13 Month of Reading Stephen King: Road to the Dark Tower

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RandallFlagg19

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The content of Stephen King material I have read during a 13 month period consist of

47 novels published as Stephen King

StephenKing.com - Novels - A to Z

7 novels publish as Richard Bachman

StephenKing.com - Bachman Novels - A to Z

9 Story collections

StephenKing.com - Story Collections - A to Z

And the uncollected novella Blockade Billy

January 2014 – December 2014


January 5-6 The Gunslinger

6- 7 The Drawing of the Three


February 4 – 18 The Waste Lands

Feb 22 – April 11 Wizard and Glass


April 13 – 17 Wolves of the Calla

April 26- 30 Song of Susana


May 1- 7 The Dark Tower

May 12 – 30 The Stand uncut


June 3 – 7 Mr. Mercedes

June 16 – 30 The Shining


July 6 – 9 Mr. Mercedes (second read through)

July 10 – 14 Dr. Sleep

July 14 – 19 Under the Dome (part 1)

July 19 – 23 Under the Dome (part 2)

July 24- 25 The Wind Through the Keyhole

July 25- 28 Cujo

July 31 started IT

July Everything’s Eventual


August 4 – 8 finished IT

August 11-12 Carie

August 12 -13 The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

August 13- 14 Joyland


August 15 – 20 Rose Madder

August 20 – 25 Different Seasons

August 26- 28 The Plant: Zenith Rising

August 29- 30 Cycle of the Werewolf


September 1- 5 11/22/63

September 6 -8 The Regulators (Richard Bachman)

September 9 – 13 Desperation

September 15 – 16 Thinner (Richard Bachman)

September 17- 18 Blaze – page 107 (Richard Bachman)

September 20-22 Road work (Richard Bachman)

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Introduction

For Owen

The Monkey

September 23
Mrs. Todd Shortcut (skeleton crew)

The Jaunt (Skeleton Crew)

Here there be Tigers (Skeleton Crew)

The Reapers Image (Skeleton Crew)

Cain Rose Up (Skeleton Crew)

September 24
The Wedding Gig (Skeleton Crew)

Word Processor of the Gods (skeleton Crew)

The Man Who Would Not Shale Hands (Skeleton Crew)

September 25 The Mist (Skeleton Crew)

September 26 Rage (Bachman)

September 27- 28 The Long Walk (Richard Bachman)

September 29-30 The Running Man (Richard Bachman)


October 1
Beach World (Skeleton Crew)

Nona (Skeleton Crew)

October 2-8 Liseys Story

October 9
Survivor Type (Skeleton Crew)

Uncle Otto’s Truck (Skeleton Crew)

October 10 Morning Deliveries: Milk Man # 1 (Skeleton Crew)

Big Wheels / A Tale of the Laundry Game: Milk Man # 2 (Skeleton Crew)

October 11
Granma (Skeleton Crew)

October 12
The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet (Skeleton Crew)

The Reach (Skeleton Crew)

October 13-14 Eyes of the Dragon

October 15 – 16 Misery

October 17 The Colorado Kid

October 19
Children of the Corn (Night Shift)

The Lawnmower Man (Night Shift)

The Ledge (Night Shift)

Sometimes They Come Back (Night Shift)

I Am the Doorway (Night Shift)

October 20
Strawberry Spring (Night Shift)

Night Surf (Night Shift)

Battleground (Night Shift)

The Bogyman (Night Shift)

The Mangler (Night Shift)

The Woman in the Room (Night Shift)

October 21
One for the Road (Night Shift)

Graveyard Shift (Night Shift)

Gray Matter (Night Shift)

I Know What You Need (Night Shift)

The Last Rung on the Ladder (Night Shift)

Trucks (Night Shift)

Quitters. Inc (Night Shift)

October 22-25 Salem’s Lot

October 26- 29 Dolores Claiborne

October 30 – 31 Fire Starter


November 1-5 The TommyKnockers

November 6-11 Dreamcatcher

Novembers 11-13 Revival

November 14 – 19 Dumakey

November 20 – 25 Needfull Things

November 26 – 30 Insomnia

November 31 – December 1 Full Dark No Stars


December 2 – 5 From Buick 8

December 6 – 8 Dead Zone

December 10 Blockade Billy

December 11 – 13 The Green Mile

December 14 – 20 The Talisman

December 21-23, 26-28 Black House

December 29 – Jan 1 2015 Four Past Midnight


January 2015

January 2 – 6 Nightmares and Dreamscapes

January 7-9 The Dark Half

January 10- 13 Bag of Bones

January 14-17 Hearts in Atlantis

January 18 – 20 Just After Sunset

January 21-22 Cell

January 23-25 Christine

January 26 -27 Gerald’s Game

January 28- 29 Pet Sematary

January 30 – 31 The Gunslinger
 
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RandallFlagg19

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Why the hell would you do that ? Now what have you got left?

I don't know why the hell I did that; but there is still plenty of Stephen King I haven’t read yet, Stephen Kings nonfiction works, the screen play Storm of the Century, comic books, other various pieces of Stephen King writing, and I look forward to Finders Keeper and Bazaar of Bad Dreams

There is also plenty of materials from other authors I look forward to reading, Orson Scott Card, Dan Simmons, Peter Straub, Joe Hill
 
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RandallFlagg19

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Eh :dejection: No, not quite. I read 11/22/63 last year ...and ...sorta ...looked at the rest of the books on my shelf with great intension to read. Instead I savoured the journey of that book.
Oh, I see you said 1 a year. How did you read Dark Tower, have you been a Stephen King fan for a long time, and read the Dark Tower books as each book was released; the Dark Tower series is my favorite book series, I cant see how anybody would only want to read one a year, unless they had read them as they were released
 

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Oh, I see you said 1 a year. How did you read Dark Tower, have you been a Stephen King fan for a long time, and read the Dark Tower books as each book was released; the Dark Tower series is my favorite book series, I cant see how anybody would only want to read one a year, unless they had read them as they were released
...I have been a CR since Carrie, so I have followed along with each release as it was available...and I am a VERY impatient man-so you can imagine how I felt with the Dark Tower releases and the Green Mile serial novel....
 

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I don't know why the hell I did that; but there is still plenty of Stephen King I haven’t read yet, Stephen Kings nonfiction works, the screen play Storm of the Century, comic books, other various pieces of Stephen King writing, and I look forward to Finders Keeper and Bazaar of Bad Dreams

There is also plenty of materials from other authors I look forward to reading, Orson Scott Card, Dan Simmons, Peter Straub, Joe Hill
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Was Ms. Mod with him during those first releases of the DT Series? I can just imagine the flood of mail that came into to office demanding when the next book was ready.
I think she came on 1987-ish(?). So around when Drawing of the Three was released.
 
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In the forward of the Dark tower book I have, Stephen King mentions a few of the fan letters he has gotten on the subject of the Dark Tower.
 
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