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Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 402 pages Rating: 3.93 | 167673 Users | 3645 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Dead Zone |
| ISBN: | 0451155750 (ISBN13: 9780451155757) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Johnny Smith, Greg Stillson, Frank Dodd, American Law Enforcement |
| Setting: | Maine(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (1980), World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (1980), Balrog Award Nominee for Best Novel (1980) |
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Johnny, the small boy who skated at breakneck speed into an accident that for one horrifying moment plunged him into The Dead Zone.Johnny Smith, the small-town schoolteacher who spun the wheel of fortune and won a four-and-a-half-year trip into The Dead Zone.
John Smith, who awakened from an interminable coma with an accursed power—the power to see the future and the terrible fate awaiting mankind in The Dead Zone.
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Present Appertaining To Books The Dead Zone
| Title | : | The Dead Zone |
| Author | : | Stephen King |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 402 pages |
| Published | : | August 1980 by Signet/New American Library (first published August 30th 1979) |
| Categories | : | Horror. Fiction. Thriller |
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Ratings: 3.93 From 167673 Users | 3645 ReviewsWrite-Up Appertaining To Books The Dead Zone
Next up on my Stephen King quest is The Dead Zone, again its not a review as such but a collection of my thoughts on the book. So there may well be spoilers but I think pretty much everyone has read it a long time ago anyway, all except me.After reading The Stand & Salems Lot in quick succession, you start to appreciate what a spellbinding storyteller The King can be and I can compare these to the other end of the spectrum, his newly released material, Mr Mercedes & Doctor Sleep. TheWe all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do. Who else but Christopher Walken could play Johnny Smith in the highly praised David Cronenberg film?Johnny Smith is a rookie teacher with $8 in his pocket, just enough money to take his best girl Sarah, also a new teacher, to the local county fair. Sarah is coming off a couple of recent relationships that were exciting with aggressive, unpredictable men. Johnny is a step in a new direction, maybe a
For Goodreads: 2.5 stars. I think I dislike this book a little more every time I read it. The Dead Zone is, for the most part, boring setups that lead to lackluster climaxes, if they can be called climaxes at all. Maybe "payoffs" would be a better word... But I think what I dislike the most about this book is all the political mumbo jumbo. I simply don't give a shit about politics, and this book is full of it. If Johnny Smith isn't thinking about how shitty he has it, he's ruminating on the
What comes from knowing things? Nothing. What is the purpose of knowing the future? So you can change it? But wouldn't what you knew about the future and the change you were going to bring to the future, be the way it was supposed to be anyways? Just think about it...I think in the case of Johnny Smith and The Dead Zone , I would have to say what happened to Johnny and the events surrounding him, happened for a reason. This is not a horror novel, in my opinion. This is more of a sci-fi novel
I have the film adaptation of this on VHS (it's one of my few tapes I haven't watched yet), and reading The Dead Zone really makes me want to watch it now. As is often the case in King's books, the characters have supernatural powers, but something about John Smith's abilities stand out high above those of Charlie McGee's pyrokinesis. King focuses less on shady people who want to use this power for evil, and more on John Smith himself and what his own conscience is telling him to do.I can
The Dead Zone, Stephen KingThe Dead Zone is a horror/supernatural thriller novel by Stephen King published in 1979. It concerns Johnny Smith, who is injured in an accident and remains in a coma for nearly five years. Upon emergence, he exhibits clairvoyance and precognition with limitations, apparently because of a "dead zone," an area of his brain that suffered permanent damage as the result of his accident. The prologue introduces the two main characters. In 1953, a young boy named John Smith
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