The Mist

I'd give this 4.5 stars...

Imagine this: you are stranded in a grocery store with a bunch of other people, some sane and some not so sane, while a fog-like mist surrounds the store and is enshrouding a mass of creatures that seem from a different dimension. Sound like a creepy story line? It's better than that. Stephen King, the "Master of the Macabre", creates some truly out-of-this-world creatures that lurk in the mist. But....he makes the atmosphere inside the store almost as dangerous as the outside by adding in some human pandemonium. It's all about adaptability. Some people don't cope well and start to lose it. The most fearsome by far is the witch-like Mrs. Carmody preaching the end times and expiation. She believed in a biblical reason for the mist. Others suggested The Arrowhead project, a government preserve outside of town. Whatever is behind the mist, it's classic King!

11 out of 13 people found this review helpful.

The Mist a nonstop action packed novel

In the book, a father and son go to the local grocery store after the worst storm that there city has seen in a long time. While at the grocery store a mysterious thick mist comes over the city, but the mist is not what they are concerned about it is the creatures that lurk in this mist. As the story progresses it shows how the must try to survive and defended the grocery story from this horrible creatures that are out to kill them. Will they survive this horrible event read and find out.
The Mist by Stephen King was a 5 star action packed horror novel that just keeps on getting more interesting the more you read. This book is great if you enjoy scary, creepy, or just plan weird events. This book kept me guessing as to what would happen next, the whole time I was reading it. There is never a slow part in the whole story. This book deals with how people will react to post-apocalyptic events, it shows how people will pick a leader in that type of situation no matter how silly this leader maybe. I thought that it was interesting the way he show how people begin to go crazy without civilization. This book was one of the best that I have ever read and I highly recommend it.

3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

Buy skeleton crew

This story and a bunch of others are in the book skeleton crew on here dont waste your money bbuying this seperate....

2 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

James Herbert's The Fog

To the person who keeps referring to this work, I don't see how King lifted anything, except for the fact that he wrote about a mist enveloping a town. That is all. Did you read the book at all?? There are no other similarities at all. "The Mist" is a story about a fog enveloping parts of a town due to the errors of the military who open up a portal and horrible creatures come through.
If you had your way, no writer would ever be able to write on any subject for fear of being accused of plagerism. I guess the people who wrote "Mighty Joe Young" should be accused of plagerism since they wrote about a large ape in love with a girl which sounds so much like "King Kong". Get real!!

1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

Stephen King's e-book samples are a rip-off....

I have downloaded more than one sample of Mr. King's books. The samples download only a few pages (compared to other e-book samples) and most of the pages are credits, etc. One is given 3-5 pages of the actual book (at most). This policy needs to be revisisted.

1 out of 8 people found this review helpful.

Stephen King is one of my favorite authors

Stephen King is the master of horror this book caught my eye and the stroy still terrifies me when ever I think about it. When the movie came out I just had to go seee it. Both of witch are extremely terrifying I would recomend anyone that likes to be scared out of their socks.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

King's best book.

Great read. It creates a mental picture in your head on whats going on. not a single dissapointment. lots of great deaths. although the ending could've been better.besides the ending, everything was awesome.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Very Good

The mist is a novella from skeleton crew, extended and made into a short book. I loved this book, it was actually the first king book i had ever read, it slows down in parts and just when u get bored it picks right back up and gets ur heart pounding. GREAT book...HORRIBLE movie(the ending was the worst i had ever seen)

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

The Fog on the East Coast

An eerie fog rolls across the town of Antonio Bay, California. Odd occurances follow. Ghostly apparitions appear. Murder and mayhem are close behind. Oh, wait a minute that's the 1975 John Carpenter classic film The Fog. King must've seen this one and wrote about it happening on the east coast but decided to rename it The Mist. So sad Stephen plagarizes copy such as this to pander inferior texts to the reading masses.

1 out of 7 people found this review helpful.

A reviewer

When I first started this book, it was actually pretty good and held my interest. King lost me when he brought in these weird creatures in the fog, without any explanation. I am like 'oh, come on...' Now IF he had somehow linked all this to the military things going on, or some other phenomena in a solid way, I could have perhaps, stayed with him and tried to believe. I was very disappointed overall. in my opinion he got lazy on this book and never really gave us any type of woven story fabric, as is his norm. My opinion of King has always been that he is a brilliant writer, but I am always just a bit disturbed by his use of profanity and smut content. I am not a prude by any means, but I find it so uneccessary to pollute the storyline, without just cause. Maybe it is for effect, but doesn't he know that he writes so tremndously well without all that? The fling in the manager's office...totally out of storyline.

1 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

Short Story

I saw the movie before i read the book. I have got to say that the movie is exactly like the book, except for the ending. It was waaaayy too different. But the book was originally a short story in one of Kings short story collections. Truelly entertaining!!

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intresting read

Definetaly not the besr book ive ever read, but it is definetaly worth the money. Great job master king!

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dont buy

This is a ripoff. For a couple dollars more you can get this story plus a lot more short stories in Skeleton Crew. The story itself however was very enjoyable.

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Good book... real review

This is a decent book. Definately shows kings ability to grip a reader with nothing. The premise is great, and is delivered in a good way. The book is short and is good for a quick read, not kings best but definately good.

Can Never Have Enough King

If you think the movie was great, you haven't read the book. I saw The Mist when it first came out and loved it so much, that I purchased it on dvd as soon as it was released. Though I was horrified each and every time I saw it, I loved it time and time again. I didn't think it got better, until I read the book. It gets better. It gets more real. It gets you peeking out the windows at night wondering what that noise was. It just plain gets you. Excellent! What I always expect from Stephen King, and what he never fails to deliver to me, a sense of comfort knowing my favorite author still enjoys making us scared, and I love him for the endless hours of fear, anxiety and the unexpected laughs he has given to me. You, Mr. King, are WINNING. Eat your heart out Charlie Sheen. King is simply wonderful.

Rip Off

I paid 6.99 for 134 pages.......what a rip off!!
Stephen King cant be trusted to put out a novel anymore.

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Must read

As always another amazing book from king.

This is my fave

I have resd this book over 50 times and if never gets old