Duma is Top 5 on my Stephen King list. Can't even explain how special that book is to me.
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I think this because my top 3 scariest SK books when I finished. I haven't felt this chill up my spine since Jerusalem's Lot and a little in Bag of Bones. I do think this book is underrated. More people really should read.
Duma is Top 5 on my Stephen King list. Can't even explain how special that book is to me.
I did not actually read the book "It" until I came to this web site a couple of years ago, so yeah maybe using a spoiler is a good idea, as Moderator says above.Can we assume no spoiler warning necessary in these threads, if a book has been out for a while?
Duma Key is in my top 5 of all books, which is saying something. I will be rereading this one many times in the future. The ending was very different from the rest of the book. I'm assuming that his fanbase has certain expectations, or maybe he had to write something that would lend itself to film. I'm going to do a thought exercise and go to that ruined home in my mind, and see if I would have done things any differently. Most of the book was so realistic, I was really surprised at how it rang true.
Lisey's story is sweet. If I remember correctly, I'd say it's less like Duma Key and more like Rose MadderThank you! I heard that Lisey's Story is similar? I am burning with curiosity to get more.
That was a fantastic piece...Before Duma Key, I read Dear Life by Nobel Prize-winning Alice Munro. The book really irritated me. It was beautifully written, but the behavior of every character in it was completely unrealistic, inauthentic, except for the handful of stories at the end that were autobiographical. Maybe it's because I'm a freak, but I found the behavior of the characters in Duma Key to be realistic and authentic. Human.
At any rate, in my opinion there wasn't anything in her book that was better written than this:
The water surged around us. Once I got used to it, I loved the silky feel of that surge: first the lift that made me feel as if I'd magically dieted off twelve pounds or so, then the backrun that pulled sand out from between my toes in small, tickling whirlpools. Seventy or eighty yards beyond us, two fat pelicans drew a line across the morning. Then they folded their wings and dropped like stones.
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The water surged around us. Once I got used to it, I loved the silky feel of that surge: first the lift that made me feel as if I'd magically dieted off twelve pounds or so, then the backrun that pulled sand out from between my toes in small, tickling whirlpools. Seventy or eighty yards beyond us, two fat pelicans drew a line across the morning. Then they folded their wings and dropped like stones.
He also captured the afternoon storms coming in from the gulf.I am on a re-read of Duma Key and just read this part today. Anyone who has stood in a big body of water knows this feeling for the miracle it is and he just captures it. Makes you think every other description is perfectly captured too.