Chilling, to the bone...?

[THISisWHEREiMAKEmySTAND]

I have read alot on here that people did not enjoy Gerald's Game, while it remains one of my very favorites of King's work. I felt like it was utterly chilling, a tale of a woman trapped not only by her physically restricting situation, but trapped by memories of her childhood she just cannot face. I love King's ability to translate the repression of traumatic events, and was wondering what everyones take on this work was? (I loved it)

[Natjen24]

I totally agree, it's one of his books I can read in one rainy afternoon.
The scene whereshe tries to pull her hand out of the handcuffs and she literally pulls her skin of , still gives me the heebie jeebies. I remember I was eating lunch the first time I read that part. I lost my appetite immediatly.

Also the man she thinks she sees in the corner at night. God, at night I thought I saw him a few times after I read it And the part when she fully remembers that afternoon (is it July 4th? I can't remember) with her father is just bonechilling. It's not in my top five, but certainly in my top ten.

You can imagine the handcuffs just had to go.. :grinning:

[THISisWHEREiMAKEmySTAND]

Oh my god yes, I actually had to skip those pages the first time I read them, because I was in class and making disgusted noises, and fearful faces, haha. Saved that for being alone at home, and yes that scene you refered to with the corner, still haunts me to this day. I remember reading it alone and slowly raising my eyes like, OMG he is going to be standing there.. he wasn't, thank god

[JRM]

It's good to see positivity for this book, reason being I just bought it today. I saw the hardcover flap and it sounded interesting, so I've been surprised to hear so many didn't really like it. I'm currently reading "The Dead Zone", so I don't think I'll be starting this book until I finish that one (which will probably be 4 days, lol), but I'm looking forward to it.

[Jack Roman]

I don't see how anyone could not like Gerald's Game.

[michal]

I enjoyed Gerald's Games, enough to reread it actually, but I have to say I liked it better the second or third time around. Perhaps this book's charm lies within the fact that the true horror of the tale is human-made: The things that happened in the past and our own mind working as a cage, simultaneously protecting us, holding us down and liberating us. By the end of the reading I felt as if I was actually there, with the cuffs on my wrists and the mixture of despair and madness in my head.

[Kmart85]

I definitely agree! I had the book for quite a few years, but I never read it until about a month ago. I was quite surprised with the way it turned out though. While reading it, I was trying to be with her on all of the scenarios she was trying out, and I really hoped that she would get out with the skin cream. In the end,doing the degloving , was really the only option that really fit SK's style of writing. When it makes you cringe, that's when you know it's a GREAT read!!:eek2:

[Brainslinger]

This was one of the last Stephen King books that I have read. I put it off for some reason because I thought it was about deviant sexuality... which wasn't completely untrue, although it wasn't quite what I though. Actually a very decent read. I loved the little psychic link with Dolores Claiborne too. Hee, hee.

[cloudsover31]

in a way, geralds game reminds me of lisey's story. she had to go through something traumatic..to remember what she needed to. behind the purple.

[xP3AC3MAK3Rx]

I couldn't agree with you more, and I couldn't have said it better.
It's one of my most favorite novels, too.

Tommy