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	Duma Key: A Novel Stephen King Scribner, 2008 - 592 pages average customer review:based on 420 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

BUT ALSO A SLOT FOR BLACKNESS TO POUR THROUGH...

A terrible accident takes Edgar Freemantle's right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. When his marriage suddenly ends, Edgar begins to wish he hadn't survived his injuries. He wants out. His psychologist suggests a new life distant from the Twin Cities, along with something else:

"Edgar, does anything make you happy?"

"I used to sketch."

"Take it up again. You need hedges...hedges against the night."

Edgar leaves for Duma Key, an eerily undeveloped splinter of the Florida coast. The sun setting into the Gulf of Mexico calls out to him, and Edgar draws. Once he meets Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick old woman with roots tangled deep in Duma Key, Edgar begins to paint, sometimes feverishly; many of his paintings have a power that cannot be controlled. When Elizabeth's past unfolds and the ghosts of her childhood begin to appear, the damage of which they are capable is truly devastating.

The tenacity of love, the perils of creativity, the mysteries of memory and the nature of the supernatural -- Stephen King gives us a novel as fascinating as it is gripping and terrifying.

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Duma Key by Stephen King

I'm a King fan but lets face it all the stuff he has written has not been up to his GOOD work. Duma Key should go down as one of his better than GOOD work. Character development, plot and conclusion all work together like a symphony. This book has a BIG story to tell and it's not a short story. I was all INTO it from start to finish. You will not be disappointed in this book.


If life can imitate art...why can't death?

Edgar Freemantle has suffered a horrible accident: he lost his right arm, and took a pretty good knock on the head. Now he's subject to fits of rage, and his memory is shaky. His two kids are away at college; his wife decides she can't handle him like this and leaves. What else is a man in his position (and with his wealth) to do but move to God's Waiting Room?

Down in Florida, Edgar finds himself renting a luxurious house on Duma Key, a privately owned island cut off from the tourist crowds. He befriends his neighbors: Wireman, a witty Farmer's Almanac type guy who throws out bits of knowledge like popcorn in a movie theater; and Elizabeth, an elderly woman slowly losing her mind...who also happens to have a dark secret that even SHE isn't fully aware of. In this new paradise, Edgar begins to paint...only his paintins are good, REAL good, too good for someone who just picked up a brush. And they tell him things, things he couldn't possibly know. As the painting begins to consume him, as he gains new knowledge of Duma Key's history, Edgar begins to suspect he was DRAWN to Duma Key, that something wants him here...and wants to keep him here, too. Forever.

"Duma Key" isn't truly scary, at least not until the final third (when, yes, you'll be checking over your shoulder for sand-covered ghosts; think of that sketch with Leslie Nielsen from King's "Creepshow" film). It IS, however, a good character study--Edgar's storytelling (and King's prose) is right-on-the-money. "Duma Key" isn't really a horror novel, it's more a psychological thriller. You won't get quite as caught up in it as Edgar does with his painting, but the novel is superbly written, and you'll definitely be left wanting just a little bit more--as is always the case, in King's novels. That's probably why the guy's managed to sell so many books. That, and pure talent. That's a factor.

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PRETTY DARN GOOD

I AM ONLY 1/4 THROUGH AT THIS POINT BUT DUMA KEY IS A FASCINATING CHARACTER TALE WITH A HINT OF MYSTICISM. THE PLAYERS ARE INTERESTING AND LIKEABLE PEOPLE AND THE STORY, LIKE MOBY DICK CAN BE SEEN AND ANALYZED ON MANY LEVELS REGARDING THE HUMAN CONDITION, FINDING OUR TRUE SELVES, OUR GIFTS, OUR JOYS OUR CAPACITY TO DEAL WITH TRADGEDY, AND TO HEAL. ITS AN UPLIFTING AND BEAUTIFUL STORY. 4 STARS IS FOR THE WRITING WHICH IS KINGS STYLE A BIT SLOW MOVING AND QUIRKY GOING IN STRANGE DIRECTIONS AT TIMES BUT OVERALL AN ENJOYABLE READ


A very nice book to read !

You can say that Duma Key is not the best book of Mr King but I can tell you that it is a very nice book to read.
As a constant reader of my favourite author I can say that it is another good joyride you are going through.
The first half is the best. The ending is not good enough but....it's Stephen King. So enjoy it.

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