I just picked up the Green Mile by Stephen King two days ago. I'm about to finish it. I told my bf I've never seen the movie and he's trying to remedy that. I told him I have to finish the book before I see the movie.
I just picked up the Green Mile by Stephen King two days ago. I'm about to finish it. I told my bf I've never seen the movie and he's trying to remedy that. I told him I have to finish the book before I see the movie.
Daphne duMaurier's "The Birds" Beautifully atmospheric. Quite different from the movie.
I'm halfway through Joe Hill's short story collection 20th Century Ghosts.
Just finished listening to Dan Simmons Carrion Comfort. I had previously read Summer of Night and The Terror. Of those three, I think The Terror is the best, but what I really appreciate in reading him is that he writes complicated action sequences better than anyone I can think of--for example, the New Years Eve Masque sequence in The Terror, among many others.
I just started the regulators by Richard Bachman, anyone ever read this book.
I just started the regulators by Richard Bachman, anyone ever read this book.
It's been a long time, but from what I remember, it's a decent book. I'll second what Haggis said about Bachman. But then again none of the Bachman stories babbled on for 1300 pages, either, lol. IMO, the two best Bachman books are Blaze and Thinner.
Clifford Simak should have had a talk with them both, and the Simpsons, about his novel All Flesh is Grass (1965) BTW I like McCammon a great deal. I think from about 1981 to 1992 he really was "the second Stephen King" except that his social melodrama bits had less cruel "realism", and more pathos. And then he broke down and returned to writing only a decade later, and now is a master of fabulous 18th century detective adventure. Sensitive chaps, talented writers. Can be unpredictable. I'm currently reading Koontz's From the Corner of His Eye, and Steve Yeager's first Raptor Apocalypse volume. The Koontz has an unexpected streak of consistent black humor among the usual ingredients of badass suspense, preaching, and deaf ear. Also less description overload than I'm used to with Koontz. Fine book thus far, I'm 3/4 done. Yeager's Raptor Apocalypse is way better than most of today's new crop. It's like actually tries to fill the shoes of the 100 year old masters like King, Koontz, McCammon and Charles Grant. Although some reviewers compare him to Lee Child, for some reason... I also made a quick detour and read King's Ur. Eh, not bad. Like The Breathing Method: a fine short story idea (a golden age of sci-fi idea in this case, reminiscent of early Heinlein) swathed inside the needless layers of a protracted novelette.Stinger by Robert McCammon. Wonder if he ever had a word with Stephen King when he read Under the Dome...