I have all of them except maybe one on my shelfes. About 80 books. Collected them when i was younger, bought them in second hand stores and so on. Wish i could do the same with King but as long as some of his stuff isn't available in bookform it is not possible.
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I finished "Hyperion" by Dan Simmons yesterday. My first SF maybe ever...good to start out with the best, I'd say. I wasn't sure I'd want to continue with book 2, but by the time I got to the end, I knew I needed to keep going. Our local library doesn't have any of the four, so I may download the two I'm missing onto the kindle. I boggled some with all the futuristic techno jargon, but at the heart of it all, it was just like the other books I've read by this author... a good story line, (actually, multiple stories!), good characters and great writing. I bought "Hyperion" and "Endymion" at a used book store in AZ, so am missing the other two. In the meantime, I went to a local used paperback store to look for them. No luck, but I did get a copy of "Carrion Comfort", so have just started it.
Finished Pet Sematary for the first time.
Loved it, although it should have been better edited. Some scenes are just so unnecessary.
King does a nice reflection on death, and touches upon some intriguing ethical questions about life. It's, at his core, a drama novel. A good one.
Loved it, although it should have been better edited. Some scenes are just so unnecessary.
King does a nice reflection on death, and touches upon some intriguing ethical questions about life. It's, at his core, a drama novel. A good one.
A Coyote's in the House~(2004), Elmore Leonard...the first ever children's book from Leonard. Though he does use the legal and defining term for some female dogs...more than once...and one day in the not so distant future, in another world than this...someone will log onto the Leonard Message Board and spank him for using the word...even though it is a fine word, a definitive word. Anyway...I enjoy everything from Leonard and this story is no different.
And now I'm on Camera~ Jean-Philippe Toussaint. "In this improbable love story, we meet a man who is obsessed with himself: how he does things and all the ways he might have done them, how he thinks, why he thinks the way that he thinks, how he might do or think otherwise." #76 for the year...closing in on my goal of an even hundred. Between work and work, the past few weeks have not been easy, reading...get home worn to a frazzle...no idea what a frazzle is...I think it's one of those stir sticks you chew on while the ice melts. Taking it easy today.
Currently reading: My friend gave me The Beatles in 100 Objects by Brian Southall for my birthday, so that's been a fun read! 
I've started The Stand the other day. Excite to start this journey.
And yup, still on Dark Tower #7. Just can't let it go don't want it to end!
I've started The Stand the other day. Excite to start this journey.
And yup, still on Dark Tower #7. Just
I just completed a reread of The Stand a little over a month ago-such an exciting journey! I'm on the last part (part 4) of The Stand miniseries on Netflix too.Currently reading: My friend gave me The Beatles in 100 Objects by Brian Southall for my birthday, so that's been a fun read!
I've started The Stand the other day. Excite to start this journey.
And yup, still on Dark Tower #7. Justcan't let it godon't want it to end!
I just completed a reread of The Stand a little over a month ago-such an exciting journey! I'm on the last part (part 4) of The Stand miniseries on Netflix too.
Awesome, morgan!
Can't wait when I'm "deep" into the book! How is the miniseries?
Book is obviously so much better!Awesome, morgan!
The acting abilities of Rob Lowe and Molly Ringwald really reek...but, that said-I would still choose it over the UTD TV series. 
morgan --I'm about a little over 100 pages in--dig it, dig it! (And I bet it is! LOL!! I guess I'll have to see for it myself after!)
I just finished "Your Heart Belongs to Me" by Koontz and, oh boy. It is the first time, after hundreds of novels I can say and admit I was on the verge of shedding a tear in the end. What a great book.
Just finished Joyland. Very enjoyable read. I quite like his college kid stories set in the 70's. Nightmares and Dreamscapes is next. I'm a few stories behind, but will catch up so i can look in on the discussion group.
Finished Camera (see previous post) and I think the story description is off, unfair, the focus wrong...curious short (a tad over a hundred pages) story that offers a view of life intimate and aloof...our world...one day we will all have e-Teeth and will no longer lug around small devices to frame the world and present that world to others.
and now I am starting two, two stories...Up in Honey's Room, Elmore Leonard...and the only reason I have not read this one as yet is 'cause the description sounds like another Leonard story...which one I have not determined...or is it possibly like one of Willeford's? This will be...the 44th or 45th tale from Leonard I will read and if you lack for story, check out Leonard, as he is a joy to read.
Also starting Omega Minor, Paul Verhaeghen, a door-stopper at just under 700-pages and one...based on the little I've read of reviews...that I will put down and read other things, not concerned so much with the destination, but the manner in which we travel there. I'm reading this one for the language, the words, the method of arranging those words...and if there is more, all the better.
and now I am starting two, two stories...Up in Honey's Room, Elmore Leonard...and the only reason I have not read this one as yet is 'cause the description sounds like another Leonard story...which one I have not determined...or is it possibly like one of Willeford's? This will be...the 44th or 45th tale from Leonard I will read and if you lack for story, check out Leonard, as he is a joy to read.
Also starting Omega Minor, Paul Verhaeghen, a door-stopper at just under 700-pages and one...based on the little I've read of reviews...that I will put down and read other things, not concerned so much with the destination, but the manner in which we travel there. I'm reading this one for the language, the words, the method of arranging those words...and if there is more, all the better.
Only very enjoyable? That ending is just King being nobel prize worthy...
I did like the book. I do like my novels with a twist in the tail, and he did trick me just when I though I knew the culprit. But Annie's actions took a little of the shine off of it for me.
Finished The Girl With all the Gifts this morning, it is a very unusual zombie story. It starts out slow but hang in.
I tHought it was a very interesting take on zombie culture. And I loved how it started out.
Wasn't really refering to the murder itself... More like the images he left on my mind. The crippled kid flying the kite, mom at his side. The bag of croissants... After all, writing is about that, not about who killed who. Couldn't give a darn about that.
The second one was when I stopped buying his books. Read them from the library now. It was pretty ordinary, but I've enjoyed the ones that came after.
That one went past me. Didn't know they'd made it. Have to watch it now!miniseries spoiler
I was so upset when they didn't put this in the show because it's my absolute favorite line too-AND my favorite book!!
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