From a Buick 8
- 463
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
- International Horror Guild Award
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Our view
“From a Buick 8” is Stephen King’s second novel built around a car, a dark mystery in which another reality presses against ours. Some readers speak of laughing and flinching by turns and praise the flow of the storytelling. Others feel too much is left unexplained, and some find the characters bland and the book below King’s usual standard. Grief runs under the strangeness.
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About the book
From a Buick 8 is a horror novel by American writer Stephen King. Published on September 24, 2002, this is the second novel by King to be centred around a car. The title comes from Bob Dylan's song "From a Buick 6".
Where the score comes from
The sources average 6.8 across 216 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 60% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Horror average of 7.5. That is how 7.1 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.4 | 26 | 12% |
| Hardcover | 6.7 | 190 | 88% |
Frequently asked
How long is From a Buick 8?
It has 463 pages — longer than 68% of the ranked books in Horror.
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