The Dead Zone
An iconic chiller from the No. 1 bestseller
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4.3 • 105 Ratings
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- £5.49
Publisher Description
The two things that conjured up that horrible night, were his run of luck at the Wheel of Fortune, and the mask...
Meet Johnny Smith. A young man whose streak of luck ends dramatically in a major car crash. Followed by blackness. A long, long time in cold limbo.
When he wakes up life has been turned upside down. His fiancée has met someone else. And Johnny is cursed with the power to perceive evil in men's souls. He's had these hunches since he had an ice-skating accident as a child. Now he has an ability to see into the future. An ability which will bring him into a terrifying confrontation with a charismatic, power-hungry and dangerous man . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In the audiobook debut of King's classic 1979 thriller, a car accident sends Maine high school teacher Johnny Smith into a multiyear coma, from which he emerges into a changed world with the unwanted ability to see people's past and future just by touching them. Johnny's visions increase in scope from the image of a nurse's son surviving dangerous surgery to the second sight of a murder scene that helps a local sheriff find a serial killer. Each leaves Johnny physically diminished and psychically damaged. But they're just warm-ups for his vision of jingoistic politician Greg Stillson achieving the presidency and starting a devastating nuclear war. Actor Franco performs at full thespian force, telling the story in a naturalistic, almost mesmerizing manner with distinctive voices for all of the book's many characters: Johnny's highlights his affability, integrity, pain, and inner turmoil. The villainous Stillson sounds smarmy, aggressive, and insane in the way that can drive a man to kick a dog to death. Additionally, Franco's interpretation of the final section of the novel, consisting of letters and excerpts from committee meetings, is moving enough to bring tears to listeners' eyes. A Pocket paperback.
Customer Reviews
One of the good ones
Haven't read King for a while but fancied a creepy read and stumbled on one I'd missed. I'm pleased I did.
It's very typical of his style and the setting is good old 'Castle Rock, Maine'.
The main character is very likeable and interesting.
It's not very scary but weird and suspense filled enough that I got over that.
I'd put it on a par with 'The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon', but not as good as classics like 'Misery' and 'Pet Cemetery'.
A slower book by Stephen king
I will start of by saying this one of Stephen kings much slower books that I’ve read. It’s not a book revolving around ghosts or monsters either, but a man who comes out of a coma and who can now see people’s future and stuff relating to them even if their house is burning down simply by touching them. The highlight of this book is the relationship between Johnny smith and Sarah which felt really well done and had me rooting for them that they’d end up together. The book does feel like a day in the life of Johnny at times as it was going by case by case of events in johnnys life and the last act of the book didn’t have much build up until the final quarter. Read this book for the relationship between Johnny and Sarah
Nostalgic chills
One of KIng's older and best known titles but a prime example of how much his books can differ from the eventual screen outing. Us older King followers will remember this novel with a nostalgic fondness as it may have been amongst the first of his to have been read. An epic of a novel with a sympathetic lead character and plenty of chills.