Ok i love King and most of his novels. But never has he gotten so possesed in his overgrowing pass ion for gore. The murders are to geraphic, and the ending is just to wierd. But if you like real disguisting violent books than this one is for you.(it almost made me puke in one part)

Excellent! I must admit, however, that I had to force myself to read through the end, but I'm glad I did. It had one of the most suprising endings Stephen King has written. My advice to you: Read it if you want, not just because I say so. It's not one of his best.

A note to Mr. King: Just because a story idea can be written as a novel doesn't mean that it should be. This book has no business being a novel. There simply isn't enough material here for much more than a really good novella. Don't get me wrong. I have read and enjoyed many of King's works. But far too many of them, beginning with this one, are little more than inflated short stories. King is best writing good, short, nasty stories of people doing terrible things to each other, like The Shining, Pet Sematary, Christine, Carrie, Delores Claiborne, etc. His big novels (like Salem's Lot, IT, and the ridiculously overpraised The Stand) soon become predictable, and downright boring. The Dark Half has one or two cool moments, but it is the last King novel I will read, at least until he learns (or remembers) that there is more to writing than filling up paper.

This was one of the worst books ever. This isn't scary or creepy. This is disgusting! For your information I hate all the books by Stephen King (except Pet Sematary) so it wasn't surprising that this one was from deep...

ok i dont know why but when i read STEPHEN KING's HORROR books i end up hating them.............ok i know right STEPHEN KING writes only horror BOOKS!! but as far as i am concerned i dont conside some of his best works Horror.....Green Mile wasnt horror, Dolores Claiboren wasnt, Insomia wasnt.......ok my point is I HATED this BOOK........it wasnt even believable.........it starts as very interesting, but as the pages fly by and the climax is near it just geta bit too messy.......though the migrane and the birds thing was good....it again was bad in a way.........the horror and the supernatural gets a bit too much...at least for me it did............all in all dispite the fact that this was a easy read....i dint like it.......its more like i hated it.......i dint like the ending..........but none the less its written by Stephen King..........and it does have its moments............1/10

This yet another good Stephen King thriller, mixing crime fiction with supernatural elements as only he can. My only complain with the book is that the explanation for the real world existence of "The Dark Half" isn't explained very well, which is unfortunate, since it is a major plot point for the book.This was written after King's pen-name (Richard Bachman) was revealed. You can see that this was King's way of dealing with the loss of his "other half."