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Recently read King books




Not in a hurry to get to Blaze...sounds depressing from what I read (child abuse stories really bother me..)

Haven't read Blaze yet. It is on my TBR shelf along with several other King books.
I want to re-read The Dark Tower; I had stopped after The Waste Lands, really want to get through them again and on to the next 4 in the series.

And I though CELL was fantastic as well. It seemed to be a nod to the "Night of the Living Dead" stories, but Stephen King's version of course. I heard that he wrote the story out of frustration after heading into the city for some reason of other and noticing every person on the street walking around with a cell phone to their ear. He didn't tell me that himself and I can't recall where I read it but it made good sense to me ;-)

When I read "Cell", I didn't own a cell phone and was quite happy for it. Lisey's Story was different again, but I enjoyed it. Blaze was a great character study, and I felt sorry at the ending, but liked the development of the whole story. It was eerie, and I kept asking myself what was real and what was not.




I will admit to some disappointment at the ending of The Cell. I fully comprehend leaving some things to the readers' imagination, but I felt that one left a bit too much for me.
I was disappointed in one thing about The Black House and that is that it was not as closely related to The Talisman as I had originally hoped for. Both are fine stand-alone novels, but I suppose I was hoping for some of the other character-types from The Talisman to return.
As for The Dark Tower series, the nods to it in The Black House drove me to purchase the entire series and I have not been disappointed yet.


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it is a great book
the character are well portrayed
and olso bought cell




The long walk is my all time fave. Bachman Book.
I really enjoyed Cell. I was nervous every time I picked up my cell phone after that one.
I thought Blaze was ok, I did like it, just not one or my favorites.


For recently read Stephen King,it is not one of his books but one of his articles. I get Entertainment Weekly magazine in the mail, and Stephen writes pop culture articles in the magazine and they are always so fun to read. here is this week's article: http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20172...
so even if you don't get the magazine you can go to www.ew.com and read it there for free!
so even if you don't get the magazine you can go to www.ew.com and read it there for free!


So far, I am glad to be back reading King. His flow and his stories always 'take me away'. Nothing too spooky or scary has happened yet... just good story and character devlopment.
Idle, I'm reading Lisey's Story too - little over halfway thru and MAAAAAAAAN it gets hard to read, like...... you know hard to stomach. Blech.

Thanks pals.... gonna see it thru, it's funny now that I have kids, ANYTHING having to do with children in a negative way (not giving too much away there right?) is just like murder to hear/see/read about etc. But Salma, Duma will be next on my list.
Just finished Lisey's Story and my first reaction, simply WOW. It's so funny how different phases that you're in your life can affect your reaction to a story. Mine, a mommy of two whose whole world revolves around them and this new family I'm building, made it incredibly difficult to read this story. Just focusing on the family dynamic of Scott's brother and father and the outcome for those characters was .... ROUGH.
Then you have the way King weaves his storylines. He truly is such a master at laying the foundations for his plots, how little and not so little pieces reveal themselves in just the right way, but the way he'd jump back and forth between time points got a little confusing at spots. And then of course you have that language between Lisey and Scott.... bordering on reading a foreign language. I did enjoy the fact that they did have their unique methods of communication which obviously went beyond the verbal, but almost obnoxious the frequency of these "weirdo words".
All in all, another fantastic story, and wonderfully written, just a little hard to handle for me n' my little family of four.
Then you have the way King weaves his storylines. He truly is such a master at laying the foundations for his plots, how little and not so little pieces reveal themselves in just the right way, but the way he'd jump back and forth between time points got a little confusing at spots. And then of course you have that language between Lisey and Scott.... bordering on reading a foreign language. I did enjoy the fact that they did have their unique methods of communication which obviously went beyond the verbal, but almost obnoxious the frequency of these "weirdo words".
All in all, another fantastic story, and wonderfully written, just a little hard to handle for me n' my little family of four.




I'm also more convinced than ever that The Stand was the beginning of Roland Deschain's "when".
That is interesting Shane. I never thought of the Stand like that but it makes sense that it is the beginning of the Dark Tower's time!
Possible spoilers:
I have read the 4th one. And I do think the evidence that you are talking about is where they are at the train station right? Totally the Stand! So I do think that the Gunslinger passed through the Stand's world.
I have read the 4th one. And I do think the evidence that you are talking about is where they are at the train station right? Totally the Stand! So I do think that the Gunslinger passed through the Stand's world.

What? English isn't even my native language but I had no trouble undertsanding the lingo in The Body! I love the slang, I love all those old expressions!


I'm actually the opposite. I've read all the Bachmans except Thinner and Blaze, but Roadwork was by far my least favorite. I would probably rank them from fave to least...Long Walk, Running Man, Rage, Regulators, Roadwork.
No monsters in this one, except maybe the human kind.
Anyone else read it? What did you think?