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"But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you." - Stephen King (Salem's Lot)

I enjoyed reading Salem's Lot, It was fun and spooky. I loved the ragtag group of people that came together to defeat the evil happening in Jerusalem's Lot. It was kind of slow in the beginning, but picked up pace later on.

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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? No

4.5

eburgardt's review against another edition

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dark mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Twice a character refers to a woman’s breasts as “jahoobies” which is something I am psychologically incapable of forgetting
Sometimes comically faithful to vampire lore despite the novel’s realism. At one point a character literally thinks “I remember this from the Hammer films starring Christopher Lee”
The book is perhaps too long, and the pace crawls, but it lends itself to a big bad that has a Michael Myers quality about it - slow, methodical, somehow always just around the corner
“[Adults] took laxatives, liquor, or sleeping pills to drive away their terrors so that sleep would come, and their terrors were so tame and domestic… There is no group therapy or psychiatry or community social services for the child who must cope with the thing under the bed...the only cure is the eventual ossification of the imaginary faculties, and this is called adulthood.”

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