Small World

by Tabitha King

Book Overview

Leyna Shaw's unfamiliar environment sends her screaming and screamingly. For one, she's in the White House bedroom and there is a peculiar object thrusting itself upon her. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451114086
• ISBN13: 9780451114082
• Release Date: March 1982
• Publisher: Signet Book
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Pretty good book and fast reading for me!

I liked the book and like another reviewer, when I was a kid, I wished real "little" people lived in my doll house. The ending was a surprise to me. I enjoyed the book.

A miniaturist's view to the Small World

Unfortunately, I can't say if this book would be enjoyable for someone who's not into dollhouse miniatures - because I'm passionately into them.Ever since my childhood, when I played with my four-storey Lundby dollhouse, I've been dreaming what it would be like, to have real little people living in my dollhouse. Reading 'Small World' was like a glimpse of someone else's similar dream - only revenge or torture were never parts of my dream.It was enjoyable how well the author had researched her subject. Who knows, maybe she's really into miniatures herself!? For example, a miniaturist character had a habit of hoarding scrap materials. It had nothing to do with the story, but it was a small detail familiar to all miniaturists. I had to laugh out loud!It actually took nearly half a book, until the "Doll's White House" got its first living resident. And her experiences felt very realistic. I've always hated the way most books and movies ignore the fact that people need to use the bathroom sooner or later, so I was pleasantly surprised when Leyna's first thought in a strange room, was to go for a pee. "What sort of bathroom had no water?"I loved the little detail of a water tank on the roof. Oakhurst Dairy Fat Free Milk. "There's lots of things she'd never seen, she might scold herself, what does that prove? Not much, but the thing still looked like a goddamn plastic milk carton to her." (Leyna)Another funny detail was Dolly and Roger's trip to England, and their little adventure to Longleat. I haven't been to Longleat myself, but I know it well from watching a BBC documentary series. It was nice to have a clear mental picture of the place, while reading about it in the book. I found this book enjoyable enough to read it all in one go, and I would LOVE to see it as a movie!

Full of Suspense

I'm a big fan of Stephen King (have all his book except Cinema, because of the price and I've seen all the movies) and when in a book shop in Buenos Aires I saw this book for $ 2.00 I thought, well, let's see how his wife writes. I couldn't let go of the book. I read it in 2 days. I was trapped to know the ending. I finished it this morning at my work and didn't start working until I read the last page and it left me breathless. The ending is very unimaginable. Now I'm looking forward to reading more from Tabitha. Highly recommended.

Chilling and sexy sci-fi horror thriller

Terrific work by the wife of Stephen King. With today's fantastic special effects, it's a wonder it hasn't been made into a movie. The story of a nerdy genius who invents a device that can shrink people to six inches tall. When he meets up with the wrong woman, evil ensues. A beautiful television anchor is shrunk and made to live in a doll house. Not only does she have to deal with the consequences of being so tiny, she has to endure the psychological and sexual terror of the genius' evil accomplice.