the stand – Cannonball Read 17

Next time, I’ll just read The Stand again.

Wanderers by Chuck Wendig

January 2, 2020 by scootsa1000 5 Comments

This book had everything going for it, including multiple comparisons to The Stand, and a massive recommendation from the mothership. I started it back in August, thinking I could whip through it for the Pajiba Says bingo square, and well, I just finished it yesterday. I was…not a fan. I didn’t hate it, but I was incredibly let down by it. The story starts out strong: across the world, sleepwalkers start marching toward an unknown destination. Their numbers start off small, and as the group […]

Classic King – not for the faint of heart

September 23, 2018 by cheerbrarian 1 Comment

I adore post-apocalyptic literature and have read many of the Stephen King biggies (The Shining, Misery, Carrie, Pet Cemetary, It, Salem’s Lot, Christine, Needful Things, Thinner) so not sure why I hadn’t read The Stand but I think the size of the volume probably had something to do with it. At 1153 pages The Stand is less a hobby and moreso a lifestyle choice. His fifth book, written in 1978, it was definitely a blast from the past. I snagged the copy held for me at […]

“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.”

January 9, 2017 by scootsa1000 6 Comments

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 […]

Come on down and meet your maker. Come on down and make the stand.

October 27, 2016 by scootsa1000 15 Comments

When I was in the seventh grade, I went to summer camp and discovered books I had never heard of or seen before. Other girls brought books like Flowers in the Attic and Forever, stolen from their older sisters. We all borrowed them and couldn’t get enough of these adult-seeming books. And then one girl showed us The Shining. I had no idea what it was, but she told me it was scary. And Constant Reader, it was scary. But not scary enough. I devoured The Shining, […]

Epic book is epic.

July 6, 2016 by narfna 9 Comments

YOU GUYS, HI. THIS BOOK WAS SO THIS BOOK. WHAT WORDS TO USE I DO NOT KNOW. MUCH FLOUNDERING. BOOK HAS CREATED NOOK FOR ITSELF IN BRAIN AND IMPRINTED DEMON SHADOW IN NEURAL CELLS FOREVER. CAUSES TO TYPE ALL CAPS OH NO. Okay, I’ll stop now. But seriously. THIS BOOK, THIS @(*&#$%* BOOK. I have been meaning to read The Stand for yearrrrs now, but I kept putting it off. Ever since I discovered about four to five years ago that Stephen King’s storytelling was […]

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