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.
I kissed him, and I told him that I loved him. And I killed him.
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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 9:49:58 am PDT #20035 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
le nubian - Oct 30, 2012 9:51:03 am PDT #20036 of 28370
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
P-C,
I have not. I need to read. But I want the epilogue, not necessarily the prequels, if that makes sense.
Polter-Cow - Oct 30, 2012 9:52:26 am PDT #20037 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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.
le nubian - Oct 30, 2012 9:53:50 am PDT #20038 of 28370
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
hmm. okay. I don't find that particularly satisfying, but I'll take it.
Amy - Oct 30, 2012 2:46:43 pm PDT #20039 of 28370
Because books.
javachik - Oct 30, 2012 3:41:09 pm PDT #20040 of 28370
Our wings are not tired.
P-C, I really loved Firestarter.
Polter-Cow - Oct 30, 2012 3:51:13 pm PDT #20041 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I picked up Cujo at a garage sale a while ago. It came out the week I was born!
Amy - Oct 30, 2012 5:28:24 pm PDT #20042 of 28370
Because books.
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.
Steph L. - Oct 30, 2012 5:36:51 pm PDT #20043 of 28370
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
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.
Amy - Oct 30, 2012 5:40:50 pm PDT #20044 of 28370
Because books.
Pet Sematary is almost unbearable after you have kids.
One not-King book I want to reread is Peter Straub's Floating Dragon. I remember it scaring the shit out of me, but I only vaguely remember the plot. Like, mostly that there was one.