@Loki
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sheetsadam1 — 5 months ago(October 10, 2025 12:50 AM)
just curious, what is wrong with this one? i've read
The Speed Queen
by Stewart O'Nan last year and really liked it… so i'm just curious who is to blame for that low ranking? lol
I've never read anything else by O'Nan. But this book is just a collection of emails they sent to one another over the course of a Boston Red Sox season. And, not being a baseball fan, I barely understood a single word of it
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sheetsadam1 — 5 months ago(October 10, 2025 01:33 AM)
Yes lmao. I've even read bootleg versions of some early short stories he's never published in one of his collections (although two of them were incorporated into Creepshow). He's basically the main person (wait… Maine person
) I credit for my love of reading, so…
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sheetsadam1 — 5 months ago(October 16, 2025 02:38 AM)
And at least two more to catch up on
(and, yes, I'll definitely be revisiting
The Talisman
and
Black House
soon… and
The Dark Tower
maybe?
) He also touches on the van accident here.
Stephen King currently has two novels on his to-do list. After that? Well, his Constant Readers will have to wait and see as the legendary writer contemplates a well-deserved break.
“I’m trying to clear my desk as much as I can,” King, 78, tells USA TODAY. “At my age, you're off the warranty. You can't take anything for granted.”
This year has enjoyed a slew of adaptations of his works, from movies (“The Monkey,” “The Life of Chuck,” “The Long Walk” and upcoming “The Running Man”) to TV series (“The Institute” and this month’s “It: Welcome to Derry”). Plus the master of horror also dipped back into his detective side for the novel “Never Flinch,” the latest case for his fan-favorite sleuth Holly Gibney.
King’s planning one more book starring Gibney that he hopes to write this winter. “I love Holly,” he says. “Right now I am rereading ‘The Outsider’ because I have a way into this last Holly book so I need to refresh myself with that.”
Before that, he still has work to do on his next novel, a third book in a series with his friend, the late Peter Straub, that began with 1984’s “The Talisman” and 2001’s “Black House.” At the end of the sequel, King says it was made “pretty clear” that the fantasy world of the “Talisman” books, the Territories, is also the Mid-World of his “Dark Tower” tomes, so he plans to “button up” both series with the new tome.
Straub had given King some ideas for their third book before his death in 2022. “I kept putting it off when Peter was alive,” he says. “Peter had stuff to do, too. I mean, it wasn't all on me. But I would say, ‘Well, this time, this time…’ and time ran out for Peter. That made me feel really bad."
King wants to take some time off “while I'm still healthy,” he reveals. “You can't guarantee anything once you get past the age of 75, 76. So you've got to be a little bit careful. Anything can happen to anybody. I got hit by a van while I was in my prime, so to speak. I might have another 10, 15 years, but you can't count on it, that's all.”
King’s output has always been prodigious but it’s been especially remarkable in his later years. Other writers have been inspired: In a recent interview about his new novel “King Sorrow,” his son Joe Hill admitted he wants to be a “book-a-year guy” like King. “He’s a force, man. My dad (sneezes) and then he pulls out the tissue and goes, ‘Oh wow. Look, there's a novel there.’ ”
What’s his secret? “The thing is, I try to entertain myself,” King says. “I sit down like at quarter of 6 in the morning before anybody's up, and before my wife's having her first cup of coffee and she's in another part of the house. I really enjoy those three or four hours where I can play in a kind of a fantasy world. It's kind of nice.”
Don’t worry, folks, King’s not retiring tomorrow. As he says, “I’m a busy guy.” However, the author admits he’d “like to stop before I start to drivel. Like, repeat myself. I feel like I've still got a little more space to explore, but I have to watch out and not become a bore. I hate that idea, of being a boring person. I'd like to still surprise people a little bit.”
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LorqVonRay1999 — 3 months ago(December 26, 2025 10:31 PM)
Banned where?
Yeah, his books were banned in my grade school library. And high school. No problem with that.
But, oddly enough, the bookstore about eight blocks away carried many of his novels. They had to be purchased.
They were also in the public library.
And have they never been available at the cheapest prices on Amazon? Barnes and Noble? Target?
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Twizlee — 5 months ago(October 12, 2025 12:15 PM)
I'm flying through Freida McFadden books.
The Housemaid
The housemaid's Secret
The housemaid Wedding (super short)
The Wife Upstairs
Do Not Disturb
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Celestia Bloodshed — 5 months ago(October 25, 2025 09:49 PM)
currently re-reading this trilogy (in English, i only read the translated into German version before)
so i can finally start
Songbird & Snakes- then
Sunrise on the Reaping
, both of which i criminally haven't read yet.
cursed, scarred & forever possessed
- then
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sheetsadam1 — 5 months ago(October 28, 2025 03:46 PM)
Fevre Dream
marked the first occasion where a George R.R. Martin book left me completely satisfied It turns out that he does know how to write an ending after all!
Seriously, though, this steamboat era vampire tale more than earns a slot in the canon of great '80s horror fiction and would make an excellent movie in the right hands. But let's hold off on that for now… he doesn't need any more distractions. Just in case this is one of the sites he ****s around on rather than writing: finish the goddamn books, George!
Currently reading the final book in my October horror marathon and, coincidentally, the same author I was reading back in June when I began this thread.
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sheetsadam1 — 5 months ago(October 31, 2025 07:37 PM)
Awesome! I've not read a ton of science fiction (other than Vonnegut), but I do plan to tackle some of Ray Bradbury's sci-fi work soon. I'm a big fan
Fahrenheit 451
,
The October Country
,
Something Wicked This Way Comes
and
Dandelion Wine
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PygmyLion — 5 months ago(October 31, 2025 06:49 PM)
I have been visiting Boston lately for no good reason.
I recently finished up Nathanial Hawthorne's
The Scarlet Letter
, which takes place in colonial Boston.
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The Bostonians
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sheetsadam1 — 5 months ago(October 31, 2025 07:34 PM)
Excellent! Hawthorne was a brilliant writer and I've read
The Scarlet Letter
twice. I actually prefer his short fiction, though. Henry James was great as well, though I've not read that one.
After reading nothing but horror fiction since late September, I plan to take a break from that genre next month, with some newly published nonfiction and contemporary fiction, as well as two titles that come highly recommended by a couple of the very best posters here. My tentative November reading list:
The Bible According to Spike Milligan- A recommendation from
@Loki
Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky - finally beginning my Dostoevsky journey,
@Celestia Bloodshed
!
Paper Girl
by Beth Macy - A memoir of Rust Belt Ohio from the author of
Dopesick
Nobody's Girl
by Virginia Roberts Giuffre - Posthumous memoir by the Jeffrey Epstein trafficking victim.
Hot Wax
by M.L. Rio - A new novel from the author of
If We Were Villains
, set in the world of music.
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