You made it past page 7 so you are going to be fine!! I almost thru the book down when I got to the 'baby' part- it really was hard for me to keep going until I realized what was really happening. I think you're going to love this book, Kurben.
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Have advanced. At page 50 now..... So far i like it. Mary is certainly a character......
Finished Station Eleven. I liked it. Post apocalyptic goodness, and it did remind me a bit of both The Stand and Swan Song, but without the demon hugger-mugger. I think I'm likely to read it again--the prose was lovely--but not so sure I liked the perfunctory way the nominal 'villain' was treated. Makes me wonder if the writer was told she needed more external conflict, so she inserted a villain where there was originally none. Still, an interesting and worthwhile book.
Now I've started Mr. Splitfoot, though it doesn't release until January. So far, I like it! No idea why I got this book (I'm supposed to get romance, contemporary lit, and 'women's lit', whatever that means), but I'll take a horror book any day! Maybe the publisher/publicist is blue skying it, thinking that someone unfamiliar with the genre will be an easy sell, or too intimidated to review other than positively? If so, little do they know... heh-heh-heh
Now I've started Mr. Splitfoot, though it doesn't release until January. So far, I like it! No idea why I got this book (I'm supposed to get romance, contemporary lit, and 'women's lit', whatever that means), but I'll take a horror book any day! Maybe the publisher/publicist is blue skying it, thinking that someone unfamiliar with the genre will be an easy sell, or too intimidated to review other than positively? If so, little do they know... heh-heh-heh
I was trying to finish reading Wolves of the Calla. It's my least favourite of the series and I keep starting and stopping. So, I just started rereading Dead Zone. I always picture Johnny as a young Jimmy Stewart, probably because of the ice scene at the beginning.
My least favorite is Song of Susannah. I honestly remember next to nothing about that book, and I've read it at least two times (I think three). LOVE your mind casting for Johnny--it works very well!
(I'm glad to see good reviews of Station Eleven.)
Hate to admit this but I am STILL reading Christine.I did veer offtrack and read Something Wicked this Way Comes. I guess Christine is going to have to wait though because I will never finish it by tomorrow.And once I greet my mailman at the door tomorrow(
)I will be " unavailable" for.....well pretty much anything.My family knows when a new King book arrives just let me be until it's been devoured.And I know that a day long headache will follow but it's worth it.
Hate to admit this but I am STILL reading Christine.I did veer offtrack and read Something Wicked this Way Comes. I guess Christine is going to have to wait though because I will never finish it by tomorrow.And once I greet my mailman at the door tomorrow(
)I will be " unavailable" for.....well pretty much anything.My family knows when a new King book arrives just let me be until it's been devoured.And I know that a day long headache will follow but it's worth it.
Just started this, my library has a Romance sticker on it. This was giving me pause as that genre is not really my forte. Glad I saw your words here, I will continue on!! You are so right about her prose, stunning.
I hope Barnes and Noble gets the books out early tomorrow. The last time I went to get a brand new release, they didn't have them out yet and it was noon. I'm going to be driving by the store in the morning and I don't want to have to come back for it later.
Don't they usually get the new releases the day before so they can put them out early?
Don't they usually get the new releases the day before so they can put them out early?
They get them well ahead of time but aren't supposed to put them out until the publication release day so it's possible they're just sitting in a back room and been forgotten if no one was assigned to put them out.
NOON, NOON, NOON!!!!!??????????? That is unacceptable, a chat with the manager seems to be in order. That's a real loss of revenue there.
I think it was when I went to get Michael Koryta's book. I had one of the people that work at the store look it up to see if they had it and they told me, it hadn't got there yet. I thought that was odd for a new release.
I always have problems with my Walmart on Sk release day. If Bazaar ain't on the shelves when I go by there (which won't be until late in the afternoon-- plenty of time) I'll be kicking azz and taking names... 
I always have problems with my Walmart on Sk release day. If Bazaar ain't on the shelves when I go by there (which won't be until late in the afternoon-- plenty of time) I'll be kicking azz and taking names...
I was just saying on another thread that distributors often don't send the books out to the stores until release day, to be sure that they're NOT put out early. The delivery trucks have a certain route, and they do try to get to stores very early, but stuff happens and SOMEONE has to be at the end of the route.
Plus, the stockers are supposed to be in early in the morning, but sometimes...yeah. Stuff happens there, too. It will still be the same book at 5pm (and that's REALLY LATE for stockers, by the way) s at 10am. Patience, grasshoppers Patience.... With a Stephen King- book?????????????????? If its not there when i get there.... I don't know what i'll do but it will be something that will live on in song and legends. But the SF-bookstore usually are reliable..... But if you will feel the tremors from my outburst all the way to the states..........I was just saying on another thread that distributors often don't send the books out to the stores until release day, to be sure that they're NOT put out early. The delivery trucks have a certain route, and they do try to get to stores very early, but stuff happens and SOMEONE has to be at the end of the route.
I was just saying on another thread that distributors often don't send the books out to the stores until release day, to be sure that they're NOT put out early. The delivery trucks have a certain route, and they do try to get to stores very early, but stuff happens and SOMEONE has to be at the end of the route.
It's just that the B&N is about 30 minutes away from my house and I don't want to have to go back later in the day (but I will
) since I'm driving right by it in the am. .I won't see it until Christmas, so I have no horse in this race--lol. It's tough waiting, but it gives the kids so much joy to be able to pick something they KNOW I'll love that I can't ruin it for them
I just picked up my copy of Bazaar at Barnes & Noble. The SK books were on display but I had to ask for the John Irving book and they got it out of the back for me. The SK book had an extremely obnoxious 30% off sticker on it which left adhesive all over the jacket. I just wiped it off with a little alcohol. Most of the B&N stickers don't leave adhesive behind but this sticker was nasty. I really hate when they put stickers on the books. I also picked up the new Michael Connelly while I was there. So I will be reading SK first, then Irving and then Connelly unless something else wedges itself into my pile first.
Now, I need to get some work done.
Now, I need to get some work done.
I am having a rest from Mr King (having read 3 or 4) on the bounce and am reading Imajica by Clive Barker. I am quite enjoying it but I definately don't find his characters as full or as rounded as King's which means I don't seem to get as drawn into their stories or care as much. As a result I am finding I lose concentration on occasions and kind of drift away from the story, resulting in having to back-track and re-read. I think what I really like about King is how "real" everything is (although reading the Stand last week at the same time as I was coming down with a heavy cold, perhaps the realness was too much )
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There is an independent bookseller I went to in the past and invariably she would have most King releases 4 or 5 days ahead of time. She'd always call up her best costumers and let them know , but she didn't put it out on the shelf until the official date. I ordered mine on-line so it should be a couple days before it arrives. I'm not as intent as I used to be about getting my hands on the book right away.
Picked up King today after work, But today i finished Dead Of Night by Jonathan Maberry. It was a good grownup zombienovel even if it didn't reach the level of greatness. But a good and quick read that held you. Now i have about 100 pages left of Mine and then it is time for King.
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