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A review by iris_ymra
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
4.0
'You keep on the path and all’s well. You get off it and the next thing you know you’re lost if you’re not lucky.'
'...what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain.'
'But time passes, and time welds one state of human feeling into another until they become something like a rainbow. Strong grief becomes a softer, more mellow grief; mellow grief becomes mourning; mourning at last becomes remembrance—a process that may take from six months to three years and still be considered normal.'
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What could be a serene family life, living in a new place and new start, as Louis had gotten a job at the infirmary of the University of Maine changed and flipped over in the light of death, as it started to take its toll.
Worse things could, and would, happen when you're dealing with death; when you take it as a competition rather than an accompaniment of life. Because when you see death as an enemy you will fight it. And what with knowing a place that could bring the dead back into life, though every action will come with consequences, a severe one.
So perhaps, dead is better.
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The story building of Pet Sematary was rather slow, and perhaps too slow even, for some of the readers. It was not until half way through the book did the plot of the story shows that it started to go up, that we are finally would come face to face, with the real conflict. Maybe when you read it, you would even start questioning on how does the book is even a horror, where does the thrilling mystery. But still, somehow the way the plot is put out is not exactly that bad for me, no it's not bad definitely. Because I still find myself engaged throughout the whole book, curious in whole.
Because King indeed has created a very relatable characters and the everyday family relationship scenes, things that we probably see and even experienced ourselves -- how parents have to deal with their children, on the information of death, how adults themselves, have to deal with death or rather how they deal with it. The portrayal of human feelings and attitude towards death is perfectly put on view, that's somehow we could put ourselves in it and relate to it at certain extent.
Half way of the book, King savoured us with Louis' family life, their bonding, the love between them, just their relationship in general will bind us with the characters, creating an attachment. For me, I can't really help it but to love them as much too. So then when the latter half came, you could never have prepared yourself. I'd say that I was shattered, thrilled and even spooked.
Pet Sematary is a book that -- I would not say enjoy, because it sounds cheery for such a tragic story -- but rather occupying, impressive.
'...what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain.'
'But time passes, and time welds one state of human feeling into another until they become something like a rainbow. Strong grief becomes a softer, more mellow grief; mellow grief becomes mourning; mourning at last becomes remembrance—a process that may take from six months to three years and still be considered normal.'
________
What could be a serene family life, living in a new place and new start, as Louis had gotten a job at the infirmary of the University of Maine changed and flipped over in the light of death, as it started to take its toll.
Worse things could, and would, happen when you're dealing with death; when you take it as a competition rather than an accompaniment of life. Because when you see death as an enemy you will fight it. And what with knowing a place that could bring the dead back into life, though every action will come with consequences, a severe one.
So perhaps, dead is better.
________
The story building of Pet Sematary was rather slow, and perhaps too slow even, for some of the readers. It was not until half way through the book did the plot of the story shows that it started to go up, that we are finally would come face to face, with the real conflict. Maybe when you read it, you would even start questioning on how does the book is even a horror, where does the thrilling mystery. But still, somehow the way the plot is put out is not exactly that bad for me, no it's not bad definitely. Because I still find myself engaged throughout the whole book, curious in whole.
Because King indeed has created a very relatable characters and the everyday family relationship scenes, things that we probably see and even experienced ourselves -- how parents have to deal with their children, on the information of death, how adults themselves, have to deal with death or rather how they deal with it. The portrayal of human feelings and attitude towards death is perfectly put on view, that's somehow we could put ourselves in it and relate to it at certain extent.
Half way of the book, King savoured us with Louis' family life, their bonding, the love between them, just their relationship in general will bind us with the characters, creating an attachment. For me, I can't really help it but to love them as much too. So then when the latter half came, you could never have prepared yourself. I'd say that I was shattered, thrilled and even spooked.
Pet Sematary is a book that -- I would not say enjoy, because it sounds cheery for such a tragic story -- but rather occupying, impressive.