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Stephen King's #1 national bestseller about a little mining town, Desperation, that many will enter on their way to somewhere else. But getting out is not easy as it would seem... "I see holes like eyes. My mind is full of them." For all intents and purposes, police officer Collie Entragian, chief law enforcement for the small mining town of Desperation, Nevada, appears to be completely insane. He's taken to stopping vehicles along the desolate Interstate 50 and abducting unwary travelers with various unusual ploys. There's something very wrong here in Desperation...and Officer Entragian is only at the surface of it. The secrets embedded in Desperation's landscape, and the horrifying evil that infects the town like some viral hot zone, are both awesome and terrifying. But one of Entragian's victims, young David Carver, seems to know--and it scares him nearly to death to realize this truth--that the forces being summoned to combat this frightful, maniacal aberration are of equal and opposite intensity...… (más)
En la interestatal 50, en el desértico y solitario tramo que atraviesa Nevada, un gato muerto ensartado en un cartel da la bienvenida al pequeño pueblo minero de Desesperación. Allí, un policía local poseído por un perverso ser se ha erigido en autoridad suprema y sanguinaria, y elige sus víctimas entre los escasos vehículos que circulan por carretera. Aquellos que mueren rápidamente son en realidad los más afortunados, ya que para los supervivientes Desesperación se convertirá en el escenario de una horrenda pesadilla...
En la interestatal 50, en el desértico y solitario tramo que atraviesa Nevada, un gato muerto ensartado en un cartel da la bienvenida al pequeño pueblo minero de Desesperación. Allí, un policía local poseído por un perverso ser se ha erigido en autoridad suprema y sanguinaria, y elige sus víctimas entre los escasos vehículos que circulan por carretera. Aquellos que mueren rápidamente son en realidad los más afortunados, ya que para los supervivientes Desesperación se convertirá en el escenario de una horrenda pesadilla... ( )
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The landscape of his poetry was still the desert . . . Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verse
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"Oh! Oh, Jesus! Gross!"
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Yes, that was pretty much the bottom line, wasn't it? And if that meant following orders, so be it. This little interlude, which had started off being funny in a nice way, had suddenly gotten funny in a way that wasn't so nice...
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David put his head back against the seat, closed his eyes, and began to pray.
Stephen King's #1 national bestseller about a little mining town, Desperation, that many will enter on their way to somewhere else. But getting out is not easy as it would seem... "I see holes like eyes. My mind is full of them." For all intents and purposes, police officer Collie Entragian, chief law enforcement for the small mining town of Desperation, Nevada, appears to be completely insane. He's taken to stopping vehicles along the desolate Interstate 50 and abducting unwary travelers with various unusual ploys. There's something very wrong here in Desperation...and Officer Entragian is only at the surface of it. The secrets embedded in Desperation's landscape, and the horrifying evil that infects the town like some viral hot zone, are both awesome and terrifying. But one of Entragian's victims, young David Carver, seems to know--and it scares him nearly to death to realize this truth--that the forces being summoned to combat this frightful, maniacal aberration are of equal and opposite intensity...
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March 2012's SK Flavor of the Month - Desperation
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