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JonQPublik many have tried. It’s never moved past the trying to write a script-phace. One of King’s best works, and he wrote it when he was under 20 years old.

    they really need to do and extended dark tower series and not fuck it up. the ron howard idea from way back sounded great, whereas that movie they released was an abomination.

    14 days later

    Just started reading Bill Browder - Red Notice. A true story on how Putin has stolen millions of dollars from Russia.
    Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice

      Dubman superb book that D-man… I’ve heard a bit criticism though of his self-aggrandisement

          Jules72

          I only bought it on the back of him popping up on LBC talking about the Russian oligarchs. I’m only a few chapters in and it does seem more like a fictional story than a non fiction

              Dubman it’s a true story but he does paint a heroic version of himself… still a great book regardless

                8 days later

                Stephen King - The Long Walk

                If it was a record, it would be a single sided white label containing around six minutes of unnamed jacked up techno. More anxiety inducing than anthing I have read in a long time. Does a boss job of depicting the vaguely lucid terror of it all.

                  Amps love Stephen King. When I 1st started reading his books (when I was 13+) it was all about stark 70s-80s horror but some of his better efforts recently have almost been a bit sci-fi and fantasy. My faves have to be The Stand, The Dark Half, The Shining and Firestarter…..yeh I suppose one criticism may be that it’s fairly ‘basic’ but you can’t help but get drawn into his characters and that’s a testament to what he does in terms of character foreplay….you’'re invested

                    Amps I’ll have to re-read Shades of Grey before August. So many things to read this year. The final book in Ken Liu’s The Dandelion Dynasty is out this fall too, and I still haven’t read book three.

                    My TBR stack(s) are evergrowing symbols of failure.

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                        After reading both Johnny Marr’s and Bobby Gillespie’s memoirs (both superb books), I’ve started Homo Sapiens: A brief history of humankind, which is a lot more interesting than I thought it would be (so far)

                        Amps one of his best works, and he wrote it when he was 19 or something.

                          Amps As Hannu has said, one of his best IMO. Such a surreal premise initially, but as I’ve got older I’ve thought ‘This actually could happen ’.

                          I’m just about to start a book called 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster. Not read his works before. It’s a bulky read by all accounts but I’ve heard good things

                            JonQPublik I’ll have to re-read Shades of Grey

                            Same here. It’s now next in line after the rest of the Bachman Books.

                              Ring Shout - P Djeli Clark - 9/10 - great stuff

                              The Doors Of Eden - Adrian Tchaikovsky - not finished it yet but it’s all a bit meh really. Great concept but it could have been so much more. 7/10

                              Just finished: The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward. Rating: 8/10 v good

                              Currently Reading: Norwegian by Night by Derek Miller. Rating: 7/10 decent.

                              Next up: The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz

                              10 days later

                              Needful Things by Stephen King. Forget The Tommyknockers, this is his worst book. A satire about Reagan-era greed that’s way too long, and has his worst ending ever. Funny thing is that this was his first or second book written sober, and it reads like it was written on coke, they way it doesn’t focus at all.