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Hill writes at King's level. N0S4A2 and the Fireman are worthy of King at his best. I can't wait for another novel from him. And yeah, all his comic work is fantastic.

As far as Owen I've only read Sleeping Beauties which was good, but not a favorite.

 

I can’t believe a streamer hasn’t adapted Heart Shape Box for a halloween release.

 

I saw that Bill Camp is in it which is awesome. He was great in The Outsider.

 

With all the delays, I except Salems Lot to get dumped to a streamer this October

 

Finished Joyland and liked it a lot!

 

I’m almost done with The Waste Lands. Man, what a ride this has been so far, haha.

 

Just finished Waste Lands. These books are so perfectly paced. King is so great at the mix of exposition and action. He just has the best feel for what we need to know vs. what will entertain us and how to mix the two. I’m gonna start Wizard and Glass tomorrow. After that is where I’m going to stop and do Salem’s Lot like I planned.

 

W&G is my personal favorite from the series. Some people dislike it due to the obvious reason, but I love it so much.

 

Forgot Joyland is in development but it's at FreeForm which doesn't give me much hope.

 

I also agree

 

I just started book 7, but I’m kinda surprised how easily adaptable the first handful of books are. I always figured it was unadaptable before I started reading, but it seems like it could be pretty close to 1:1.

It could also really follow the Films + Miniseries format too.

 

weirdly specific but I hope whatever good adaptation gets made has Bob Dylan's Ain't Talkin in it. that song screams Roland to me

 

I wonder if they’d approach W&G differently in a show format? Just randomly mid show doing a flashback season. I wonder how the non-reading audience would react lol - I’d love it!

 

Started Billy Summers recently. I’m not sure why, but I thought it would be a “lighter” more action centric book, but the writings/flashback chapters are really depressing and severely bumming me out.

 

I’ve been trying to fill out my collection and I found these four on eBay for $12. Great deal and they’re in great shape. I usually buy paperbacks of everything for reading and hardcovers to collect on my bookshelf.

 

I am about 300 pages into Insomnia. As expected, it is definitely a real slow burn but some things have started to pick up.

I do enjoy it so far!

 

Was in B&N today in the horror section just browsing and next to me were 2 young twenty somethings who I could tell wanted to start reading Stephen King but didn’t know where to start (and could tell they weren’t big readers).

They had an article up and it led to them holding the Stand but were obviously intimidated by the size. I chimed in and helped and after they said: “I just wanted something creepy” I recommended Pet Semetary and they took my opinion and bought it immediately!

 

I’m not sure if you guys have listened but I’ve been digging The Kingcast. It’s a King podcast hosted by Fangoria where the hosts invite a different celebrity/author on to talk about a specific King work that they love. I recently listened to the episodes with Stephen Graham Jones talking about The Outsider and Bill Hader talking about Salem’s Lot.

 

I've listened to a few, loved the Paul Rust episode.

 

On to re-reading ‘Salem’s Lot. Been a very long time but I’m gradually remembering more as it goes. About 200 pages in.

Hoping to wrap it up and get some news about WB releasing the remake on Max in September/October.

 

Beginning Christine for the first time!

Put it off for a while only because the copy I own is pretty tattered on the dust jacket, but I am moving past that. Really just needed an easy King book to get me out of a reading slump.

 

Going to Bangor next week! Stoked to be going there for all the Constant Reader reasons. Hoping to hit some of these spots up and buy a King book while I’m there!

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About 140 pages into Needful Things after finishing ‘Salem’s Lot. Then onto Holly!

Watched the 2004 TNT version of ‘Salem’s tonight. Kind of won me over in the home stretch but so many of the changes were stupid. It just reeks of that early 2000’s filmmaking style too which was a turnoff.

Overall- pretty mediocre and a step down from Hooper’s IMO.

 

Is this available to watch somewhere?

 

Not that I could find. Rented it on Prime for like $4.