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That darn cat just scared the crap outta me. I am not faint-hearted.can read any of Stephen King's books. :-|(now THAT'S a good book). I couldn't bring myself to keep reading.was afraid he would somehow show up on my doorstep. In fact, I have read almost all of them. (IT remains my all-time favorite book)Pet Sematary is the one Stephen King book that I just couldn't finish reading.
Great novel. You see the father degrade down to nothing and be reborn as a mental lunatic that understands his son is going to come back a demon (not his son) and that that's what's best for everyone. A few prophecies here and there tell you that something bad is going to happen and that the father may try to do something evil to rectify the horror that is coming. Absolutely terrifying. The father is the protagonist of the novel , and we follow his thoughts and determination to rectify his anguish - That anguish of course ends up being the death of his son to a truck on the road by their house. One of King's best novels to date.
The story is about a family of four that move into a new city out the country off a road dominated by chemical plant trucks. Sounds insane, and it is. - Right up there with Salem's Lot and The Shining. The father quickly snaps and looses all moral rationale to offer reasons for bringing his son back from the dead by burying him at the possessed and "empty" graveyard beyond the pet cemetery behind his house.King does a spot on job convincing you to believe that this father is doing what's best for his son and family. If your favorite King novels include The Shining or Salem's Lot, do not pass this one up. This story holds its own next to any great American horror novel.
Sure enough, We learn that there is a demonic occupied Indian burial ground a few miles behind the families home.
This is one of those books I could read 30 times and not get sick of it. Pet Sematary scared the crap out of me. It is, by far, the scariest book I have ever read.
Good use of vernacular language that makes the reader feel as if he/she is "in the story", walking alongside the characters themselves, keeping the tale entertaining. A lingering feeling of dread when you put the book down; a voracious need to pick it up again, to "see what happens". This story has to be one of Stephen King's best novels PERIOD. A great use of folklore/mythology (the scenes in the dark woodlands where the Wendigo stalks its victims scared the bajeezus out of me). This is Stephen King at his finest. The tale incorporates the very best of what makes a good entertaining read. A well-developed plot that carries you through seamlessly and doesn't bog you down (something that King seems to struggle with at times).
The movie, by the way, did the novel absolutely no justice. However, Louis is grief struck and ignores Jud's pleas and proceeds to bury Gage. Except instead of burying him in the Pet Sematary, Jud introduces Louis to the Micmac burial grounds that is beyond the Pet Sematary, where they proceed to bury Church.But Church comes back, showing up a few days later to Louis' horror. The book is way better and significantly scarier. However, Ellie comes back from Chicago and is really happy to see Church alive even though he really is different and smells really bad. I am one of those fans that believe that Stephen King's best work came between the late '70's and early '90's.
One day Ellie notices a trail by their house that leads to what Jud calls the "Pet Semetary," a place where kids have buried their pets who have been killed (usually by getting hit by a huge truck on the "road").Then while Rachel, Gage, and Ellie are visiting her parents, a trip that Louis does not make because of his disdain for Rachel's father, Church gets hit by a truck and Jud suggests they bury the cat before Ellie returns. When Gage comes back, he is also different, and is no longer the same "Gage" but an evil three year old who wants nothing better than revenge.This book had me reading into the wee hours of the night and I honestly had to sleep with a night light on for a full six months after reading this book. Pet Sematary might be the scariest book I've ever read because it is a believable horror story with excellent character development and invokes serious sympathy for the novel's main character, Louis Creed, who has just moved his family from Chicago to Ludlow, Maine, and takes a job at the university health center as the main doctor.Louis Creed, his wife Rachel, and his two kids, Ellie and Gage, along with Church, Ellie's beloved cat, realize this new home in Maine is the beginning of a new life. A short time later tragedy strikes again when Gage is killed by a truck on the road and Louis decides to try burying him also in the Micmac burial grounds, whose ground is sacred and Jud has warned that people no matter what circumstance should never be buried there. If you like scary stories that are original and will stand the test of time, Pet Sematary is a great book. They meet Jud, the neighbor across the "road", and he and Louis become pretty good friends and share many beers together.
The cat appears the same, but is somehow different and smells like he just came from a grave.
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