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[AndriaD]

I loved Odd Thomas and thought he was done after Deeply Odd, then we got Saint Odd this year and I was delighted!!

Re: King - did you read 11-22-63? Not the usual King stuff, and by far my favorite EVER. Recommended it to my best friend and she was doubtful, even though I kept assuring her it wasn't horror. She still talks about that book - I think it made her all-time favorites list!

Yeah it was another great one, and I was just thinking of that book the other day in fact, but to me he really showed his chops with The Dark Tower; it's completely mesmerizing, absorbing, just so much there... My son and I used to fight over those books; reading the series at the same time, inevitably we'd end up on the same book. King's got some dark scary stuff in his head, for sure, but he's a hell of a writer. He's done some extremely good detective noir, too.

How about Robert B. Parker? There's a guy who could write his .... off, literally anything -- I was hooked with Spenser, then Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall, but then I got into his westerns... outstanding stuff! Like to broke my heart when I heard he passed.

Andria

 

[AndriaD]

Man, I *love* Rizzoli and Isles! Didn't know there were books.

Oh yeah, the books are amazing! And when someone asked Stephen King what he reads, the first thing out of his mouth? Tess Gerritsen! But Dr Isles is a bit darker character, in the books... still nice, but kinda... creepy. "Dr. Death"

Andria

 

[Romano Cheese]

I'm actually watching the Yankees Rangers game. Started watching right after cooking dinner and saw the Rangers score 5 in the bottom of the first. Who knew that the Yankees would score 11 in the top of the second. The Rangers now has a position player pitching and the Yankees are leading 21 to 5.

Wow! Bucco's game was close at the end, we had a 7-3 lead top of the 8th then all of the sudden its tied. Home run in the 9th for our rookie saved the day....21-5 geez

 

[AndriaD]

I felt the same way Andria. No way I'd ever do an audio book. That is until I moved out into the boonies and started driving 2 hrs a day round trip. At first I filled the time with music but eventually I tried an audio book. And fell in love. All the best authors use "performers" rather than readers. They don't just read the book, they actually act it out with their voice. So it's almost like listening to a movie (a very long movie lol). Some are better than others, but in recent years all of the Koontz and King novels are done by excellent performers.

I don't expect you to believe this - I wouldn't have - but if your eyes do go bad, or you're in for a long car trip, give it a try. You'll probably be just as pleasantly surprised as I was.

The only one that has tempted me so far is Craig Ferguson's autobiographical "American On Purpose" -- he reads it himself, and that man can crack me up with like 2 syllables (and that is a FUNNY! book!). Haven't found an audiobook of that yet, but when i do, I'll probably get it, just to hear him again. I lost him, my favoritest guy on TV EVER, then Letterman... there's nothing on past 11pm anymore that I care to watch.

Andria

 

[TrollDragon]

I loved Odd Thomas and thought he was done after Deeply Odd, then we got Saint Odd this year and I was delighted!!

Re: King - did you read 11-22-63? Not the usual King stuff, and by far my favorite EVER. Recommended it to my best friend and she was doubtful, even though I kept assuring her it wasn't horror. She still talks about that book - I think it made her all-time favorites list!

11-22-63 is one of my favorite King books with everything getting reset and repeated it was a real edge of your seat book. I just love how he ties all the worlds together, back in Derry with Richie and Bev gave me chills and made me want to go read IT again. Which is my absolute favorite King tome, next to the DT. I just love Derry and could very easily live there.

Dr. Sleep was a great read as well, visiting with Danny and Wendy again after all those years. Ghosts from the Overlook just don't seem to ever vanish.

The Shining
The Stand
Insomnia
Desperation
Rose Mader
Cell
From A Buick 8
Needful Things
Under The Dome

Way too many a good read in that small list and I have read just about all of Kings work. If Derry, Castle Rock or the TR-90 is involved, sign me up!

The Dark Tower series was totally incredible at 4250 pages. I really hope they don't try and make that into a movie as I feel it will probably end up like IT.

 

[TrollDragon]

I really like all the Dan Brown books as well with the Masonic references.

 

[chopdoc]

Not even an honorable mention for Christine? That was my first King book that I ever read and one of my favorite all time books.

 

[AndriaD]

11-22-63 is one of my favorite King books with everything getting reset and repeated it was a real edge of your seat book. I just love how he ties all the worlds together, back in Derry with Richie and Bev gave me chills and made me want to go read IT again. Which is my absolute favorite King tome, next to the DT. I just love Derry and could very easily live there.

Dr. Sleep was a great read as well, visiting with Danny and Wendy again after all those years. Ghosts from the Overlook just don't seem to ever vanish.

The Shining
The Stand
Insomnia
Desperation
Rose Mader
Cell
From A Buick 8
Needful Things
Under The Dome

Way too many a good read in that small list and I have read just about all of Kings work. If Derry, Castle Rock or the TR-90 is involved, sign me up!

The Dark Tower series was totally incredible at 4250 pages. I really hope they don't try and make that into a movie as I feel it will probably end up like IT.

By any chance, have you run across The Regulators, which is actually under his "real" name, Richard Bachman? It's sort of "Desperation: Reshuffle"... the same characters, but... different. It's a mind-bender! But it's the same can-toi...

Andria

 

[TrollDragon]

Not even an honorable mention for Christine? That was my first King book that I ever read and one of my favorite all time books.

Loved Christine, Cujo, Hearts in Atlantis, Duma Key, Bag of Bones... There are just to many to great books from Sai King!

Even the Bachman books are great, The Long walk, The Regulators, Roadwork and especially Thinner...

 

[AndriaD]

Loved Christine, Cujo, Hearts in Atlantis, Duma Key, Bag of Bones... There are just to many to great books from Sai King!

Even the Bachman books are great, The Long walk, The Regulators, Roadwork and especially Thinner...

Bag of Bones literally haunted me... that line the singer says, somewhere in the book... "it ain't nothin' but an ol round-n-round"... That book made me cry more than any other he's written. Absolutely phenomenal.

Andria

 

[TrollDragon]

By any chance, have you run across The Regulators, which is actually under his "real" name, Richard Bachman? It's sort of "Desperation: Reshuffle"... the same characters, but... different. It's a mind-bender! But it's the same can-toi...

Andria

Yes I had read Desperation first and The Regulators quite a while later. I had some serious dejavu, like I had read this book before...

Must have been that damned China Pit, I said the first time through that they should have nuked that hole from orbit!

 

[Lessifer]

The only one that has tempted me so far is Craig Ferguson's autobiographical "American On Purpose" -- he reads it himself, and that man can crack me up with like 2 syllables (and that is a FUNNY! book!). Haven't found an audiobook of that yet, but when i do, I'll probably get it, just to hear him again. I lost him, my favoritest guy on TV EVER, then Letterman... there's nothing on past 11pm anymore that I care to watch.

Andria

You may really enjoy Bill Bryson or Augusten Burroughs, both non-fiction, funny, and incredibly interesting. And both excellent on audiobooks, they read their own so it's like listening to someone tell really great stories.

 

[AndriaD]

Yes I had read Desperation first and The Regulators quite a while later. I had some serious dejavu, like I had read this book before...

Must have been that damned China Pit, I said the first time through that they should have nuked that hole from orbit!

That was exactly how I felt when I started reading it, hell even the cover made me look 3 or 4 times... so I got down my humongous (he really does write by the pound!) Desperation, and sure enough, many of the same images... ultra-creepy!!!

The only book I couldn't finish was one of his... Pet Sematery. When I got to the part where the guy gets out of the shower and finds the "dead" cat sitting there staring at him... I threw the book across the room and said NO I'm not going there! In my defense, I was staying with my grandparents at the time, in a (then) small rural town... nothing around their house for miles but woods, and the lake, and the cicadas were deafening outside... the grandparents were asleep... totally wrong environment for reading one of his horror tales!!!!

Another of his I WISHED i hadn't finished, was Dreamcatcher. Just so icky in every possible way.

When I read "From a Buick 8" the first time, I hadn't yet read The Dark Tower; after DT, I read it again, really hoping there was more detail than I recalled about the Low Man in a Yellow Coat who rode up in it, but sadly, there wasn't. Loved Insomnia when I first read it; after DT, I liked it even better.

Andria

 

[Ryedan]

All TFA

I've got Lorann Bavarian Cream and FW Cinnamon here and I've now got FA Cookie ready to be picked up this weekend from my local vape shop.

I'll let you know how it turns out.

 

[TrollDragon]

Yes indeed, not the proper time and place to read King.

I had seen the Pet Sematary and Dreamcatcher movies before I had read the books, which was a really bad thing to do. I think the only adaptation of a King book that was really any good was Stand By Me.

If you haven't read Hearts in Atlantis there are Low Men in it...

 

[USMCotaku]

11-22-63 is one of my favorite King books with everything getting reset and repeated it was a real edge of your seat book. I just love how he ties all the worlds together, back in Derry with Richie and Bev gave me chills and made me want to go read IT again. Which is my absolute favorite King tome, next to the DT. I just love Derry and could very easily live there.

Dr. Sleep was a great read as well, visiting with Danny and Wendy again after all those years. Ghosts from the Overlook just don't seem to ever vanish.

The Shining
The Stand
Insomnia
Desperation
Rose Mader
Cell
From A Buick 8
Needful Things
Under The Dome

Way too many a good read in that small list and I have read just about all of Kings work. If Derry, Castle Rock or the TR-90 is involved, sign me up!

The Dark Tower series was totally incredible at 4250 pages. I really hope they don't try and make that into a movie as I feel it will probably end up like IT.

My favorite King stuff was the short stories he wrote under the pen name Richard Bachman.... Some really creepy stuff... Some of it creepy because it could actually happen. The ending of "The long walk"? Genius

 

[AndriaD]

Yes indeed, not the proper time and place to read King.

I had seen the Pet Sematary and Dreamcatcher movies before I had read the books, which was a really bad thing to do. I think the only adaptation of a King book that was really any good was Stand By Me.

If you haven't read Hearts in Atlantis there are Low Men in it...

Yeah I did read that, but I think it was pre-DT; though I might have re-read it because I think there are some crossover elements in that one with Insomnia too.

Stanley Kubrick did a fair job with The Shining, though that turned into a Jack Nicholson triumph more than King's. The re-make as mini-series was also excellent; Weber did a very creditable job as the horror that King truly intended, the domestic sort; the really creepy aspect of that story was how the "otherworldly" elements used that dysfunction. When I read Dr Sleep, all I could see was Weber, not Nicholson -- in fact this beat-down drunk protagonist, I also saw as "Weber Jr".

Andria

 

[AndriaD]

My favorite King stuff was the short stories he wrote under the pen name Richard Bachman.... Some really creepy stuff... Some of it creepy because it could actually happen. The ending of "The long walk"? Genius

Dunno if I've read that one... one of his best "stories" books is "Everything's Eventual"... there's a story in it that's sort of a "pre-quel" view of Roland, the Gunslinger, I think the story is called "The Little Doctors"... Also his "4 Past Midnight"... "The Langoliers" SERIOUSLY creeped me out; I saw the listing for it, a TV movie, and I knew my son had not read the story, so I grabbed him to watch it... that was a terrific production, worthy of say, The Twilight Zone... my son was as creeped out as I was, and read the story right away!

Andria

 

[TrollDragon]

Yeah I did read that, but I think it was pre-DT; though I might have re-read it because I think there are some crossover elements in that one with Insomnia too.

Stanley Kubrick did a fair job with The Shining, though that turned into a Jack Nicholson triumph more than King's. The re-make as mini-series was also excellent; Weber did a very creditable job as the horror that King truly intended, the domestic sort; the really creepy aspect of that story was how the "otherworldly" elements used that dysfunction. When I read Dr Sleep, all I could see was Weber, not Nicholson -- in fact this beat-down drunk protagonist, I also saw as "Weber Jr".

Andria

I really enjoyed the Kubrick adaption and I have not seen the mini series, I must seek it out and give it a watch. I never saw Nicholson at all while reading Dr. Sleep, but kept seeing Olive Oil from that really HORRID Popeye movie instead of Wendy Torrance. I would have rather pictured her as Dame Pansy from Time Bandits, but Olive Oil kept popping into my head.

 

[roxynoodle]

My fav King books are the non horror like The Green Mile and Delores Claiborne.