So my first proper book I’ve read this year is The Stand. To be honest, I can’t believe I haven’t read it before. I tried about ten years ago, when I was probably early on in my undergrad, and… just couldn’t get through it. I think I got stuck on an early Larry chapter at some point (because let’s face it, he is The Worst) and just found I didn’t care enough about any of the characters to go on. This time, though, I was hooked. A […]
You have forgotten the face of your father.
It’s so funny, as I’m reading this series for the first time, to see the (very) polarizing opinions about each book. One person gives it up after the first thirty pages of the first book because it’s so fucking weird, the next wants to read all of them in a mad, passionate frenzy. One person thinks book two is the greatest (me), another thinks it’s boring as shit (an opinion I can’t understand). Yet another counts this here book as their favorite and reviles book four. […]
Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers
In which Siege returns to CBR, in hopes of not embarrassing herself by signing up and then doing zero reviews again this year. Her first review is Finders Keepers, the second book in Stephen King’s Bill Hodges trilogy.
“There’s something horribly unfair about dying in the middle of a good story, before you have a chance to see how it all comes out.”
I have to wonder how long it would have taken the general public to figure out that Joe Hill was, in fact, Joe King, if the news hadn’t come out on its own. I feel like — and this is not necessarily a bad thing — Joe Hill exists as the world’s greatest Stephen King impersonator. Hill shares many literary strengths with his old man. They are both great at creating a community of real characters, and bringing small, New England towns to life. They both thrive when […]
They were close to the end of the beginning…
I know, I should shut up already about how many times I’ve read this Stephen King book or that Stephen King book. But really, I’ve read this book a lot. I think even more than The Stand. I read it when it was a standalone book (and I had to brave crossing the floor of the Newton Highlands public library — from the children’s section to the adult section), and this was before Uncle Stevie tinkered with it to make it fit better into the world of the […]
“Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.”
I read Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft when it first came out, about 15 years ago. Some of it stuck with me pretty vividly, mostly about his personal history — like when he talks about dropping a cinder-block full of wasps onto his foot at age three!! — but I’ve never reread it. When I saw that Overdrive had a copy of the audio-book read by King himself, I eagerly downloaded it. While some of the writing lessons aren’t quite as gripping the […]
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