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Pet Sematary by Stephen King
5.0
Pet Sematary written by Stephen King, Narrated by Michael C. Hall
What does it mean when your loved ones die, especially when their life was cut abruptly and violently short? Would you give anything for them to live again? These are the deep themes that run throughout King’s novel.
Dr. Louis Creed and his young family moves to Ludlow, ME. They meet their neighbors and become good friends. But something is drawing them together…and through events, they are tied closer and closer together.
This is a slow burning horror that suddenly creeped up on me in an extremely disturbing way. Underneath the supernatural horror that King writes, is a groping reality of disconnection and lost when faced with sudden grief and loss. King also integrates ‘caregiver burden’ when speaking about Rachel’s sister who died from spinal meningitis in addition to how young child could be severely traumatized by death. Caregiver burden can lead to resentment and anger towards the ill and the increased rates of their own burnout, sickness and suicide after their sick loved ones die. How King is able to interlace so many themes into one book is impressive.
Alternating between physically reading the book & listening to Hall’s narration was perfect especially towards the end when Creed’s mind becomes more and more mad, looping in and out of conciousness. For the first 75% of the book, it was Louis’s POV and for the last 25%, it alternated between different characters making you see how their worlds are being eerily pulled together. King’s Pet Sematary is both horrifying in it’s mystical elements but is harrowing in it’s realistic view of death, grief and loss, breaking my heart while simultaneously terrifying me in my nightmares.
“Sometimes dead is better.”
What does it mean when your loved ones die, especially when their life was cut abruptly and violently short? Would you give anything for them to live again? These are the deep themes that run throughout King’s novel.
Dr. Louis Creed and his young family moves to Ludlow, ME. They meet their neighbors and become good friends. But something is drawing them together…and through events, they are tied closer and closer together.
This is a slow burning horror that suddenly creeped up on me in an extremely disturbing way. Underneath the supernatural horror that King writes, is a groping reality of disconnection and lost when faced with sudden grief and loss. King also integrates ‘caregiver burden’ when speaking about Rachel’s sister who died from spinal meningitis in addition to how young child could be severely traumatized by death. Caregiver burden can lead to resentment and anger towards the ill and the increased rates of their own burnout, sickness and suicide after their sick loved ones die. How King is able to interlace so many themes into one book is impressive.
Alternating between physically reading the book & listening to Hall’s narration was perfect especially towards the end when Creed’s mind becomes more and more mad, looping in and out of conciousness. For the first 75% of the book, it was Louis’s POV and for the last 25%, it alternated between different characters making you see how their worlds are being eerily pulled together. King’s Pet Sematary is both horrifying in it’s mystical elements but is harrowing in it’s realistic view of death, grief and loss, breaking my heart while simultaneously terrifying me in my nightmares.
“Sometimes dead is better.”