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# Bag of Bones: A Novel

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## Customer Reviews

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    What an Emotional Thrill Ride!!
  

*by B***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 20, 2013*

I am a Stephen King Constant Reader. However, I don't shy from being critical of the authors novels. I like most of them, but there are a few I couldn't finish because of varied disappointments in the story--"Under the Dome" for example. I am slowly making my way through the author's body of work, and I had been meaning to make "Bag of Bones" my next King novel. I am so glad I did so.I can see a clear contrast in the author's early works, when compared to his latter and most recent novels. His later books are a little more tame and character driven. The ghost and goblin effect is still strong, but the newer books have taken on a deeper, richer story texture, and the character development is significantly greater. I think the effect is that these newer stories tend to stay with you much longer. They develop a more lasting kinship with the reader that his earlier works did not evoke. "Bag of Bones" is a good example of the new King relative to the old. Another good example is "Duma Key". I think the notion that King has "slipped a cog" in his ability to tell a story is baseless. Actually he is as good as ever, maybe better--a few duds notwithstanding--eg..."Under the Dome".I highly recommend "Bag of Bones". Great story and a dynamic plot--told in a "first person" style. The many characters all have an interesting place in the story. The seven hundred odd pages are filled with suspense, terror, and romance. I found myself sitting for long readings of the prose, and felt tinges of disappointment when I had to put down the book to do other things--eg..sleep. To me, that is high praise from a reader. I knew from the beginning that I was on a good read. Some days you know from the start if the fish are biting or not. Well, the fish were biting good in this lake. It was a good day of fishing--or week, should I say, and knew from the first chapters that the fishing trip would be a successful one.Don't worry, the book is haunting. It is a very dark story. If you came seeking King's reputation to "scare the livin shit out of ya"...then I think you will be richly rewarded. The author is very long-winded in certain areas of the novel, and these tend to be the darkest and most spooky parts. Again, you won't be disappointed.I am going to put "Bag of Bones" on my short list of favorite King novels....along with: The Dead Zone, 11/22/63, Duma Key, Misery, Dolores Claiborne, The Shining, Salem's Lot, Lisey's Story, etc.As you can see, I rated 5 stars. Very deserving! ...and I highly recommend this novel to readers.

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    Grief, Love, and Vengeance, Oh My!
  

*by P***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 18, 2016*

King's earlier works terrified me so much that I developed chronic night terrors manifested in the form of sleep paralysis (you know, the kind where you feel like you're awake and in imminent mortal danger from some supernatural being -- often accompanied by feeling or sensing something crushing your chest -- and you try to struggle to move or cry out, but you're paralyzed, so you can't). So, I got rid of all my hardback King books (I know, it makes me nauseous, too), and abstained from reading anything by Stephen King for almost twenty years.When I did start reading the King of Horror again (turns out sleeping on your side prevents sleep paralysis -- who knew?), I was underwhelmed and disappointed with some of his works I had not yet devoured (I.e.The Colorado Kid, Insomnia, to name a few). I had also seen the miniseries treatment of this novel, and thought it sucked, so it was only after reading a number of positive reviews on Amazon that I purchased and began BAG OF BONES.I'm glad I gave it a chance. It's not the most frightening King novel I've ever read, but it kept my interest, and is a good yarn. It also seems to be one of King's more thoughtful works, openly exploring the rawness of grief, and the guilt and fear in moving forward, as well as the pain and heartbreak involved in finding love againMy only real problem with the story is that I just could not like the character of Sara, whom I know I was supposed to find intoxicating, entrancing and compelling. Instead, she seemed abrasive, uncouth, and combative. While I developed sympathy and felt compassion for what her character symbolized and suffered, I couldn't imagine wanting to know her or hang out with her. Plus, she terrorized Mike. Not cool.I do not do plot summaries  in my reviews, as I believe if you're reading the reviews, you probably have already gotten interested enough in the book to have read the editorial summary and Amazon synopsis. Suffice it to say, this is a book worth reading, and I recommend it to anyone who appreciates a good ghost story.Just remember: sleep on your side, not your back!

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    ‘A taste for spooks’
  

*by G***T on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 12, 2022*

Bag of Bones, published in the late ‘90s, ticks all or most of the boxes for recognisable King tropes - including a writer seeking sanctuary at a remote retreat in a sinister, tight-knit community with plenty of dark secrets. The log-built, lakeside house where bestselling author Mike Noonan goes after his wife Jo’s premature death in Derry seems to be the perfect place for him to grieve, but there’s a problem - it’s haunted. Meanwhile, Mike is caught up in a local custody dispute involving an almost comically evil software tycoon desperate to wrest his granddaughter away from her librarian mother after the death of the little girl’s father. At times it reads like Grisham with a supernatural twist. But in its most memorable passages, it’s pure horror, of the heart-pumping kind it’s impossible to stop reading. The momentum is thrilling and relentless as the novel reaches its closing stages. Some of the sections I like most relate not to the ghouls terrorising Mike and other characters, but to more pedestrian scenes where Mike is writing, or talking about writing. King is good at writing about writers, and about his trade - eg Misery and The Dark Half. It’s a long read (with some questionable spectral sex scenes) and at times there’s a slight sag in the narrative pace, but it rapidly picks up again. In the King canon, Bag of Bones is perhaps nothing out of the ordinary - it could be said to be pretty formulaic by his standards. But it works by bringing to life a small community haunted by a horrific past, and the life of the first-person narrator, Mike - level-headed and witty, wise and likeable, even as his entire life is turned on its head… King’s novels are so densely textured that they quickly become immersive and the reader invests heavily in the protagonists, and the plot. The stories go far beyond superficial shock and horror, creating incredibly detailed portraits of people and places. In that sense, Bag of Bones is an important King novel, offering many insights into his views on writing (through Mike’s eyes) while spinning a ghostly yarn that quickly becomes addictive. Mike says at the end that he’s ‘lost his taste for spooks’. But if you’re a King fan, and haven’t already encountered Bag of Bones, you should read it; if you’ve not read any of his work, this is as good a place to start as any - in the darker recesses of New England, in the company of perhaps the greatest storyteller of modern popular literature…

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