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Wonderful review, love! Glad this one worked out for you! 😘
Celeste wrote: "Wonderful review, love! Glad this one worked out for you! 😘"
Thank you, love! Thank you for the recommendation! :D
Fantastic review to one of my favourite books, Petrik.
Jennifer wrote: "Fantastic review to one of my favourite books, Petrik."
Thank you, Jennifer. It's really great, I even enjoyed this more than The Stand! :)
One of my favorites of King. Glad you enjoy it!
Great review, my friend!
Not such a good ending again?
Guido wrote: "One of my favorites of King. Glad you enjoy it!"
It certainly was great, Guido! :)
TS wrote: "Great review, my friend!
Not such a good ending again?"
Thank you, my friend! Yeah... this guy doesn't know how to write a proper ending.. xD
Nice review. Since you liked this one I recommend Misery: another fairly short SK book with a great idea behind it. My first SK book and still one of my favourites.
“To think something so dark and depressing could come out of a premise so simple.”
Well put! I thought the exact same thing.
Thomas wrote: "Nice review. Since you liked this one I recommend Misery: another fairly short SK book with a great idea behind it. My first SK book and still one of my favourites."
Thanks, Thomas! I'll take a look at Misery, I never heard of this one.
Terry wrote: " “To think something so dark and depressing could come out of a premise so simple.”
Well put! I thought the exact same thing."
Thanks, Terry! Glad you agree with me :)
Fantastic review, Petrik! :-) I plan on reading some more of King's work this year. This sounds like a good candidate.
Sounds like my kind of story ;) I am was surprised that ! never came across it since I love Stephen King, but it is probably because he wrote it under pseudonym... Great review!
Great review, Petrik 😉 Wow, didn't know about this side of King!
You should try the dark tower series. You can try the first 2 novels in less time than it takes to finish one of the light bringer novels so its not too much of an investment. There are a couple of things you should know though. The first book is basically a 200page collection of interconnected short stories and kinda read as such even though they have been revised to make them seem a little less so. It’s not as good as the second book but its so short that its easy to breeze through to the 2nd book which is fantastic. Secondly this series , while great , is also weird. Some people refer to it as fantasy but I don’t really know what it is... its such a mixed bag of genres. The other thing that is useful to know going into this series is that book 4 is basically a big flash back from when the main character Roland was younger. If you know that going in the story in that book is really good. But if you go in expecting it to further the plot of the series it tends to disappoint some people including me when I first read it.
Anyway you should check it out.
Woo! Great review Petrik!! I seriously need to read this one if for no other reason than to get the bad vibes of Mr. Mercedes out of my brain! 😂
Jody wrote: "Fantastic review, Petrik! :-) I plan on reading some more of King's work this year. This sounds like a good candidate."
Thank you, Jody! This is the good one. Something about King though... he can't seem to write a proper ending! xD
Lucia wrote: "Sounds like my kind of story ;) I am was surprised that ! never came across it since I love Stephen King, but it is probably because he wrote it under pseudonym... Great review!"
hahaha I didn't even know about it til my friend told me too! Give this a try, Lucia! It's short and great. Thank you :D
Orient wrote: "Great review, Petrik 😉 Wow, didn't know about this side of King!"
Thank you, Orient! hahaha i know right!?
Daniel wrote: "You should try the dark tower series. You can try the first 2 novels in less time than it takes to finish one of the light bringer novels so its not too much of an investment. There are a couple of..."
Dark Tower series is one I'm looking forward to try, not anytime soon though. Most likely next year. Thank you so much for the insightful information, I'll keep it in mind!! :)
Mary ~Ravager of Tomes~ wrote: "Woo! Great review Petrik!! I seriously need to read this one if for no other reason than to get the bad vibes of Mr. Mercedes out of my brain! 😂"
Thank you, Mary! You should give this a try. It's really short and great for a palate cleanser imo! :D I will make sure not to read Mr Mercedes.... xD
Great review, I agree with everything. I felt exhausted reading this, feeling the pain of the characters. I loved it. I read somewhere that the setting is America if Germany won WW2 which makes sense.
I read this book a long time ago (which is why only a rating and no review), but I still think about it. It is one of my favourite works by King actually.
Amy wrote: "Great review, I agree with everything. I felt exhausted reading this, feeling the pain of the characters. I loved it. I read somewhere that the setting is America if Germany won WW2 which makes sense."
Thank you, Amy! Ohhh that's an interesting theory! I love how this short book could spawned so many theory! :D
Justine wrote: "I read this book a long time ago (which is why only a rating and no review), but I still think about it. It is one of my favourite works by King actually."
It's really good, Justine. I even think this short book is better than The Stand xD
Petrik wrote: "It's really good, Justine. I even think this short book is better than The Stand xD
Ha! You think? :D I also really liked Stand By Me, another novella length piece written back around the same era. It's really a contemporary fiction piece as it has no speculative elements at all. The movie they made from it is also very good.
I only recently (in the past year) started reading Joe Hill, and it is also very good. He definitely has his father's gift for readable storytelling.
Justine wrote: "Petrik wrote: "It's really good, Justine. I even think this short book is better than The Stand xD
Ha! You think? :D I also really liked Stand By Me, another novella length piece written back aro..."
Hahaha just my opinion of course!! I'm not too keen on contemporary fiction but I'll keep this in mind when I'm in the mood for trying something new!
As for Joe Hill, he's another author that I think eventually I'll read too! :)
Oh, wow, this sounds really interesting!!
Great review Petrik! I read this book last year and it 'exhausted' me too; you could really feel the fatigue seep into your own bones. Have you read more by 'Bachman' or King?
Alyssia wrote: "Oh, wow, this sounds really interesting!!"
Give it a go, Alyssia! :)
Twerking wrote: "I love me some Bachman. Damn shame "Rage" has been pulled following the Columbine massacre. That's the best of all Bachman's books, me thinks. Oh, great review as usual."
I'm still new to his works, I will give more of them a try in the future! Thank you, man! I'll try to look up Rage too.
Puck wrote: "Great review Petrik! I read this book last year and it 'exhausted' me too; you could really feel the fatigue seep into your own bones. Have you read more by 'Bachman' or King?"
Thank you, Puck! I've only read The Stand and The Mist from King. Including this one, only three so far. I have my eyes on 11/22/63 too though and will give it a go in the future! :)
I've only read The Stand and The Mist from King. Including this one, only three so far. I have my eyes on 11/22/63 too though and will give it a go in the future!
I struggled with 11/22/63 however The Green Mile and his collection of short stories - Different Seasons - are well worth a read. You get Shawshank Redemption and Apt Pupil in there which are two of my all time favourite short stories. King is one of those authors who makes up a scary amount of my to-read column though and I doubt I'll ever get to them!
Alyssia wrote: " I've only read The Stand and The Mist from King. Including this one, only three so far. I have my eyes on 11/22/63 too though and will give it a go in the future!
I struggled with 11/22/63 howev..."
I think the complicated things with me and King is that I've watched a lot of his movies already, I tend to had severe problems reading something that I've watched. But yeah, this guy produced so many damn books and almost all of them were adapted into a movies or tv series, I dunno if I'll ever catch up to reading all his books xD
Petrik wrote: "Jody wrote: "Fantastic review, Petrik! :-) I plan on reading some more of King's work this year. This sounds like a good candidate."
Thank you, Jody! This is the good one. Something about King tho..."
I was disappointed with how The Shining ended. Hmmm! This seems to be a reoccurring theme with King books.
Jody wrote: "Petrik wrote: "Jody wrote: "Fantastic review, Petrik! :-) I plan on reading some more of King's work this year. This sounds like a good candidate."
Thank you, Jody! This is the good one. Something..."
Yeah... such a shame really. I heard from everyone to not expect any proper conclusion reading all his books.. xD
At first it confused the heck out of me. Is this current? Is it sci-fi? It is a lot of different things. Much like '1984' but set in the 1950s. he boys seem a bit too educated for 16 year-olds, well versed in Shakespeare and Monte Christo and psycho analysing each other at every turn. But noce you get past that you accept it, like they do. Still a few question marks like 'what is the deal with April 31st? Not once but twice. page 204 and 206.... It was a one-day page turner, horrific and sad and hopeful with even a black entity at the end, a la Stephen King . I loved it in all it gruesomeness.
I agree about the ending. What exactly did Garrity see at the end that motivated him to run?
My theory was that the walk was Garrity's way of running from his life thinking he was going to die in the end...yet he didn't. Was he continuing the walk (now run) in the ultimate hope to finally die?
This is a good review of the book. It's definitely worth reading, but the ending feels like it needs more. It'll be interesting where the movie goes with it.
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Wonderful review, love! Glad this one worked out for you! 😘
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Celeste wrote: "Wonderful review, love! Glad this one worked out for you! 😘"Thank you, love! Thank you for the recommendation! :D
Fantastic review to one of my favourite books, Petrik.
Jennifer wrote: "Fantastic review to one of my favourite books, Petrik."Thank you, Jennifer. It's really great, I even enjoyed this more than The Stand! :)
One of my favorites of King. Glad you enjoy it!
Great review, my friend! Not such a good ending again?
Guido wrote: "One of my favorites of King. Glad you enjoy it!"It certainly was great, Guido! :)
TS wrote: "Great review, my friend! Not such a good ending again?"
Thank you, my friend! Yeah... this guy doesn't know how to write a proper ending.. xD
Nice review. Since you liked this one I recommend Misery: another fairly short SK book with a great idea behind it. My first SK book and still one of my favourites.
“To think something so dark and depressing could come out of a premise so simple.” Well put! I thought the exact same thing.
Thomas wrote: "Nice review. Since you liked this one I recommend Misery: another fairly short SK book with a great idea behind it. My first SK book and still one of my favourites."Thanks, Thomas! I'll take a look at Misery, I never heard of this one.
Terry wrote: " “To think something so dark and depressing could come out of a premise so simple.” Well put! I thought the exact same thing."
Thanks, Terry! Glad you agree with me :)
Fantastic review, Petrik! :-) I plan on reading some more of King's work this year. This sounds like a good candidate.
Sounds like my kind of story ;) I am was surprised that ! never came across it since I love Stephen King, but it is probably because he wrote it under pseudonym... Great review!
Great review, Petrik 😉 Wow, didn't know about this side of King!
You should try the dark tower series. You can try the first 2 novels in less time than it takes to finish one of the light bringer novels so its not too much of an investment. There are a couple of things you should know though. The first book is basically a 200page collection of interconnected short stories and kinda read as such even though they have been revised to make them seem a little less so. It’s not as good as the second book but its so short that its easy to breeze through to the 2nd book which is fantastic. Secondly this series , while great , is also weird. Some people refer to it as fantasy but I don’t really know what it is... its such a mixed bag of genres. The other thing that is useful to know going into this series is that book 4 is basically a big flash back from when the main character Roland was younger. If you know that going in the story in that book is really good. But if you go in expecting it to further the plot of the series it tends to disappoint some people including me when I first read it.Anyway you should check it out.
Woo! Great review Petrik!! I seriously need to read this one if for no other reason than to get the bad vibes of Mr. Mercedes out of my brain! 😂
Jody wrote: "Fantastic review, Petrik! :-) I plan on reading some more of King's work this year. This sounds like a good candidate."Thank you, Jody! This is the good one. Something about King though... he can't seem to write a proper ending! xD
Lucia wrote: "Sounds like my kind of story ;) I am was surprised that ! never came across it since I love Stephen King, but it is probably because he wrote it under pseudonym... Great review!"hahaha I didn't even know about it til my friend told me too! Give this a try, Lucia! It's short and great. Thank you :D
Orient wrote: "Great review, Petrik 😉 Wow, didn't know about this side of King!"Thank you, Orient! hahaha i know right!?
Daniel wrote: "You should try the dark tower series. You can try the first 2 novels in less time than it takes to finish one of the light bringer novels so its not too much of an investment. There are a couple of..."Dark Tower series is one I'm looking forward to try, not anytime soon though. Most likely next year. Thank you so much for the insightful information, I'll keep it in mind!! :)
Mary ~Ravager of Tomes~ wrote: "Woo! Great review Petrik!! I seriously need to read this one if for no other reason than to get the bad vibes of Mr. Mercedes out of my brain! 😂"Thank you, Mary! You should give this a try. It's really short and great for a palate cleanser imo! :D I will make sure not to read Mr Mercedes.... xD
Great review, I agree with everything. I felt exhausted reading this, feeling the pain of the characters. I loved it. I read somewhere that the setting is America if Germany won WW2 which makes sense.
I read this book a long time ago (which is why only a rating and no review), but I still think about it. It is one of my favourite works by King actually.
Amy wrote: "Great review, I agree with everything. I felt exhausted reading this, feeling the pain of the characters. I loved it. I read somewhere that the setting is America if Germany won WW2 which makes sense."Thank you, Amy! Ohhh that's an interesting theory! I love how this short book could spawned so many theory! :D
Justine wrote: "I read this book a long time ago (which is why only a rating and no review), but I still think about it. It is one of my favourite works by King actually."It's really good, Justine. I even think this short book is better than The Stand xD
Petrik wrote: "It's really good, Justine. I even think this short book is better than The Stand xDHa! You think? :D I also really liked Stand By Me, another novella length piece written back around the same era. It's really a contemporary fiction piece as it has no speculative elements at all. The movie they made from it is also very good.
I only recently (in the past year) started reading Joe Hill, and it is also very good. He definitely has his father's gift for readable storytelling.
Justine wrote: "Petrik wrote: "It's really good, Justine. I even think this short book is better than The Stand xDHa! You think? :D I also really liked Stand By Me, another novella length piece written back aro..."
Hahaha just my opinion of course!! I'm not too keen on contemporary fiction but I'll keep this in mind when I'm in the mood for trying something new!
As for Joe Hill, he's another author that I think eventually I'll read too! :)
Oh, wow, this sounds really interesting!!
Great review Petrik! I read this book last year and it 'exhausted' me too; you could really feel the fatigue seep into your own bones. Have you read more by 'Bachman' or King?
Alyssia wrote: "Oh, wow, this sounds really interesting!!"Give it a go, Alyssia! :)
Twerking wrote: "I love me some Bachman. Damn shame "Rage" has been pulled following the Columbine massacre. That's the best of all Bachman's books, me thinks. Oh, great review as usual."I'm still new to his works, I will give more of them a try in the future! Thank you, man! I'll try to look up Rage too.
Puck wrote: "Great review Petrik! I read this book last year and it 'exhausted' me too; you could really feel the fatigue seep into your own bones. Have you read more by 'Bachman' or King?"Thank you, Puck! I've only read The Stand and The Mist from King. Including this one, only three so far. I have my eyes on 11/22/63 too though and will give it a go in the future! :)
I've only read The Stand and The Mist from King. Including this one, only three so far. I have my eyes on 11/22/63 too though and will give it a go in the future! I struggled with 11/22/63 however The Green Mile and his collection of short stories - Different Seasons - are well worth a read. You get Shawshank Redemption and Apt Pupil in there which are two of my all time favourite short stories. King is one of those authors who makes up a scary amount of my to-read column though and I doubt I'll ever get to them!
Alyssia wrote: " I've only read The Stand and The Mist from King. Including this one, only three so far. I have my eyes on 11/22/63 too though and will give it a go in the future! I struggled with 11/22/63 howev..."
I think the complicated things with me and King is that I've watched a lot of his movies already, I tend to had severe problems reading something that I've watched. But yeah, this guy produced so many damn books and almost all of them were adapted into a movies or tv series, I dunno if I'll ever catch up to reading all his books xD
Petrik wrote: "Jody wrote: "Fantastic review, Petrik! :-) I plan on reading some more of King's work this year. This sounds like a good candidate."Thank you, Jody! This is the good one. Something about King tho..."
I was disappointed with how The Shining ended. Hmmm! This seems to be a reoccurring theme with King books.
Jody wrote: "Petrik wrote: "Jody wrote: "Fantastic review, Petrik! :-) I plan on reading some more of King's work this year. This sounds like a good candidate."Thank you, Jody! This is the good one. Something..."
Yeah... such a shame really. I heard from everyone to not expect any proper conclusion reading all his books.. xD
At first it confused the heck out of me. Is this current? Is it sci-fi? It is a lot of different things. Much like '1984' but set in the 1950s. he boys seem a bit too educated for 16 year-olds, well versed in Shakespeare and Monte Christo and psycho analysing each other at every turn. But noce you get past that you accept it, like they do. Still a few question marks like 'what is the deal with April 31st? Not once but twice. page 204 and 206.... It was a one-day page turner, horrific and sad and hopeful with even a black entity at the end, a la Stephen King . I loved it in all it gruesomeness.
I agree about the ending. What exactly did Garrity see at the end that motivated him to run? My theory was that the walk was Garrity's way of running from his life thinking he was going to die in the end...yet he didn't. Was he continuing the walk (now run) in the ultimate hope to finally die?
This is a good review of the book. It's definitely worth reading, but the ending feels like it needs more. It'll be interesting where the movie goes with it.
