Book Reviews of From a Buick 8

Wow, I didn't like this book at all. I only finished reading it because I really did want to know the end, but the story dragged and it was just too much of the same thing. Maybe there's some deeper meaning, I dunno, but yuck. I cannot believe I found a King novel I didn't really really like! But this was a stinker for me.

More cerebral than Christine - I enjoy it when everything isn't quite all the way explained... Note: Has tie-ins to the Dark Tower series!

Like a fine wine, I am pleased to see that King only gets better with age. A frightening book indeed, the kind of fear that shakes up your moral core. No perfunctory scare in this book.

WoW! a very good book. i love paranormal books and this one did not disappoint me!

As with most STephen King novels I really enjoyed this one. It played out as if I was watching a movie, every character as real as myself. What an amazing imagination he has!

Supernatural antique car left in a shed. Policemen sit around and talk about it. Wordy.

Very interesting, hard to put down

Stephen Kings usual scary stuff. I liked it but he has written better.

I couldn't really get into it. Not a fan of the author or the genre.

Less than I expect from Stephen King. But all King fans will still want to try it.

In a secret shed behind the barracks of the Pennsylvania State Police, Troop D, there's a cherry Buick Roadmaster no one has touched in years -- because there's more power under the hood than anyone can handle . . .

great book

In a small town in Pennsylvania, there is something strange going on near the State Police barracks. There's a classic Buick Roadmaster that has remained untouched in an old shed, and once it is discovered, it begins to unleash an evil none of the troopers could have imagined. This is similar in concept as Stephen King's Christine, but with a twist...

King always delivers! Great book!

The state police of Troop D. in Statler, Pennsylvania, have kept the mysterious, vintage Buick Roadmaster caged in Shed B out in back of the barracks ever since 1979, when Troopers Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox answered a call about its driver gone missing from a gas station just down the road. Mostly it sleeps (that's one way of putting it, anyway), and over the years the troop has absorbed its mystery as part of the background to their work. But even as it sleeps, it breathes—inhaling a little bit of this world, exhaling a little bit of whatever world it came from...until the fateful day when its terrifying secrets are finally revealed.

Weird, like the Stephen King we all love!

Very good Stephen King mystery about a mysterious car in custody of the state police that seems to have other-worldly powers.

Is this spooky time-travel, or what??

This is a good story.kind of strange,but typical Stephen King.

One of my favorite Stephen King books, this one is a bit more like a Twilight Zone episode than the horror that he's known for. An abandoned car is taken in by state troopers, except it turns out to be not a car at all, but a gateway into another world. What I liked about this was the sheer force of mystery. The traditional story arc in most popular fiction is missing. Instead, it's a bunch of folks trying to make sense of the very strange goings on in their garage.

A slightly weiord book, but I wasn't able to put it down.
Lots of unbelievable things happen, so this makes it a typical Stephen King book.

From Publishers Weekly
King, we learn in an author\'s note, hashed out the plot of this gripper while driving from western Pennsylvania to New York. The first draft took two months to write. That\'s quick work, and it\'s reflected in the book\'s simplicity of plot and theme; unlike King\'s chewy last novel, Dreamcatcher, this one goes down like a shot of moonshine, hot and clean, much like Cujo, say, or Gerald\'s Game.
In 1979, an odd man drives what at first glance looks like a 1954 mint-quality Buick Roadmaster up to a service station in rural Pennsylvania, then vanishes, leaving behind the car. The state police of Troop D deposit the vehicle in a shed near their barracks, where, up to the present, it remains a secret from all but cop colleagues for the car isn\'t exactly a car; it may be alive, and it certainly serves as a doorway between our world and... what? Another dimension? Another galaxy? The troopers never find out, despite their amateurish scientific investigations of it and of the weird beings that occasionally emerge from the vehicle\'s trunk: freaky fish, creepy flowers and more. Moreover, the \"car\" is dangerous: the day it appears, a state trooper disappears, and experiments over the years with cockroaches, etc., indicate that just as the car can spew things out, it will ingest them.

I didnt care for this book at all ,it was boring. I couldnt finish it after i read a 150 pages.

A reviewer stated that the story went slow. What I say is that the Buick 8 was stored for at least 2 decades and things happened over that period. I liked the book. What I didn't like was what happened to the barracks dog. Then again I am a dog lover. I occasionally read his books. I didn't know what to expect with this book, but I read it during the day, just in case it got really bad. lol How come things look better during the day but it doesn't at night???

Only Stephen King can get away with writing TWO books about a possessed car.

This definitely was not one of my favorite King books. The first few hundred pages of this book were definitely not page turners but the last were. The story of the Buick unravels by going between the past and present where I feel the entire book should have been written as a flashback. The length and the drawing out of the story almost made this book unfinishable.

This was one of those books that started out kinda slow, but once it got going, it was very good. It took me a while to finish it, though, because it just didn't have enough of that King feel to it. A bit alien, a bit supernatural, a bit creepy. Buick Roadmaster sitting in state police barracks shed becomes a portal to another world...? dimension...? Interesting plot, definitely different. Just a bit slow in spots.

Stephen King!

In a secret shed behind the barracks of the Pennsylvania State Police, Troop D, there's a cherry
Buick Roadmaster no one has touched in years - because there's more power under the hood than anyone can handle...

Not as good as "From a Buick 7", but hopefully "From a Buick 9" will make up for it.

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In a secret shed behind the barracks of the Pennsylvania State Police, Troop D, there's a cherry Buick Roadmaster no one has touched in years-because there's more power under te hood than anyone can handle.

In a secret shed behind the barracks of the PA State Police there's a cherry Buick Roadmaster no one has touched in years--because there's more power under the hood than anyone can handle....vintage King

A spooky thriller, told through the various characters.

great stephen king book. a must read for stephen fans.

In the secret shed behind the barracks of the Penn state police,troop D, there is a cherry buick roadmaster so one has touched in years-because theres more power under the hood than anyone can handle

In a secret shed behind the barracks of the Pennsylvania State Police, Troop D, there's a cherry Buick Roadmaster no one has touched in years - because there's more power under the hood than anyone can handle...

"The book's intriguing plot revolves around the troopers of Pennsylvania State Patrol Troop D, who come into possession of what at first appears to be a vintage automobile. Closer inspection and experimentation conducted by the troopers reveal that this car's doors (and trunk) sometimes open to another dimension populated by gross-out creatures straight out of ... well, a Stephen King novel." amazon review

Have not read. In new condition.

Another imaginative and spooky tale from Stephen King. A car, kept by the Pennsylvania State Police, has more power than some people realize. As a Stephen King fan, I like the book's supernatural spin and was reminded of earlier works, such as "Christine".

In a secret shed behind the barracks of the Pennsylvania State Police, Troop D, there's a cherry Buick Roadmaster no one has touched in years - because there's more power under the hood than anyone can handle....

This was the husband's book. He said it was pretty good. Not quite as good as other SK books, but pretty good.

It's beginning to feel like King is just pasting together plots from earlier better books. This was really only okay.

This book keeps you glued to the seat fron the first word until the last, typical Stephan King. What is it about that Buick?