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Chris , The Hardcase
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May 20, 2009 08:15PM
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FAITHFUL is a great book! And perfect timing, huh? Right as the Sox win the Series after 86 years!
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The book even made me like Manny Ramirez, who I've never cared for before. (Ironically, a week after I finished the book, Manny got suspended for substance abuse)
What?! A Stephen King fan who believes in curses??? I'm shocked and stunned. GO SOX!
I liked Faithful but I wasn't a Red Sox fan so I was a little confused who the players were at times. But, I took it for what it was. Two fans docuemnting a season. Because of this book I have watched Still We Believe. Pretty good documentary regarding the fans as well.
Whoa!! -- Has anyone else read "Ur?" -- It's SK's novella written specifically for the Kindle. Fairly common place story, but it has by far the BEST description of the "low men in yellow coats" that's he's ever written!!
I was contemplating (actually just dreaming about) buying a Kindle. I looked it up on Amazon last week to see if the price had gone down enough (it hadn't) and I saw where UR was on there. How frustrating! I hope it will be available some other format someday!
Love the Kindle! And UR was very funky... I enjoyed it
I have to admit that I was against the Kindle (until I "inherited" one from a non-reader who just liked gadgets!)I am hooked now, tho... it's so easy to carry around multiple books, and altho Amazon IS charging more than $9.99 for newer books, on the whole, they're still cheaper than new hardbacks - I wonder what percentage the authors get?
I am cuurently reading Bag of Bones and while it started off good I seem to be losing interest in finishing.Not sure if it's me or the book.I have been in a real reading funk since the beginning of spring.
My son downloaded UR on his I-Pod touch for me. I think it was $3 or something, but you don't HAVE to have a Kindle to read it.
Kandice, that's fantastic -- I remember several years ago when King put "The Plant" on the 'net, it was sooo frustrating. I can't say as it was his "best" work -- really, not even very good -- and overall, it was a pretty much failed experiment, although I have to grant him kudos for trying. The fact that "Ur" - a much better work is available for iPod as well as Kindle is great
