Loved itprobably Pet Cemetery as well, but I needed to do a reread on Pet Cemetery. It's been over 20 years since I've read that one. And , yeah, I need to I need to revisit that one before I'm going to include it on the list.
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Pet Sematary (1983)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive Pet Sematary is a 1983 horror novel by American writer Stephen King. The novel was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1986
- ISBN:
- 9781508226635
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- 416 pages
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Loved it
MixedI enjoyed them. They were good. But I don't think they were quite as memorable as I wanted them to be at the time.
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Loved itthe eyes of the best part I was a teenage slasher the angel of Indian Lake the Reformatory night watching Magnolia Parks pet cemetery like these are these are not just favorites of mine but a lot of them are un popular favorites
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Loved it1983 pet cemetery by Steven King
Loved itthis book hit me in the fields it definitely has an emotional punch to it and it really was the book that made me fall in love with Stephen King it's currently my favorite Stephen King book and I kind of don't think any book is going to change that off of his backlist because this one is pretty special for me.
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Loved itI have the physical copy here and I love this one. It's been a while since I've read a Stephen King novel that I really adored.
Loved itI'm so glad I did because now it is easily in my top three of all of the Stephen King that I've read
Loved itthis book was amazing. by far my favorite Stephen King book that I've ever read. really the movie stays very faithful to the book.
Loved itI read it last year in October and it was such an excellent October read... this book made me scared when I was reading it in broad daylight on a commuter train it's spooky and intense