So I have read this book a number of times starting in 5th grade when I was the same age as the kids. I am almost the same age as the adults, so this is interesting to me. I also recently saw the movie, and it was fine. But it had the same problem any movie version of any book that greatly outdistances its adaptation has: it just can’t take the time it needs to do the job correctly. Things I liked about the movie: […]
Everything down here floats…
I’m on the tail-end of a monstrously disruptive cold, so I had to scrap my plans of having this review out by the 21st, Stephen King’s septuagenarian birthday. In the realm of missed opportunities, this rates as a fairly minor disappointment, but it would’ve fairly cool nonetheless. It is one of the most quintessentially “Stephen King” stories, and it’s recent and wildly successful adaptation should, perhaps, not be seen as particularly surprising. In my mind, it holds a premier place in his oeuvre, alongside The […]
“First comes smiles, then the lies. Last comes gunfire.”
It’s sort of hard to be objective when a book sucks you in as hard as this one sucked me in. It’s not often anymore that I actually lose myself in a book—just straight up forget about my own existence, and become completely absorbed in a fictional one—but this one totally did that. It gave me the same feeling as The Drawing of Three, which is probably still my favorite in the series so far, though this one comes close. Roland and his ka-tet are […]
Home is the place where when you go there, you have to finally face the thing in the dark.
Drumroll…………. It makes its second appearance in my Cannonball Read in as many years. (Here is my review from last year.) But dangit, it’s just absolutely outstanding all over again. Honestly, I might be at a loss for words now, and I think that’s because Stephen King took all of them. All the words. It is so long. But it reads so fast! I can’t put it down, and I don’t want to put it down! It’s just one of those books. So, the timing […]
Bird and Bear and Hare and Fish.
Once upon a time, I read Wizard and Glass for the very first time, and thought that there could never be a greater book in the world. I was swept up in the world of Mejis and horses and Roland and Susan and the Big Coffin Hunters. I didn’t mind being apart from Eddie and Jake and Susannah (and Oy!) for such a long time, because this story was EPIC! It was romantic and tragic and IMPORTANT to the plot of the overall series. I […]
I apologize in advance for all the swears
This falls into the category of: Intriguing concept. Poor execution. I haven’t read anything by Stephen King before, which is probably blasphemous, but I’ve seen several of his adaptations and figured that 11/22/63 was a good place to start, since I’m not a big horror fan, but I was wrong. This was an overwrought, bloated mess of a book. “Humans were built to look back; that’s why we have that swivel joint in our necks” Spoilers There are too many things going on in this […]
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