I love
TheLongWalk
holy cow is that book amazing
I have 90% of them all
DarkTower was really good yet not great (the series as a whole)
Desperation is good as well
but when ever this conversation comes up in real life i always say read TheLongWalk
Totally agree about The Long Walk!! Wow that is probably one of the most disturbing books I've ever read - what an insane concept. You've given me the itch to read it again! Just thinking about the brothers in the contest - knowing at least one of them wasn't going to make it - just heartbreaking! I haven't read the Hunger Games but it sounds like the concept is very similar...
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I don't have flash at work so I'll check it out at home, but thought y'all might be interested.
Thanks so much for this link. I am over 500 pages into this book right now and this is a tease. I have to read the published final chapter before I read what he originally wrote. This is such a great book.
I don't have flash at work so I'll check it out at home, but thought y'all might be interested.
Thanks so much for this link. I am over 500 pages into this book right now and this is a tease. I have to read the published final chapter before I read what he originally wrote. This is such a great book.
I just read it. I had forgottten about it! It was nice and touching, but I think the ending in the book is better.
I don't have flash at work so I'll check it out at home, but thought y'all might be interested.
Thanks so much for this link. I am over 500 pages into this book right now and this is a tease. I have to read the published final chapter before I read what he originally wrote. This is such a great book.
I just read it. I had forgottten about it! It was nice and touching, but I think the ending in the book is better.
Having read the rest of the book and reading the original ending, I have to agree, the better ending is in the book. one of the best books I have read in quite a while.
Wind Through the Keyhole comes out next month, yay!!
Can't wait for this book to come out!
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Anyone pick up the new Dark Tower book? Mine is on it's way from Amazon. Kinda toying with the idea of re-reading all the books again and seeing how this new one fits in with the overall story. It's been 10+ years since I read the first 4 so I could use a refresher.
Maybe I might just read the argument before each story instead.
Anyone pick up the new Dark Tower book? Mine is on it's way from Amazon. Kinda toying with the idea of re-reading all the books again and seeing how this new one fits in with the overall story. It's been 10+ years since I read the first 4 so I could use a refresher.
Maybe I might just read the argument before each story instead.
Mine arrived from Amazon today, hoping to get the time to start on it soon. I just re-read the entire series a couple years ago, it's a LOT of reading! I'd probably just flip through some of the others to get a refresher on what happened or maybe read a plot summary online like wikipedia or something.
The new one doesn't look too long, it's like 300 pages and double spaced, shouldn't take too long to read.
1998 - Noblesville 2000 - Noblesville 2010 - Noblesville 2011 - EV solo St Louis, PJ20 Alpine Valley 2012 - San Fran (Oracle) 2013 - Wrigley, Pittsburgh, Buffalo 2014 - Cincy, St Louis, Detroit 2016 - Lexington, Wrigley 2018 - Wrigley 2022 - Nashville, St Louis 2024 - Noblesville, Wrigley
Anyone pick up the new Dark Tower book? Mine is on it's way from Amazon. Kinda toying with the idea of re-reading all the books again and seeing how this new one fits in with the overall story. It's been 10+ years since I read the first 4 so I could use a refresher.
Maybe I might just read the argument before each story instead.
I'm getting off soon and am going to pick it up after work.
I re-read "The Dead Zone" a few weeks ago and loved it! King is amazing.
The notes are interesting and, thought I don't agree with all of them, they are pretty spot on.
Twenty pages into "The Wind Through the Keyhole". For me, King never disappoints. Even though not every book is a home run, I always end up enjoying reading them.
Mine's in the mail, but I must finish Martin's ADWD first, and I'm about halfway through 11/22/63, so I'll probably finish that too before I even start the new Dark Tower. So little time, so much reading!!!
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I'm currently reading the Dark Tower series for the first time. Right now, I'm on Wolves of the Calla. I'm enjoying the series and really happy I've held off from getting into the series until a lot of material was available.
We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.--Bill Hicks
I'm currently reading the Dark Tower series for the first time. Right now, I'm on Wolves of the Calla. I'm enjoying the series and really happy I've held off from getting into the series until a lot of material was available.
That one is a really good one, probably rank it my 2nd favorite of the series behind Wizard and Glass.
1998 - Noblesville 2000 - Noblesville 2010 - Noblesville 2011 - EV solo St Louis, PJ20 Alpine Valley 2012 - San Fran (Oracle) 2013 - Wrigley, Pittsburgh, Buffalo 2014 - Cincy, St Louis, Detroit 2016 - Lexington, Wrigley 2018 - Wrigley 2022 - Nashville, St Louis 2024 - Noblesville, Wrigley
I'm currently reading the Dark Tower series for the first time. Right now, I'm on Wolves of the Calla. I'm enjoying the series and really happy I've held off from getting into the series until a lot of material was available.
That one is a really good one, probably rank it my 2nd favorite of the series behind Wizard and Glass.
As has been the case with all of the books (outside of The Drawing of the Three), it has taken me a bit to get into Calla. I enjoyed Wizard and Glass very much, but I felt the transition from The Waste Lands to W&G was tough just b/c of how it drastically changed pace. I loved it though. I've loved all the books so far.
We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.--Bill Hicks
So the sequel to The Shining will be here next year!
U.S. publication date for Doctor Sleep set for 2013
Posted: May 8th, 2012 9:08:34 am EDT
Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) and the very special twelve-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.
On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless—mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and tween Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the “steam” that children with the “shining” produce when they are slowly tortured to death.
Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father’s legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant “shining” power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes “Doctor Sleep.”
Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan’s own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra’s soul and survival. This is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted readers of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.
Finished The Wind Through the Keyhole a couple weeks ago, pretty good. Wish there was more of the story about Roland in his younger years like Wizard and Glass but I still enjoyed it.
Just got the email announcement about the next book coming June 2013, Joyland. It sounds good!
JOYLAND to be published in June 2013
Hard Case Crime, the award-winning line of pulp-styled crime novels published by Titan Books, today announced it will publish JOYLAND, a new novel by Stephen King, in June 2013. Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, JOYLAND tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
1998 - Noblesville 2000 - Noblesville 2010 - Noblesville 2011 - EV solo St Louis, PJ20 Alpine Valley 2012 - San Fran (Oracle) 2013 - Wrigley, Pittsburgh, Buffalo 2014 - Cincy, St Louis, Detroit 2016 - Lexington, Wrigley 2018 - Wrigley 2022 - Nashville, St Louis 2024 - Noblesville, Wrigley
Finished The Wind Through the Keyhole a couple weeks ago, pretty good. Wish there was more of the story about Roland in his younger years like Wizard and Glass but I still enjoyed it.
You should check out the graphic novels from Marvel. They're exploring in much greater details stories only hinted at in the books, and the quality has been excellent.
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Totally agree about The Long Walk!! Wow that is probably one of the most disturbing books I've ever read - what an insane concept. You've given me the itch to read it again! Just thinking about the brothers in the contest - knowing at least one of them wasn't going to make it - just heartbreaking! I haven't read the Hunger Games but it sounds like the concept is very similar...
Has any one purchased the 25th Anniversary edition of IT?
Tom O.
"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?"
-The Writer
Yep! Hearts in Atlantis has a few tie-ins with the Dark Tower books. So does Insomnia, one of my faves.
http://www.stephenking.com/other/112263/112263.html
I don't have flash at work so I'll check it out at home, but thought y'all might be interested.
fade away...
I am at peace with my lust.....for Eddie.
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My husband loves The Stand too. He goes on and on about Randell Flagg. I think you two would have a lot to talk about.
fade away...
I am at peace with my lust.....for Eddie.
Aww.. you dont want to hear my freaky story anyway. People dont appreciate them, anyhow. But Stephen King fans might.
Spill it!
Tom O.
"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?"
-The Writer
+1!!!
Thanks so much for this link. I am over 500 pages into this book right now and this is a tease. I have to read the published final chapter before I read what he originally wrote. This is such a great book.
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5/17/10 Boston, 10/15/13 Worcester, 10/16/13 Worcester, 10/25/13 Hartford
8/5/16 Fenway, 8/7/16 Fenway
EV Solo: 6/16/11 Boston, 6/18/11 Hartford,
I just read it. I had forgottten about it! It was nice and touching, but I think the ending in the book is better.
Having read the rest of the book and reading the original ending, I have to agree, the better ending is in the book. one of the best books I have read in quite a while.
9/29/04 Boston, 6/28/08 Mansfield, 8/23/09 Chicago, 5/15/10 Hartford
5/17/10 Boston, 10/15/13 Worcester, 10/16/13 Worcester, 10/25/13 Hartford
8/5/16 Fenway, 8/7/16 Fenway
EV Solo: 6/16/11 Boston, 6/18/11 Hartford,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/mar ... arner-bros
9/29/04 Boston, 6/28/08 Mansfield, 8/23/09 Chicago, 5/15/10 Hartford
5/17/10 Boston, 10/15/13 Worcester, 10/16/13 Worcester, 10/25/13 Hartford
8/5/16 Fenway, 8/7/16 Fenway
EV Solo: 6/16/11 Boston, 6/18/11 Hartford,
I've said it a million times, this saga must be on HBO!
Wind Through the Keyhole comes out next month, yay!!
Can't wait for this book to come out!
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2010 - Noblesville
2011 - EV solo St Louis, PJ20 Alpine Valley
2012 - San Fran (Oracle)
2013 - Wrigley, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
2014 - Cincy, St Louis, Detroit
2016 - Lexington, Wrigley
2018 - Wrigley
2022 - Nashville, St Louis
2024 - Noblesville, Wrigley
Maybe I might just read the argument before each story instead.
9/29/04 Boston, 6/28/08 Mansfield, 8/23/09 Chicago, 5/15/10 Hartford
5/17/10 Boston, 10/15/13 Worcester, 10/16/13 Worcester, 10/25/13 Hartford
8/5/16 Fenway, 8/7/16 Fenway
EV Solo: 6/16/11 Boston, 6/18/11 Hartford,
Mine arrived from Amazon today, hoping to get the time to start on it soon. I just re-read the entire series a couple years ago, it's a LOT of reading! I'd probably just flip through some of the others to get a refresher on what happened or maybe read a plot summary online like wikipedia or something.
The new one doesn't look too long, it's like 300 pages and double spaced, shouldn't take too long to read.
2000 - Noblesville
2010 - Noblesville
2011 - EV solo St Louis, PJ20 Alpine Valley
2012 - San Fran (Oracle)
2013 - Wrigley, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
2014 - Cincy, St Louis, Detroit
2016 - Lexington, Wrigley
2018 - Wrigley
2022 - Nashville, St Louis
2024 - Noblesville, Wrigley
I'm getting off soon and am going to pick it up after work.
I re-read "The Dead Zone" a few weeks ago and loved it! King is amazing.
http://www.vulture.com/2012/04/ranking- ... ooks.html#
The notes are interesting and, thought I don't agree with all of them, they are pretty spot on.
Twenty pages into "The Wind Through the Keyhole". For me, King never disappoints. Even though not every book is a home run, I always end up enjoying reading them.
That one is a really good one, probably rank it my 2nd favorite of the series behind Wizard and Glass.
2000 - Noblesville
2010 - Noblesville
2011 - EV solo St Louis, PJ20 Alpine Valley
2012 - San Fran (Oracle)
2013 - Wrigley, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
2014 - Cincy, St Louis, Detroit
2016 - Lexington, Wrigley
2018 - Wrigley
2022 - Nashville, St Louis
2024 - Noblesville, Wrigley
As has been the case with all of the books (outside of The Drawing of the Three), it has taken me a bit to get into Calla. I enjoyed Wizard and Glass very much, but I felt the transition from The Waste Lands to W&G was tough just b/c of how it drastically changed pace. I loved it though. I've loved all the books so far.
U.S. publication date for Doctor Sleep set for 2013
Posted: May 8th, 2012 9:08:34 am EDT
Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) and the very special twelve-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.
On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless—mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and tween Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the “steam” that children with the “shining” produce when they are slowly tortured to death.
Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father’s legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant “shining” power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes “Doctor Sleep.”
Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan’s own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra’s soul and survival. This is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted readers of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.
9/29/04 Boston, 6/28/08 Mansfield, 8/23/09 Chicago, 5/15/10 Hartford
5/17/10 Boston, 10/15/13 Worcester, 10/16/13 Worcester, 10/25/13 Hartford
8/5/16 Fenway, 8/7/16 Fenway
EV Solo: 6/16/11 Boston, 6/18/11 Hartford,
Just got the email announcement about the next book coming June 2013, Joyland. It sounds good!
JOYLAND to be published in June 2013
Hard Case Crime, the award-winning line of pulp-styled crime novels published by Titan Books, today announced it will publish JOYLAND, a new novel by Stephen King, in June 2013. Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, JOYLAND tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
http://www.stephenking.com/promo/joyland/press_release/
2000 - Noblesville
2010 - Noblesville
2011 - EV solo St Louis, PJ20 Alpine Valley
2012 - San Fran (Oracle)
2013 - Wrigley, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
2014 - Cincy, St Louis, Detroit
2016 - Lexington, Wrigley
2018 - Wrigley
2022 - Nashville, St Louis
2024 - Noblesville, Wrigley
You should check out the graphic novels from Marvel. They're exploring in much greater details stories only hinted at in the books, and the quality has been excellent.
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