Stephen King - Duma Key Reviews

I received Duma Key from my book club, because I'd sent in my "do not send" card too late. Therefore, a tad begrudgingly, I began reading the book just because it was there on my table and it was written by the prolific King. (As an aside; in recent years, I haven't enjoyed King's fiction nearly as much as I did in the era of "The Stand".)

I was delighted by Duma Key, which had its moments of horror, yet had a sci-fi feel to it, and the characters popped off each page once again - wonderfully  reminiscent of King's earlier works.

On the final page (after I'd lost some hours of sleep because...

Life can change forever in the time it takes to blink. Edgar Freemantle's life hung a U-turn in a gruesome accident on his own construction site. The unfortunate intersection scrambled his brain, crushed his hip, and left his right arm somewhere under a 100-ton crane. Six months later, Edgar's partially rehabilitated but fully divorced. That's when his shrink suggests he take up a hobby. "I used to draw a little," he mused.

Life can change forever in time it takes to blink, or it can take longer: Edgar may have thought the changes were done, but he was wrong.

Leaving Minnesota's ice and snow behind;...

What do you think of when you hear Duma Key? At first I thought maybe Stephen King, who is my favorite author, was losing he's edge. I would expect a little more of darker side coming from him. I started reading this book thinking that this was going to be his first book that I really don't care for. So I started reading and the first few pages were well kinda slow. But he does what he always does, hooks you in. When your not reading the book your thinking about the book. You want to know whats going to happen next. You also think you got the book figured out by the first few chapters but trust...

When I fisrt was given the book Duma Key by Stephan King to read by my mother I was a little nervous based on the size of it. But the story grabbed me right from the beginning and I stayed up really late to read it! The story is of a man who is crippled in an accident and it changes his whole life. He moves to Duma Key in Florida to get away from everything. WHen he is there he starts painting, but the painting starts to take over his life. Is it a mental problem, is it a gift, is a problem from the spirit world, is it something good or something bad? You will have to read the book to find out!...

The name Stephen King is associated with horror, but this is a more subtle tension than some of his earlier works. He concentrates more on personalities and compulsions and less on the gruesome. He weaves the lives of his characters together- it is not as complex and The Stand or It, but this is reminiscent of how all things echo back and forth in time and cause and effect. Satisfying.