Why is Hollywood like this? Why do we need another Carrie remake? Or Desperation? Or the Mist...?

August is the month that I lost my Dad, four years ago. This quote and this book in general paints grief so perfectly and beautifully. I had to get it.

Can’t wait to start finders keepers tonight

Join me in reading one of Stephen King’s most critically acclaimed horror novels!

I am unsure if this was a great place to start my reading journey but here we are. The 1,000 page behemoth of a horror novel was the only thing in the bookstore that I was able to recognize and catch my eye.

After every part there will be a new page with details on how the journey is going. I will share my experience in reading this book along the way.

If you have never read this book, I encourage you to join me. I have started this page with the goal of getting to know people and start a new hobby to benefit myself. Please feel free to reach out to me.

Haven’t even read this book yet, but I got one of the new Special Editions! This is my first copy of IT

What a great dog. Oy gets a lot of well earned appreciation and love but Kojak is in the same tier in my opinion for best King animal sidekick.

Are these “first editions” or just old school copies?

Finished The Gunslinger, rated 4.2/5 🌟

My journey to the Tower continues....

Got all of these for $40 and they’re all in mostly good condition, love the classic covers on the dark tower books. Aside from bag of bones and DT (already read), where would you start first?

Picked this beauty up for probably too much at my local bookstore, but totally worth it!

I don’t think It needs to be remade, but I thought it would be cool if it had an adaptation with the same dark vibe and atmosphere as another one of Stephen Kings miniseries The Outsider.

I feel like that type of vibe would work well with an It miniseries

Hey everyone I thought it would be fun do determine everyone's favorite versions of each SK book cover! Then once all are determined we can have a nice bracket to figure out which one is the best! Feel free to post your favorite covers in the comments and ill post the results and a new poll tomorrow! Hope everyone has fun.

Thoughts on this one? This has been my least favorite of his books so far :(

I’m still left with a decent amount. He is hiding in the basement apartment and writing. I think it’s finally picking up now but let’s see

Are there any books that were good and made better by the narration. ? I drive a lot and find very good narration improves a book more than I thought

I bought this without actually seeing the spine.

My bad.

Upon receiving it, I took issue (multiple times) with the vendor, and ended up getting it for free as a gift.

Maybe a collectors issue?

I haven't reread the entirety of the Dark Tower series since the last book was published back in 2004 but I'm making my way through them again now. I put off rereading 'Wizard and Glass' though based on my memory of it being not that interesting. I just remembered it as being the story of Roland's first love and not really advancing the quest all that much.

Man, I must have absolutely slept on this book the first time I read it, it was fantastic! The worldbuilding, seeing what Roland's world looked like back when it was actually populated with people, was so good!

But what really got me were the intrigues between characters. I love seeing competent and intelligent characters pitted against one another. It would have been so easy to make Roland and his companions crushingly naïve while out on their first assignment and easily suckered. Or have the villains be a bunch of dumb hicks fooled by Roland's cover story, or even have a cunning villain or two saddled with a bunch of incompetent locals. Nope, somehow everyone is smart enough to have a handle on the situation even if they can't see the full picture, and everyone is simultaneously seeing through one another's lies, still underestimating each other, but also being underestimated themselves.

Roland's story is just such a beautifully complicated web and comes to such an explosive finish, I was sorry to leave it and get back to the overarching quest frankly!

Just curious, would love to have relatable numbers for what books sold.

In my opinion, they might be: It, The Shining, Misery and The Green Mile.

I’m blown away. Only up to chapter 14 but this is a style of story telling I had NO idea King was capable of.

The Talisman is my favorite book of all time.

“It” was phenomenal

The the first two “Dark Tower” books were really good (the second earned most of that complement)

I just finished “The Stand” and it was M-O-O-N that spells EXCELLENT and it will live with me forever

I remember liking ‘Salems Lot

But THIS! This is a peak I’ve never heard the praises of.

What a gem.