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Pet Sematary

Stephen King

4.01 AVERAGE

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark emotional tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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bfreundt1216's review

5.0

Woah. This was much different than expected. I went in with high expectations but this macabre, terrifying, yet relatable story exceeded them

It was readable, nothing amazing or not even really scary; just a little disturbing. The story felt very familiar for some reason. But this is probably the only horror I've read so far (other than Dracula and Frankenstein). I guess I don't like the horror genre very much, gonna try some other horror books to be sure.

Mórbido!

Já li muitos livros que lidam com a morte. Na verdade comecei meu interesse por literatura em leituras existencialista: Camus, Sartre, Graciliano Ramos, Hesse, foram meus primeiros contatos com angústia, luto, morte, suicídio e mais. Mas nenhum livro me impactou tanto em lidar com a morte como Pet Sematary. Morte crua, que não pede passagem, que mesmo os filósofos tem dificuldade de enfrentam.

Pra além da história de terror e fantasia, esse livro tem pelo menos 4 ou 5 histórias sobre morte. Algumas contadas como histórias dentro de histórias, outras como parte mais central do livro. Bichos de estimação, idosos, adolescentes, crianças, adultos, jovens. Todo o tipo de morte e diferentes formas de lidar com o luto. Achei fascinante e amedrontador a forma como me relacionei com alguns personagens durante o luto e como ninguém sabe lidar com isso.

O livro começa com uma nostalgia gostosa, simpática e aos poucos vai te levando pra um lugar de incômodo. Sei que o livro tem muito do toque pessoal (quase biográfico) de King, e isso trás esse sendo familiar. O livro tem seus problemas, é claro, com uns diálogos pouco verossimeis, mas não estragam o livro.
dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

More about the horror of grief than anything else. I was surprised at how much book there was between Church's return and Gage's, but considering the author, maybe I shouldn't have been. King likes to let you steep in it, lets you hang between the certainty that horror is coming and its arrival, and sometimes it work for me and sometimes it doesn't. I think it was worth the read, if only because the new movie made me so mad and this cleansed the palate.
challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes