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Making Dents in the Piles of Books Challenge
I suspect you got caught up with Christine, the book, Jason!I am a King fan and much enjoyed The Shining. My current top of the list for him, though, is On Writing.
Jason wrote: "I'm not sure what was wrong with me earlier. Suffering from some serious brain farts, though, that's for sure...lolIn my last post I meant to say:
I'm just trying to do my part."
LOL!
Konnie wrote: "I suspect you got caught up with Christine, the book, Jason!I am a King fan and much enjoyed The Shining. My current top of the list for him, though, is On Writing."
I saw The Shining for the first time in college...never again!
MrsJoseph, you really do not like horror!
I actually read The Shining for the first time a couple days ago (I had seen the movie long long ago, but didn't remember it). It scared the crap out of me, but I still loved it.
Stephen King has a way of doing that. I love him!
Christine wrote: "MrsJoseph, you really do not like horror!"Not. At. All. :)
My mom never let me watch any of it while growing up. I guess I never developed a taste or a tolerance for it.
Christine wrote: "Stephen King has a way of doing that. I love him!"Shoot, The Stand was very scary! I was nervous about being on the metro with people coughing near me for months.
Oh man, you guys are talking about King in here and didn't even TELL ME? I am DEEPLY offended. *sniffle* I love Stephen King. LOVE him. I actually just finished The Shining for the something-like-bazillionth time, this time on audio, and it was fantastic. Campbell Scott was great.
I'm also reading Full Dark, No Stars by him now too, and I have one story left in the collection.
Grant, if you're looking for audiobooks, and if you like King, I highly recommend The Shining, and Duma Key. Two of the best audiobooks I've ever heard.
The Duma Key audio rocked (Becky recommended it to me a while back). Just saying :)
Konnie wrote: "I suspect you got caught up with Christine, the book, Jason!I am a King fan and much enjoyed The Shining. My current top of the list for him, though, is On Writing."
On Writing is great, Konnie. Interesting and insightful. I read it early last year and I'll never look at adverbs the same way again. ;)
So getting back to the presumed intent of this thread, I have a problem making dents in my pile of To Read books, because I tend to keep adding more to it. It's like a vicious cycle. Since I got my nook, I've downloaded close to 100 ebooks already. Some (maybe 10%) are repeats of what I have in deadtree format, but at that ratio, you can see the problem, right?
At least a lot of those ebooks were free. That's something.
The novel, The Shining, was so superior to me of any of the movie versions. The interior struggles of the characters does not seem cartoonish, as it comes off sometimes in the movies ... even if they are scary. Are there any fantasy novelists that combine horror ... or would it then be a horror novel?
OK, ps there is some King is in my pile of books to dent!
There are always King books in my TBR pile. Full Dark, No Stars is near the top of the heap. I reread The Stand about a year ago and it is still great!
Jackie wrote: "Becky, try this thread:http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/4...
It's where we buy and tell, LOL"
DANGER! DANGER!! O_O
Christine wrote: "There are always King books in my TBR pile. Full Dark, No Stars is near the top of the heap. I reread The Stand about a year ago and it is still great!"I will be re-reading that one this summer. I can't wait!
Konnie, I've labelled The Dark Tower and The Talisman as both Fantasy and Horror on my shelves even though neither are 'classic' horror stories.
The reason I can't get my TBR pile down is cause of people like you all giving me book recs! :)
You can't blame that on me... I just joined! I'm exempt from all blame. ;)
Mrs Joseph wrote: The reason I can't get my TBR pile down is cause of people like you all giving me book recs! That's the beauty...and the bane, of goodreads.
Jackie wrote: "Mrs Joseph wrote: The reason I can't get my TBR pile down is cause of people like you all giving me book recs! That's the beauty...and the bane, of goodreads."
Lol, no kidding! I have a tbr list on here that's got to be twice as long as the one I had before I joined!
My list too. Only I keep mine in a little book that I take to the store with me, it gets me into even more trouble. LOL
Christine wrote: "My list too. Only I keep mine in a little book that I take to the store with me, it gets me into even more trouble. LOL"No! LOL! I can't believe you do that. I would never have any money, especially since I bike past a Books-A-Million on the way home from work. I barely stop myself from going in there now...if I had a list with me *goodbye budget*
Lol if i carried my list I'd probably be after less. Nine times out of ten i'm snagging books I don't even have on my tbr list that just catch my eye.
Its a useful tool......this way I don't buy duplicates. I cross them off the list when I've got them from the library, bought them or read them. I have to justify it somehow! LOL
I have a copy in documents that I add to until I'm ready to go to the book sales, delete titles as I get them so I have a fully updated list of what I want that's ready to print on a moment's notice.I could never remember what I've already got, which of a series I still need and new titles. And it does help in keeping the full-on addiction from taking over at the store.
When I went to Iraq back in 03 my SFC would only let me bring one book with me. I chose The Stand. *grins* That damn book went with me through 5 countries, mortar attacks, mopp alarms, convoy ambushes and basically to hell and back. So, it could be safely said that I have quite the soft spot for Stephen King and definitely think the Stand was by far his finest work :)
Grant wrote: "When I went to Iraq back in 03 my SFC would only let me bring one book with me. I chose The Stand. *grins* That damn book went with me through 5 countries, mortar attacks, mopp alarm..."Good choice.
Grant wrote: "I have quite the soft spot for Stephen King and definitely think the Stand was by far his finest work :) ."I agree
Grant wrote: "When I went to Iraq back in 03 my SFC would only let me bring one book with me. I chose The Stand. *grins* That damn book went with me through 5 countries, mortar attacks, mopp alarm..."I agree, good choice.
And Thank you, sir!
My friend has recently finished Dreamcatcher and she thought it was quite good. Have any of you read it?
I did, it was OK, better than most of his post-accident novels, IMO. But nowhere near as good as his older novels.
I like it quite a lot, Laura. I re-read it last year and I liked it even more the second time. :)
Meh. I agree with Jackie. It was fair but there are at least a dozen novels he wrote that were of far better quality. It's still worth a read tho
I liked Dreamcatcher quite a bit. Becky made me read it.
Chris wrote: "I liked Dreamcatcher quite a bit. Becky made me read it."Threatened you with violence, even. I'm quite mean like that.
So at the beginning of this month, I was very excited about this challenge. And now... this is just like torture. Lol!
I'm doing pretty good with it, I finished 6 and am almost done with my 7th. I've been able to move a few books that were packed away over to my bookcases.
I'm going to try to knock another off of my TBR pile - but its something i just bought in Dec. My older stuff is gathering dust. I seem to be on a FI/LO pattern.
I'm hoping to knock one or two more off my pile this week.
My writing has gotten in the way of this so I'm not sure if I should consider it a bad thing really. It just means I got off my butt and got some things going with my books I'm working on instead :) Though cripes I'm just now completing the last of the books i picked up from the library!
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In my last post I meant to say:
I'm just trying to do my part.