Gerald's Game
- 400
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Gerald’s Game” wrings a whole novel from one room and one predicament, and its real subject is what the trapped woman carries in her head. Readers who admire it find it frightening and unusually compassionate about the damage trauma does. Some find the long inward stretches slow and the chapters about her past hard to bear.
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About the book
Gerald's Game is a 1992 suspense novel by American writer Stephen King. The story is about a woman whose husband dies of a heart attack while she is handcuffed to a bed, and, following the subsequent realization that she is trapped with little hope of rescue, begins to let the voices inside her head take over.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 6.8 across 411 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 74% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Horror average of 7.5. That is how 7.0 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.3 | 35 | 9% |
| Hardcover | 6.7 | 376 | 92% |
Frequently asked
How long is Gerald's Game?
It has 400 pages — longer than 50% of the ranked books in Horror.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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