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If you read one of these, pick this one. It has some problems, but his realization about his access to certain sources created something truly special.

There is gallery with some images from the book available on website https://www.opencircuitsbook.com/

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I was not expecting a this qmong the countless harmony romance books. Paperback copy, behind a short comment from Bertrand Russel - it is all too likely to come true. Edition for the UK, AUS and New Zealand market, reprint of 1981. Yellowed out but in decent conditions.

For you art lovers: in the cover, Heinrich Hoerle, Monument to the unknown artificial limb.

The Monument to unknown prostheses is a 1930 painting by the German painter and member of the cologne progressive group Heinrich Hoerle. The 70 cm × 85 cm tall painting, executed in oil on cardboard, is one of the painter's main works and addresses the fate of war invalids after the First World War as a marginalized marginalized group. It can also be read as an anti-war image. It is now in the collection of the Wuppertal Von der Heydt Museum.

Listened to the audiobook version narrated beautifully by Michael C. Hall, this is the first Stephen King book I have listened to and the first by this narrator.

I don't even know where I'm going to rank this book in the Stephen King canon but I know that the trademark touch of horror that leaps out of the page and whispers and settles into you is in this book. More scary and human than Misery, it does not compare to the freak of IT but somehow the rising tension of its last act reminded me of IT's similar final act.

The best thing about Pet Sematary is how how it's paced so openly, the Creed family gets to live and breath and be happy in many of its pages even when narratively it seems tiresome and boring, even when the promise of horror keeping it's eye on the family begins to dull. When the shadow of death finally falls on this family, it almost seems unlike Stephen King, it feels accidental and natural too at some point. Like the characters in the book who think at various points that these things were meant to happen, we as a reader think these events were meant to happen to these characters in exactly this slow, tragic, sad and insane way. There are no big fireworks, yes a house burns down but nothing "spectacular" happens, Louis Creed our protagonist simply pays the price for what he bought.

And the narration is amazing, the way Michael C. Hall voices not only so many diverse characters from old people to kids but what's amazing is how he consistently voices the elements of the book as well. One of my favorite examples of this is the scene where a dog is howling and the narrator doesn't just say he barks but we get the actual sound. Of course now that I think about it it might just be the sound effect or recording of a dog but either way the sounds of this audiobook are beautiful and fitting. I think part of the way the novel felt so suspenseful and dreadful is helped by the sound production

Brilliant, scary, sad and altogether humane, Pet Sematary is a very very good Stephen King novel.