What Are You Reading?

[OldDarth]

Finished a reread of Firestarter for an upcoming Stephen King Podcast.

Forgot how good this book is. The relationship between Charlie and her father is captured so beautifully. The two halves of the book - the chase and the showdown are so masterfully constructed. Both so tense and done with clockwork precision.

The real power of the book lies in the quiet moments - between Charlie and her dad and Charlie and Rainbird. If there is ever another remake hope they know to capture those beats.

 

[carrie's younger brother]

Finished a reread of Firestarter for an upcoming Stephen King Podcast.

Forgot how good this book is. The relationship between Charlie and her father is captured so beautifully. The two halves of the book - the chase and the showdown are so masterfully constructed. Both so tense and done with clockwork precision.

The real power of the book lies in the quiet moments - between Charlie and her dad and Charlie and Rainbird. If there is ever another remake hope they know to capture those beats.

The ending of Firestarter is my favorite SK ending of all.

 

[Blake]

Bought this today and will read some tomorrow

 

[no bounce no play]

I finished reading one of those books I couldn't get into last week and it turned out to be pretty good It's In Times Like These by Nathan Van Coops. It's about five friends who are accidentally sent back through time from 2009 to 1986. Their efforts to return to 2009 have complications.

This is a sci-fi time travel novel - not an alternate history novel. It reads like something Robert Heinlein could have written. A theoretical physicist might find fault with the story but I'm not a theoretical physicist so I enjoyed it This novel has a couple sequels but it can be read alone. It has a satisfying ending - you don't have to read the sequels to find out how the story ends. The e-book is currently free.

 

[no bounce no play]

Bought this today and will read some tomorrow

That looks interesting. Do you have a subscription to the magazine or is it something I might find in my local grocery store? My local grocery store isn't in Australia so I'm kinda doubting I'll find it there

 

[MarkS73]

I finished reading one of those books I couldn't get into last week and it turned out to be pretty good It's In Times Like These by Nathan Van Coops. It's about five friends who are accidentally sent back through time from 2009 to 1986. Their efforts to return to 2009 have complications.

This is a sci-fi time travel novel - not an alternate history novel. It reads like something Robert Heinlein could have written. A theoretical physicist might find fault with the story but I'm not a theoretical physicist so I enjoyed it This novel has a couple sequels but it can be read alone. It has a satisfying ending - you don't have to read the sequels to find out how the story ends. The e-book is currently free.

Ik checked out some reviews on Goodreads, sounds really good.

 

[Brian's Twinner]

The Talisman. It's been, what, 32 years? Dang.

 

[do1you9love?]

I read an interested one over the weekend. Thirteen Chairs by Dave Shelton. A young boy enters what is known around town as a haunted house, and finds 12 people sitting in a dark room around a table with candles in front of each. They welcome him and add the thirteenth chair, then one by one each tells a story. The author did a good job of changing the voices of each storyteller and I quite enjoyed this quick, suspenseful read.

Now, I must admit one of my guilty pleasure reads. I adore the fiction of Liane Moriarty. I finished Truly, Madly, Guilty last week. I have also read What Alice Forgot and The Husband's Secret by her. She has a few more that I need to get. Liane is an Australian and her work is definitely in the "chick-lit" genre, but she does such a great job of taking you into her characters. Her rhythm of starting in the middle and flashing back as the story progresses, just pulls me in and I literally can't stop reading. Oh well.

 

[Astral Light]

I just started reading Full Dark, No stars. I have heard it is one of the better collections of King.

 

[ghost19]

I just started reading Full Dark, No stars. I have heard it is one of the better collections of King.

It's an outstanding read, from the first story to the last. Enjoy it.

 

[carrie's younger brother]

It's an outstanding read, from the first story to the last. Enjoy it.

I agree. This and Joyland are the two things I have enjoyed the most from SK in the last 10 years or so.

 

[MadBoJangles]

I finished the outstanding Needful Things today.
Not sure what to read next, still kinda caught up in Castle Rock!

Graveyard Book by Gaiman, 20th Century Ghosts by Joe or Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter are looking likely contenders though

 

[AchtungBaby]

The Bad Place, by Dean Koontz.

 

[ghost19]

Joyland by SK, The Shining by SK and some other book by some other dude....

 

[Kingunlucky]

I just finished Watership Down by Richard Adams and I'll probably get some...flak for this, but I think it was the best book I read this year so far. I read The Stand this year...so it was unexpected for something to over take it.

1: Watership Down by Richard Adams

2: The Stand by Stephen King

3: Small Gods by Terry Pratchett

As my top three reads of the year so far. I don't think anything will top those as the year is almost over, but I'm happy to keep reading! I'm currently reading LaBrava by Elmore Leonard which is a nice change of pace after comic fantasy and two low fantasy quest type novels.

 

[Nomik]

The ending of Firestarter is my favorite SK ending of all.

Yes.

I just finished Watership Down by Richard Adams and I'll probably get some...flak for this, but I think it was the best book I read this year so far. I read The Stand this year...so it was unexpected for something to over take it.

1: Watership Down by Richard Adams

2: The Stand by Stephen King

3: Small Gods by Terry Pratchett

As my top three reads of the year so far. I don't think anything will top those as the year is almost over, but I'm happy to keep reading! I'm currently reading LaBrava by Elmore Leonard which is a nice change of pace after comic fantasy and two low fantasy quest type novels.

yes!! Watership Down is incredible!
You all know how I feel about The Stand.
I have a problem, well, I'm going to justify it as not a problem.
I don't read enough anymore because I work, I have a toddler and a teen, I have a faint glimmer of hope that by the end of the day, I might interact with people. Here you are.
It's not a problem, I'm just the kind of person who thinks she needs this kind of banter. I'm sure I'll regret wasting time.
I hate that.

 

[adamjah]

I just finished Watership Down by Richard Adams and I'll probably get some...flak for this, but I think it was the best book I read this year so far. I read The Stand this year...so it was unexpected for something to over take it.

1: Watership Down by Richard Adams

2: The Stand by Stephen King

3: Small Gods by Terry Pratchett

As my top three reads of the year so far. I don't think anything will top those as the year is almost over, but I'm happy to keep reading! I'm currently reading LaBrava by Elmore Leonard which is a nice change of pace after comic fantasy and two low fantasy quest type novels.

A few weeks ago I also bought Watership Down. I haven`t read it yet tho. But it`s good to see that probably I won`t regret buying it

 

[kingricefan]

After suffering from a weeks-long reading slump, I started The Girl On The Train last night and read 70 pages! It reminds me of Gone Girl but I think it's going to be much better (GG's ending left me feeling empty).

 

[danie]

After suffering from a weeks-long reading slump, I started The Girl On The Train last night and read 70 pages! It reminds me of Gone Girl but I think it's going to be much better (GG's ending left me feeling empty).

I liked The Girl On The Train; hope you do too.
I was in a reading slump for over a year, and I am so glad to be over it. That was the weirdest thing--just could not concentrate or enjoy reading, something that I'd done and loved since I was little. Now, it's like it never happened.

 

[carrie's younger brother]

I liked The Girl On The Train; hope you do too.
I was in a reading slump for over a year, and I am so glad to be over it. That was the weirdest thing--just could not concentrate or enjoy reading, something that I'd done and loved since I was little. Now, it's like it never happened.

I wasn't in a slump really, because I had been reading, but I found reading to be tedious for almost half a year. I'm happy to report though I've just read 3 books pretty quickly in a row and I started Swamplandia! by Karen Russell the other day and I am progressing nicely through it. I really thought I would not love reading as I used to for a while there, but I feel pretty confident I'm back to my comfort zone with it now. Thank goodness!