Pet Sematary: A Novel

I finished this book about a half hour until midnight tonight. I had always loved the movie growing up so my brain conjured up the idea of reading the book. Seemed innocent enough and my sweet little naive mind thought, "how bad can it possibly be?" I read some of the other reviews just to see what I was getting myself into. After some peer research, I felt adequately prepared for the task at hand. As I sit here with all the lights on in my house, Boy Was I Wrong! I have been a little more jumpy and experiencing some pretty bizarre dreams since I began reading but nothing prepared me for the sheer terror I was in store for as I read the last 100 pages or so. By the time I reached the final pages, my hands and feet were ice cold and clammy. I am almost 30 years old and I was terrified to leave my bed to go to the bathroom. I worked up the courage (or my bladder couldn't take it any more) and embarked on the trek to the bathroom. As I passed my children's bedroom, my two year old started screaming and crying in her sleep. I am about 99.9% sure that I lost a little piece of my soul (and possibly gained a touch of PTSD) from fright! Overall, this book is great and by far the scariest thing I have ever read. If you have never read it, I highly recommend it!

This is typo number 6 I've found and I'm only on page 50! The book is FANTASTIC but this edition is littered with typos.

[[VIDEOID:c53498b7974a49690e7bd63ec3d8f45]] So I'm pretty pissed. At least 65 pages of this book are missing. To me, the book seemed to close to its end for how many pages I had left. Now I know why.

I'll be calling customer service tomorrow to complain.

Updating review from 1 star to 2 because of Customer Serv. I didnt know CS was available at 9:45PM, but I spoke to someone. They issued me a refund for the book. I'll have to buy the kindle edition since that's guarenteed to not be screwed up. Be careful of mass produced books. They're made to be affordable, which means they're made poorly(cheaply)

Never will I ever buy a Mass Market paperback again.

Thanks for my bent to hell book 🤨🧐

This book had 40 missing pages.

Now I've both seen the movie and read the book! Of course I think the book was better: more descriptive and had a lot more content. Its vintage Stephen King! Scary, full of suspense and action!! I like how he develops his characters and makes them so achingly real! I'll read this book again I know! Very unsettling and has a dark side to it!!

An awesomely creepy story!

I love Stephen King. I've read the majority of his works, and I had been putting off reading Pet Cemetery. Apparently for good reason.
I read most of the time before bed, and mostly read supernatural stuff. There have been only 2 books that I had to take a break from reading because I found it disturbing, and this is one. In fact, I stopped twice during this book , making it take twice as long as it should have to read it.
The horror in this book is just knowing what's probably around the corner and hoping to God that you are wrong. It makes you look at yourself as a human and especially as a parent and say "what if...? "

I love Stephen King. I've read the majority of his works, and I had been putting off reading Pet Cemetery. Apparently for good reason.
I read most of the time before bed, and mostly read supernatural stuff. There have been only 2 books that I had to take a break from reading because I found it disturbing, and this is one. In fact, I stopped twice during this book , making it take twice as long as it should have to read it.
The horror in this book is just knowing what's probably around the corner and hoping to God that you are wrong. It makes you look at yourself as a human and especially as a parent and say "what if...? "

I knew I would enjoy it being a King fan but I wasnt prepared for how much Id love it. I knew a little about Pet Semetary from over the years talk about the movie but decided to read this book with my horror book club back in November. Even knowing the little details that I did, I ABSOLUTELY fell in love with this story. The characters are so enjoyable and the ending was probably one of the best, more horrifying ending of all King books that Ive read. A must read!