Good afternoon Hive community!
Let me start by saying that I do not write, English is not my native language, and I’m just starting now my writing adventure (I signed up to Hive recently), so if anything here is out of place (grammar, spelling, etc) please do not hesitate to correct me or point out my mistakes. 😀
What I wanted to talk about today it’s an astonishing book - Pet Sematary by Stephen King!
The following image is the version I own, I do not like when they use images from movies on the cover (like many others probably) especially if you think that the book came before the movie, but well it is what it is...
I feel that this book is very powerful, let me warn you though, it’s definitely not an easy read and many could be impressed in the wrong way by the story and the meaning of the whole book!
Once you finish reading it and turn the last page, something inside you will be different.
After you read this book you’ll think of Death with a completely different vision.
As you could probably guess by my previous statement, the main topic of this book is Death and the whole range of emotions that comes with it. (I do not know if you have experienced closure to death in your life but I can say I did, I lost some friends at a pretty early age and the scars left by those sad episodes will live deeply inside of me forever. I believe that if you did experience closure to death this book hits differently, but that’s just my opinion.)
Anyway back to the book.
I’m not going to spoiler anything about this book in this post, the only thing I want to say is that the events taking place in this book took inspiration by events that really happened in Stephen King’s life, kind of happened, or more of a “What If…” about those particular events, he always takes inspiration by his own life and applies a bit of horror in it and this book is no difference to this.
After you read the book, if you do, I invite you to search about it and you’ll be amazed by what you’ll find. (It may be even written on the book itself if you have a lucky copy.)
I’ll stop here as I might have already said too much!
Let me tell you one last thing, this is a book that when Stephen finished writing he thought that it was too much, that it was too dark and he didn’t think it could be possible to publish such a dark book.
He put it in his drawer and forgot about it.
He even said that that was the book that scared him the most.
It was thanks to his wife that eventually the book has been published, she said that it was simply too good to remain in a drawer forever, people had to read it.
So thanks Tabitha King, keep up the good work! 😎
With this introduction about the book I reckon you are ready to experience this dark adventure and I can guarantee you that it’ll be very hard to stop reading it once you start.
I may have overextended myself here as I didn’t even write the main reason why I’m reading this book again (and writing this post).
It all happened a few days ago as I was talking with my girlfriend about the English language in general and how I managed to get to a good level within 5 years, I explained her that I have been constantly reading every day of my life, books, articles, other’s posts, anything that has words in it really.
Since day one in my life in the UK (I’m from Italy) I have completely switched everything to English and I have been trying to improve my level of it on a daily basis!
My advice to her was to read books, simply to pick up books that she might like and read them in English; now, I definitely know that this book it’s not a good option for my girlfriend but as I took the book from the shelf to tell her about it something happened, I felt some kind of energy emanating from that book, I looked at it and I couldn’t put it down - “I Have to read it again!!!!” - I said to myself!
And that is the power some of Stephen King’s books have, they are magnets and you cannot do anything about it rather than read it until the end and put it back on that shelf and be careful not to pick it up again… unless you are planning to of course!
So yeah, that was the meaning of my post, how simply picking up a Stephen King’s book and looking at its cover brought back the emotional rollercoaster hidden within it and made me decide in a fraction of a second to read it again!
I’m not looking back from that decision 😀
Good reading to everyone!
Peace!
All the material in this post is coming directly from my own memory of the many Stephen King's books and interviews I read during my life! If anything here sounds wrong please let me know.
Some of the things mentioned here can be also found in Stephen King's and Pet Sematary's wikipedia pages.
