I have not! I haven't read a lot of modern King. Or old-school King. There is a lot of King, after all.
How's it sit? Pretty cunning, don'tchya think?
Jayne ,'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 30, 2012 5:58:11 am PDT #20026 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Strix - Oct 30, 2012 6:20:13 am PDT #20027 of 28370
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Get on that horse, fella! Go to a used bookstore and get some of the old stuff, cheap. Or try Skeleton Crew or Different Seasons if, like me, you need to read short stories before red, or else you're up the whole night or most of it, finishing the damned novel!
Polter-Cow - Oct 30, 2012 6:22:40 am PDT #20028 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I know I read one of the short story collections a long time ago, but I can't remember which. I think it was whichever one had "Sometimes They Come Back" and "The Lawnmower Man" (which, what the hell, was nothing at all like the movie). I will probably check out the Nightmares and Dreamscapes audiobook because it has a huge cast of readers, many of whom I recognize.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 30, 2012 8:11:56 am PDT #20029 of 28370
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Everything's Eventual is a pretty good SS collection.
Atropa - Oct 30, 2012 9:13:01 am PDT #20030 of 28370
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Go to a used bookstore and get some of the old stuff, cheap.
Yes. You need to read 'Salem's Lot, like, right now. And as I said a few months ago, IT held up surprisingly well from the last time I read it. (Except for that one plot point, but that was ludicrous the first time around, too.)
Polter-Cow - Oct 30, 2012 9:28:23 am PDT #20031 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oh, I've read both those books. I read 'Salem's Lot for my American Gothic class in college. I love It and have wanted to re-read it. I love The Stand and The Shining, and I've read Carrie and The Cycle of the Werewolf. And I really liked Dreamcatcher. And I love On Writing.
le nubian - Oct 30, 2012 9:34:19 am PDT #20032 of 28370
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
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I need to read Cloud Atlas too. We can form a book club!
I just finished Deadline - and the newsflesh trilogy. That was a pretty good read! I kind of want more. I wasn't wholly satisfied with the end, but oh well.
Polter-Cow - Oct 30, 2012 9:39:45 am PDT #20033 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I kind of want more.
Have you read Countdown (a prequel novella about the events leading to the Rising) and San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats (a novella about the Rising at Comic-Con)?
-t - Oct 30, 2012 9:48:29 am PDT #20034 of 28370
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I need to read Cloud Atlas too. We can form a book club!
OK! I have the sample on my iPad, but so far every time I've thought I'd start reading it, I've been too tired to think straight and just went to sleep...
We don't even have to discuss it, just motivate me to actually read it and then skip straight to the margaritas (my understanding of how book clubs work comes primarily from television).
The other book I was thinking about starting reading was Feed (Mira Grant) since it seems appropriate for Halloween, but hit the same falling asleep instead of reading obstacle.
Polter-Cow - Oct 30, 2012 9:49:58 am PDT #20035 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It's not only appropriate for Halloween, but also it's really fun to follow Mark Reads Newsflesh. He just read a certain chapter in Feed, and Seanan is laughing at his pain.