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[Dalyn]

Discuss.

Reading: Joyland by Stephen King

Enjoying it very much. I am a big fan of King, and his recent stuff has been top notch. Looking forward to Dr. Sleep (sequel to The Shining) later this year.

Short Story of this post.

[Dalyn]

[DaneHill]

Discuss.

Reading: Joyland by Stephen King

Enjoying it very much. I am a big fan of King, and his recent stuff has been top notch. Looking forward to Dr. Sleep (sequel to The Shining) later this year.

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I've read It from King. Thought it was outstanding. Read the first book or two of that monthly series of books he wrote 20 years or so ago. Forget what that was. But enjoyed them as well, just fell behind and couldn't get back to them.

(I'm enjoying Under the Dome on tv!)

[Dalyn]

I've read It from King. Thought it was outstanding. Read the first book or two of that monthly series of books he wrote 20 years or so ago. Forget what that was. But enjoyed them as well, just fell behind and couldn't get back to them.

(I'm enjoying Under the Dome on tv!)

I read IT when I was 11 or so. Very good book.

The Green Mile rocked, and it also had one of the best screen adaptations.

I'm enjoying Under the Dome, too, but it is completely different than the book. Still enjoyable. Just different.

11/22/63 is a recent favorite of his. Damn near perfect book, and it has a little treat for IT fans.

[Dalyn]

How about a nod to my avatar. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream is the best non-fiction book I've ever read.

[BlackwaterPark]

Just finished:

Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Start by Jon Acuff

Reading now:

Entreleadership by Dave Ramsey

[elmonthc]

Ive read a bunch of king books. Theres something about his writing style that turns me off.

Maximum Overdrive waa the **** though.

[Dalyn]

Reading: Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Enjoying it. Doctorow is a fine writer.

Short Story of this post. Read it!

[chop2chip]

I have been reading The Stand by Stephen King and it's great. I'm extremely excited to finish it.

Next, I'm going to begin Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson I think. Anyone read that or him? Would you recommend?

[Dalyn]

I have been reading The Stand by Stephen King and it's great. I'm extremely excited to finish it.

Next, I'm going to begin Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson I think. Anyone read that or him? Would you recommend?

Sanderson is above average now. He learned a lot finishing The Wheel of Time series for Jordan.

[Hawk]

The Stand is one of my favorite books of all time.

[Dalyn]

The Stand is one of my favorite books of all time.

Can't wait for the new movies.

[chop2chip]

The Stand is one of my favorite books of all time.

I just finished it and it was fantastic.

Highly recommend it to anyone here

[Runnin]

Just started this but loving it so far.

[Hawk]

Just started this but loving it so far.

I read Bryson's latest, One Summer: America, 1927, around this time last year and walked away thoroughly impressed/informed. I want that man's vocabulary.

[Hawk]

[Runnin]

I read Bryson's latest, One Summer: America, 1927, around this time last year and walked away thoroughly impressed/informed. I want that man's vocabulary.

Then you need to check out
Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors and
Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right

I can't believe I haven't read this guy before now. Looking forward to other books of his:
Notes from a Small Island (1995), an exploration of Britain and
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way

[Dalyn]

Some good stuff here -

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jenniferscha...-am#.rf9Z38Jjb

My favorites of the ones listed -

22. “At the still point, there the dance is.”
—T. S. Eliot, “Four Quartets”

32. “We cross our bridges as we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and the presumption that once our eyes watered.”
—Tom Stoppard, "Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead"

38. “I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.”
—Raymond Carver, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”

45. “I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
—Khaled Hosseini, "The Kite Runner"

46. “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby"

48. “And the rest is rust and stardust.”
—Vladimir Nabokov, "Lolita"

[Runnin]

Loved this book. It morphed into an indictment of Japanese POW mistreatment for too long and I think that hurt the book but it was still one of the best biographies I've ever read.

[Carp]

The Dark Towers series has been on my to-read list for a few years. Now with the impending movie, it seems like as good of time as ever to dig in.

To any who has read, is the best way to read this series as simple as reading books #1-7 in chronological order?

I've also just started this series. About halfway through book 1 now. In the process of buying a house now, so it will be a week or two before I finish it.