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Finished this yesterday and watched the old movie. Spoilers.

I'd seen people describe it as both terrifying and one of the best portrayals of grief but it ended up being…boring? Not much happens for 3/4 of the book. Even the grave robbing scene is boring because it goes to plan.

King's overall writing is style not great and even though I listened to the audio book it felt clunky with grammar errors. The only compelling aspect was the potential plot but that flopped.

I had the basic premise spoiled years ago but I'm not sure if the child coming back was spoiled or if the book was just really predictable. The ancient Indian burial ground is such a tired trope, though maybe not when he wrote it.

Some of the plot points weren't really explained properly like Pascow (guy that dies at college) knowing about pet sematary or not showing baby Gage's death even though it's supposed to a horror story or why Gage take's the wife's dead sister's form.

I hated how they treated the cat, not that bothered that it would likely get killed on the road, reluctant to neuter, and then hating it just for smelling bad and killing animals (which is natural for cats).

At the end when he injects morphine into his son I thought the real horror was going to be him accepting that he has to kill his son himself, letting go of what he worked so hard to bring back. I thought that we were going to get some deep wisdom about accepting death as part of life but these were only briefly touched on.

The epilogue of him carrying his wife's body to bury ruined the whole book as it felt like he had learned nothing. I guess it's supposed to be scary that he's gone insane but it felt like a cheap cliffhanger.