Stephen King

The novel’s central character, Holly Gibney, a middle-aged private investigator, has featured in other recent crime fiction by King. As well as forming part of crime-solving teams in the Mr. Mercedes trilogy (2014-2016) and The Outsider (2018), she appears in the first novella of the collection If It Bleeds (2020) – a story which, according to King in an Author’s Note appended to Holly, presents in miniature the plot of this substantial new volume.

[[No spoilers if possible as I'm reading it currently. I'm up to Jake's time in Derry now.]]

It seems to me that Al basically said "Jake, here's a weird time hole. Do you want to save JFK because insert random musings and Jake just went "Fuck it, why not?"

Like, is it ever adequately explained? Taking a risk that things would be better if they prevented the assassination attempt seems like lunacy.

I'm not saying I dislike it but I'm finding it hard to get through and it's incredibly short. I enjoyed the first chapter in Tull and I enjoyed the desert scenes but since then I've been finding it hard to focus on. I like the characters too but it just feels a bit... Boring in places?

Is the entire series like this?

Edit: I've now finished it and I'm reading 11.23.66 but not sure if I should read The Drawing Of The Three after.

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During the lockdowns, I couldn't go to the bookstores to get my books so I just ordered them online. Quite a few of my books from that period are knockoffs since sellers in my country have a tendency to photocopy books. This was my first replacement. Can't wait to slowly replace all the knockoff books on my shelf.

Long time King reader and trying to check all his works off the list eventually, but I have been veering away lately for some lighter reads. I always seem to get called back, though.

Picked up Rose Madder and I had no idea what it was about. I'm about halfway through, and while it's SO different than what I expected, I am equally horrified and have such a sense of dread.

There is no other author I've read that elicits such a visceral reaction from me and leaves me feeling so uncomfy in a good way.

I recently read 1408 and it was my favorite story in a long time. Rose Madder definitely gives me similar vibes.

I have both The Institute and Fairy Tale on my list next, but do you guys any recommendations on which one I should pick up first?

In the UK at least I know of Rage which is self-explanatory and The Eyes Of the Dragon which is a bit strange since it's available in other regions.

Any others?

Wanted to share my Stephen King collection. I do have multiple copies. That's because I like collecting the different editions and covers. Would love to see others King Shelfies!

Fucking hell man. The book started off kind of slow but once it got going, it was just an incredible ride.

I'm still thinking about the end and probably will be for a while even though I really want to move on to the next book on my list!

I just finished reading Cell. Going into it, I'd seen lots of mixed opinions but I'd gone in with pretty high expectations, as I usually tend to enjoy King books that most people didn't really like all that much (e. g. Needful Things). And, to be honest, most of the book didn't disappoint me.

The beginning was absolutely amazing. It probably had best opening of any King book I've read so far and the fast pace was a very welcome change to King's style (I love SK, but oh boy can that man ramble on). The main trio was likeable enough and the whole concept of a zombie apocalypse brought on by cell phones was interesting.

As the novel progressed, it more or less kept up its appeal to me. But the ending. Oh boy. I haven't gotten to the spoiler section yet so for now I'm just gonna say it's a huge cliffhanger. I've never, ever been more pissed off at an ending before. I immediately rushed online to see if there was a sequel but nope, there isn't. We never find out what happened. I guess I'd recommend it to someone who likes King's recent work but make sure to steel yourself for the disappointing ending.

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Overall, I'd rate it a 6/10. It could've been an eight but the ending really messed it up.

Really hard to pick five but these are some of my absolute favorites.

• The Boogyman
• The Jaunt
• I Am the Doorway
• Rainy Season
• Survivor Type

Hi,

I'm new to Lemmy so idk if there's spoiler marks or not so beware spoilers for dark Tower series books 1-6:

I wanted to share with you all that I've been reading the series and enjoying it IMMENSELY. like holy shit they're so good. I absolutely love fantasy and Roland's world and quest has totally enthralled me. The Gunslinger was probably the hardest for me mostly because I felt it was slow and I had no clue wtf was happening lol. I'd say so far my favorite has been Wolves of the Calla (which I read in a week, hot damn) closely followed by The Waste Lands, then The Drawing of the Three, Song of Susannah, Wizard and Glass, and Gunslinger last. I've loved them all though.

Anyways I work night shift and I will often read when things are slow, and so I finished Song of Susannah this morning. I didn't realize until my husband commented on the date that TODAY is June 19th!!! How fucking weird lol!! I finally find out some of the significance of 19 and 1999 because that's the date of Kings accident, and of course June 19th 1977 is when Roland and Eddie go see Stephen King in the book! I feel like ka is messing with me that I happened to finish the book, and specifically this book, which ENDS with Kings accident excerpt of that date. Wow lol. Anyways just wanted to share and if you comment please please be kind and don't spoil anything from the final book, The Dark Tower, for me!!

Long days and pleasant nights!

I'm currently traveling and picked up a few books earlier on in my journey, including the Green Mile, by Mr King himself. I started it first after seeing a lot of people talking about how much they loved it (including the YouTuber who introduced me to Stephen King). I expected it to be a good book but oh boy, did it exceed every single expectation I could've possibly had.

I've always loved reading but I always imagined people exaggerated when they claimed that a book literally pulled them in to the point that they felt like they were actually inside the story. This book proved me wrong.

Paul Edgecomb was an amazing narrator. His telling of the events with the parallel timeline and all really drew me in and I couldn't put the book down for hours at a time. I would be reading in the hotel corridor, completely spellbound by the story, when the segment I had been reading that day (I only read one part of the book every day) would end and hit me like a bucket of water.

Every time I would put the dots together and realise something about the mystery, I would actually be shocked enough to have to close the book for a second and think about it for a while before I could continue reading. King is known for messing up his endings but this one was perfectly satisfactory to me.

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It's probably my favourite book now. It was a 10/10 experience and I'd recommend it to pretty much anyone.

I’m about halfway through Lisey’s Story, but it’s taken two tries to get here. The first time all of the kind of dopey vernacular he used really was too much for me. I had put it down for a few months when I read in an article that he considers it one of his most personal novels. That makes sense of course because it’s largely about a writer.

So, I gave it another shot and after another few days of reading found my thoughts filled with those goofy little phrases! Like an ear worm song stuck in your head! Has anyone else been infected by these silly, borderline annoying little phrases? Make it stop!

Here's Johnny~