Currently reading "The Manuscript Found in Saragossa" by Jan Potacki and I've already got "Viriconium" by M. John Harrison lined up for when I finish this.
"Long Way Round" by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman I have seen part of "Long Way Down" and I just love, LOVE Ewan McGregor...I wouldn't mind riding a motorcycle with him
i'm almost re-reading 'needful things' by stephen king. on deck is 'the stand'. that'll be the third time reading that one.
Another Stephen King fan?! Nice. I know some people didn't like 'needful things' but I liked it...of course I really liked 'insomnia' and I have friends that are King fans that thought it was boring. To each their own. I always enjoy re-reading them. Although I still have to finish 'the dome' :oops:
i'm almost re-reading 'needful things' by stephen king. on deck is 'the stand'. that'll be the third time reading that one.
Another Stephen King fan?! Nice. I know some people didn't like 'needful things' but I liked it...of course I really liked 'insomnia' and I have friends that are King fans that thought it was boring. To each their own. I always enjoy re-reading them. Although I still have to finish 'the dome' :oops:
yeah, i'm a fan. since christmas, i've read:
just after sunset
the shining
desperation (re-read)
the regulators (re-read)
misery (re-read)
i've got 'under the dome' but i'm not going to read it. waiting for the paperback to come out. i don't like reading my hardcovers, i'd much rather keep them on the shelf. plus, it's kind of a bitch carrying around king novels that aren't paperbacks. makes me feel like i'm in high school again, lugging around text books.
i used to have just about everything of his in paperback, but over the years i've lost just about all of them (plus a lot of first print hardcovers). since 'from a buick 8' came out in paperback, i've been buying a lot of his stuff in paperback again. got quite a collection going. i went to a book fair last winter and was astounded to see all the king paperbacks they had. i bought all but 3 and paid 25 cents per book. oh shit, that reminds me. i was bidding on an auction on ebay that ended while i was at work...i gotta check to see if i won. yep, won it. he's got 29 paperbacks and i get to pick the 10 that i want. here's what he's got listed:
SALEM'S LOT 1976
THE SHINING 1978
NIGHT SHIFT 1979
THE DEAD ZONE 1980
FIRE-STARTER 1981
CUJO 1982
DANSE MACABRE 1983 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
CHRISTINE 1983 #1 NATIONWIDE BESTSELLER
THINNER 1984
PET SEMATARY 1984 #1 NATIONWIDE BESTSELLER
CYCLE OF THE WEREWOLF 1985
THE BACHMAN BOOKS 1986
IT 1987 #1 BESTSELLER
THE EYES OF THE DRAGON 1988 #1 BESTSELLER
MISERY 1988 #1 BESTSELLER
THE DARK HALF 1990 #1 BESTSELLER
FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT 1991 #1 BESTSELLER
NEEDFUL THINGS 1992 #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
DOLORES CLAIBORNE 1993 #1 BESTSELLER
GERALD'S GAME 1993 #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
INSOMNIA 1995 #1 BESTSELLER
ROSE MADDER 1996 #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
STORM OF THE CENTURY 1999 AN ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
DREAMCATCHER 2001 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
THE TALISMAN 2001 #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
FROM A BUICK 8 2003 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
EVERYTHING'S EVENTUAL (14 DARK TALES) 2003 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
THE COLORADO KID 2005
LISEY'S STORY 2007
gotta figure out which ones i want.
oh, you said you loved insomnia......i read that one.....years ago. wasn't really a fan of it, but i think i'll give it another shot. not exactly a typical king novel, from what i can remember. personally, the one king novel i didn't really care for was 'cell'. i loved how it started, he got right to it immediately, but it fizzled fast for me.
Just after Sunset was good and I remember loving The Regulators but haven't read it in a while. Sadly most of my King books are packed away back East :(
Yeah I liked Insomnia and have probably read it three times. Oh you should get Cycle of the Werewolf. I also liked Gerald's Game (although scary because it felt like that could really happen) and I liked how it connected with Dolores Claiborne. Dreamcatcher was a DUD...the first three hundred pages were brilliant...and then veered off into "wtf?" for me.
I have read and re-read 'it' and 'different seasons' I don't know how many times.
Just after Sunset was good and I remember loving The Regulators but haven't read it in a while. Sadly most of my King books are packed away back East :(
Yeah I liked Insomnia and have probably read it three times. Oh you should get Cycle of the Werewolf. I also liked Gerald's Game (although scary because it felt like that could really happen) and I liked how it connected with Dolores Claiborne. Dreamcatcher was a DUD...the first three hundred pages were brilliant...and then veered off into "wtf?" for me.
I have read and re-read 'it' and 'different seasons' I don't know how many times.
yeah, looking over that list i can say for sure i'm going to be getting 'cycle of the werewolf' and 'the colorado kid'.
i've read 'gerald's game' twice. that's one of my favorite king novels. and i'm with you on how he blended it with 'dolores claiborne' (another great read). haven't read dreamcatcher yet, but i did see the movie. it was "meh".
i've also read 'it' twice (the first time i read it, i was about 17 and it took me a year to get through it. second time was about a year ago and i defeated it in less than a month...that book is a beast.) i also read different seasons, but only once.
i'm almost done re-reading 'needful things' by stephen king. on deck is 'the stand'. that'll be the third time reading that one.
I haven't felt like reading lately and I have thought of re-reading a King book to get me back in the swing. I have about 5/6 books in various stages of being finished and I never really feel like picking one up. I went through a similiar mood a couple of summers ago and I read "Salem's Lot" and it got me out of it.
i'm almost re-reading 'needful things' by stephen king. on deck is 'the stand'. that'll be the third time reading that one.
Another Stephen King fan?! Nice. I know some people didn't like 'needful things' but I liked it...of course I really liked 'insomnia' and I have friends that are King fans that thought it was boring. To each their own. I always enjoy re-reading them. Although I still have to finish 'the dome' :oops:
King fan here too! There's quite a few on this thread. I enjoyed "Dome" a lot, and "Needful Things" and "Insomnia". "Insomnia" was really fun reading it when it first came out because it was the first time I remember noticing all the Dark Tower connections. I was looking at a Dark Tower site last night and it made me want to re-read those books because there was a lot I forgot.
It was just announced he has a 4 story book (a la "Four Past Midnight") coming out in November called "Full Dark, No Stars".
oh, you said you loved insomnia......i read that one.....years ago. wasn't really a fan of it, but i think i'll give it another shot. not exactly a typical king novel, from what i can remember. personally, the one king novel i didn't really care for was 'cell'. i loved how it started, he got right to it immediately, but it fizzled fast for me.
You should re-read Insomnia. Some of his books are better the second time. I hated Dark Tower 4 the first time and loved it the second time.
I was at the library the other day and they had the Bachman Books for .25. I think I will go back and get it. You can't get it anymore because he didn't want "Rage" out there with all the school shootings.
oh, you said you loved insomnia......i read that one.....years ago. wasn't really a fan of it, but i think i'll give it another shot. not exactly a typical king novel, from what i can remember. personally, the one king novel i didn't really care for was 'cell'. i loved how it started, he got right to it immediately, but it fizzled fast for me.
You should re-read Insomnia. Some of his books are better the second time. I hated Dark Tower 4 the first time and loved it the second time.
I was at the library the other day and they had the Bachman Books for .25. I think I will go back and get it. You can't get it anymore because he didn't want "Rage" out there with all the school shootings.
oh, you said you loved insomnia......i read that one.....years ago. wasn't really a fan of it, but i think i'll give it another shot. not exactly a typical king novel, from what i can remember. personally, the one king novel i didn't really care for was 'cell'. i loved how it started, he got right to it immediately, but it fizzled fast for me.
You should re-read Insomnia. Some of his books are better the second time. I hated Dark Tower 4 the first time and loved it the second time.
I was at the library the other day and they had the Bachman Books for .25. I think I will go back and get it. You can't get it anymore because he didn't want "Rage" out there with all the school shootings.
DT4 is my favorite of the series.
Have you read "Rage"?
I have read "Rage". I read it a couple of times, I think. I lost my Bachman Books at some point.
yeah, looking over that list i can say for sure i'm going to be getting 'cycle of the werewolf' and 'the colorado kid'.
i've read 'gerald's game' twice. that's one of my favorite king novels. and i'm with you on how he blended it with 'dolores claiborne' (another great read). haven't read dreamcatcher yet, but i did see the movie. it was "meh".
i've also read 'it' twice (the first time i read it, i was about 17 and it took me a year to get through it. second time was about a year ago and i defeated it in less than a month...that book is a beast.) i also read different seasons, but only once.[/quote]
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.
wow, look at all the king fans here. that's awesome.
yeah, i'll definitely re-read 'insomnia'. maybe i couldn't get into it because i never read any of the dark tower books, so i wasn't able to make any connections.
i've gone over those books that are in that auction that i won, and i've decided i'm going to pick the following:
the colorado kid
cycle of the werewolf
firestarter
insomnia
rose madder
lisey's story
the talisman
storm of the century
christine
pet sematary
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 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'm almost re-reading 'needful things' by stephen king. on deck is 'the stand'. that'll be the third time reading that one.
Another Stephen King fan?! Nice. I know some people didn't like 'needful things' but I liked it...of course I really liked 'insomnia' and I have friends that are King fans that thought it was boring. To each their own. I always enjoy re-reading them. Although I still have to finish 'the dome' :oops:
King fan here too! There's quite a few on this thread. I enjoyed "Dome" a lot, and "Needful Things" and "Insomnia". "Insomnia" was really fun reading it when it first came out because it was the first time I remember noticing all the Dark Tower connections. I was looking at a Dark Tower site last night and it made me want to re-read those books because there was a lot I forgot.
It was just announced he has a 4 story book (a la "Four Past Midnight") coming out in November called "Full Dark, No Stars".
I loved the first three Tower books but haven't finished the series :oops: I really do need to finish "The Dome"
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this was really good. disturbing at times, but really good. really well written.
just started yesterday
the street of a thousand blossoms ~ gail tsukiyama
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
Or you can come to terms and realize
You're the only one who can't forgive yourself
★ 2009 - Sydney, Brisbane, Auckland, Christchurch ★
★ 2011 - EV Newcastle, Melbourne 1, Melbourne 2 ★
"Long Way Round" by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman I have seen part of "Long Way Down" and I just love, LOVE Ewan McGregor...I wouldn't mind riding a motorcycle with him
Another Stephen King fan?! Nice. I know some people didn't like 'needful things' but I liked it...of course I really liked 'insomnia' and I have friends that are King fans that thought it was boring. To each their own. I always enjoy re-reading them. Although I still have to finish 'the dome' :oops:
yeah, i'm a fan. since christmas, i've read:
just after sunset
the shining
desperation (re-read)
the regulators (re-read)
misery (re-read)
i've got 'under the dome' but i'm not going to read it. waiting for the paperback to come out. i don't like reading my hardcovers, i'd much rather keep them on the shelf. plus, it's kind of a bitch carrying around king novels that aren't paperbacks. makes me feel like i'm in high school again, lugging around text books.
i used to have just about everything of his in paperback, but over the years i've lost just about all of them (plus a lot of first print hardcovers). since 'from a buick 8' came out in paperback, i've been buying a lot of his stuff in paperback again. got quite a collection going. i went to a book fair last winter and was astounded to see all the king paperbacks they had. i bought all but 3 and paid 25 cents per book. oh shit, that reminds me. i was bidding on an auction on ebay that ended while i was at work...i gotta check to see if i won.
SALEM'S LOT 1976
THE SHINING 1978
NIGHT SHIFT 1979
THE DEAD ZONE 1980
FIRE-STARTER 1981
CUJO 1982
DANSE MACABRE 1983 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
CHRISTINE 1983 #1 NATIONWIDE BESTSELLER
THINNER 1984
PET SEMATARY 1984 #1 NATIONWIDE BESTSELLER
CYCLE OF THE WEREWOLF 1985
THE BACHMAN BOOKS 1986
IT 1987 #1 BESTSELLER
THE EYES OF THE DRAGON 1988 #1 BESTSELLER
MISERY 1988 #1 BESTSELLER
THE DARK HALF 1990 #1 BESTSELLER
FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT 1991 #1 BESTSELLER
NEEDFUL THINGS 1992 #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
DOLORES CLAIBORNE 1993 #1 BESTSELLER
GERALD'S GAME 1993 #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
INSOMNIA 1995 #1 BESTSELLER
ROSE MADDER 1996 #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
STORM OF THE CENTURY 1999 AN ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
DREAMCATCHER 2001 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
THE TALISMAN 2001 #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
FROM A BUICK 8 2003 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
EVERYTHING'S EVENTUAL (14 DARK TALES) 2003 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
THE COLORADO KID 2005
LISEY'S STORY 2007
gotta figure out which ones i want.
oh, you said you loved insomnia......i read that one.....years ago. wasn't really a fan of it, but i think i'll give it another shot. not exactly a typical king novel, from what i can remember. personally, the one king novel i didn't really care for was 'cell'. i loved how it started, he got right to it immediately, but it fizzled fast for me.
Yeah I liked Insomnia and have probably read it three times. Oh you should get Cycle of the Werewolf. I also liked Gerald's Game (although scary because it felt like that could really happen) and I liked how it connected with Dolores Claiborne. Dreamcatcher was a DUD...the first three hundred pages were brilliant...and then veered off into "wtf?" for me.
I have read and re-read 'it' and 'different seasons' I don't know how many times.
yeah, looking over that list i can say for sure i'm going to be getting 'cycle of the werewolf' and 'the colorado kid'.
i've read 'gerald's game' twice. that's one of my favorite king novels. and i'm with you on how he blended it with 'dolores claiborne' (another great read). haven't read dreamcatcher yet, but i did see the movie. it was "meh".
i've also read 'it' twice (the first time i read it, i was about 17 and it took me a year to get through it. second time was about a year ago and i defeated it in less than a month...that book is a beast.) i also read different seasons, but only once.
I'm almost done with Y: The Last Man Standing
Charlotte 03
Asheville 04
Atlanta 12
Greenville 16, Columbia 16
Seattle 18
Nashville 22
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MTL-9/15/05, OTT-9/16/05
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HTFD-6/27/08
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Bridge School-10/23/2010,10/24/2010
PJ20-9/3/2011,9/4/2011
OKC-11/16/13
SEA-12/6/13
TUL-10/8/14
Hahaha...Ummmm Yeah! that's ***ANOTHER*** Way of Putting it... :P
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I haven't felt like reading lately and I have thought of re-reading a King book to get me back in the swing. I have about 5/6 books in various stages of being finished and I never really feel like picking one up. I went through a similiar mood a couple of summers ago and I read "Salem's Lot" and it got me out of it.
King fan here too! There's quite a few on this thread. I enjoyed "Dome" a lot, and "Needful Things" and "Insomnia". "Insomnia" was really fun reading it when it first came out because it was the first time I remember noticing all the Dark Tower connections. I was looking at a Dark Tower site last night and it made me want to re-read those books because there was a lot I forgot.
It was just announced he has a 4 story book (a la "Four Past Midnight") coming out in November called "Full Dark, No Stars".
You should re-read Insomnia. Some of his books are better the second time. I hated Dark Tower 4 the first time and loved it the second time.
I was at the library the other day and they had the Bachman Books for .25. I think I will go back and get it. You can't get it anymore because he didn't want "Rage" out there with all the school shootings.
DT4 is my favorite of the series.
Have you read "Rage"?
BOS-9/28/04,9/29/04,6/28/08,6/30/08, 9/5/16, 9/7/16, 9/2/18
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
PJ20-9/3/2011,9/4/2011
OKC-11/16/13
SEA-12/6/13
TUL-10/8/14
I have read "Rage". I read it a couple of times, I think. I lost my Bachman Books at some point.
Ties in nicely with the conversation above, I see... Please, carry on
I was just thinking last night that that's one of the ones I have not yet read.
But I just finished It which I'd never read before. Loved it, except the end got a little funky.
yeah, looking over that list i can say for sure i'm going to be getting 'cycle of the werewolf' and 'the colorado kid'.
i've read 'gerald's game' twice. that's one of my favorite king novels. and i'm with you on how he blended it with 'dolores claiborne' (another great read). haven't read dreamcatcher yet, but i did see the movie. it was "meh".
i've also read 'it' twice (the first time i read it, i was about 17 and it took me a year to get through it. second time was about a year ago and i defeated it in less than a month...that book is a beast.) i also read different seasons, but only once.[/quote]
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.
yeah, i'll definitely re-read 'insomnia'. maybe i couldn't get into it because i never read any of the dark tower books, so i wasn't able to make any connections.
i've gone over those books that are in that auction that i won, and i've decided i'm going to pick the following:
the colorado kid
cycle of the werewolf
firestarter
insomnia
rose madder
lisey's story
the talisman
storm of the century
christine
pet sematary
Gerald's Game and Dolores Claiborne are linked. I don't think Rose Madder has any link to anything other than the Dark Tower.
BOS-9/28/04,9/29/04,6/28/08,6/30/08, 9/5/16, 9/7/16, 9/2/18
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
PJ20-9/3/2011,9/4/2011
OKC-11/16/13
SEA-12/6/13
TUL-10/8/14
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.
BOS-9/28/04,9/29/04,6/28/08,6/30/08, 9/5/16, 9/7/16, 9/2/18
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
PJ20-9/3/2011,9/4/2011
OKC-11/16/13
SEA-12/6/13
TUL-10/8/14
I loved the first three Tower books but haven't finished the series :oops: I really do need to finish "The Dome"
Great to see so many King fans on here!