What Are You Reading? Part Deux

[Grant87]

Buckle up, Buttercup. Ha.
Hope you share your review here.

I read it years ago. Pet Sematary and Cujo were my introduction to King when I was 10 or 11, I think. I don't remember much about it, and I'm sure a lot of it went over my 10 year old head at the time too. Much like Cujo, this will feel like a first time read.

I still need to write a proper review for Christine also. I'm a slacker.

 

[Doc Creed]

I read it years ago. Pet Sematary and Cujo were my introduction to King when I was 10 or 11, I think. I don't remember much about it, and I'm sure a lot of it went over my 10 year old head at the time too. Much like Cujo, this will feel like a first time read.

I still need to write a proper review for Christine also. I'm a slacker.

I forgot that you had read those as a kid. Yeah, I'm sure it'll be a different experience now. I read Christine at sixteen and again in my thirties and I thought it an underrated book. I had a higher opinion of Firestarter, too, as an adult.

 

[Blake]

also reading 'The Mist' in Skeleton Crew.

 

[Hill lover35]

I forgot that you had read those as a kid. Yeah, I'm sure it'll be a different experience now. I read Christine at sixteen and again in my thirties and I thought it an underrated book. I had a higher opinion of Firestarter, too, as an adult.

Love Christine. Thinking of doing a re-read of it soonish. I have to finish Nos4R2 and then some non fiction I whant to read a peter Walsh book and then perhaps do Christine again

 

[Mr Nobody]

also reading 'The Mist' in Skeleton Crew.

Pfft. As if Pan-Am 747s are real.

 

[HollyGolightly]

I'm having fun reading The Husband's Secret (do1you9love? and cat in a bag - it's very good, can't put it down). I got it at Goodwill last Saturday. I made a brief wish before going into the store: I wanted a book on my look list and a new short story collection. I found that book and a Karen Russell collection (St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves - I read that particular story in Best of American Shorts a few years ago.).

I read What Alice Forget - it was OK, not something I'd re-read. But I loved watching Big Little Lies - and I have the soundtrack on my Spotify. The Husband's Secret has kept me up late, and by late I mean 10:30 or so. I plan on finishing it tonight.

 

[osnafrank]

Finished Pet Sematary .

Now i have a little Interlude, reading "Eden" by Stanislaw Lem

Leme`s Theme with this Book, is the total Lack of understanding between Humans and an Alien Intelligence.
It is full of Details and wonderfull Dialogues between great Characters.

After that, i`ll start "The Dark Half"

 

[fljoe0]

The Mailman - Bentley Little

I think this is the second novel that Bentley published. I got this one in a CD grab bag a couple of months ago. I'm about halfway through and am really enjoying it. The story (so far) has a Needful Things feel to it.

 

[no bounce no play]

Pfft. As if Pan-Am 747s are real.

 

[skimom2]

Red Clocks, for review. Critics are raving, but I found it meh. It wants to be the next Handmaid's Tale, but the writing just isn't there--overblown and so purple it could be called aubergine, in parts. Yet another book that relegates women to walking uteri. I'm waiting for the book that features a happily childless woman who isn't presented as an outcast, a maverick, a weirdo, or a lesbian (I know plenty who have never given parenthood any thought--just not part of who they are).

Next up: Still Me (JoJo Moyes), also for review. Loved the first book, found the second intriguing and realistic, but I'm wondering about this one--not sure there is enough character tin Lou to stretch over a trilogy. I guess I'll find out.

Still crawling through Strange Weather, in the odd moments I have for personal reading. "Aloft"--not so much my cup of tea. Not much interest in the subject (to avoid spoilers, I'll leave it to y'all to figure out what that is). I'm finally to the last story!

 

[GNTLGNT]

...I have ventured outside my comfort zone with this one....new author to me and quite interesting thus far...

 

[fljoe0]

...I have ventured outside my comfort zone with this one....new author to me and quite interesting thus far...

Looks interesting. I'll add it to my massive TBR list. I did an internet search and found that Cemetery Dance did a special edition of this in October. It's sold out (that usually means it's good).

 

[GNTLGNT]

Looks interesting. I'll add it to my massive TBR list. I did an internet search and found that Cemetery Dance did a special edition of this in October. It's sold out (that usually means it's good).

...600 signed and numbered copies...mine is #245....

 

[urrutiap]

I'm re-reading Tom Clancy's Threat Vector for the 2nd time before I read the previous newer Jack Ryan Jr and Campus novels

 

[Hill lover35]

...I have ventured outside my comfort zone with this one....new author to me and quite interesting thus far...

This does look interesting. I just finished Nos4R2 on Sunday night. So that was good. I am reading wraith hills companion to the book but it’s a graphic novel. And brooded an organizing book form my library it’s an e book. Then I may read the book called Benie babie bubble about how Bennie babies became popular and then died. Or a book on Sesame Street

 

[Doc Creed]

Or a book on Sesame Street

Spoiler

 

[Hill lover35]

Spoiler

View attachment 24949

I loved this book as a kid. I loved it lots. I have a sort of bio on seseme street

 

[Blake]

Also some stuff about the loss of 'Liberalism' in modern society, an interesting article by a guy called James Wasserman, and other stuff.

 

[fljoe0]

The Taking - Dean Koontz

I read this one before my last post about The Mailman. I didn't like The Taking very much. The book had a good start and then became a slog. There is a good story buried in those 300+ pages. I think a couple hundred pages could have been eliminated and this would have made a terrific novella.

 

[GNTLGNT]

The Taking - Dean Koontz

I read this one before my last post about The Mailman. I didn't like The Taking very much. The book had a good start and then became a slog. There is a good story buried in those 300+ pages. I think a couple hundred pages could have been eliminated and this would have made a terrific novella.

....agree, he overwrote himself to death on this one.....