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Okay, threadcromancy here is because yesterday Mrs. Dark and I finished Gerald's game. its odd, as I said earlier in this topic I was sent the book as a teenager, but decided not to read it both because I had not particularly enjoyed misery and the premi
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One word, Carrie
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I really enjoyed the green mile, more than I expected. To say how long the book is Mrs. Dark and I got through it rather quickly.I also quite enjoyed the film, which was rather surprising, but then again that's one film adaptation that stayed extremely clo
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Figured I"d check out The Green Mile because it's like, the only King book or books, depending on how you read it, I haven't read. It's also the one I"ve come to like most because of all the stuff he's written, it's the most b
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@Mirage thanks for that, glad you like the reviews, they are something I do try to take time over and make reasonably coherent.It was something I started doing when I discovered fantasybookreview in 2012, and have enjoyed ever since. Indeed, these days I always
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I read "The Long Walk" at just the right time. I had finished a half marathon not even a year before, and I could so deeply relate to all the symptoms of nonstop walking King included.It intrigues me, how sometimes a book will intersect with a time or
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Thanks Flacus. I do enjoy writing book reviews, and putting things down coherently, also I'll say that unlike a lot of reviewers on the internet, or even on fantasybookreview.co.uk, I don't tend to be generous with the high ratings. To get above an 8
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@Dark. That was a terrific review of one of my favourite King efforts. I wish I could articulate my feelings as well as that.
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Okay shameless plug and shameless threadcromancy coming up, so by the time I finish this post I will have no shame . While I read the long walk back in November of last year, the webmaster of fantasybookreview.co.uk had a bit of a backlog of reviews, however he&#
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Okay threadcromancy here is because not long ago I finished Desperation, well the novel at least, other sorts of desperation are probably ongoing :d. You can find A full review of desperation by me hereTo paraphrase slightly, I actually rather liked it
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Okay threadcromancy here is because not long ago I finished Desperation, well the novel at least, other sorts of desperation are probably ongoing :d. You can find A full review of desperation by me hereTo paraphrase slightly, I actually rather liked it
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Okay threadcromancy here is because not long ago I finished Desperation, well the novel at least, other sorts of desperation are probably ongoing :d. I actually rather liked it, albeit it was bit more of a traditional novel for King with the small town, all
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"Timberwolf, as regards the stand, my lady apparently has read both versions, both the original version released in 1980, and the longer one released in 1989. I've only ever read the 1989 version myself as I didn't see the point in reading the sho
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Oh this is excellent to know.I had honestly thought that the 1978 version had a few scenes that the latter one did not and vice versa. Good to know I wasn't missing anything.thanks for that article. That blog in general has some interesting authors I look fo
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"Timberwolf, as regards the stand, my lady apparently has read both versions, both the original version released in 1980, and the longer one released in 1989. I've only ever read the 1989 version myself as I didn't see the point in reading the sho
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Jayde wrote:I take your point regarding the protagonist thing. Don't fully agree, but I see what you're getting at.Remember, regarding men's magazines, however, that King was, at that time, virtually penniless. He was selling those stories to
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I take your point regarding the protagonist thing. Don't fully agree, but I see what you're getting at.Remember, regarding men's magazines, however, that King was, at that time, virtually penniless. He was selling those stories to magazines in an
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@Mirage, I liked the weerdosity in both battleground and trucks, I just wanted a bit more story wise, particularly from Trucks, since seeing actual people respond to those sorts of crises is always interesting, and its after all something King has done well
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Bear in mind that many of these appeared in men's magazines, and men of that time reputedly didn't want too much feels. They wanted action, and relatability. Maybe in the late 1960s and early 1970s, there were more men like the dude in The Boogeyman.
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Well we're getting into multiple post syndrome here, but as I've read more stories in Night shift I'll note them down while they're fresh in my mind. As always, spoilers ahoy for the stories in question! Quitters inc: I actually had read thi
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Yaas!Battleground!That was my favorite story in the collection.I read it when I was sixteen, so I was truly surprised by the ending.And the idea of a grieving mother sending animated toy soldiers to kick a murderer's ass just rocks!I wanted that one
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Well we're getting into multiple post syndrome here, but as I've read more stories in Night shift I'll note them down while they're fresh in my mind. As always, spoilers ahoy for the stories in question! Quitters inc: I actually had read thi
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Well just finished the lawn mower man. I'll admit this one was disappointing. The initial setup was interesting, with the mysterious lawn clearing firm and the guy coming around to work. I'll even excuse King a few blatant early kingism, EG the main
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@Mirage, I agree on perceptions of different things and access to books, I recently had to think about that myself when I reread and reviewed Anne McCaffrey's Dragonsinger for the first time in 17 years.With the guy in boogieman, my issue is that in a lot of
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@Mirage, I agree on perceptions of different things and access to books, I recently had to think about that myself when I reread Anne McCaffrey's Dragonsinger for the first time in about 17 years :d. With the guy in boogieman, my issue is that in a lot of
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@Mirage, I agree on perceptions of different things and access to books, I recently had to think about that myself when I reread Anne McCaffrey's Dragonsinger for the first time in about 17 years :d. With the guy in boogieman, my issue is that in a lot of
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"Nightshift" is one of my favorite King collections, up there with "Skeleton Crew.""The Mangler"Holy crap, that story freakd me out!As I age, I believe the time you read a story plays an integral part in the way you perceive it. I rea
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I can see what you mean about Night serf, since King did sort of capture the spirit of people who are stuck together until they really get on each other's nurves, though if you really want to see a great example of that, check out A letter from the cleari
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I can see what you mean about Night serf, since King did sort of capture the spirit of people who are stuck together until they really get on each other's nurves, though if you really want to see a great example of that, check out A letter from the cleari
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The Mangler creeped me out pretty badly when I first read it. Night Surf made me rather sad for reasons I have trouble explaining. Graveyard Shift I liked, because oh dear god, that basement. Jerusalem's Lot I found hard going. I wasn't quite so fond of
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Okay, as I have a book review on the go and so need to read something I don't have to review its back to the short stories with night shift, which is why I'm going to post thoughts here, also, for anyone who hasn't read these stories beware! h
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An ex-partner, who didn't know I'd read this particular short story, fished a version of it off the internet in audio, then burned it onto a CD and gave it to me for my birthday one year, among other things. I skimmed it when I was fourteen, and I reme
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The Long Walk is probs my second favourite Bachman book after The Regulators, but I like them all. If I've read them all that is, not quite sure. Kin'gs a master storyteller, and it appeals to my personal preference when he writes in a leaner style.
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It was a great book, especially for how young king was in his writing at that time.I read it less than a year after I walked a half marathon, so I could relate to the pain and exhaustion, and the will to keep going.I marvel at how Stephen King can think something
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Okay my lady and I just finished Joyland. I do hope to do a full review for the book, but in brief I did enjoy it. It's ironic that King, master of horror could do a fairly simple coming of age story around an amusement park and yet make it so compelling. I d
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Well after a night watching the audio described copy of the Green mile film (which was actually rather good), I read the next novella, Fair exchange. King calls this one funny though to be honest it really wasn't. The theme is a guy dying of cansa who makes a
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Well I just finished Big driver this morning. warning! spoilage ahoy!I did think it was a better and tighter story than 1922. This one was about a mystery writer who gets raped and almost murdered then decides to get revenge. I admit I didn't like Tess much a
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Hi Dark.Full dark, no stars is a strange collection. There is a recurring theme in all four stories, I think once you finish them though you'll figure it out King makes it pretty obvious in each story. The story 1922 is a pretty nasty one, they just relea
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Okay this threadcromancy is because i'm currently reading Full dark, no stars by Mr. king and thought I'd share my perspective. As people might know, it's four novellas all with a rather dark theme. I've just finished the first, entitled 192
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Well I've now finished the last two stories in skeleton Crew, The ballad of the flexible bullet and The reach. flexible bullet I did rather like. The start is ponderous and most of the people at the cocktail party are just place holders really to react t
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Well I've now finished the last two stories in skeleton Crew, The ballad of the flexible bullet and The reach. flexible bullet I did rather like. The start is ponderous and most of the people at the cocktail party are just place holders really to react t
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Very true especially when writing horror fiction. Well I have done a few more stories, actually only two more to go. first off is the milkman parts one and two. Part one was rather fun in a macabre, surreal way though very short. Beware! here comes some spoiled
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Again, it's funny I don't remember any of those stories except survivor type, which I remember quite well. Not wishing to be the sort of person who poo-poos the feasibility of story ideas, I'm quite happy for fiction to exercise a bit of creati
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Again, it's funny I don't remember any of those stories except survivor type, which I remember quite well. It reminded me there's a vsauce video in which Michael tries to answer the question of whether it would make sense to do what the surgeon i
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Well I have now got through a few more stories. Reaper's image was a bit like the monkey, a rather creepy little gothic horror type story about an evil mirror. A standard story in lots of ways but the actual execution and what the mirror did was creepy enoug
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I've read the Langoliers, actually when the Rnib sent me four past midnight it was the only story I read as the next disk cocked up. I had seen the miniseries first, and while the miniseries wasn't bad the story was of course better, though I'd
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I loved Mrs Todd's shortcut. It's just a case of splendid writing. And also agree about the teleportation story. Really unnerving. Have you read The Langoliers? That's another really good King short. Not sure which collection these appear in but
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Okay I've now finished Mrs. Tod's short cut. While the stile was a bit slow and I got slightly sick of the narrator and the ever folksy American countrified language, the story itself was really rather sweet, especially with the implication at the end
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Well I've decided I'll finish skeleton crew before I start on The green mile with mrs. Dark. Of the other stories I've read, the Monkey was a fairly nice workmanlike horror story with nothing really distinguished about it, not terrible, but not grea
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I agree about Rowland, though to be honest it is the fact that Rowland is! such an arse which makes having other around him who aren't more interesting. it's actually a failing I've noticed in several more modern and less experienced writers *coug
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I think King's characters are well-drawn enough, they're just rarely very likeable. Unlike the likes of Terry Pratchett who was a genius at creating lovable characters, Stephen King's are often lacking in charm. For instance there was a lot about
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I think the consensus is that desperation is a better book than the regulators, but I go against the grain on that one. I'll be reading Insomnia next. Oh my, you need to read the green mile, it's a belter.
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I think the consensus is that desperation is a better book than the regulators, but I go against the grain on that one. Don't know why King always wrote in a leaner styel under the Bachman alias, but it appeals to me. I'll be reading Insomnia next. Oh my
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Hi Flacus. Interesting you mention The Long walk because my lady says exactly the same thing, a premise but a story she really liked, methinks I need to read that one. my lady did enjoy Desperation far more than the Regulators, though as I have only read the
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Thought this was a new thread, then checked the date, doh. What I always say to people who haven't read King and are unsure what to expect, is that you don't get to be a proper household name as an author, especially one primarily seen as a horror writ
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Thought this was a new thread, then checked the date, doh. What I always say to people who haven't read King and are unsure what to expect, is that you don't get to be a proper household name as an author, especially one primarily seen as a horror writ
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And with more King reading by me it's time for yet more raising threads from the dead . First off I read cell a few months ago (or pulse as many people call it). Mrs. Dark described it as one of kings most Horory (yes she used the word horroy which is a perf
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If you really want to know, start from his first works of fiction by date written.E.g. definitive, 'Salem's Lot, etc. I really loved night shift, too, but all of his books kept me captivated in some form or another.
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And the reason for this latest bit of Threadcromancy is that my review of Midnight by Dean Koontz is now up, and can be read here Sadly I didn't enjoy it half as much as Phantoms, though there were things I liked, and I don't know how long it'll b
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Just to say my Under the dome review is now published and can be read here As you'll gather from that review I liked it, indeed possibly more than the other chap who reviewed it. Interestingly enough, the webmaster of fantasybookreview.co.uk regards under the
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Well Jayde, I've been reading philosophy for years so Scot brick doesn't bother me . Actually i love his intensity, indeed I've been reading city of mirrors for most of today and probably will go back to it pretty soon as it's quite compelli
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Try Strangers, by Koontz, if you've ever got the time.Basic premise:You're introduced to several different characters across various places, and each of them is having something unexplained and troubling happening, which is pulling their life apa
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Well my review for under the dome is done and will hopefully be appearing on fantasybookreview.co.uk soon. One thing I do notice, especially since I'm currently in the states having got married here, is that in this part of the world extreme views, and ex
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A few thoughts here:Under the Dome is good. I didn't mind the huge explosive bit, because all that presaging about the propane just had to go somewhere. I liken it to a flashy card trick. He's got you focused on the police-state, Big Jim's power-
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Well the book is now finished and it was definitely good, quite compulsive and one with a great pace, especially since even some of King's classics like It have been a trifle slow in parts. Beware! spoiling spoilers of spoilage ahoy!I was rather worrie
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Well the book is now finished and it was definitely good, quite compulsive and one with a great pace, especially since even some of King's classics like It have been a trifle slow in parts. Beware! spoiling spoilers of spoilage ahoy!I was rather worrie
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Well I've got about six hours to go now (mostly due to me having a sleepless night reading about someone watching disney films and comparing them to the original stories they're based on, who'd ever known who framed roger rabbit was a book). Under t
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I loved "Under the Dome."For me, it harkened back to the days of "Needful Things" and those big books like that.What interests me is when King starts telling you how he starts these epics.For this one, I think he wrote the scene about the wo
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I loved "The Mist" too.Another similar story that I liked was "Trucks." I think that was in "Skeleton Crew." The idea of ordinary things turning on you amused me greatly when I was young.
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Stephen King was probably the horror author that first properly "scared" me in my very early teens. I do think he's quite good at psychology as opposed to relying on blood and guts for his frights.I think the Mist is probably my favourite King story
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I didn't much care for the superficiality of some of his earlier stuff, most likely because the sixties weren't a very deep era and I succeed it by two generations. I like to think that it's horrible only because King saw an opportunity there,
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I didn't much care for the superficiality of some of his earlier stuff, most likely because the sixties weren't a very deep era and I succeed it by two generations. But still, I agree completely that he's a horror writer for a reason. Honestly, L
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Bringing this thread back, because Stephen King is one of my favorite authors.I read "Pet Sematary" at age twelve, and it scared the Hell out of me! But I was hooked.King does seem to go through phases with his writing, and I think I've figur
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Well Tom "cookie cutter" seems just the right phrase for the characters in odd Thomas and Christopher snow. It's not even that I necessarily want everyone to be a tortured anxt wridden wreck, it's just that in the two Koontz books I read, the c
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Dark, well, for what it is worth I hated the Odd Thomas books. Definitely not Dean Koontz's best by any stretch of the imagination, and I agree the character development in that series was rather lacking. too stereotypical for my tastes.However, if you are lo
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Hi Tom. As I said above my issue with "nicy nicy" was that the characters just seemed so sterriotyped and shallow, everyone was a manly man and the main characters' best old buddy, or a fluffy woman who ran around running the house and serving men
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Dark, not sure what you mean by “nicy nicy” but Dean Koontz has quite a number of interesting characters in his books. In particular his earlier books such as Intensity, Phantoms, Strangers, Watchers, Ticktock, etc. In fact, I can honestly say in some respects I
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King as I said does have a tendency to almost the opposite of the Koontz style niceness, given the amount of his characters who ar alcoholics, or drug adicts, or embezle money, or have cheat on their wives/husbands, indulge in abusive relationships or
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I see. Yesterday, I heard the super awesome 3d audiodrama The Mist written by Stephen King. [[wow]], this audiodrama is awesome, and really scary! But well, some of the characters are as you describe, and most of the story is happening in one building... Just
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Well Slj, maybe I will try Phantoms later sinse I had no problem with Koontz in terms of horror aspects, I thought the death predicting creatures in Odd Thomas were actually rather cool and creepy. My issue wasn't that the characters all lived in a small
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Well Slj, maybe I will try Phantoms later sinse I had no problem with Koontz in terms of horror aspects, I thought the death predicting creatures in Odd Thomas were actually rather cool and creepy. My issue wasn't that the characters all lived in a small
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Hi dark.Hmm... I have never thought about Dean Koontz books in this way. I have read Phantoms which is both quite realistic and other times not realistic at all, but I think in this book that things are happening for some reason. It's long time since I'v
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@JAson, as I said black house is one I need to check. @Slj, Did you read my comments about Dean koontz earlier? any thoughts? I would appreciate hearing another view sinse as I said of the two books I read by him, Odd Thomas and the first Christopher snow book, I
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Hi.So nice to see this topic brought up again. I wish I had more time to read books, because there are so many books which I wanna read, and the time is just passing by with lots of other stuff going on.I agree that Kings books can be quite difficult to read
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Hi,I enjoy a lot of King's writing. The Dark Tower, Talisman, Black House, Dreamcatcher and Under the Dome are some of my favorites.I really enjoyed listening to Frank Muller's readings of The Talisman, Black House and the first four Dark Tower books.
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Hi,I enjoy a lot of King's writing. The Dark Tower, Talisman, Black House, Dreamcatcher and Under the Dome are some of my favorites.I really enjoyed listening to Frank Muller's readings of The Talisman, Black House and the first four Dark Tower books.
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Hi,I enjoy a lot of King's writing. The Dark Tower, Talisman, Black House, Dreamcatcher and Under the Dome are some of my favorites.I really enjoyed listening to Frank Muller's readings of The Talisman, Black House and the first four Dark Tower books.
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Hi,I enjoy a lot of King's writing. The Dark Tower, Talisman, Black House, Dreamcatcher and Under the Dome are some of my favorites.I really enjoyed listening to Frank Muller's readings of The Talisman, Black House and the first four Dark Tower books.
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Hi,I enjoy a lot of King's writing. The Dark Tower, Talisman, Black House, Dreamcatcher and Under the Dome are some of my favorites.If you don't know, Black House is supposed to be the sequel to the Talisman, so definitely worth reading, though..
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@Cinnamon, I found King hard enough to read in braille let alone with a synth! One thing about King is his writing has a distinct rythm and flow especially on the scary bits, and you just don't get that with a synthetic voice even a good one, plus of course
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Well, as far as Stephen King goes he was once one of my favorite authors, and I have pretty much read everything he has wrote. However, as time has gone on I have found other authors I enjoy more in terms of the horror genre, but I can't remember any instan
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The Long Walk appears in a collection called TheBachman Books. I really liked that short story, along with The Running Man which appears alongside it.Maybe I hated Dr. Sleep so much because I read it with JAWS, and not in audio. Even with the supernatural elements
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The Long Walk appears in a collection called TheBachman Books. I really liked that short story, along with The Running Man which appears alongside it.Maybe I hated Dr. Sleep so much because I read it with JAWS, and not in audio. Even with the supernatural elements
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Interesting Nin, I don't recognize the title "the long walk" I'll have to check that out. With the references, to be honest they sometimes confuse me as well sinse I think you need to be A, American, and B, to have grown up in a particular tim
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Interesting Nin, I don't recognize the title "the long walk" I'll have to check that out. With the references, to be honest they sometimes confuse me as well sinse I think you need to be A, American, and B, to have grown up in a particular tim
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Interesting Nin, I don't recognize the title "the long walk" I'll have to check that out. With the references, to be honest they sometimes confuse me as well sinse I think you need to be A, American, and B, to have grown up in a particular tim
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Interesting Nin, I don't recognize the title "the long walk" I'll have to check that oe. With the references, to be honest they sometimes confuse me as well sinse I think you need to be A, American, and B, to have grown up in a particular tim
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I m a fan of king also, I enjoyed reading most of his books, but some of them are quite hard to read due to some references that I didn't understand, but I guess that some search on that could have helped me. the long walk: interesting that I haven't
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Interesting thoughts Cinnamon, particularly sinse I myself started on king when I was 13 or 14 as well. The dark tower I really enjoyed, although the first book is a major drag. I also liked it because I kept getting more of it finally to the point where I needed
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