Stephen King - Bag of Bones: 10th Anniversary Edition

Pros: Likeable Characters, Interesting Insight Into Novelist's Craft
Cons: More Subtle Story With Less Gore, Lengthy

At 732 pages, Bag Of Bones, is one of King's most ambitious novels. Published in 1998, and released in mass market paperback in June 1999, the writing is both lyrical and atmospheric. Big themes of love, justice and redemption cozy up to a...

Pros: Refrigerator magnets
Cons: That whole child-custody subplot

There are two Stephen Kings: the scary and the sensitive. When he’s at his best as a Frightener ("Desperation" and everything before "Pet Semetary"), he grabs you by the arm and twists until you cry "Uncle!" In the...

Pros: A selfconsciously constructed commercial product. Good of its type.
Cons: Padded and over-dependent on the cliches of the genre.

Some bestselling books are very assured productions, productions by major literary talents, works marred only by the desire for commercial success. These are the books that have something for everyone. Bag of bones, by Stephen King, is an assured, ...

Pros: A well-done blend of literary genres, New style that works, Plot, Premise, Characters, Scare Factor
Cons: A little sad, First two chapters are a little slow

Ever since finishing Stephen King's IT early in 2001, I've been like Ponce de Leon searching for the fountain of youth. However, instead of searching for a fictitious island, I've been searching for the allusive "good...

Pros: Builds in excitement. A great read.
Cons: Takes a few hundred pages to get to the ghosts

Stephen King has written over thirty books. I used to associate his name with horror because of such work as The Shining, Carrie, Pet Semetary and others. But after being surprised to find that he'd penned Stand by Me, The Green Mile and The Shawshank...

Pros: Characters, story, and frights. Fast read.
Cons: None

I just finished reading this book for the first time. I have read many novels by King and yearned for something newish and unread by myself. Luckily I am enrolled in the Stephen King Book Club, and I have still about a dozen of his novels sitting in ...

Pros: A classic King thriller.
Cons: None

Stephen King is the ultimate writer of the mystery and horror genre. His novel Bag of Bones is another great example of why King is the best there ever was in this field. Now those that are King fanatics may be somewhat stunned by the romantic...

Pros: spooky atmosphere, developed characters, SCARY
Cons: the first couple hundred pages is sort of boring...

I’m a big Stephen King fan. He’s a brilliant writer that is a role model to anybody who’s a struggling horror/suspense writer (which I am). His characters are all realistic and you believe that they are crazy or depressed or angry without...

Pros: Told in 1st person / On CD / Excellent Story
Cons: Long Book

I received this book on cd-rom. I must admit I have never heard a better story teller than Stephen King (unless it was my father).

I was a little leary of this book at first. On CD Rom it comes in 20 discs. That is one LONG book. I was...

Pros: Great characters, nice twist of romance here and there; chilling at times, heart-warming at others!
Cons: Sexual references at inappropriate times in story; the first few hundred pages seem to drag

Bag of Bones is very different from some of Stephen King's other well-known novels (IT, The Shining, Cujo) in that the horror aspect of the story is barely there at all. This isn't a bad thing, however. The story combines romance, mystery, the...

Pros: A very well written story with many unusual and interesting plots and supblots.
Cons: A bit of repetition and detail that is not necessary to the story - but is not serious.

732 Pages, published in 1999. This is a much improved (see below why I say "improved") S. King novel. The author has employed a better balance of both the mundane and the supernatural. King, a master of subtle (and not so subtle) horror,...

Pros: Chapters 1-28.
Cons: Chapters 28-30.

In Bag of Bones, Stephen King builds a web of mystery that draws the reader in slowly and then disappoints in the final two chapters. The book recovers because King remains as good as ever at keeping the reader glued to the page. In fact, it's...

Pros: Super love story
Cons: none

This book is without a doubt Stephen king's strongest and most ambitious book. It is according to the author a summary of everything he knows about desires, secrets and of the souls who are not resting in peace. He says about his book that it is a story...

Pros: Creepily well-crafted, cracking good yarn
Cons: The length alone might scare you!

Having left this novel to be a 'dustcatcher' on my bookshelves for months, a heavy cold prompted me to pick it up and give it a go.

Two days later and it's finished - which I think is as good an indication as any of what a page turner it is....

Pros: Entertaining story
Cons: A few loose ends left untied at the conclusion

BAG OF BONES fills the bill -- engrossing story, interesting characters, more than enough suspense, not to mention skeletons galore. The underlying mystery concerns an entire town, and what might have happened on the "TR" a hundred years ago....