What have you read recently?

gcw

I think the only ones I havent read are the 2nd and 3rd of the Bill Hodges trilogy, Elevation and Billy Summers.

For what’s its worth - to contrast the stinker list - my favourites are The Stand, The Dark Tower series, The Dead Zone, The Long Walk and Pet Semetary. Whilst I enjoyed IT, I was always baffled at its success

JonQPublik

gcw How The Long Walk wasn’t ever adapted to film is just bonkers.

303abuser

pet semetary was the first of his books i read, i was maybe 13. i should probably read it again too, given that probably 75% of the references went over my head at the time.

Homegrove

303abuser I loved it as a kid. As an adult I agree with his wife, it’s too grim. BTW the monster in the woods on the way to the Micmac-cemetary was wendigo.

303abuser

Homegrove lol that’s what i’m talking about, i don’t even remember a monster in the woods. my strongest memory is the kid getting hit by the truck. <- just in case someone doesn’t know the story and might read it.

Homegrove

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.

Dan

Currently halfway through the The Geneva Convention….

JonQPublik

Oh, and The Dead Zone movie with Christopher Walken is a great adaptation, imo.

303abuser

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.

Dubman

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

Jules72

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

Dubman

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

Jules72

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

Mick_Morgan

Mastering Home Brew by Randy Mosher

Amps

JonQPublik The sequel is now available for pre order 👍️

JonQPublik

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.

Amps

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.

Mick_Morgan

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

Homegrove

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

gcw

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

Amps

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.

Amps

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

Just seen that my pre-order had been cancelled. Not sure why. Re-ordered. Release date: 6 July 2023.

Jules72

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)

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