The Lobster Kings (Alexi Zentner). Very good so far--strong writer
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Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
Just starting book two of Dark Tower series - so far I have just met Eddie Dean - it is a pretty cool book!
Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon- Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & The Dark Heart Of The Hippie Dream by David McGowan. Very, very good read!
Is it any good?
(Sorry - I could not help myself)
Have only read about the first ten or so pages. It's too early to tell. I'll keep you posted. The last page or so that I read started to get too much into detail about this and that, so warning bells started going off. If it doesn't pick up soon I may have to put it in the WFI pile, which means Won't-Finish-It. I went to Seattle to see Simmons when he toured for this book and he even said that it might be a little too 'technical' for most of his readers. I hate not finishing a book (never did this with a Simmons book) but there's others in my TBR pile that are calling......
The Nameless
M-O-O-N - That spells Nameless
'Twas my favourite of the series, Drawing of the three. I loved Roland's bemusement at our world, and his amazement at how good a "Tooter Fish Popkin" tasted.
Never go Back - Robert Goddard. He is an excellent writer, good characters, twists turns, usually some historic fiction behind it. He is a master of manipulation and duplicity. if you want to read try, any one of his books are good. but you will never guess who done it.
The Nameless
M-O-O-N - That spells Nameless
Ha ha, we find out rolands thoughts on mayo in book 6 or 7 don't we."Hold the mayo"?
don't blame the old gun slinger though, mayo is rancid.As for me, I just finished the long ass, dragging chapter in the regulators that was proving a stumbling block. I seem to read the bits about Seth and Audrey quite quickly, but the attacks that pinned the others onto the 2 houses - I could only seem to get through a page or 2 at a time.
Yeah, I think we do, but I couldn't resist.Ha ha, we find out rolands thoughts on mayo in book 6 or 7 don't we.
As for me, I just finished the long ass, dragging chapter in the regulators that was proving a stumbling block. I seem to read the bits about Seth and Audrey quite quickly, but the attacks that pinned the others onto the 2 houses - I could only seem to get through a page or 2 at a time.
About the Regulators i've a little suspicion that it has a little to do with the order you read them in. Desperation and the Regulators i mean. Since it is the same names but not the same characters (sometimes they are the same which just makes it even more complicated). If you read Desperation first you go into the other one with an unconscious expectation that when you see the same name it will be a similar character. So you get a bit confused and it doesn't hook because of it. I read The Regulators first and not long after Desperation. Didn't like D at all then. Then read it again 15 years later. Now it was really good. Then i tried to reread the Regulators and now that one failed to grip me the way it had once. So my advice is: don't read these two to close to one another or they will possibly affect a true judgement of the other book. At least that is how it seems to me. I have read Kings comments on the idea behind it all and it is interesting but i doubt he had considered this little side-effect. It might be only me that reacted this way but thought i should mention it anyway.You might enjoy Misery, it's quite different to those you've mentioned. I'm still on The Regulators myself and have to admit I've slowed down momentum also. Not sure if it's more to do with having less time, (and I tend to fall asleep easily when I read these days
Finished The Kept this morning. Overall I liked the book but did not like the ending. At all. Kind of diminished my feeling about the rest of the book. (And don't we hate it when someone says that about an SK book? 
Say sorry.)
Say sorry.)I'm with you Danie. I've read The Passage and really enjoyed it and then went on to The Twelwe which was OK, i guess, but not close to the first book i thought. Has he written a third yet?
Personally i'm in a not-King phase right now. I've started with Robert Harris An Officer and a spy. It is a historical fiction based on the Dreyfusaffair in France 1895. It is a kind of political thriller with historical persons in the leads. Started very interesting.
When you or someone else has a coffee somewhere, watch and you will notice most people head straight for an electronic device. Read a book and they will look at you like your'e a barbarian. Barbarians are good. Mark.I've had this book in my wishlist for a while, can't wait to hear what you think of it!
I have just not had time for reading. Still working on The Kept, and also a Different Seasons reread. Need to clear the deck for Mr. Mercedes, release day is also first day of summer vacation here. Can anyone think of a better way to begin summer than with a new Stephen King book in hand?
bought 5, 2nd hand copies of 'Argosy' from the 1960's, I have read some 'Argosy' before, but not these ( all short stories).
I recently read my first book by Tabitha King. It was The Trap. I didn't love it, but it was good enough.
I'm currently reading Storm of the Century for the first time. Whoa...
I'm currently reading Storm of the Century for the first time. Whoa...
Still thoroughly enjoying The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan, wonderful characters; 'tis 599 pages long and I don't want it to end!
That's good news then. Been wanting to get this book. Love Tan!
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
"I flat-out loved The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. Dog-lovers in particular will be riveted by this story, because the canine world has never been explored with such imagination or emotional resonance. Yet in the end, this isn't a novel about dogs or heartland America — although it is a deeply American work of literature. It's a novel about the human heart, and the mysteries that live there, understood but impossible to articulate. Yet in the person of Edgar Sawtelle, a mute boy who takes three of his dogs on a brave and dangerous odyssey, Wroblewski does articulate them, and splendidly. I closed the book with that regret readers feel only after experiencing the best stories: It's over, you think, and I won't read another one this good for a long, long time.
In truth, there has never been a book quite like The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. I thought of Hamlet when I was reading it (of course... and in this version, Ophelia turns out to be a dog named Almondine), and Watership Down, and The Night of the Hunter, and The Life of Pi — but halfway through, I put all comparisons aside and let it just be itself.
I'm pretty sure this book is going to be a bestseller, but unlike some, it deserves to be. It's also going to be the subject of a great many reading groups, and when the members take up Edgar, I think they will be apt to stick to the book and forget the neighborhood gossip.
Wonderful, mysterious, long and satisfying: readers who pick up this novel are going to enter a richer world. I envy them the trip. I don't reread many books, because life is too short. I will be rereading this one."
— Stephen King, author of Duma Key
"I flat-out loved The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. Dog-lovers in particular will be riveted by this story, because the canine world has never been explored with such imagination or emotional resonance. Yet in the end, this isn't a novel about dogs or heartland America — although it is a deeply American work of literature. It's a novel about the human heart, and the mysteries that live there, understood but impossible to articulate. Yet in the person of Edgar Sawtelle, a mute boy who takes three of his dogs on a brave and dangerous odyssey, Wroblewski does articulate them, and splendidly. I closed the book with that regret readers feel only after experiencing the best stories: It's over, you think, and I won't read another one this good for a long, long time.
In truth, there has never been a book quite like The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. I thought of Hamlet when I was reading it (of course... and in this version, Ophelia turns out to be a dog named Almondine), and Watership Down, and The Night of the Hunter, and The Life of Pi — but halfway through, I put all comparisons aside and let it just be itself.
I'm pretty sure this book is going to be a bestseller, but unlike some, it deserves to be. It's also going to be the subject of a great many reading groups, and when the members take up Edgar, I think they will be apt to stick to the book and forget the neighborhood gossip.
Wonderful, mysterious, long and satisfying: readers who pick up this novel are going to enter a richer world. I envy them the trip. I don't reread many books, because life is too short. I will be rereading this one."
— Stephen King, author of Duma Key
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