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’Salem’s Lot

Stephen King

Start date: February 1, 2025

Finish date: February 28, 2025

Discussion: The Horror of it All

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The Horror of it All

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Nov 02, 2019 Meika rated it did not like it · review of another edition

First off, I love Stephen King's short fiction. I love how he sets horror right in regular day-to-day grind settings and how he builds the truly horrible out of believable experiences. I read this book at least half way through loving it. It turned for me when the stupid sexist crap jumped into driver seat and took over. Trigger warning: domestic abuse.
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Aug 22, 2019 Susannah rated it liked it · review of another edition

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I’ve been thinking about reading a Stephen King novel for a while now (the last novel of his I read was The Green Mile in ... 2000?). I was choosing between ‘Salem’s Lot and It, and since It is 1100 freakin’ pages long, I chose this one. I powered through it because King makes the pages fly, but I felt like for at least the first half, he was much more interested in the peccadilloes of the community than building any sense of dread.

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