I'm over a disc into it, and it's not really grabbing me. I'm considering giving it up and just going on the John Green binge instead. Is there anything supernatural about this book at all? I haven't really read any of King's non-supernatural stuff besides some short stories maybe.
Police procedure has changed since I was little.
Wash ,'The Message'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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."
Polter-Cow - Oct 03, 2012 7:53:27 pm PDT #19876 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Strix - Oct 04, 2012 7:02:40 am PDT #19877 of 28344
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Oh, yes, it's quite supernatural and actually pretty creepy toward the end. I quite liked it. It and "Bag of Bones" (DO NOT watch the miniseries!) are my faves of his latest stuff.
Amy - Oct 04, 2012 7:04:49 am PDT #19878 of 28344
Because books.
Like I said, he could have edited large chunks of it, so the pace is a little slow. But once you get to the Key and meet the other players, it's fantastic. I thought, anyway.
Polter-Cow - Oct 04, 2012 10:29:38 am PDT #19879 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Okay, I'll give it a chance. He's finally at the Key, so maybe things will actually start happening.
Strix - Oct 04, 2012 11:03:02 am PDT #19880 of 28344
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Oh, yeah, stuff will start happening tout de suite.
Polter-Cow - Oct 04, 2012 3:51:01 pm PDT #19881 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The house just talked to him, and I was like, wait, do you mean metaphorically or literally ? I hope it's the latter!
Amy - Oct 04, 2012 4:20:33 pm PDT #19882 of 28344
Because books.
Literally. You have read Stephen King before, right?
Polter-Cow - Oct 04, 2012 7:35:53 pm PDT #19883 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yes! But, like I said, I wasn't sure whether this was a supernatural novel or not, so I thought it was supposed to be literal, except the way it was written (he didn't seem, like, surprised or shocked or anything), I wasn't sure.
Yessssss talking house, now we're getting somewhere.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 05, 2012 3:59:48 am PDT #19884 of 28344
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
How's Slattery as a reader?
Polter-Cow - Oct 05, 2012 4:58:03 am PDT #19885 of 28344
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Roger Stirling is reading me a storybook! He's good; I think he has the right voice for the character, although coming off The Fault in Our Stars, I find him a little less emotionally invested. I think first-person audiobooks probably work better than third-person because there's more acting involved, so now I expect a little more from them. (After a few minutes, I realized that he actually didn't sound like Stirling, so I was like, yay, acting.)