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Buick 8 (2001)

di Stephen King

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On the heels of his hugely successful "Dreamcatchers" King delivers another classic novel about boys, men, and a terrifying force only they can contain. The state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret in Shed B out back of the barracks ever since 1979, when Troopers Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox answered a call from a gas station just down the road and came back with an abandoned Buick Roadmaster. Curt Wilcox knew old cars, and he knew immediately that this one was ... wrong, just wrong. A few hours later, when Rafferty vanished, Wilcox and his fellow troopers knew the car was worse than dangerous -- and that it would be better if John Q. Public never found out about it. Curt's avid curiosity taking the lead, they investigated as best they could, as much as they dared. Over the years the troop absorbed the mystery as part of the background to their work, the Buick 8 sitting out there like a still life painting that breathes -- inhaling a little bit of this world, exhaling a little bit of whatever world it came from. In the fall of 2001, a few months after Curt Wilcox is killed in a gruesome auto accident, his 18-year-old boy Ned starts coming by the barracks, mowing the lawn, washing windows, shoveling snow. Sandy Dearborn, Sergeant Commanding, knows it's the boy's way of holding onto his father, and Ned is allowed to become part of the Troop D family. One day he looks in the window of Shed B and discovers the family secret. Like his father, Ned wants answers, and the secret begins to stir, not only in the minds and hearts of the veteran troopers who surround him, but in Shed B as well.… (altro)
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    Christine. La macchina infernale di Stephen King (ElBarto)
    ElBarto: Eine andere Geschichte von King über ein gefährliches Auto.
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Most Stephen King books are long, and generally that's ok. This is one of the first books I've read by him (and I've read big fat ones like It and The Stand) that felt like it was too long. It was a decent story though. And it's impressive that at his age he's able to write an entire book while licking the boots of police. ( )
  bookonion | Mar 8, 2024 |
As I started reading From a Buick 8 by Stephen King, I couldn’t keep my mind from thinking about one of his earliest novels, Christine. These novels turn out to be quite different from one another. The Buick 8 is also a creepy and bizarre piece of machinery that only King can create.

In 1979, Pennsylvania State Troopers, Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox, discover an abandoned Buick Roadmaster. Despite their best efforts, the driver cannot be located. The troopers bring the Buick 8 back to the station barracks where they store the vehicle in Shed B. Wilcox knows something is seriously wrong with this vehicle. A few hours later, Trooper Rafferty disappears.

The policemen of Troop D keep a close eye on the Buick 8 for many years and observe its unexplainable occurrences. In 2001, Trooper Curtis Wilcox is killed in an auto accident. His son, Ned, begins spending time with the members of Troop D. Most likely as a way to be closer to his dad. While poking around, Ned discovers the contents of Shed B and begins asking questions. The members of Troop D gather and begin sharing their stories of the Buick 8.

King created yet another bizarre, unbelievable character with the Buick. Events described are intense, frightening, and suspenseful. I liked all of the characters. As the story closed, I felt a nostalgic relationship between all members of Troop D. A type of uniquely close relationship that is fostered when a small group of people share traumatic experiences.

I have photos and additional information that I'm unable to include here. It can all be found on my blog, in the link below.
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  NatalieRiley | Feb 23, 2024 |
(2002)Pretty good tale of an abandoned Buick that winds up on the back lot of a Pennsylvania State Police headquarters. It thens starts to do strange things and people start dying or disappearing. Enyoyable read. Stephen King, an evil car, and a teenage boy coming to terms with the fragility and randomness of life.... Wait, haven't we read this before? Diehard King fans, worry not. Aside from the titular car playing a main role in the story, From a Buick 8 could not be less like King's 1983 masterpiece, Christine. If anything, this story resembles King's serial novel The Green Mile, with reminiscing police characters flashing back on bizarre events that took place decades earlier.The book's intriguing plot revolves around the troopers of Pennsylvania State Patrol Troop D, who come into possession of what at first appears to be a vintage automobile. Closer inspection and experimentation conducted by the troopers reveal that this car's doors (and trunk) sometimes open to another dimension populated by gross-out creatures straight out of ... well, a Stephen King novel. As the plot progresses, the veteran troopers' tales of these visits from interdimensional nasties, and the occasional "lightquakes" put on by the car, are passed on to the son of a fallen comrade whose fascination with the car bordered on dangerous obsession.Unlike earlier King works, there is no active threat here; no monster is stalking the heroes of the story, unless you count the characters' own curiosity. In past books, King has terrorized readers with vampires, werewolves, a killer clown, ghosts, and aliens, but this time around, the bogeyman is a more passive, cerebral threat, and one for which they don't make a ready-to-wear Halloween costume--man's fascination with and fear of the unknown. While some readers may find this tale less exciting than the horror master's earlier works, From a Buick 8 is a wonderful example of how much King's plotting skills and literary finesse have matured over his long career. And, most of all, it's a darn creepy book.
  derailer | Jan 25, 2024 |
Eines Morgens taucht an einer Tankstelle ein alter Buick auf. Der geheimnisvolle Fahrer verschwindet, und schließlich zeigt es sich, dass der Straßenkreuzer genauso wenig ein Buick ist wie der schwarzgekleidete Fahrer ein Mensch. Der Wagen entwickelt ein ungewöhnliches Eigenleben …(amazon)
  Hoppetosse1 | Jan 22, 2024 |
I felt this was one of King's weaker offerings when it hit the shelves twenty years ago. The idea of a not-car serving as a portal to another world and the cosmic horror of whatever occasionally slips through was entertaining, but overall it just didn't work for me.

When the Kingcast announced From a Buick 8 as their next topic, I unenthusiastically decided to revisit it, this time on audio. And to my surprise, another 20 years of life experience and grief for the loss of a loved one added (or revealed?) another layer to this book. It has a few things to say about loss and grief and unanswered questions that I didn't really connect with on that first reading.

However, the storytelling structure still has it tripping over its own feet. Nearly the entire story is told as a series of recollections by various characters rather than jumping the reader into the middle of events. I get why King chose to tell it this way, but it still puts the reader at such a remove that the horror elements are too muted for real fun.

Audiobook via Audible, with excellent performances by multiple narrators. ( )
  Doodlebug34 | Jan 7, 2024 |
Give this much to Stephen King: He doesn't sit on his laurels and rely on formulas.

Yes, "From a Buick 8" is about an evil car, in a manner of speaking. And yes, King trod that ground years ago with "Christine," which was engaging if mediocre. But this latest novel is different in many ways — in topic, style and in the way King chooses to tell his story.
aggiunto da stephmo | modificaAssociated Press, Ted Anthony (Oct 13, 2002)
 
Is From a Buick 8 Stephen King's last real novel? He insists as much, and -- bad sign -- his latest main character is a dissatisfied storyteller. A Pennsylvania state trooper fills a mournful teen in on the confounding history of a grinning, otherworldly Roadmaster that may or may not have offed the boy's father.
 
IT must get exhausting, inventing monstrous evils year in and year out, especially the sort of ancient, supernatural forces that start by insinuating themselves into the fabric of everyday life and grow to threaten everything sane and decent before being vanquished, against all odds, by a valiant band of unlikely heroes. You can see why Stephen King, who has done this many times, might get tired of it, might look around him at a world that certainly enjoys no shortage of terrors as it is, and write a book like ''From a Buick 8.''
aggiunto da stephmo | modificaNew York Times, Laura Miller (Sep 29, 2002)
 
Back in 1983, Stephen King tried to send a collective shiver through his audience with "Christine," a novel about a killer hot rod that could mow down unsuspecting pedestrians all by itself. Despite some effective scenes, that book proved to be one of his sillier offerings.
 
Stephen King was driving from Florida to Maine in 1999 when nature called. He pulled off the highway, found a gas station and used the restroom. Then he walked behind the building and lost his footing, sliding down a slope and almost landing in a stream. That was when nature -- his nature -- called upon him to dream up ''From a Buick 8.''
aggiunto da stephmo | modificaNew York Times, Janet Maslin (Sep 23, 2002)
 

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Curt Wilcox's boy came around the barracks a lot the year after his father died, I mean a lot, but nobody ever told him get out the way or asked him what in hail he was doing there again.
Il figlio di Curt Wilcox veniva spesso alla stazione l'anno che suo padre morì - e intendo proprio spesso - ma nessuno gli diceva mai di togliersi dai piedi o gli chiedeva che cosa diavolo volesse.
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On the heels of his hugely successful "Dreamcatchers" King delivers another classic novel about boys, men, and a terrifying force only they can contain. The state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret in Shed B out back of the barracks ever since 1979, when Troopers Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox answered a call from a gas station just down the road and came back with an abandoned Buick Roadmaster. Curt Wilcox knew old cars, and he knew immediately that this one was ... wrong, just wrong. A few hours later, when Rafferty vanished, Wilcox and his fellow troopers knew the car was worse than dangerous -- and that it would be better if John Q. Public never found out about it. Curt's avid curiosity taking the lead, they investigated as best they could, as much as they dared. Over the years the troop absorbed the mystery as part of the background to their work, the Buick 8 sitting out there like a still life painting that breathes -- inhaling a little bit of this world, exhaling a little bit of whatever world it came from. In the fall of 2001, a few months after Curt Wilcox is killed in a gruesome auto accident, his 18-year-old boy Ned starts coming by the barracks, mowing the lawn, washing windows, shoveling snow. Sandy Dearborn, Sergeant Commanding, knows it's the boy's way of holding onto his father, and Ned is allowed to become part of the Troop D family. One day he looks in the window of Shed B and discovers the family secret. Like his father, Ned wants answers, and the secret begins to stir, not only in the minds and hearts of the veteran troopers who surround him, but in Shed B as well.

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C'era una volta ... C'era una volta un'auto sbucata dal nulla. C'era una volta l'agente Curtis Wilcox che divenne il suo 'osservatore'. E morì. E ora c'è Ned, il giovane figlio, che una sera, seduto tra i colleghi del padre, ascolta una storia che gli cambierà la vita... la storia della Buick blu notte, che comincia con la sua comparsa davanti a un distributore di benzina, ne lontano 1979, e continua con la sua presenza sorniona in un capannone dietro la stazione di polizia della squadra D. Dentro è finta come un giocattolo, ma un fatto è certo: dai copertoni sui quali non si posa mai un grammo di polvere, alla carrozzeria che si 'guarisce' da sola, è viva come un animale... uno strano essere animato che a lunghi periodi di letargo alterna brevi, violenti attimi di attività. Da allora la squadra D è mutata come un paesaggio al volgere delle stagioni: qualcuno se n'è andato, qualcun altro e ha preso il posto, qualcuno è sparito definitivamente, ma nessuno ha mai tradito una consegna che è diventata il retaqgio di un clan: tacere. E stare all'erta. Perché è tutto quello che si può fare quando un mistero insondabile e letale invade la normalità. Intanto, vegliata adesso da Ned Wilcox, la Buick se ne sta lì, rinchiusa, turbando i novellini con le sue bizzarrie, e le sue titaniche esplosioni di luce, e le 'cose' che vomita; se ne sta lì sogghignante e immobile, inalando un po' del nostro mondo, esalando un po' di quello - qualunque esso sia - da cui proviene. Respirando... e respirando... e... respirando.
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