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The book was well written and an easy read but I just did not like this book.

I am a King fan, but did not enjoy this book. It is born of a thin premise and never gets far. Someone said that it feels like a short story that's been stretched too long and I agree.

Synopsis: Thad Beaumont is a writer who published novels under the name of "George Stark". The story takes place in the small town of Castle Rock, Maine where Thad, his wife, and twins reside. Sheriff Alan Panghorn ponders the brutal roadside murder of man named Homer Gamache. Thad's prints are found all over Homer. From this point, a tale of terror begins.

Based in a small town in Maine. About a writer whose summer vacation develops into a nightmare.

When Thad Beaumont wakes to the nightmare of Georgre Stark, he hears birds, thousands of them, all chirping and twittering at the same time, and with these sounds comes a presentiment full of memory and forboding: The sparrows are flying again. Thad Beumont is a writer, and for a dozen years he secretly published novels under the name of "George Stark" because he was no longer able to write under his own name...

A very good book.

Gently read once.

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In 1985, 39-year-old Stephen King announced in public that his pseudonymous alter ego, Richard Bachman, was dead. (Never mind that he revived him years later to write The Regulators.) At the beginning of The Dark Half (1989), 39-year-old writer Thad Beaumont announces in public that his own pseudonym, George Stark, is dead.
Now, King didn't want to jettison the Bachman novel, titled Machine Dreams, that was he working on. So he incorporated it in The Dark Half as the crime oeuvre of George Stark, whose recurring hero/alter ego is an evil character named Alexis Machine.

Thad Beaumont's pseudonym is not so docile as Stephen King's, though, and George Stark bursts forth into reality. At that point, two stories kick into gear: a mystery-detective story about the crime spree of George Stark (or is it Alexis Machine?) and a horror story about Beaumont's struggle to catch up with his doppelganger and kill him dead.

This is not the first time that Stephen King has written a dark allegory about the fiction writer's situation. As the New York Times writes, "Misery (1987) is a parable in chiller form of the popular writer's relation to his audience, which holds him prisoner and dictates what he writes, on pain of death. The Dark Half is a parable in chiller form of the popular writer's relation to his creative genius, the vampire within him, the part of him that only awakes to raise Cain when he writes, the fratricidal twin who occupies 'the womblike dungeon' of his imagination." --Fiona Webster--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

excellent reading and typical spellbinding storyline from Stephen King, this ones keeps you on the edge of your sit

What a good book. I really enjoyed the read.

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