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  • BetterThanYou
    BetterThanYou Posts: 853
    rrivers wrote:
    King rules!

    Not reading, but I saw The Mist a couple of weeks ago and really enjoyed it. Darabont should be the only director allowed to adapt King.

    i've been a huge king fan since.....8th grade?? somewhere around there, which would make it.......23 years ago. i just finished up 'bag of bones' last night and went out and got 'dolores claiborne' today. i've seen the movie but haven't read the book yet. i took a break from reading a while back, and have recently got back into it.
    "Have you ever.........pooped a balloon?"
    ~D.K.S.
  • small town beck
    small town beck Posts: 6,691
    BetterThanYou wrote:
    i've been a huge king fan since.....8th grade?? somewhere around there, which would make it.......23 years ago. i just finished up 'bag of bones' last night and went out and got 'dolores claiborne' today. i've seen the movie but haven't read the book yet. i took a break from reading a while back, and have recently got back into it.


    I really liked "Dolores Claiborne" and I found the movie pretty true to it. Have you read "Gerald's Game"? I love King. Brilliant.
  • BetterThanYou
    BetterThanYou Posts: 853
    small town beck wrote:
    I really liked "Dolores Claiborne" and I found the movie pretty true to it. Have you read "Gerald's Game"? I love King. Brilliant.

    yeah, just got done re-reading it a couple weeks ago. 'gerald's game', 'the tommyknockers', 'it', and 'the long walk' were all re-reads for me. all the others i listed were new to me.

    i think my favorite king novel was 'the stand'. probably because it was the first king novel i read.
    "Have you ever.........pooped a balloon?"
    ~D.K.S.
  • small town beck
    small town beck Posts: 6,691
    BetterThanYou wrote:
    yeah, just got done re-reading it a couple weeks ago. 'gerald's game', 'the tommyknockers', 'it', and 'the long walk' were all re-reads for me. all the others i listed were new to me.

    i think my favorite king novel was 'the stand'. probably because it was the first king novel i read.


    I think 'It' is in my top five of his books. "The Stand" is great, have you read both versions? I have both copies and I think I read them both but years ago and all my books are back home *sniff* I miss them :p

    I re read "The Green Mile" a month or so again.. I love IT. I re-read most of his books.. excecp "The Tommyknockers" but it has been a bit since I read it.
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    BetterThanYou wrote:
    i've been a huge king fan since.....8th grade?? somewhere around there, which would make it.......23 years ago. i just finished up 'bag of bones' last night and went out and got 'dolores claiborne' today. i've seen the movie but haven't read the book yet. i took a break from reading a while back, and have recently got back into it.

    Yeah I've been a King fan since 8th grade too. 15 years ago for me. Cujo was the first book of his that I read.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    I just started reading A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle.
    These cuts are leaving creases. Trace the scars to fit the pieces, to tell the story, you don't need to say a word.
  • smithnic
    smithnic Posts: 1,565
    Reading "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
    Really good and tragic story that the author committed suicide. But it won the Pulitzer
    Go Get 'Em Tigers!
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    smithnic wrote:
    Reading "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
    Really good and tragic story that the author committed suicide. But it won the Pulitzer

    I read that last year and enjoyed it. Yeah the author commited suicide and his mom found the novel and had it published after his death. He went to Tulane where I went!
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • elmer
    elmer Posts: 1,683
    Just about to start The Church of Dead Girls by Stephen Dobyns, then I'll be onto The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart.
  • Flagg
    Flagg Posts: 5,856
    Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer. Seems appropriate given the events in West Texas lately.
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  • Dissidentman
    Dissidentman Posts: 15,378
    We Need to Talk About Kevin, by Lionel shriver.
  • BetterThanYou
    BetterThanYou Posts: 853
    small town beck wrote:
    I think 'It' is in my top five of his books. "The Stand" is great, have you read both versions? I have both copies and I think I read them both but years ago and all my books are back home *sniff* I miss them :p

    I re read "The Green Mile" a month or so again.. I love IT. I re-read most of his books.. excecp "The Tommyknockers" but it has been a bit since I read it.

    yeah, i read the cut version of 'the stand' first, then a few years after they released the uncut version. i went out and bought it the first day it was out. friggin' thing was huge and i thought it'd take forever to get through it, but i really had a hard time putting it down once i opened it.
    "Have you ever.........pooped a balloon?"
    ~D.K.S.
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    BetterThanYou wrote:
    yeah, i read the cut version of 'the stand' first, then a few years after they released the uncut version. i went out and bought it the first day it was out. friggin' thing was huge and i thought it'd take forever to get through it, but i really had a hard time putting it down once i opened it.

    Yeah when I got into King, the uncut version came out. I have only read that version, but I remember my dad had the uncut version. It is one of the best books I ever read. I remember reading it when I was in high school and sitting outside on my grandparent's porch and reading 200 or so pages per day, which really didn't put much of a dent in it.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • MeI'mNot
    MeI'mNot Posts: 9
    Madame Bovary by Flaubert

    Really a great one
    Emotionally Colorblind
  • mindi
    mindi Posts: 1,862
    LOVE Confederacy Of Dunces. I read it about 20 years ago. I remember Neil Peart said he was reading it so I picked it up.

    I am reading right now
    2 Sims 2 Prima Guides Seasons and Freetime
    Idiots Guide to Glycemic Index Weight Loss-My blood sugar has been crazy lately. I get dizzy and those cold sweats,and almost pass out if I eat to many carbs, so I wanted to read up on a glycemic diet.

    and
    Sex Starved Marriage
    To 10c; "Your PJ tshirt should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady." - bionicamy
  • PearlJamaholic
    PearlJamaholic Posts: 2,019
    just finished a farewell to arms and was gonna read for whom the bell tolls. but after that ending im gonna hold off. so now im reading another collection of lovercraft stories.
    http://db.etree.org/PearlJamaholic
  • brain of c
    brain of c Posts: 5,213
    just finished duma key
    d'oh!!!!!!

    http://www.myspace.com/brain_of_c
  • hodge
    hodge Posts: 519
    The Things They Carried
    ..and you will come to find that we are all one mind, capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable
  • Flagg
    Flagg Posts: 5,856
    brain of c wrote:
    just finished duma key


    What did you think? I thought that was King's best book since Bag of Bones.
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    MTL-9/15/05, OTT-9/16/05
    PHL-5/27/06,5/28/06,10/30/09,10/31/09
    CHI-8/2/07,8/5/07,8/23/09,8/24/09
    HTFD-6/27/08
    ATX-10/4/09, 10/12/14
    KC-5/3/2010,STL-5/4/2010
    Bridge School-10/23/2010,10/24/2010
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    OKC-11/16/13
    SEA-12/6/13
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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    brain of c wrote:
    just finished duma key

    What did you think?
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."

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