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Started reading The Sleepwalker by Chris Bohjalian, based on a glowing review in the Washington Post. Not too far along, but pretty good so far.



I should have a McCammon recommendation in...

Hey! That's what this forum is for. Never feel shy to render an opinion on a book or story. Some people's top favorites I did not like at all. For example, Insomnia (hated it) and The Talisman (a...

which is, verbatim, what I already opened my mouth to say

moreover, most of these things are the things that made it great to me, come to think of it

that feeling of... randomness and...

Nah, that's Starship Troopers :) (Another book I've re-read a few times).

I have the opposite problem. I re-read novels many times over, while letting my "books I really need to read" stack get higher and higher. For example, I've read the Dark Tower series twice in...

I cared about the characters in The Stand more than in any book before or since. Especially Nick and Tom. Also Stu.

Maybe "caring about" the villains is not quite the right term, but I thought...

I went through a phase in high school where I must have read 20-30 Agatha Christie novels. I didn't think The Mysterious Affair at Styles was one of the best, but if you like it, be sure and read...

I am a fantasy fiction fan. Weaveworld is awesome.[/QUOTE]





As a King fan, I wanted to get into Barker but I just couldn't. I don't recall the order but I did read Weaveworld, The Great...

I understand totally.

Normally, even a "bad" King book has good characters. I mean, The Tommyknockers was awful from a story and plot perspective. But I actually did like and care about the characters of Bobbie and...

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+1 :thumbsup:

I don't remember which one I read first, but I loved Desperation and hated hated hated The Regulators.

Tommyknockers -- Ridiculous
Hearts in Atlantis -- Excellent set of somewhat interconnected stories
Insomnia -- Hated it
Dreamcatcher -- Barf
Cell -- I seem to recall it was pretty good;...

There was this: http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?18956-Rating-(Not-Ranking)-Stephen-King-s-Short-Stories[/QUOTE]

Hmmmm, not the one I was thinking of. Perhaps I imagined it. I...

Do we have a thread around here somewhere where we discussed or ranked King's short stories? I recall posting my complete rankings (or maybe I just imagined that). If so, I'll rank the recent...

I'm a big sci-fi fan (mostly "golden age," though) and Dune was HUGE back when I was in middle school. A few years ago I picked it up to give it a shot and I swear I kept having to look in the...

I was planning on reading it when it was announced, then I found out that Watchman is just basically a first draft of Mockingbird--they're just selling it as a sequel since it takes place after...

I...can't give up on a book. I'm not particularly OCD, but there's something about sticking with a book that I can't extricate myself from. But truth be told, I don't dive into unknown books or get...

Worse than awful.

The movie takes one of the stories and makes a half-hearted attempt at it. The book has 5 separate but loosely related stories. Two are amazingly awesome; two are very very good; and one is sortof...