What Are You Reading?

  • This message board permanently closed on June 30th, 2020 at 4PM EDT and is no longer accepting new members.

Status
Not open for further replies.

AchtungBaby

Well-Known Member
Dec 5, 2011
3,856
15,540
Dreamcatcher is the only SK novel I have never finished, despite 3 attempts. I have read every other one, multiple times. Maybe your reread will inspire me Kurben.
I've only read it once, years ago-- right after a surgery. I was very heavily medicated while reading and I wonder if that's the secret to reading and enjoying Dreamcatcher. ;)
 

carrie's younger brother

Well-Known Member
Mar 8, 2012
5,428
25,651
NJ
I've only read it once, years ago-- right after a surgery. I was very heavily medicated while reading and I wonder if that's the secret to reading and enjoying Dreamcatcher. ;)
Well, since I am pretty much an anti-drug person, I guess I can't go that route. :D
Guess I'll just have to suck it up at some point and finish the darn thing.
 

skimom2

Just moseyin' through...
Oct 9, 2013
15,683
92,168
USA
Now you have me confused.... Re Morrell isn't Murder is a Fine Art the first? Or is it a case of different titles in UK and US?

I have started a reread of Dreamcatcher. It was a long time ago since i read that one.. All this talk about Ufos and ETs made think why not try it again.
Murder as a Fine Art was the first of his Victorian mysteries (as far as I know). Inspector of the Dead just came out a few months ago :)

I've read Dreamcatcher three times, and I still can't like it much. Almost my least favorite of Mr. King's books.
 

skimom2

Just moseyin' through...
Oct 9, 2013
15,683
92,168
USA
Which were?
Mr. King has said that he was on heavy Oxycontin when writing Dreamcatcher (remember, it was after his accident). If I'm remembering correctly, I think he said in the recent Rolling Stone interview that he doesn't really remember writing it. I agree with Mr Nobody , though--not many people could produce anything at all under those circumstances!
 

Kurben

The Fool on the Hill
Apr 12, 2014
9,682
65,192
59
sweden
Murder as a Fine Art was the first of his Victorian mysteries (as far as I know). Inspector of the Dead just came out a few months ago :)

I've read Dreamcatcher three times, and I still can't like it much. Almost my least favorite of Mr. King's books.
I'm with you on dreamcatcher ,except maybe for Tommyknockers, but it was such a long time since i read it that i thought it was worth another shot. Every King is worth at least a reread to see if you were in a foul mood or something the first time. The year when i read it was busy years and i might not have given it the attention deserved.

I take it you recommend these victorian mysteries? I have glanced at them but so far not done anything more than that.
 

skimom2

Just moseyin' through...
Oct 9, 2013
15,683
92,168
USA
I'm with you on dreamcatcher ,except maybe for Tommyknockers, but it was such a long time since i read it that i thought it was worth another shot. Every King is worth at least a reread to see if you were in a foul mood or something the first time. The year when i read it was busy years and i might not have given it the attention deserved.

I take it you recommend these victorian mysteries? I have glanced at them but so far not done anything more than that.

I really do! It was a pleasant surprise, as I didn't know that Morrell wrote in that genre. I tried to read Horowitz' Moriarty right after reading Murder As A Fine Art, and had to put it down. Horowitz has written kids' books for a long time, and his style just didn't compare to Morrell's; I'm sure that if I read Horowitz' books with some distance from Morrell, I would have liked it better. He is a good YA author.

I agree about re-reads, too. Just last year, and after several re-reads, I finally enjoyed The Gunslinger! And I didn't really appreciate The Dead Zone until I was an adult and the political subtext hit home.
 

carrie's younger brother

Well-Known Member
Mar 8, 2012
5,428
25,651
NJ
Mr. King has said that he was on heavy Oxycontin when writing Dreamcatcher (remember, it was after his accident). If I'm remembering correctly, I think he said in the recent Rolling Stone interview that he doesn't really remember writing it. I agree with Mr Nobody , though--not many people could produce anything at all under those circumstances!
Thanks. I really don't keep track of dates like that so I didn't put 2 + 2 together.
 

Kurben

The Fool on the Hill
Apr 12, 2014
9,682
65,192
59
sweden
I really do! It was a pleasant surprise, as I didn't know that Morrell wrote in that genre. I tried to read Horowitz' Moriarty right after reading Murder As A Fine Art, and had to put it down. Horowitz has written kids' books for a long time, and his style just didn't compare to Morrell's; I'm sure that if I read Horowitz' books with some distance from Morrell, I would have liked it better. He is a good YA author.

I agree about re-reads, too. Just last year, and after several re-reads, I finally enjoyed The Gunslinger! And I didn't really appreciate The Dead Zone until I was an adult and the political subtext hit home.
You know... I have figured it out now. It was a big misunderstanding. You said in your post about Morrell that the first was fabolous. Stupid as i am i thought (guess i was not thinking with all cylinders at the moment) that you meant the books title, not that it was really good. Oh, well, as the Beatles said "Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see". But now my eyes are open and i see what you meant. :bashful::big_smile::idea::howdy:
 

kingricefan

All-being, keeper of Space, Time & Dimension.
Jul 11, 2006
30,011
127,446
Spokane, WA
Well, that worked out fine at least. He said something similar about Tommyknockers didn't he?
I think after writing Tommyknockers is when Tabby held an intervention, but I might be wrong. I remember him saying something about that he was at the peak of his drug/alcohol consumption at the time he was writing Tommyknockers. It shows in the writing. Tabby brought in two bags filled with his bottles, cans, vials that she had been collecting for a few months and poured them out on the floor for him to see what he was doing to himself (and his family). Thank the Powers That Be that he stopped!
 

Mr Nobody

Well-Known Member
Jul 9, 2008
3,306
9,050
Walsall, England
Which were?

Yeah, as skimom2 said. He's also written about the discomfort he was in despite the medication as he tried to get back to writing. IMO, it was actually some of the most extreme horror he's ever produced purely and simply because it was real. It could even be why, consciously or otherwise, his fiction has moved further away from horror, or at least has moved away at a greater pace than it might have done otherwise.

kingricefan: I wasn't thinking of anyone in particular, but he'll do. Not that he actually writes his own books anymore (if he ever really did). AFAIK he just comes up with some ideas and sticks his name on the dust cover while some poor desperado does all the heavy lifting. I don't know why either party would do that, tbh (I mean, yeah, money, but it's not honest, is it? I'm very much of the "I'll make it on my own or I won't make it at all" school).
 

doowopgirl

very avid fan
Aug 7, 2009
6,946
25,119
65
dublin ireland
I just finished Keith Richards memoir Life. My husband says I've become a Keith Richards bore, but it really was a fascinating read. Along with the the myths that got debunked or confirmed and the debauchery, it's very well written. I guess you'd have to be a fan, but enjoyable read, just the same.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.