Stephen King Book • Page 75

I’m hammering through Skeleton Crew right now. It’s overall a mixed bag so far but The Jaunt was definitely as good and frightening as I’ve heard others say.

 

longer than you think, dad!

 

You know I had to rep the legend today at Comic Con.

 

Started Needful Things last night. I only got through the little prologue before I fell asleep, but it already feels like higher tier King than the last one I read (Thinner), and I'm definitely glad I picked it up in October.

 

Needful Things is SO good. Some of King's best world-building, as far as I'm concerned.

 

I say it any chance I can but Needful Things is my favorite non obvious King novel. I got one of my coworkers to read it!

 

Backed 100%. Its a masterpiece.

 

I’m about to close out Needful and agree that it should end up in my upper King tier.

 

Yes…pumped for Rattlesnakes

 

I have read almost every king novel but the short story collections take me forever to get through so I still have like 4 of those left. Looks like I’ll have to add another to that list.

 

I've spent my workday with this playing in the background. A really awesome, candid series of interviews from 1989. Good tidbits about how he writes, why he writes, what influences his writing, and a good look into his thoughts on what he's written.

 

Wanted to see when I started this. I can't believe it's taken me all year and I'm still not done, what a bum.

Still hoping to finish before the new year, just about 300 pages left.

I'm still enjoying it, but it's not the page-turner that It was for me. It lost some steam when they got to Boulder and I feel like it's been spinning its wheels a little since then, but I assume it's just about to start picking up. Frannie and Larry are starting to catch on to Harold's bullshit.

 

I finished up Needful Things last week. Easily top tier King for me.

About 100 pages into Holly now.

 

One criticism I have of Needful Things, and maybe King in general, is that at the end when Polly is trying to explain Gaunt's ruse to Alan, she does so in a way that is so needlessly indirect and verbose, that no one in real life would ever use.

I feel like King lapses into that sometimes. Maybe to better illustrate a theme of the story to the audience, but when looking at it through the lens of normal human speech, it reads insane to me.

 

Needful Things is taking me forever because baby, but it’s really good so far.

 

Ok fine I’ll buy Needful Things lol

 

Finished Needful Things today. Might be one of King's best endings?

 

What I REALLY like about Needful Things is its just simple? Like the ending doesn't try to do too much. Like there is a story to tell and doesn't impact the entire world's fate ya know?

Love it so much.

 

Finished Holly last night right before midnight to get it in my 2023 reads.

while I liked the very end, the ending as a whole was kinda lackluster. Still enjoyed it though

 

Adore this cover and copy. When I eventually re-read the Stand I’ll be excited to hold this copy

 

I started End of Watch late last week. I'm doing the audio and I'm flying through it. Love these characters

I also closed out December with The Colorado Kid which was a nice solid little mystery

 

I’m halfway through Holly. Decent so far. Dig the story itself but really not into the Covid setting at all.

 

Finished End Of Watch. Usually an audiobook that length would take me a couple weeks to get through, but I really love the characters and the story was so compelling I blew through it in a week. I was apprehensive about some of the major shifts in this one ( returning to Brady and adding supernatural elements to what was previously a more realistic crime series) but it all ended up working for me

Loved the trilogy overall. Finders Keepers is still my favorite of the three.

Now I can finally read If It Bleeds, then Holly

 

I really hated this aspect of it when I first read it. I’ve softened on it a bit over the years as Holly has showed up in other books though.