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    It's my first time reading this one.
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    I just started Black House. The beginning was rough... Peter Straub is not as readable as King... but whatever.
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    That is rough, I had to listen to get through it.

    And yes Erin...Lisey's Story gets a little better but I am almost done and I must say, so far its not on my top 10 for sure.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Erin View Post
    Patrick, although a lot of people don't like it, I loved Dreamcatcher, I even named two of my cats after characters from it.

    I'm currently reading Lisey's Story. I hate to say it, but I'm having a really hard time getting into it. It just hasn't grabbed me yet like most all of King's other books do. I'm going to finish it, but I hate to say it, if it had been any other author besides King, I'd have set it aside by now. For those of you who have read it, does it just have a slow start and get better or am I just nuts?
    I read Lisey's Story in a collection of short stories. Husbands a famous writer right?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Mordred Deschain View Post
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    Patrick, although a lot of people don't like it, I loved Dreamcatcher, I even named two of my cats after characters from it.

    I'm currently reading Lisey's Story. I hate to say it, but I'm having a really hard time getting into it. It just hasn't grabbed me yet like most all of King's other books do. I'm going to finish it, but I hate to say it, if it had been any other author besides King, I'd have set it aside by now. For those of you who have read it, does it just have a slow start and get better or am I just nuts?
    I read Lisey's Story in a collection of short stories. Husbands a famous writer right?
    Yes, there was a short story in a collection that was an excerpt from Lisey's Story before it was released.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brice View Post
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    Patrick, although a lot of people don't like it, I loved Dreamcatcher, I even named two of my cats after characters from it.

    I'm currently reading Lisey's Story. I hate to say it, but I'm having a really hard time getting into it. It just hasn't grabbed me yet like most all of King's other books do. I'm going to finish it, but I hate to say it, if it had been any other author besides King, I'd have set it aside by now. For those of you who have read it, does it just have a slow start and get better or am I just nuts?
    I read Lisey's Story in a collection of short stories. Husbands a famous writer right?
    Yes, there was a short story in a collection that was an excerpt from Lisey's Story before it was released.
    Ah...so I probably haven't read the whole story then. Well, what I read was good.


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    Yes, it was. It was just an excerpt of the finished novel though. I liked it alot.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Erin View Post
    Patrick, although a lot of people don't like it, I loved Dreamcatcher, I even named two of my cats after characters from it.

    I'm currently reading Lisey's Story. I hate to say it, but I'm having a really hard time getting into it. It just hasn't grabbed me yet like most all of King's other books do. I'm going to finish it, but I hate to say it, if it had been any other author besides King, I'd have set it aside by now. For those of you who have read it, does it just have a slow start and get better or am I just nuts?
    I'm about a third (maybe less) of the way through DREAMCATCHER, and I like the book so far - although there is one event that just does not ring true IMO no matter how much I try to justify it to myself. I hate when a major character does something pivotal that I flat-out can't believe. It pulls me out of the story in a big way and I almost have to force myself not to abandon the book, which is really disappointing when I've been enjoying the book thus far.

    Regarding LISEY'S STORY, I agree that it starts out rather slow, but I felt it gets better the further you read.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Patrick View Post
    I'm about a third (maybe less) of the way through DREAMCATCHER, and I like the book so far - although there is one event that just does not ring true IMO no matter how much I try to justify it to myself. I hate when a major character does something pivotal that I flat-out can't believe. It pulls me out of the story in a big way and I almost have to force myself not to abandon the book, which is really disappointing when I've been enjoying the book thus far.
    Now you have intrigued me! What is the infamous event?

    (Personally, I thought Dreamcatcher, like The Talisman, rapidly went downhill closer to the end, but the first two thirds or maybe even four fifths were pretty much ok)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hannah View Post
    I just started Black House. The beginning was rough... Peter Straub is not as readable as King... but whatever.
    Yeah the start of that one is rough, though I don't blame Straub for it so much, I remember how unbareablely boring IT and The Stand started out.

    What has King written since Cell? I stopped reading him after that, Cell was just too terrible, well it was good until the last 5 pages, and the rest of it just can't make up for it. It was a very predictable disapointing SK ending.
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    Cell just bored me from start to finish.

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    I didn't make it 40 pages into the Cell.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jean View Post
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    I'm about a third (maybe less) of the way through DREAMCATCHER, and I like the book so far - although there is one event that just does not ring true IMO no matter how much I try to justify it to myself. I hate when a major character does something pivotal that I flat-out can't believe. It pulls me out of the story in a big way and I almost have to force myself not to abandon the book, which is really disappointing when I've been enjoying the book thus far.
    Now you have intrigued me! What is the infamous event?

    (Personally, I thought Dreamcatcher, like The Talisman, rapidly went downhill closer to the end, but the first two thirds or maybe even four fifths were pretty much ok)
    DREAMCATCHER, Part I, SPOILER:
    Spoiler:
    When Beav actually grabs at one of the toothpicks on the "clean area" of an otherwise completely nasty (strange guy's blood, alien fungus, etc.) bathroom floor. I simply don't believe anyone would have made that move given those unsanitary conditions - much less with the risk of something trying to escape from the toilet he's keeping closed.

    I was highly disappointed that SK didn't come up with something more plausible.
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    oh yes. Oh yes. I think I kinda - what is the Freudian term - suppressed it? I kinda tend to forget that every time I think about Dreamcatcher (though how one really forget such a thing?)

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    I'm currently rereading W&G, The Gunslinger and reading a few Harlan Ellison books.
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    Rereading The Wastelands and really having to revise my favourite DT book - I'd forgotten exactly how great these stories were.

    I loved Lisey's Story, but I seem to like the ones that everyone else finds a bit slow going...for instance Insomnia...I've heard various people say it was too slow but I loved that too.

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    I am so close to finishing Liseys Story...maybe tonight.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Darkthoughts View Post
    , but I seem to like the ones that everyone else finds a bit slow going...for instance Insomnia...I've heard various people say it was too slow but I loved that too.
    I loved Insomnia! It was so great! And Lisey's Story is getting much much better for me now.
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    only this thread , Im at work....no I am kidding I am on a reread of DT,
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