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We Create Our Own Monsters

Carrie by Stephen King

The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson

October 1, 2023 by RevGirlUtena Leave a Comment

Carrie Carrie White is a high-school student who is an outcast. She lives with her religious fanatic of a mother and is very much alone. One day, while taking a shower in gym class, she gets her first period. Since her mother never taught her about the menstrual cycle, she thinks she is dying and starts hysterically screaming and crying. The other girls find this hilarious and start throwing pads and tampons at her, jeering to “plug it up”. Then suddenly, a lightbulb explodes. The […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Horror, Young Adult Tagged With: cbr15 bingo, cbr15bingo, Stephen King, Tiffany D. Jackson, YA

RevGirlUtena's CBR15 Review No:58 · Genres: Audiobooks, Horror, Young Adult · Tags: cbr15 bingo, cbr15bingo, Stephen King, Tiffany D. Jackson, YA ·
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Three Horror Short Story Collections

The Shores of Space by Richard Matheson

Everything's Eventual by Stephen King

Night Shift by Stephen King

September 25, 2023 by GentleRain 2 Comments

CBR15Bingo: Violence (plenty of violence here!) It’s interesting going back and doing these reviews a while after I read the books because I get to see what sticks around in my mind and what doesn’t. Say what you will about Stephen King, but his stories stay with you. There’s something about his ability to get across a strong visual image and have it embed itself in your brain forever. He really taps into something very primal with his writing, especially his earlier work. I am […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, cbr15bingo, horror, Richard Matheson, short story collection, Stephen King

GentleRain's CBR15 Review No:49 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, cbr15bingo, horror, Richard Matheson, short story collection, Stephen King ·
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Good Golly, Miss Holly

Holly by Stephen King

September 17, 2023 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

You don’t know about Holly Gibney unless you’ve read about her in a few books by a man named Stephen King. Holly got her start as a minor character in Mr. Mercedes and grew into a more prominent role throughout the Bill Hodges trilogy. Since then she’s taken on supernatural forces in The Outsider and in the short story If it Bleeds, but Holly is the first novel where she is the main protagonist. King has made it clear how much he adores Holly and […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Stephen King

jeverett15's CBR15 Review No:40 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Stephen King ·
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An unsurpassed blast from the past

11/22/63 by Stephen King

August 16, 2023 by Caesar's Wife Leave a Comment

I’ll preface this review by clarifying up front that: I do not live in the USA and am not a scholar on the JFK assassination Though a rabid Stephen King fan, I have studiously avoided this book since it was published in 2011, primarily due to lack of interest. After having devoured this 800+ page book in a fortnight, I can now say that: I could comfortably answer a pub-trivia question about the JKF assassination I sincerely regret not reading this excellent book sooner. This […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Stephen King

Caesar's Wife's CBR15 Review No:18 · Genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Stephen King ·
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Books

The Body by Stephen King

Knight of Shadows by Roger Zelazny

Prince of Amber by Roger Zelazny

Silence by Shūsaku Endō

Wacky Wednesday by Dr. Seuss

Would your rather be a Bullfrog by Dr. Seuss

Maybe you should fly a jet! Maybe you should be a vet! by Dr. Seuss

I Wish that I had Duck Feet by Dr. Seuss

A Great Day for Up by Dr. Seuss

What pet should I Get? by Dr. Seuss

And to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street by Dr. Seuss

The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins by Dr. Seuss

Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss

Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr. Seuss

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss

Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories by Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book by Dr. Seuss

If I ran the Zoo by Dr. Seuss

The Sneetches and Other Stories by Dr. Seuss

Bartholomew and the Oobleck by Dr. Seuss

May 22, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Body “The most important things are the hardest to say.” I first read this probably back in 1990 or so when I was still a little younger than the characters. I also had seen the movie a few times, and listened to the soundtrack about a million times. The novella, like the movie, is narrated by the adult Gordon LaChance, and like some of Stephen King’s other books, the past and nostalgia play a huge role. One thing that emerges soon in the book […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Dr. Seuss, roger zelazny, Shūsaku Endō, Stephen King

vel veeter's CBR15 Review No:367 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Dr. Seuss, roger zelazny, Shūsaku Endō, Stephen King ·
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Springing Clean

Fletch by Gregory McDonald

Confess, Fletch by Gregory McDonald

Fatherland by Robert Harris

Enigma by Robert Harris

Thinner by Stephen King

April 10, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Things have Gotten Worse since We Last Spoke “I was going to begin this with some absurd comment about the irony of posting about an apple peeler  in a queer discussion forum when most of us are probably upset by the mere mention of the word “fruit.” The most of this novella takes place on line in various communications between two people in a kind of fledgling and then growing, and then increasingly obsessive relationship. The tone and genre implications here really sell the horror […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Gregory McDonald, Robert Harris, Stephen King

vel veeter's CBR15 Review No:252 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Gregory McDonald, Robert Harris, Stephen King ·
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