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Pet Sematary

Stephen King

published: 1983, read: 7/7/24
560 pages, genre: Horror
rating: 8.75/10, normalized: 8.611/10
1.36σ better than average
2.083σ or 1.686/10 better than average in Horror genre
1.707σ or 1.462/10 better than average by Stephen King
0.843σ or 0.581/10 better than average recommended by Dad
Recommended by: Dad

A sickly sweet book where you know exactly what's going to happen and how it's going to happen within just the first few pages, and then the doesn't dilly dally after having dangled the carrot. It states how it's going to hurt and frighten you and proceeds to do so.

Good vocab & imagery, and one of the more compelling relationship arguments in his novel.

It's a darker rendition of The Monkey's Paw and it slaps.

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