Duma Key: A Novel by Stephen King (EPUB)

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Don’t miss the thrilling novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King about what happens when the barrier between our world and that of the supernatural is breached…No more than a dark pencil line on a blank page. A horizon line, maybe. But also a slot for blackness to pour through… A terrible construction site 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. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he hadn’t survived the injuries that could have killed him. He wants out. His psychologist, Dr. Kamen, suggests a “geographic cure,” a new life distant from the Twin Cities and the building business Edgar grew from scratch. And Kamen suggests 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 Minnesota for a rented house on Duma Key, a stunningly beautiful, eerily undeveloped splinter of the Florida coast. The sun setting into the Gulf of Mexico and the tidal rattling of shells on the beach call out to him, and Edgar draws. A visit from Ilse, the daughter he dotes on, starts his movement out of solitude. He meets a kindred spirit in Wireman, a man reluctant to reveal his own wounds, and then Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick old woman whose roots are tangled deep in Duma Key. Now Edgar paints, sometimes feverishly, his exploding talent both a wonder and a weapon. 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 yet another novel as fascinating as it is gripping and terrifying.

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⭐This book kept me up reading late into the night and then scared to go to sleep, and then I dreamed about it. It reminded me of how I felt reading “IT” when I was 16. I was totally absorbed by the story. In my mind’s eye it was as if I could clearly see the art as it was described. I loved this book.

⭐I have read many books by Mr King. He’s at his best when he dealt with supernatural subjects. Among my favourites are Salem’s Lot, Pet Semetary, The Shinning, It, Christine. I have also read his recent works such as Revival, which is a good read but is missing the ommmph that made him a classic horror story teller. Duma Key, while it is not recent, dealt with the supernatural and he’s on fire with this one. It is as though the young Mr King from years ago is back with a vengeance! This book is as scary as the few I named above and if you like those books, be sure to pick this up!

⭐I was looking for a Stephen King book that would be suspenseful and disturbing without gore, and there couldn’t be a better one than Duma Key. The story builds like a puzzle coming together perfectly, one piece at a time. It brings an unlikely everyday hero – more than one, as the story progresses – to deal with a supernatural threat, much like Neil Gaiman’s “Coraline.” These kind of stories are my absolute favorites.

⭐I had read everything Stephen King published up to Duma Key. Didn’t stop because I disliked King, just read more by other authors, got busy with life, etc. So I went back and picked up Duma Key and really enjoyed it. I think I enjoyed it more than I would have when it was first released. Something in my life experience made it resonate more–maybe having almost grown up kids now, or suffering injuries that don’t heal as quickly or well as they used to. Anyway, maybe delaying reading this was some kind of fate, and I am happy for it. It feels like pretty classic King, so I expect general fans of his stories or writing will enjoy it.

⭐It’s been quite a while since the last time I read a novel on the scale of Duma Key. At well over seven hundred pages in length, it’s not a read for the feint of heart. To tell the truth, that is about the only aspect of it that seems daunting, or perhaps even a touch terrifying. Don’t get me wrong, the story is well written with a depth to it the hints at the way a painter layers on glaze after glaze of color to bring a painting to life.There’s a hint of Lovecraft in Duma Key, in the telling and the story’s soul. It follows three distinct time frames: the story of a little girl as she’s recovering from a head injury, the story Edgar Freemantle rebuilds his life after a debilitating accident, and the time of the narrator, who also happens to be Edgar. The first two tie together in an intertwining thread that follows Edgar and the little girl’s journey to rediscover themselves, sometimes literally, through art. But both paths move past the mundane application of shape and form into something… else. The time of the narrator foreshadows, sometimes almost too much, what is to come. Of course, this is a Stephen King novel, so any mention of something happening to a character is likely an ill portent to say the least.Overall, I would say this is a good read and would definitely recommend it. There are definitely scarier stories out there, and more horrifying, but sometimes that’s the point.

⭐I have read most of King’s books, and have liked more better than others. But, I think that Duma Key maybe my favorite.I have read both the paperback and listened to the audio version (twice). Both are excellent, but in this case I prefered to read the story in my own voice in my own head. I found the story to be particularly absorbing. I read a lot, and have read a lot of books as a result, and I have found that my ability to get lost in a story has declined as I have gotten older. I have also found that my threshold for what I consider a “good” author and a “good” story has gotten much higher. Duma Key was the first book in a very long time that I got utterly lost in – in the stay up way to late without realizing it and listening to it while in the car, the gym, work, home, cleaning and even grocery shopping when my audio books are usually limited to gym and bathtub time.I will say again as I have said in other reviews of King’s book, but King’s ability to create such real and down to earth characters continually amazes me. They leap off the page, they walk and talk and think and feel and I do all those things with them, every step of the way. From the very begining, I get to know these characters and care about them. He writes his characters with realism and sympathy while at the same time drawing no line and never stopping short. Every flaw and shortcoming is expressed as deeply as every virtue.Some reviewers found that the plot of the story degenerated into the bizzarre and the crazy. Maybe it does, but I stayed on that ride until the end and loved every minute of it, and every minute seemed as realistic and real to me as the moment before. One of the things I like most about King as an author is he is not afraid to delve into the bizzarre and the crazy. He takes me places and into worlds and realms that no other author would or even could even if such things occured to them. One of my favorite books of his in the Langoliers, completely unrealistic and bizzarre, but I’ve read and listened to the audio version of that story over and over. No other author I’ve read writes the stories King writes. So, while the book does take a turn into the truly weird, trust me its worth the ride.I also especially enjoyed Duma Key in that it was set in Florida. I have never been to florida, and have never lived on the beach, but I felt like I was THERE, with the sun and the ocean, sand under my feet and wind in my hair. And, the main characters has lost an arm, and the ways in which he has to compensate and function, what he feels and how he forgets and then remembers, is all made so real I feel like I might actually know now what it is like to lose a limb. This and other things like it from Duma Key have stayed with me long after I’ve put it down and keep me coming back. I am actually on here today to order the Kindle rendition so I can always have it available when ever I want to return.

⭐I have now read more of his books than I can remember. I have never been disappointed sometimes confused and wondering where the book is going ( which is not a bad thing as it keeps you wanting to read more). I particularly like the way the story leads you in to thinking everything is moving forward and everything that’s going to happen will lead to something good with no real worries for the leading cast then suddenly ! Well if you’ve ever read any of his books you never know where it might lead and if you think to do there’s a twist.Another winner

⭐I have read almost all of SKs books, and this is one of my favourites, along with the Stand, and the one where aliens come out of people’s behinds. Anyway, this is a great read, a slow burner, but a page turner at the same time.I get really irritated when people describe the plot in reviews.

⭐This (close second comes Needful Things) is my very favourite Stephen King book, which I have read more than once. I love the location; I have travelled to the Gulf Coast of Florida yearly for decades and I could really see and feel each setting (many of which are actual places that I have been to) which deepened the story for me. I loved all the characters, I laughed at some of the funny scenes, cried at some of the tragic ones and was terrified at the menace.Stephen King just gets better.

⭐My only complaint ever about Stephen King is that his endings are wild: extreme, exaggerated and hard to grasp. His compulsion to provide the Big Horrific Payoff often undermines the wonderfully paced build up (my memory of the raging disappointment at the last third of The Dark Half will never leave me…) Not so in Duma Key. It is a beautifully balanced work, intriguing and crawlingly creepy.

⭐If anyone thinks Stephen King was losing his touch, post 2000’s, they should read this. Almost a perfect book. Memorable characters, amazing plot. No dull moments

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