Desperation - What a Dark Book

[michal]

Maybe I just love dark books or something.

Seems like you're in the right place than...

[Sony02]

I love it! I read it four times already!

[JRM]

Seems like you're in the right place than...

Lol. I finished Desperation yesterday, and yeah, it was dark. Fortunately, I STILL don't think it's as dark as Pet Sematary. That was was almost too difficult to read because of how worn out I felt while reading it, lol.

[TexasChick76543]

This was by far the darkest of Mr. King's books. I hated it at first but loved it all the same. The gore that was involved was horrible, I kept thinking who would murder a family like this...who's mind could vision something this gruesome and santanic? Then I looked at the cover, as I have done many times while reading his books and SMH I said, "oh, yeah Stephen KIng"! I read this book over a period of months, because the detail was so vivid, that I could put myself in the story watching everything as it unfolded. That was something that I did not want to do. I was 24 then and sleep is something you treasure, and I ran up many an electric bill because of the maniac mind of Stephen King. This by far is number 1 on my list, followed by Rose Madder and Insomnia. If you want to rate on darkness..IMO..

[Nutty Bavarian]

I really liked this one. It was one of the first ones I read by SK and really got me hooked.

[rosetat49]

As with all of SK books, I couldn't put it down! I have read a lot of his books 2 or 3 times, but not that one. And the movie--PALEASE! know what I mean?? could have done it a lot better!

[steve-w]

I must admit that I found it quite dark, but extremely hard to put down.
It's certainly on my list of re-reads

[aliciasimon]

The book was too gory for my taste. Too much bone splintering and blood spurting. I found the twist of swapping names with characters between this book and Regulators kind of cool though. The first part of the book was awesome with the cop that snagged them and started on the Miranda rights and added "you have the right to be executed" (or something like) and then "Tak!". Classic SK!!!! But I was disappointed at the animal hurting references (though minor). I hate that stuff and wish so much authors would NOT GO THERE.

[smathes1]

Yes! I read this book 2 years ago and still remember how crazy it was...but I def. add it to my favorites by stephen king. It was dark and gruesome...even after two years I can remember the tak tak tak haha..good read!

[Benita]

To me it was the exact opposite-- no matter how dark and terrible things got, when it came to the end and good and light triumphed, I felt so... so *un*depressed, so exultant and beautiful and in touch with the great wonder of the universe. As though all the sacrifice and pain in life couldn't extinguish what is good.

Constantly Reading,
Anneko Martian

Thank you Anneko I agree with you. I love this book. I think it is in no way depressing. I think it's one of my fav's!