Duma Key -- How'd you like it?

[Noods]

I finished Duma Key last night and I loved it! it was classic SK. I could not put it down until I got to the end.... The characters were great and the story line kept you guessing and on the edge of your seat. This is now my latest favorite quote - "ouuuuuu, you nasty man! " LOL There were quite a few memorable lines from Wireman as well. Please keep cranking them out.

[Kaleidoscope]

I started Duma Key about a week ago and I'm not even 100 pages into it yet. I can't seem to get going with it! I read a couple of pages here and there and I'm determined to get through it but nothing much seems to be happening. Nothing that's captured my interest anyway.

It doesn't help that I'm not a great fan of story's in first person. I much prefer third.

[bopropadop]

I started Duma Key about a week ago and I'm not even 100 pages into it yet. I can't seem to get going with it! I read a couple of pages here and there and I'm determined to get through it but nothing much seems to be happening. Nothing that's captured my interest anyway.

It doesn't help that I'm not a great fan of story's in first person. I much prefer third.

Hi! Try to stick with it. It definitely picks up! Things will slowly start to get weird and then snowball toward the end. Good luck!

[Chad Thorne]

I'm re-reading it now and really enjoying it. First time I read it was in dribs and drabs over multiple visits to Barnes & Noble, before I could afford to buy it; but the store in Augusta, Maine is blowing it out for $6.98. Whoo-hoo!

[Jenn*]

I really loved Duma Key, I could not put it down.

[Perisphone]

I liked the book, albeit difficult to picture as a real experience. I know Rose Madder could draw people in through her painting, so I was dissapointed that it happened again. As if it were ever possible. But a good old horror story none the less.

[frisbee]

I just finished it over the weekend and liked the book. The main characters were very interesting to me. The only thing that didn't ring true was: When Ilse was brought back to "life". Seemed predictable and too reminiscent of Pet Semetary. Other than that, I was, once again, drawn wholly into this story.

[Rand]

I started Duma Key about a week ago and I'm not even 100 pages into it yet. I can't seem to get going with it! I read a couple of pages here and there and I'm determined to get through it but nothing much seems to be happening. Nothing that's captured my interest anyway.

I was in the same boat, and it turned out that this and Lisey's Story are the only two King books that I couldn't get myself to finish, not getting much more than halfway through both. I used to say that I'd read everything (fictional) that King ever wrote, now I guess I'll need an asterisk after that claim.

I think that the thing common to both books that I disliked was the, by my perception, obvious parallels to King's own accident. In Duma Key King, I mean Freemantle, suffers a permanent disability from the van, uh crane, hitting him, and has to overcome this. In Lisey's Story, we seem to be looking into what he thinks or hopes his own wife would have remembered and felt if he'd been killed by that van, as Lisa has her constant flashbacks to the life of her writer husband. That one probably should have been called Lizey's Husband's Story.

I was thrilled when Under The Dome didn't have a central character that had to overcome the results of an accident, and didn't seem to be King eulogizing himself in disguise.

[Sigmund]

I really enjoyed Duma Key but I have to say when I realized he had forgotten about the painting he had given his daughter it felt like I had been kicked in the gut. It was, how could HE/I forgotten about that one?

[GNTLGNT]

I got into it. Felt like our Inkslinger was reaching back to his roots and bringing us just some good ole fashioned horror again. Loved the ending-another creep house setting for the finale!