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I have started End of Watch.
Several people have said it is sooooo much better than Finders Keepers. That could have resulted in a bit of disappointment. I guess I'm in the minority as I really enjoyed FK. I am enjoying it, I just don't think it's so much better.
Posting here because I do not want to read spoilers in the EoW forum.
Several people have said it is sooooo much better than Finders Keepers. That could have resulted in a bit of disappointment. I guess I'm in the minority as I really enjoyed FK. I am enjoying it, I just don't think it's so much better.
Posting here because I do not want to read spoilers in the EoW forum.
I am enjoying Empire Falls and The Ridge but I made time yesterday to read Bradbury's story There Will Come Soft Rains. I'd never read it.
The Nameless
M-O-O-N - That spells Nameless
I was thinking about reading End of Watch today, I'm quite the opposite to you though regarding Finders keepers. I'd say the climax was OK but the rest was.......well I'll just say I didn't like it. If end of watch is crap it would probably still be better than finders keepers.
I started Let the right one in by John Ajvide Lindqvist instead.
Well, definitely give it a try. A lot of people didn't enjoy FK but DID enjoy EoW.
I liked Finder's Keepers too. I thought each book in the trilogy was better than the one before it.
I agree with you on that. Its very much its own story but its not bad, FK, i mean. I also enjoyed it.
The Apex Predator - Michael Koryta
This is a (29 page) short story you can get for $0.99 from Amazon. The story has ties to his first novel and The Ridge. I enjoyed it.
This is a (29 page) short story you can get for $0.99 from Amazon. The story has ties to his first novel and The Ridge. I enjoyed it.
That one is great! Also try Handling The Undead and Little Star. And Harbour. He is sometimes called Swedens Stephen King which is very wrong since he has a very distinct voice in his books.
I will have King's book 'It' read by the time the movie is released here on about the 9th of September, I think I read it last about 2006. I read a couple of Robert E Howard stories recently. I'm reading a short story anthology edited by a guy named Jack Dann.
East of Eden is a reread. My current pile.
Finally finished The Children of Men, and I can honestly say there is no comparison to the movie. Mostly because, besides the barest outlines of the story, the movie is completely different from the book. I'd bet James was not thrilled. IMO, both are interesting stories, though. Just different. It would be interesting to see a film of the actual book story.
I've seen the movie, therefore i've never read the book. Is the book better?
After finishing Koontz's rather good The Silent Corner, I started "Dark Matter" by Michelle Paver.
I think I picked this up after someone had recommended Blake Crouch's sci-fi novel of the same name, I saw it on a charity stall and grabbed it not realising that it wasn't the book that I thought it was, d'oh! About 50 pages in, written in the format of a journal, so far, so good
Edit : forgot to add that once I figured out that this wasn't Blake's novel, I looked on Amazon and picked up the right one for 99p on kindle! They also have Tremblay's Head Full of Ghosts on for 99p too, is that worth picking up?
I think I picked this up after someone had recommended Blake Crouch's sci-fi novel of the same name, I saw it on a charity stall and grabbed it not realising that it wasn't the book that I thought it was, d'oh! About 50 pages in, written in the format of a journal, so far, so good
Edit : forgot to add that once I figured out that this wasn't Blake's novel, I looked on Amazon and picked up the right one for 99p on kindle! They also have Tremblay's Head Full of Ghosts on for 99p too, is that worth picking up?
Quarry's Choice - Max Allan Collins
This one of of two Quarry books that I haven't read yet. There's a new Quarry book coming out in October.
This one of of two Quarry books that I haven't read yet. There's a new Quarry book coming out in October.
Both are well done, but almost entirely different. It's been a few years since I last saw the movie (going to remedy that this weekend), so I may have forgotten things, but it seems to me that they share a worldwide drop in fertility and a miracle pregnancy after decades of no births at all and that's about it. I liked both.
It read like YA--simplistic. I thought it was okay, but not worth all the shouting when it was released.
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On the back cover of my copy it has 2 little quotes from critics - one of them says "a whiff of the new Stephen King". I guess every country has its own Stephen King, the late James Herbert was often referred to as the English Stephen King.
Too late, I stumped up 99p for that and 99p for Disappearance at Devil's Rock too
I will report back when I eventually get around to reading them!
I am looking forward to Dark Matter though
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