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Audio CD Description Renowned for its superior productions, BBC radio may have outdone itself by adapting Stephen King's Pet Sematary to audio. A clamorous cacophony of talking, whining, whistling, and howling, Pet Sematary is a quick, entertaining earful for those who don't have other auditory distractions to contend with, such as a car full of talking whining, whistling, howling children. However, the melodramatic prose marries well with the acting; such is the case when one reader--whose voice bears an uncanny resemblance to Kramer's from Seinfeld--tells another about the effects of the Pet Sematary: "Heroin makes junkies feel good when they put it in their arms, but all the time it's poisoning their mind and body--this place can be like that and don't you ever forget it!" (Running time: three hours, two cassettes)

Customer Reviews Stephen King's The Pet Cemetery If you want a book that will make all the hair on your body stand up straight and a severe case of the chills to run down your spine, then brake out a nightlight and Stephen King's book The Pet Cemetery. Out of all the horror story's in the world, this book is unique and freighting in its own way. A normal family moves into a new house in rural Maine, right alongside the lake, a forest, and cemetery for dead animals. Soon after they move in, the death of their family cat leads to a reaction of horrible events. This book is generally aimed to catch the interest of teens and adults. All though this book has a great plot, characters, and descriptions, there are a few negative aspects of it. A good beginning is always an essential of books and in The Pet Cemetery it does but it just takes way to long to introduce the climax of the book. Even though there are some negatives about this book, it is still a great horror novel to read. So take a trip to the horrid and unknown with Stephen King's The Pet Cemetery. A DIG-IN TREAT Steve King was in full swing in the 80's, churning out mega-bestseller after mega-bestseller to his insatiable horror fans everywhere (I included). PET SEMATARY was one of them. It is not the best King (that would be 1978's The Stand) nor his worse (none really since the man could make anything work, including his grocery list). PET is middle of the road King, a not always subtle action-packed chillfest of a man's uncontrolled desire to bring the dead back to life. Again, the author uses his pen like a magic wane and delivers a nonstop read that deserves all the attention, if only for his always impressing prose. That, mixed with his ever-so dark mind is such a welcomed wagon from all those get-fixed quick horror hits invading the literary market lately. Maybe the authors attached to them should (re)read PET SEMATARY to remind themselves how it's really done.-----Martin Boucher A Ludlow Massacre With Road-kill Ambiance. Do the Indians win in The End? PET SEMATARY contains my favorite "fictional" scene of a soul-renewing interaction between a father and his male toddler. The warmth and joy exposed in the kite flying ... the word that comes to mind is "ceremony"... in this story goes beyond worthy of a great literary novel. Yet, by setting literary gems like this scene within the pure honesty of the horror genre, King is contributing more to human art and literature than he could have done as a Charles Dickens, an F. Scott Fitzgerald, a Joseph Conrad, or a W. Somerset Maugham... or even as a Walt Disney. Maybe Stephen King is too honest a man, too raw a personality, too richly complex a talent, to deal with life's pain (and joy) anywhere but within the in-your-heart reality of horror. I can't think of a better novel to help an innocent heal from and accept the grieving process and finality of a terribly difficult death. Upon first having that thought, prior to stating it, I cringed, and checked my emotional inappropriateness gauges, if not my sanity. Then, I read many of the customer reviews on this book and gave 99% of them a "Yes" vote, in growing awe of the composition and comprehension clarity this novel has drawn out of readers. I was especially confirmed in making my above statement when I read "A Kid's Review" on PET SEMATARY. I've come upon a couple kid's reviews on Amazon and each time I've been so impressed I immediately looked for an E-mail address to praise the youngster beyond his wildest nightmares. Not finding an address (and understanding why), I made an extra special effort in clicking: "YES! This review was HELPFUL (and good, and amazing, and awe inspiring, and it made my day)!" I can honestly say that, so far, the two kids reviews I've read on Amazon are the best, clearest, most balanced, most creative in simple, effective composition, most living in words, which I've read anywhere on anything. Maybe kids haven't yet forgotten what stories are supposed to be and do? Even though the word "ceremony" fits the immensity of emotional impact of the kite scene between Louis and Gage, it is too formal a word for that major but so simple event in which this father and son go out into the yard and soar a kite across the heavens. It is that scene, the perfection of the simple joy written into it, which seeds a simple source of hope and redemption which sneaks into this novel and cracks the egg shell of a seeming finality in death. Because of that scene, this book doesn't just dramatize too exquisitely why "dead is better." It paints a better than Norman Rockwell scene exposing simply and without overdone sentiment, the why of life and birth. I saw a preface for this reason in the emotion flickering between the brightness of a soaring kite and the darkness of the flesh-and-soul smashing-and-ripping loss of a child to a terribly young death. That perfect preface was in the first few pages of PET SEMATARY, as the Creed family is clearly shown in a common, natural, grating tension in which relentless little stresses build to a point of members giving serious private thoughts of blasting the family into tiny bits of a jigsaw puzzle never to be returned to wholeness. Then the family is shown with dark emotions transformed in the brilliance and speed of a lightning flash, as each member views the gift of their destination, a house and setting which immediately speaks to the group as that rarely achieved, ever sought comfort as HOME. As if the above dark/light, flickering symbolism weren't enough to earn praise beyond the grave, I would like to note that the symbolism is also perfect and pregnant in the use of names in this book: -- "Church" for the nickname of the cat (even though it is short for Winston Churchill -- "Creed" for the family name -- "Rachel" for Louis's wife (the essence of a biblical name for a wife heavy with dark emotions) -- "Zelda" for Rachel's sister (F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife's name was Zelda) Then there's even MORE symbolism and depth in the situation of: Primitive-Evil-Backdrops-Modern-Age. At-Home. Where-The-Heart-Is. Checkmate. That's the setting for the situation in PET SEMATARY. It is drawn through the lonely, paved highway set up for frequent, messy, gut wrenching road-kill in the "front" of the house property; contrasted by the back door of the property bordering on the power of evil in the ancient soil of the Micmac Indian burial ground, an essence-of-place which was "there' since the beginning of earth. Shiny, glistening, blood-stained-blacktop loses to dark, dank, rich soil. Chaotic, greedy speed is swallowed seamlessly by the timelessness of an organic return and metamorphosis, total or incomplete, your choice. This novel is whole. It is richly complete. Possibly that might be its strongest compliment. I believe we all win, eventually. Life is soaring, now and then, and in the (true) end. Go fly a kite! Linda G. Shelnutt