Stephen king's 'salem's lot' is one of my favorite books of all time. The story is creepy and atmospheric.

Love his descriptive writing.

Cnn's john sutter writes about small-town america. He likes its soda fountains and sharp-nosed shopkeepers and drugstore counters. "i like that a cross-section of the community has beer and burgers at the same bar several nights a week" he says townie...  Read More

The most engaging of the heroes is probably matt burke, but i'm being fairly liberal by calling him engaging. The boring back story of a bazillion characters and the way king jumps around makes my head spin.

The story is very simple and the main villian is not really more complex than a saturday morning cartoon villian. The language sentence structure is too terse. Filled with inane and useless descriptions and filler words to make the book longer, and mo...  Read More

Out of all the supernatural creatures, vampires are the least scary. They are just evil bloodsuckers of eastern european complexion. Spoiler they kill the head vampire in the end.

Unnecessary, unnatural profanity is the equivalent of senseless *. Something isn't irresistible, it's resistless. It's not immovable.

I was not impressed by 'salem's lot'. If you can't suffer with the protagonists, if you don't think about what they might do in your spare time when you're not reading, then the story falls flat. The depictions of salem's lot's inhabitants remain brie...  Read More