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Everstrong

The King does it Again

Recenserad i Storbritannien den 27 januari 2023

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I haven't read a Stephen King book in a while, but I'm now reminded why I love his writing so much. Utterly gripping from start to finish.

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Kate

Brilliant! Stephen King is really a King of writers!

Recenserad i Storbritannien den 21 december 2022

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Absolutely brilliant! The only problem is that this book did not actually feel completely as a fiction because how the government treated there kids with special talent is not a fiction but a reality. To prove what I said, who does not believe me, all what they need to do is to say to authorities they can do for example Remote Viewing and they will find themselves locked up and tests will be conducted on them. Never mind the armies are using this technique for decades. So I would say that this story was written based on pure reality.

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Adrian Dooley

A real throwback to his early days.

Recenserad i Storbritannien den 30 oktober 2022

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I’ve been a Stephen King fan for more than 40 years. When I was a teenager and didn’t really read books I read Stephen King books.

The Institute brings me back to those days. It’s a throwback to his earlier work and it’s a stonking good read overall.

Kids with paranormal powers are being kidnapped and brought to The Institute for unknown reasons and we follow one of these kids and the friends he makes while there.

King really is a master of writing children in the most harrowing of stories. This has real nods to the likes of Firestarter and The Dead Zone with its tone and subject matter.

I’ve been reading a lot of Kings more current work lately and he really has found a second wind in his later writing, knocking out some great books and this one is no exception.

Hugely enjoyable.

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Christopher Carrolli

"The Institute" to Become One of King's Best Works!

Recenserad i USA 🇺🇸 den 5 februari 2020

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Stephen King, the Master of Horror, has written what will likely become one of his greatest works of all time. Reminiscent of “It,” “Firestarter,” and “Carrie,” “The Institute” is non-stop page-turning fascination that borders on addiction. It is a book easily devoured from the first to the last page.

The story begins as former cop, Tim Jamieson, accepts a generous refund to ditch a flight bound for New York City. Later hitching a ride to South Carolina, Tim settles in the small town of DuPray, where he lands a job as the town’s Night Knocker. A past incident precludes him from becoming a police officer again. As Tim makes DuPray his new home, his story is then put on hold, as the real story begins.

Somewhere in Minnesota, Herb and Eileen Ellis learn that their twelve-year-old son, a brilliant prodigy enrolled at the Broderick School for Exceptional Children, is too smart for the so-called, “special school.” They are perplexed at having to make other arrangements for Luke, who’s also endowed with a touch of telekinesis. He’s able to move objects and flip pizza pans when he gets excited, but it’s nothing extraordinary, not enough for his parents to realize that their child genius is the cause of the strange activity.

Late one night, a team of ex-military soldiers breaks into the Ellis home, where they murder Herb and Eileen and kidnap their son from the safety of his bed. Luke awakens in a room identical to his own, yet different; his bedroom window is gone. Leaving the room, Luke discovers other children, children who reveal to him his whereabouts. Like them, he has been abducted and brought here to the Institute.

Here, King unveils a cast of extraordinary and expertly-crafted characters. Among them are Kalisha, a telepathic girl who reads minds and becomes Luke first and most trusted friend. Nicky is the handsome telekinetic who sports bruises obtained by defending himself from the adults. The adults are those in charge of the Institute, those who torture and punish the children for not conforming to the tests they perform on them. The rigorous and mind-altering tests are meant to enhance the children’s psychic abilities for a greater cause, one that will save the world.

King’s adult characters are as much contemptible despots as the children are loveable heroes, creating a well-balanced cast of antagonists and protagonists. Mrs. Sigsby is the ruthless head of the Institute, greatly feared and hell bent on destroying the children’s minds and bodies to get the desired results. She is the boss of despicable underlings, technicians and doctors well-paid to torment the children by torturous means if needed. Among their goals of enhancement is to produce telepathy in telekinetic children and vice verse. Luke soon realizes that not only is he telekinetic, but he is able to read minds as well.

More children enter the story. Among them is Avery, a ten-year-old super-telepath, who along with the help of Maureen, the one caring adult in the Institute, helps Luke escape. Back in the real world once again, Luke embarks on a journey of survival, one that erupts in mayhem when he tells his story to a Night Knocker in DuPray, South Carolina.

Back at the Institute, fear spreads at the thought of being exposed, imprisoned, or worse. Mrs. Sigsby dares not call her unseen boss on the special phone. In a scene akin to “Carrie” and “Firestarter,” the remaining psychic children gather together and turn their abilities in rage toward the Institute, the result of which is classic Stephen King.

The never-ending and fascinating plot, along with the remarkably real characters places the reader in a new yet familiar world created by King. “The Institute” will fit well on anyone’s list of all-time King favorites.

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Mirabel Sanders

Nice

Recenserad i USA 🇺🇸 den 19 januari 2023

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Nice book.

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Anne Hainsworth

Haven't read it yet.

Recenserad i Storbritannien den 15 januari 2023

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Good value for money and the book arrived quickly.

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Caz

Good

Recenserad i Storbritannien den 14 januari 2023

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Good

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William B

A Masterwork....

Recenserad i USA 🇺🇸 den 23 september 2019

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I would like to preface my review by saying that I stopped reading Stephen King back in the mid to late 90’s. It seemed to me at the time that he was mass producing one novel after the other at such a fast clip and they were getting a bit predictable and quite frankly, repetitive. So, I was a bit shocked when I caught myself reading the synopsis to this novel and found myself intrigued. As I read it, it started to feel like something from before that time I had stopped reading Mr. King, and thought - maybe I’ll give him another try. I’m so very glad I did! This is a masterwork in what Mr. Kings does so well, kids with psychic abilities fighting the establishment and coming together to foil evil. Visions of “Firestarter”, “It”, “Dead Zone” and “Carrie” began to emerge once I started reading this edge-of-the-seat page turner. Mr. King may have won back a reader if this is any indication of a path he is returning to. There are those who love Mr. King no matter what he writes - I used to be one of those folks until, like I said the routine got boring. This is anything but boring and if you are like me, and looked away from Mr. King for a while, you may want to give this one a look-see and have your mind changed about one of the premier horror writers in the United States; and throughout the world for that matter. Call me convinced and back in the fold.

The Institute is a gut-wrenching metaphor for what is presently happening at the border of Mexico and the United States, albeit through King’s imagination and lens. If you can allow yourself to read this novel without your own political lens upon you head, (I know that’s not easy), you may very well come away realizing something amazing has just happened in the world of literature.
From the inside cover: In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says. “You check in, but you don’t check out.”

In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don’t, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute.

As psychically terrifying as Firestarter, and with the spectacular kid power of It, The Institute is Stephen King’s gut-wrenchingly dramatic story of good vs. evil in a world where the good guys don’t always win.

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Es muy practico y como el libro de bolsillo

Recenserad i Mexiko 🇲🇽 den 15 oktober 2022

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Me gusta leer

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Dave N.

Wife is a Steven King fan!

Recenserad i USA 🇺🇸 den 31 december 2022

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Great Value

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