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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This book, a twist on the Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde story has some interesting ideas. I really liked the images of the sparrows and learning about what happened to Sheriff Pangborn's wife. However, I think it dragged a bit, and it's not one of King's more memorable books. (  ) sturlington | Sep 16, 2009 |  In my opinion, definitely one of Stephen Kings most horrifying books! This book will mess with your head and keep you up at night! (  ) pixiedark | May 15, 2009 | The premise is a little too far out there to support believability, as are some of the ways King moves the plot along. But he has created a great villain here, who provides more than a few chilling moments for the reader. ( ) readingrat | Oct 17, 2008 | Self portraitt? ( ) santhony | Oct 2, 2008 | I consider this one of, if not THE, the best books King has written up to 2007. Why this is isn't just the characterization, which is unusally clear and deep for King, but because I believe he is played a Step Four and Five with this piece, e.g., he has exposed his own mind as relates to Bachman. Now we know there is a reason that the Bachman books are linear in composition and rawer in syntax. It also outlines the shape of my fiction, where Ilya Beaute and Doy Ott Briscomb do and feel things Andy Ray couldn't possibly do or feel. (  ) andyray | Dec 17, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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Now, King didn't want to jettison the Bachman novel, titled Machine Dreams, that was he working on. So he incorporated it in The Dark Half as the crime oeuvre of George Stark, whose recurring hero/alter ego is an evil character named Alexis Machine.
Thad Beaumont's pseudonym is not so docile as Stephen King's, though, and George Stark bursts forth into reality. At that point, two stories kick into gear: a mystery-detective story about the crime spree of George Stark (or is it Alexis Machine?) and a horror story about Beaumont's struggle to catch up with his doppelganger and kill him dead.
This is not the first time that Stephen King has written a dark allegory about the fiction writer's situation. As the New York Times writes, "Misery (1987) is a parable in chiller form of the popular writer's relation to his audience, which holds him prisoner and dictates what he writes, on pain of death. The Dark Half is a parable in chiller form of the popular writer's relation to his creative genius, the vampire within him, the part of him that only awakes to raise Cain when he writes, the fratricidal twin who occupies 'the womblike dungeon' of his imagination." --Fiona Webster
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