I've never tried an audiobook; starting to think I should. Recommendations welcome on the best SK ones 
2015, The Year I re-read Stephen King
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I'm now about 150 pages into The Dark Half. Feels almost like reading for the first time. I have forgotten so much. And i don't connect in the same way as i did with Carrie. Thats probably why i reacted so strong to rereadin Carrie. It brought back a lot of memories of my own schooltime. And i once wrote a Novella about 100 pages long that centered around a bullied child. He died in the end after being pushed out a window. That child was basically me and the book was my therapy for getting rid of the problems that time caused. It worked. Reading Carrie again made a lot of things come to the surface again. In a good way though. I think i will dig out my story from a box somewhere and read it again. It must be 30 years since i wrote it so a lot of water has flowed under the bridges since then.
About 300 pages into the Dark Half. My computer stopped being friendly today. I work from home inside a kind of virtual office called Google drive and they wanted me to update to the new Goggle Drive, so i did, stupid me. Now i cant open the files anymore, An error occurred it says in a smirking way. I guess i should download an app or something but i have no clue which i was using on the old version. Sigh. Well, it does give me a good excuse to lay off work and sneak back to reading, doesn't it? They can't really complain about it, right? Right?!
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
Yup - sure - just keeping telling yourself that Kurben.
Sorry I cannot help you. I hope that some ad ware, spy ware or other scamming type thing has not invaded your work area. or (yikes!) a virus
I should get my butt in gear and do something productive, but what the hey - I am on a day off!
Last night I watched the new Carrie. I thought they did a nice job updating the story to include technology. My heart will always belong to the original Carrie, but overall, I thought they did a pretty good job.
I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would!
I really like Julianne Moore.
Finished with Carrie; on to Salem's Lot I just re-read it a few months ago, but it's one of my favorites.
I just re-read it a few months ago, but it's one of my favorites.I took a break in the dark Half to finish A Simmons book. Will finish The Dark Half hopefully this evening. Then on to Night shift. I feel in a short story mood.
Ok. Finished The Dark Half. Great finale but in comparison to some of his other books it is a bit pale. The parts with the author is good but i feel some of the parts where George Stark is playing lead could be improved on. Still a good book and easy to read but the characters are not as catching as in many other of his books. Therefore i like it a little less. I don't mean i have to like the character, i dont like Henry Bowers in IT but his character is catching. But i like the homage to Stevenson and de Maurier the book is. It is a kind of Jekyll/Hyde-story with his own little twist and the birds are straight out of Daphne de Mauriers story. Now I'm done with novels for awhile. I go on to Night Shift.
This past week I have been re-reading The Stand (original cut version). While I love the story just as I always have the missing parts are glaringly apparent! A few I knew were coming but the one that felt like a slap across the face was when
I am so glad SK decided to publish this story again later complete and uncut.
I have a question though that Bev Vincent might be able to answer. The paperback I am reading that says copyright 1980 has a lot of the dates referenced in the 80's. Is this an update from the original 1978 version? I seem to remember it was more based in the 70's.
Stu, Frannie and their group met up with the group of women: Dayna, Susan, Shirley and Patty. In this originally published version they just had a stuck vehicle and Stu and his group helped them get it unstuck. They joined up together and that's it. I kept thinking wait, what? There is so much more to this group of women! How could they ask him to cut that out? To cut any of it out?!
I am so glad SK decided to publish this story again later complete and uncut.
I have a question though that Bev Vincent might be able to answer. The paperback I am reading that says copyright 1980 has a lot of the dates referenced in the 80's. Is this an update from the original 1978 version? I seem to remember it was more based in the 70's.
Some stories into Night Shift. I actually like Jerusalems lot, the prequel to Salems lot. What i don't like is the narrative style. The letter way of telling a story. It is a common enough way of telling a story and it might even be fitting in this case since Stokers novel is told in that way. But i have always had difficulties with that kind of narration however good the story. Foolish perhaps but there it is. I liked The Mangler too...
I agree Kurben. I didn't like the letters telling the story either.
Finished with Night Shift. Some stories i had totally forgotten. And some of them didn't deserve that. There was especially one that totally slipped my mind that i found real good. "I know what you need". Some others too like "The man who loved flowers" and "Strawberry spring" were like reading them for the first time. But the ones i like most in the collection is Children of the corn and One for the road, the sequel to Salems lot. I will continue my King-Odyssey with IT. My thoughts have drifting towards that more and more. No surprises there, i have read it umpteenth times but it is such a good book that each reread is like seeing your best friend again. You always have something to say to eachother.
I'm still a long way from being an SK "completist", this year I'm at least going to try and finish off his novels, which means (deep breath)
'Salem's Lot, Cycle of the Werewolf, The Eyes of the Dragon, Insomnia, Rose Madder, Dreamcatcher, The Colorado Kid, Lisey's Story, Duma Key, Under the Dome, Joyland, Doctor Sleep, Mr. Mercedes, and Revival on my read list for this year. So yeah I have some catching up to do! Once I get through those I still have the two Straub books and three Bachmans to get through, then there's still the small matter of the DT series!
'Salem's Lot, Cycle of the Werewolf, The Eyes of the Dragon, Insomnia, Rose Madder, Dreamcatcher, The Colorado Kid, Lisey's Story, Duma Key, Under the Dome, Joyland, Doctor Sleep, Mr. Mercedes, and Revival on my read list for this year. So yeah I have some catching up to do! Once I get through those I still have the two Straub books and three Bachmans to get through, then there's still the small matter of the DT series!
I finally read the Tommyknockers last year and absolutely loved it, enjoy!
I have got to make it through!
When I re-read Night Shift a few weeks ago I found there were some stories I had forgotten too. Most of them I remembered, mostly because of the movies I think. But The Boogeyman, The Last Rung on the Ladder and I Know What You Need were almost like new to me. And the last story, The Woman in the Room, was heartbreaking! I didn't remember it at all but I can imagine it didn't have as much effect on me when I first read it as a teenager as it did this time. Not a horror story at all but horrible all the same. I wonder if it was a little bit autobiographical?
I feel the same as you about IT. I can't wait til I get to re-read that one again!
Probably most everything in The Woman In The Room is autobiographical up to the point where he gives her the pills. Such a sad point in Steve's history.
Well, i have launched myself into IT. I have finished the beginning, The Shadow before and Six Phone calls and The First Interlude, and are just about to sink into the summer of -58. Schools is out and everything start to happen. This book is like an old watch where every little piece and wheel and whatever were in old watches had to be absolutely correct. It is 1100 pages long and i can't remember a superflous word. It is an astounding pleasure to read. And in the same time it is terrifying. Such a great book!!!
I haven't read IT for 25 years. I'll have to do that next.