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The Start of King’s Best Books

The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger by Stephen King

July 18, 2019 by MrsLangdonAlger 4 Comments

Apparently lots of people who like The Dark Tower series don’t like this book, and I really don’t understand that. I love the whole series enough to have a tattoo from it, Song of Susannah is clearly the weakest of the books, and The Gunslinger is some of King’s best writing, ever. The exact criticism I hear of it, that it’s a western and not a horror, is what I think allows it to be so great, because it allows King to break from his […]

Life is a Carnival

Joyland by Stephen King

July 10, 2019 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

CBR11Bingo Pick: Summer ReadTAs his first serious relationship disintegrates, New Hampshire college student Devin Jones flees New England for a summer job at an independent amusement park in North Carolina. Over the course of an extended summer he learns how to get over a girl, how to speak like a carny, and how to survive in a mascot suit on a hot day. He’ll also make a couple of lifelong friends, save two lives, and come to the aide of a struggling single mother and […]

Matchstick Girl

Firestarter by Stephen King

July 4, 2019 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

CBR Bingo category: Birthday (Stephen King, born September 21, 1947) Firestarter feels very much like it could be one of the inspirations behind Stranger Things. A young woman has special abilities thanks to government experiments gone wrong and the government does everything it can to keep her under its control. Charlene “Charlie” McGee is the product of an unlikely marriage. Her mother and father signed up for an experiment in college because they each needed the $200 pretty badly. The mysterious drug known as Lot […]

Ever Closer to the Tower

The Waste Lands by Stephen King

June 28, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

I have to say that it was great to re-read this and see the ka-tet all together again. I have issues with some of the upcoming books and heaven knows I will forever be irked by Song of Susannah and The Dark Tower as standalones. That said, this book helps set up the latter books as well as foreshadows what will become of some of the ka-tet I think. The main reason why I didn’t give this five stars was that I still loathe that […]

Ramblin’ Rose

Rose Madder by Stephen King

June 24, 2019 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

I’ve become quite a fan of Stephen King in recent years, but a frequent complaint from the less enamored rings true about Rose Madder: the man could stand an editor. I have no doubt that had anyone not named Stephen King submitted this book as a manuscript, any editor worth his or her salt would have cut about 100 pages (they all would choose the same 100 pages to cut, I bet) and made this a much better book. As it is, Rose Madder is […]

He was a coward at heart, you see, although I never said the word out loud to him —not then and not ever.

Dolores Claibourne by Stephen King

June 20, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is one of those novels by Stephen King that I didn’t read as a kid, and well, I don’t really think I could have and made much out of it. My brother read it when he was like 12 and that’s kind of funny to think of now that I have. It’s an odd book for Stephen King and is similar to Rose Madder to a large degree and Gerald’s Game to a very large degree of being a book pretty much devoid of […]

Zirza on A Gothic Classic for a ReasonIt's one of those wish-you-could-read-it-again-for-the-first-time books. I loved it.
Emmalita on “It came to something when you found yourself hoping that the footsteps you heard were ghosts.”I loved the ending! I don’t think it’s been out long enough to talk about why though.
Dixie on Track Her Down by Melinda LeighI am just starting Track Her Down and I have read them all in order till now and thought I...
Roland of Gilead on How can you give us the gift of a crazy character named Rando Thoughtful and then just as suddenly take that gift away? We need to talk, Uncle Stevie.I came across this randomly years after it was written because I was searching "Random Thoughtful. But I have the...
Emmalita on “Only you, Em, would refer to heartbreak as a distraction. I think I would have a more sympathetic response if I asked to marry a bookcase.”Oh my goodness, Gallifrey was beautiful. I’m sure her mittens were gloriously murdery.

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