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The Dark Half - Online Term Paper

The Dark Half

In the last month, I have read the novel by Stephen King. I have read it cover to cover and think it is a good book, but Stephen King has written better. Some of the book was very exciting while other parts bored me. I would say it is good but not great.
This book is, in my opinion, written for people ages fourteen to twenty. Although the vocabulary is somewhat confusing at times, it is not a difficult story to read. If you can get past the vocabulary, the plot is not difficult to follow.
The best thing about , in my opinion, is how Stephen King made an unbelievable thing seem reasonable. He made it so that Alan Pangborn, the main authority figure in the story, did not immediately ...

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Thad's penname come to life. Stephen King made that seem possible with his explanation that Thad had a brain tumor when he was a child. It was not, however, a normal brain tumor. The doctor removed an eye, some teeth, some fingernails, and parts of a nose. These pieces were what George Stark was. When Thad Beaumont stopped writing novels under the name George Stark, Something happened to the pieces and they began to grow into a person.
The part of the story that could have been better was the fact that it is exactly like every other book by him. In my opinion it is too regular. A psychopath chases a righteous man with a family. At the end, the good guys win. It is not a very exciting plot. Although he puts some twists in it, like the fact that it is not your normal, everyday Stephen King psycho. Instead, he is a person with the same fingerprints and blood type who shares a telepathic bond with "the good guy," and shouldn't exist at all, it is still basically the same. ...

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Added: 7/15/2008 01:53:42 PM
Category: English
Type: Free Paper
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