Gerald's Game
by Stephen King
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Author: Stephen KingContributor: Lindsay Crouse
Edition: Audio Cassette
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Published: 1992-09-01
ISBN: 0453008003
Number of pages: 1
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Book Reviews of Gerald's Game
Book Review: The Most Frightening Stephen King Novel
Summary: 5 Stars
_The Stand_ entertained me, but didn't really scare me. Same goes for _The Shining_, _Pet Sematary_, _Salem's Lot_, _The Tommyknockers_ or any of the other vintage King novels or story collections. They are amusing diversions, but not really disturbing or threatening in any serious way.
_Gerald's Game_, however, is genuinely frightening and deeply disturbing in so many ways. This is "horror fiction" par excellence. It is an intense and creepy thrill-ride, but at the same time it really works its way down into your soul and just bothers the hell out of you.
From the reviews it seems that this is one of those King books people either love or hate, but I would go ahead and recommend this to someone who has never read him as a great introduction.
Summary of Gerald's Game
On a warm October day, Jessie Burlingame lies in the bedroom of her secluded lake home, listening to the far-off sounds of the country; the cry of a loon, the growl of a chain saw, the bark of a lonesome dog. Nearer, she hears the banging of the screen door, left unlatched in the autumn breeze; nearer still, the click of the key locking the second pair of handcuffs that chain her to the bed. Gerald Burlingame, her husband of 17 years, looms over her, grin on his face, gleam in his eye, lust in his heart. This is Gerald's favorite game—little kinky, perhaps, but all in good fun.And then, quite suddenly, the fun is over. Gerald's heart fails him in the heat of passion, leaving Jessie hideously trapped and dreadfully alone. As darkness gathers in the room that is now Jessie's whole world, she must face not only the terror of never escaping, but the most excruciating truths about her life: the murky secrets that brought her here in the first place.
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