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The first page will have you cringing... I'd hate to tell you just because it would give it away, but I'll bet Amazon already has a "look inside" view on it, so check out the very first page!! That will show you just how much Stephen King digs into his own mind to come up with weird and crazy thing in this book.

In short, the story pretty much sums up to be a lot of people who by coincidence end up together in Desperation, Nevada; a "dead" mining town where about nobody lives. Tak, the evil guy, takes over other human bodies in able to decieve the good.

The reason I gave the book four stars instead of five... I love this book, I really do. However, I decided to also get "Regulators" since I had heard it was similar to Desperation. Okay, you can't read one after the other. It just doesn't work unless you wait at least a year. The whole thought of the brother and sister in Desperation being married in Regulators made the book a disaster. I never did get through the fourth page of Regulators, I just couldn't stand it.

But, all in all, it is a very good book. I hope that you can get a hold of it. It is extremely under-rated!

Spine chilling story telling at its best!
I have recently finished reading Desperation and I have to say, this book scared the daylights out of me. Trust me, I don't scare easy! Stephen King once wrote, "..a writer is someone who has taught their mind to misbehave.." Makes you wonder...

Imagine travelling down one of the lonliest roads in America and then encountering 'The Cop From Hell'. This should give you a basic idea of where this story is coming from, but only just.

This book tells the story of a group of people from very different backgrounds, thrown together by circumstance and who have to rely on on each other, but in particular a young boy called David and an old "has been" writer called Johnny, to escape from a nightmare town known as Desperation.

What's great about this story is that at it's heart, it is a classic tale of good against evil, and if you want to enjoy a good horror story, you have to believe in the power of both.

Coming from a "And a little child shall lead them" vein, King shows us how this group of people first experience disbelief, frustration then fear which leads them to desperation (both physically and emotionally). But as soon as they start to "believe" (espeically about what David tells them), we see their desperation end and the way out of their situation made plain. I'll not say any more than that.

King's description of what happens to a body when it has been used up by the evil force in this tale, is pretty gory, so be warned!

If you like scary stories that are scary, then this one is for you. If you have delicate sensibilities or are easily offended, then you really shouldn't be reading horror stories anyway.

But be warned, this tale might give you nightmares! (Cue maniacle laugh).

Deja Vu all over again
Desperation is very good Stephen King that builds a sense of peril and has the readers turning page after page well after they were supposed to turn the lights out.

However, the biggest surprise and pleasure is reading it with the Bachman (King) book The Regulators. It is such a weird deja vu experience having character you think you know in both books. Heros relegated to more minor roles and events playing out differently then you think they will because of your preconceptions. Overall a very enjoyable experience.