Revival

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In a small New England town, in the early 60s, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister Charles Jacobs, along with his beautiful wife, will transform the local church The men and boys are all a bit in love with Mrs Jacobs the women and girls including Jamie s mother and beloved sister feel the same about Reverend Jacobs With Jamie, the Reverend shares a deeper bond, based on their fascination with simple experiments in electricity.Then tragedy strikes the Jacobs family the preacher curses God, mocking all religious belief, and is banished from the shocked town.Jamie has demons of his own In his mid thirties, he is living a nomadic lifestyle of bar band rock and roll Addicted to heroin, stranded, desperate, he sees Jacobs again a showman on stage, creating dazzling portraits in lightning and their meeting has profound consequences for both men Their bond becomes a pact beyond even the Devil s devising, and Jamie discovers that revival has many meanings Because for every cure there is a price This rich and disturbing novel spans five decades on its way to the most terrifying conclusion Stephen King has ever written It s a masterpiece from King, in the great American tradition of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe. Best Read Revival [ by ] Stephen King [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr I m lost Destroyed Utterly exhausted I don t think a work of fiction has ever affected me so entirely I was there And I wish I hadn t been, yet I do not regret reading it.Forget Cujo and Pet Sematary, or any of his other dark and dreary novels Revival is Stephen King s bleakest work to date Mainly because it gives you hope So much hope And then it rips that hope, still beating, from your chest The title of this novel is literal in several ways It s a revival of old school King, the Ki I m lost Destroyed Utterly exhausted I don t think a work of fiction has ever affected me so entirely I was there And I wish I hadn t been, yet I do not regret reading it.Forget Cujo and Pet Sematary, or any of his other dark and dreary novels Revival is Stephen King s bleakest work to date Mainly because it gives you hope So much hope And then it rips that hope, still beating, from your chest The title of this novel is literal in several ways It s a revival of old school King, the King many of us miss It s about numerous revivals, but naming those would be spoilers, and I refuse to spoil anything about this book And, last but not least, It has a tent revival within its pages But I cannot feel as if something inside me has died Like a fire has been extinguished I m sure this feeling will pass At least I hope it will.The mastery of language showcased in Revival is simply breathtaking There are hundreds of quotable line...Something happened.Mother fuck..I m gonna have nightmares from this shit.The story begins with young Jamie outside playing war with some army soldiers his sister had gotten him for his birthday A man s shadow falls across him and so begins what Jamie calls his fifth business This book is somewhat of a coming of age story The reader gets to grow up with Jamie and we are all involved with Reverend Charles Jacobs too..whether we want to be or not.Jamie s story takes you through five decades of Something happened.Mother fuck..I m gonna have nightmares from this shit.The story begins with young Jamie outside playing war with some army soldiers his sister had gotten him for his birthday A man s shadow falls across him and so begins what Jamie calls his fifth busi...It s time for that approximately biannual event once again Stephen King has released a new novel And it s a good one.I never know how to approach a review for a Stephen King book I use a different tone when writing about different kind of novels classics and literary fiction usually get one style of review, fantasy paranormal and YA genre fiction, basically get another But where does Mr King fit The problem with Stephen King is that he writes such engrossing, imaginative pageturners t It s time for that approximately biannual event once again Stephen King has released a new novel And it s a good one.I never know how to approach a review for a Stephen King book I use a...I ve been married for 25 years with a 30 year mortgage and raised three boys, I ve been to Iraq, taken and passed the bar exam and am in private practice.I don t scare easy.This book was scary.This was old school, spooky creepy STEPHEN FREAKING KING wake you up in the middle of the night cause Barlow is sneaking down the hallway scary.Carrie walking Cujo down Shining Lane as Christine drives by.Scary.First of all, any book that begins with a quote from H.P Lovecraft gets a quick and decisive I ve been married for 25 years with a 30 year mortgage and raised three boys, I ve been to Iraq, taken and passed the bar exam and am in private pr...From the synopsis on Stephen King s website This rich and disturbing novel spans five decades on its way to the most terrifying conclusion Stephen King has ever written That s a bold statement that sets the bar very high for Revival So does it clear it Almost I think If it doesn t then it comes damn close which still makes this a pretty impressive achievement for Uncle Steve at this point in his long career.Jamie Morton first meets Reverend Charles Jacobs when he s a 6 year old kid in Maine From the synopsis on Stephen King s website This rich and disturbing novel spans five decades on its way to the most terrifying conclusion Stephen King has ever written That s a bold statement that sets the bar very high for Revival So does it clear it Almost I think If it doesn t the...When Jamie Morton first encounters the Reverend Charles Daniel Jacobs, he is six years old Jacobs cures his brother s muteness, only to leave town a broken man when his wife and son are killed Jamie and the Rev will cross paths again and again as the Rev seeks to master what he calls the secret electricity, the energy that powers the universeI found this book to be an extremely mixed bag, which you ll read in a moment.Revival follows the life of Jamie Morton, a rhythm guitarist, whose life When Jamie Morton first encounters the Reverend Charles Daniel Jacobs, he is six years old Jacobs cures his brother s muteness, only to leave town a broken man when his wife and son are killed Jamie and the Rev will cross paths again and again as the Rev seeks to master what he calls the secret electricity, the energy that powers the universeI found this book to be an extremely mixed b...Let me say something up front King is my favorite author I m not a hater by any stretch of the imagination I ve read all his books multiple times This novel is just that bad I realize I m going to get a whole lot of hate for this review but I refuse to hold my tongue on this This isn t classic King There ...this is how we bring about our own damnation, you know by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop To stop while there s still time There is a somewhat leisurely feel to Stephen King s latest, Revival Dramatic events are sprinkled throughout the narrative, but the story moves along at what seems a deliberate pace I am reminded of Ted Williams s advice for batters, wait, wait, wait, then quick, quick, quick The final, high voltage scenes of Revival pay for the whole Our narrator, Jamie M this is how we bring about our own damnation, you know by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop To stop while there s still time There is a somewhat leisurely feel to Stephen King s latest, Revival Dramatic events are sprinkled throughout the narrative, but the story moves along at what seems a deliberate pace I am reminded of Ted Williams s advice for batters, wait, wait, wait, then quick, quick, quick The final, high voltage scenes of Revival pay for the whole Our narrator, Jamie Morton, is playing with his toy soldiers at age six when a new, young pastor arrives Plenty going on, but at that moment everything seemed to fall still I know it s only the sort of illusion caused by a faulty memory not to mention a suitcase loaded with dark associations , but the recollection is very strong All of a sudden there were no kids yelling in the backyard, no records playing upstairs, no banging from the garage Not a single bird singing.Then the man bent d...God, The cover is so attractive, yet deceiving..It s not Horror, not fast thriller and not That creepy..Mostly it s about coming of age, Nostalgia..It s about Life..Life Movies Paperbacks , Sex Drugs..And TOO MUCH Rock Roll..It s about a Shadow with no light..getting darker darker..till you lose faith that there s any light..And the only light you ll see here..is the Thunderous Lightnings.Yeah,it s also about losing faith Not just about life, but also about what s comi God, The cover is so attractive, yet deceiving..It s not Horror, not fast thriller and not That creepy..Mostly it s about coming of age, Nostalgia..It s about Life..Life Movies Paperbacks , Sex Drugs..And TOO M...Find all of my reviews at StarsWhile I was reading this happenedAnd now that I m done and ready to write a review, I m thinking why the f do I do this to myself There s no way I ll be able to give this book the review it deserves flagging the crap out of it is just like a salt in the wound type of reminder of that fact That leaves me with the question of where to begin The most obvious place would be the beginning .Jamie Mo Find all of my reviews at StarsWhile I was reading this happenedAnd now that I m done and ready to write a review, I m thinking why the f do I do this to myself There s no way I ll be able to give this book the review it deserves flagging the crap out of it is just like a salt in the wound type of reminder of that fact That leaves me with the question of where to...

Revival
  • English
  • 01 July 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 405 pages
  • 1476770387
  • Stephen King
  • Revival