Buffy ,'Empty Places'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I read The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie because it's nominated for an Agatha award, in the best first novel category. Interesting how behavior that annoys me in many adult protagonists works for a precocious 11 year old.
That was a recommendation from the Book on the Nightstand podcast I listen to and I couldn't figure out if I would hate the protagonist or not.
It's really a fun read, told from an 11-year-old perspective, so it's easier to "forgive" her transgressions than from an adult.
Under the Dome picks up significantly. I finished it a few weeks ago, but did also read over a dozen books between starting and finishing :) It was better than tommyknockers, but i wouldn't consider it literary treason to give up and not finish it.
Yeah I finally finished it, and it seemed as though he suddenly remembered that he had a story line that he needed to actually get to but it was a loooong time coming and sorta ass-pully at the end (moreso than usual). I felt that it just didn't need to be 1,000 pages long, it would have been a good tight story at about 500 or so and not really lost anything.
I read Tommyknocker in 24 hours, and I thought I was going to die! I think it was the book that broke me of reading books only in one sittings (although I still prefer it).
Sophia -- one summer in college, I went on a total King reading binge, and I remember Tommyknockers freaking me out more than almost any of his other books. (Pet Semetary still wins on that front. While I read it, I literally turned around to check behind my chair. For what, I don't know. A reanimated cat, I guess. Or Gage.)
That's Donna? Wow.
I love Clockwork Couture. Aside from the fun stuff they have (most of which my DH has bought me, I think), they are so very nice. Donna is good people.
Pet Semetary still wins on that front.
Oh man, that one is nightmarish.
I never read The Tommyknockers somehow. And I loved It so much, could not put it down, but then the ending annoyed the shit out of me. And after 1,000+ pages, I was pissed.
I haven't read any of his newest stuff lately -- the last King I read was Lisey's Story. Which I did like, but it took me a bit to get into it.
Pet Semetary still wins on that front.
Yeah, that's one King book I'm not re-reading, 'cos I like sleeping.
Speaking of not sleeping, I want to re-read Salem's Lot again.
And I loved It so much, could not put it down, but then the ending annoyed the shit out of me. And after 1,000+ pages, I was pissed.
Yeah, this. It was SO good, and so goddamn creepy. And then ... the ending. Which just did not support what the story did before.