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.
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.
P-C,
I have not. I need to read. But I want the epilogue, not necessarily the prequels, if that makes sense.
Ah, well, that you're not going to get except in fanfic. Seanan has said that
the Masons' story is over. Although she might follow some of the other characters, I don't know.
hmm. okay. I don't find that particularly satisfying, but I'll take it.
P-C, I really loved
Firestarter.
I picked up
Cujo
at a garage sale a while ago. It came out the week I was born!
Pet Sematary, Misery,
and
Dolores Claiborne
were all great, and I also loved
The Regulators
and
Desperation.
They both came out in 1996, and
The Regulators
came out with Richard Bachman as the author. They're great to read one after the other, in whichever order, because he's basically playing with the same characters and settings and ideas, but tilting them one way or another. They're both good, and they *are* different, but they're also the same at the base. I loved seeing that, how you can take one story and tell it a completely different way.
Lisey's Story
was also really good, and really worth it in the end, but the buildup was also slow, like
Duma Key.
If you don't give up on it, though, the characterization and the story are fantastic.
One summer in college, I went on a King-reading binge. I can't remember what all I read at this point (pretty sure it included The Stand, except that it culminated with The Tommyknockers. I kind of burned myself out on Stephen King for a long time after that.
Pet Sematary I think I read in junior high, and it was the first book I remember reading that actually scared me. Scared the CRAP out of me, as I recall.
