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“The trip has been long and the cost has been high, but no great thing was ever attained easily. A long tale, like a tall Tower, must be built a stone at a time.”

December 28, 2017 by narfna 2 Comments

I’ve been sitting on this review for months, and have decided I’m going to take the easy way out and not say all the things I could about this last book in Sai King’s Dark Tower series. For the most part, I have loved reading this series over the past year. It’s had it’s ups (books two and five) and downs (books one and four), but on balance is one of the most imaginative, terrifying, satisfying things I’ve ever read. I will definitely be revisiting […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, Western Tagged With: epic fantasy, fantasy, horror, narfna, Stephen King, The Dark Tower, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower, western

narfna's CBR9 Review No:106 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, Western · Tags: epic fantasy, fantasy, horror, narfna, Stephen King, The Dark Tower, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower, western ·
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I was 12 going on 13 the first time I saw a dead human being. It happened in the summer of 1959-a long time ago, but only if you measure in terms of years. I

December 6, 2017 by Caitlin_D Leave a Comment

Back in April my husband and I got back to our crappy hotel room in Denver after one of the various wedding activities we were in town for and we turned on the TV which was playing Stand by Me. It was then, after seven years of life together, that I leaned my husband had never seen Stand by Me. Anyway, The Body is the novella on which Stand by Me is based and it is a very strong “coming of age” piece of literature […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Stand By Me, Stephen King

Caitlin_D's CBR9 Review No:134 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Stand By Me, Stephen King ·
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Everyone is apparently legally required to review this book

November 20, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Sleeping Beauties – 3/5 – SPOILERS by the Way So this has a fable quality to it, obviously. But in a lot of ways, this is like an episode of Star Trek (a Q episode specifically), where the small town created King squared become a stand-in for all humanity. In the same way that the Starship Enterprise becomes the crucible for the humanity and morality of all mankind, the small town of Dooling, West Virginia becomes the crucible for all MAN-kind! Boom! Punned. But in […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: ethan of athos, lois mcmaster bujold, owen king, sleeping beauties, Stephen King

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:462 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ethan of athos, lois mcmaster bujold, owen king, sleeping beauties, Stephen King ·
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In the Land of Memory the time is always Now.

November 7, 2017 by narfna 4 Comments

“I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe. And one day while you were doing that, you felt something pushing back.” I can’t believe I only have one book left in this series! It feels like I’ve been reading it forever, but also no time at all. (I read The Gunslinger last fall, and The Drawing of Three in December, which is when I really fell into Sai King’s world.) What it really feels like being inside this story, I […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Horror, Western Tagged With: fantasy, horror, narfna, song of susannah, Stephen King, The Dark Tower, the dark tower vi, western

narfna's CBR9 Review No:93 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Western · Tags: fantasy, horror, narfna, song of susannah, Stephen King, The Dark Tower, the dark tower vi, western ·
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The Aurora Flu

October 31, 2017 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

I have never read such blatantly liberal, feminist, anti-Trump (without ever once mentioning his name) horror in my life. And I love Uncle Steve for that. This was not his best work, but it was good and had some excellent creepy moments. But overall, it had this MESSAGE that yeah, he shoves down the reader’s throat. A lot. But fuck it. He’s Stephen King. I’m just happy to know he’s on my side. “It was funny, when you thought about it; what were all those […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: badkittyuno, owen king, Stephen King

badkittyuno's CBR9 Review No:186 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: badkittyuno, owen king, Stephen King ·
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Life lesson from Uncle Stevie: You always — always, always, always — fall from the topmost grid of the ceiling that you’re using for a ladder in the hall of the maximum security prison that has gone sliding down the unstable remains of a former coal mountain.

October 11, 2017 by scootsa1000 9 Comments

Sleeping Beauties is a gigantic, door-stopping tome that tells the story of a world without women. What would happen if suddenly all of the world’s women were suddenly asleep, and the men were left to their own devices, without supervision and guidance from the fairer sex? How long until guns are used to make every single decision? As it turns out, less than a week. Uncle Stevie and his son Owen are trying something interesting here, but it mostly didn’t work for me. Here’s what […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr9, owen king, Peter Straub, Scootsa1000, sleeping beauties, Stephen King

scootsa1000's CBR9 Review No:55 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr9, owen king, Peter Straub, Scootsa1000, sleeping beauties, Stephen King ·
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