What are you currently reading?

**Tommy** · 03-04-2015 09:47 AM

To me, The Regulators is really cool material for a short story but not a full length novel. I did read Desperation first and do like it better than The Regulators. I remember the day they both came out, I bought Desperation and my best friend bought The Regulators and we both started reading our purchases at the same time. A few days later we started discussing them and when we began mentioning character names, you can imagine how blown our minds were! It took me a few more years before I got around to reading The Regulators and was indeed disappointed with it but maybe I was hasty and should give it another go.

**Girlystevedave** · 03-04-2015 09:56 AM

Originally Posted by Tommy

I bought Desperation and my best friend bought The Regulators and we both started reading our purchases at the same time. A few days later we started discussing them and when we began mentioning character names, you can imagine how blown our minds were! .

Yeah, I can imagine that would be pretty confusing for the both of you.
Heck, I can't lie, as someone who has read both, I was pretty confused going into The Regulators, like "why are all the names the same but the characters and story different?!"

**fernandito** · 03-04-2015 10:00 AM

Desperation is just The Regulators (and vice versa) on a different level of the Tower.

**Girlystevedave** · 03-04-2015 10:16 AM

It makes sense now, but when I first read Desperation/The Regulators, I hadn't read Dark Tower yet. So my brain couldn't even begin to comprehend the magnitude of it.

**Tommy** · 03-04-2015 10:21 AM

Originally Posted by Girlystevedave

So my brain couldn't even begin to comprehend the magnitude of it.

Mine still can't

**Girlystevedave** · 03-07-2015 06:03 AM

Originally Posted by Tommy

Originally Posted by Girlystevedave

So my brain couldn't even begin to comprehend the magnitude of it.

Mine still can't

Hey, I don't completely comprehend it. It's so much to process even all these years after having read it.

**Girlystevedave** · 03-07-2015 06:05 AM

Currently reading this:

**BROWNINGS CHILDE** · 03-07-2015 11:02 AM

The Regulators is the Mighty Morphine Power Rangers on an acid trip......a bad acid trip.

In other news, I have moved on to Clash of Kings. This series is badass, can't believe it has taken me so long to get to it.

**WeDealInLead** · 03-08-2015 07:21 AM

Tom Piccirilli - Nightjack

**fernandito** · 03-08-2015 07:24 AM

Just ordered Wayward Pines from Amazon! Want to finish it before the show airs...

**Ricky** · 03-08-2015 08:46 AM

That's next on my list, too. Let me know how you like it.

**Mattrick** · 03-08-2015 01:06 PM

You mean my book is next on the list, right? *nudge nudge wink wink*

**Mattrick** · 03-08-2015 01:07 PM

I still have to read The Regulators. Was not a fan of Desperation at all, though. Hoping I'll enjoy The Regulators more.

**mkb.redux** · 03-08-2015 05:53 PM

Robert McCammon, THE HUNTER FROM THE WOODS.

Read this when it first came out, and this'll be the first re-read. Interested to see if it stands up.

**Ben Staad** · 03-09-2015 04:33 AM

Finished Hunters Run and moving on to either The Martian by Weir or Bloodstone by Kenyon. Anyone have thoughts on either of these books? Good, bad, etc?

**Heather19** · 03-09-2015 04:39 AM

Originally Posted by fernandito

Just ordered Wayward Pines from Amazon! Want to finish it before the show airs...

Excellent!

Hope you enjoy it.

**WeDealInLead** · 03-09-2015 04:55 AM

A lot of people liked The Martian but I thought it was bunk. I really hoped the protagonist would just die already. So frigging obnoxious.

**Ben Staad** · 03-09-2015 06:20 AM

LOL. That is a big thumbs down for The Martian. Thanks BTW.

Originally Posted by WeDealInLead

A lot of people liked The Martian but I thought it was bunk. I really hoped the protagonist would just die already. So frigging obnoxious.

**Tommy** · 03-10-2015 02:45 AM

Just finished reading The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker

**WeDealInLead** · 03-11-2015 01:55 PM

Laird Barron - The Light is the Darkness. This man can write. If you're looking for a book that gets even better the second time around, Barron is your man.

**Ben Staad** · 03-13-2015 04:24 PM

I read the book and agree with you. The other issue I had is that almost all of the actors had the same "voice".

Originally Posted by WeDealInLead

A lot of people liked The Martian but I thought it was bunk. I really hoped the protagonist would just die already. So frigging obnoxious.

**webstar1000** · 03-16-2015 04:41 AM

Jeff VanderMeer: THE SOUTHERN REACH... I am on the second book... and IT IS BRUTAL. I find it so hard to get through where as the first one was amazing! Is the third any better for anyone out there that read it?

**goheat** · 03-16-2015 05:08 AM

Finished The Talisman (1st full read of it!) and loved it! Started Deeply Odd by Dean Koontz.

**smargavio** · 03-16-2015 05:36 AM

What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson right now. Just finished reading The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro and rereading The Drawing of the Three.

**Ben Staad** · 03-16-2015 05:57 AM

That is not good...I was thinking of picking these up. I've been reading a series called Apocalypse Weird but thought about jumping off of that soon. The A.W. series feels like they are just stringing me along so I will buy another book.

Originally Posted by webstar1000

Jeff VanderMeer: THE SOUTHERN REACH... I am on the second book... and IT IS BRUTAL. I find it so hard to get through where as the first one was amazing! Is the third any better for anyone out there that read it?

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