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  • mydogmookieblaylock
    mydogmookieblaylock Posts: 2,996
    i thought instead of creating a new thread maybe i could get an answer here - its the book i would like to be reading ...... Layne Staley - Angry Chair. I have been looking for it and the only place i have seen it is Amazon for like $250.00. Is it a super limited print??


    Anyway the book i am reading is Zen and the Art of Motorcylce Maintenance.
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    oona left wrote:
    rrivers wrote:
    Started "The Tommyknockers" today.

    I was just thinking last night that that's one of the ones I have not yet read.

    This is the second time I'm reading it. I read it in high school about 15 years ago. I was on a train and a girl was reading it and she said it was one of her favorite books. I don't remember liking it that much but maybe it will be better the second time.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Flagg wrote:
    small town beck wrote:


    I am also trying to recall if Rose Madder had a small link with those two books as well? After having read Dreamcatcher I had NO desire to see the movie...started off well and then just fell off. Different Seasons is worth giving a second read or so to. I love those stories.

    Gerald's Game and Dolores Claiborne are linked. I don't think Rose Madder has any link to anything other than the Dark Tower.

    I think on his recent tour King mentioned that he thought there would be another "eclipse" book. He also had a poll on his website asking people to vote on his next book: another Dark Tower book or a sequel to The Shining called "Dr. Sleep". I think "Dr. Sleep" won.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • small town beck
    small town beck Posts: 6,691
    rrivers wrote:
    oona left wrote:
    rrivers wrote:
    Started "The Tommyknockers" today.

    I was just thinking last night that that's one of the ones I have not yet read.

    This is the second time I'm reading it. I read it in high school about 15 years ago. I was on a train and a girl was reading it and she said it was one of her favorite books. I don't remember liking it that much but maybe it will be better the second time.

    I didn't care for "The Tommyknockers". I read an interview with King once where he said he had almost no memory of writing the book but he spent most of the time with tissues stuffed up his nose...so in essence the book is all about wanting more coke.
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Flagg wrote:
    rrivers wrote:



    I have read "Rage". I read it a couple of times, I think. I lost my Bachman Books at some point.


    Cool. I still think my favorite Bachman book is Roadwork. But The Long Walk is awesome too. I know someone was trying to make that into a movie but not sure what happened to it.

    I think King has really rebounded with his last couple of books (Duma Key and The Dome). I was starting to lose faith after Dreamcatcher.

    I think Frank Darabont was going to adapt "The Long Walk".
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    small town beck wrote:
    Started "The Tommyknockers" today.

    I was just thinking last night that that's one of the ones I have not yet read.[/quote]

    This is the second time I'm reading it. I read it in high school about 15 years ago. I was on a train and a girl was reading it and she said it was one of her favorite books. I don't remember liking it that much but maybe it will be better the second time.[/quote]

    I didn't care for "The Tommyknockers". I read an interview with King once where he said he had almost no memory of writing the book but he spent most of the time with tissues stuffed up his nose...so in essence the book is all about wanting more coke.[/quote]

    Yeah I think he said that about "Cujo" in his "On Writing" book.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • small town beck
    small town beck Posts: 6,691
    Oh maybe it was "Cujo" :oops:
  • samjam
    samjam New York Posts: 9,283
    Reading "The Great Gatsby" for my English class and really actually liking it so far (aside from the shitload of work my teacher is giving us on it!)
    "Sometimes you find yourself having to put all your faith in no faith."
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  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    mydogmookieblaylock wrote:
    i thought instead of creating a new thread maybe i could get an answer here - its the book i would like to be reading ...... Layne Staley - Angry Chair. I have been looking for it and the only place i have seen it is Amazon for like $250.00. Is it a super limited print??


    Anyway the book i am reading is Zen and the Art of Motorcylce Maintenance.

    I think I own that book, PM me to remind me and I'll check when I am at home
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  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    reading Into Thin Air by John Krakauer now
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  • One Song Glory
    One Song Glory Posts: 710
    samjam wrote:
    Reading "The Great Gatsby" for my English class and really actually liking it so far (aside from the shitload of work my teacher is giving us on it!)

    One of my favourite high school reads.
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  • skippybrew
    skippybrew Posts: 283
    I'm reading the last of the Dark Tower (Stephen King) books right now... Not sure how I feel about the direction he took it. I'm about halfway through. We'll see.
  • Got a hard hard head
    Got a hard hard head Posts: 638
    Great to see such an honest list, instead of people lying and saying they're reading Russian philosophy!!! :lol:

    I'm reading "Under The Dome" by King at the moment and loving it. Right back to his best with this book. Been disappointed with the last two I read - 'Cell' was really patchy and had a ridiculous, rushed ending. 'Lisey's Story" is the only King book I gave up on. Man, that was fucking awful reading.
    It's gonna be a glorious day...
  • skippybrew
    skippybrew Posts: 283
    I read "Under the Dome" just a few weeks ago. I agree, it's sort of a return to form for him. Remarkably quick read for being (roughly) 100,000,000 pages... :lol:
  • skippybrew
    skippybrew Posts: 283
    small town beck wrote:
    Oh maybe it was "Cujo" :oops:

    Yeah, he said something to the effect: "It's too bad I don't remember it. There are some things in it I would have really enjoyed writing."
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    skippybrew wrote:
    I'm reading the last of the Dark Tower (Stephen King) books right now... Not sure how I feel about the direction he took it. I'm about halfway through. We'll see.

    Yeah I know what you mean.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    skippybrew wrote:
    I read "Under the Dome" just a few weeks ago. I agree, it's sort of a return to form for him. Remarkably quick read for being (roughly) 100,000,000 pages... :lol:

    Yeah it didn't take me that long either.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • One Song Glory
    One Song Glory Posts: 710
    Got a hard hard head wrote:
    Great to see such an honest list, instead of people lying and saying they're reading Russian philosophy!!! :lol:

    But I AM reading Russian philosophy! Honest! :mrgreen:
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  • craigb
    craigb Posts: 806
    Coming Up For Air - George Orwell
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