed to convey a real sense of despair, doom and horror in this tale nonetheless. The horrornovelist stephen king born 1947 writes as a free thinker in the majority of his works.