Cannonball Read 11

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95% of the people who walk the earth are inert, Johnny.

The Dead Zone by Stephen King

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Somehow I hadn’t read this one before, and like last year when I read Firestarter, and others in more recent years reading the first handful of Stephen King novels, I am reminded how sharp he was for the first dozen years or so, with only the middling period in the mid to late 90s, before coming back from his injuries to begin anew. This one does something that he does from time to time…invent a supernatural plane or set of abilities etc in order to play out a small plot as opposed to a big one. So like The Shining […]

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4/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:217 |

“When creative people do their best work, they’re hardly ever in charge, they’re just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.”

Everything's Eventual by Stephen King

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I have had this beaten-up paperback copy of Everything’s Eventual in my backpack for at least a year, reading a few pages here, a short story there. I was enjoying it, but kept forgetting it was there, usually opting to listen to Audible or read on my kindle when I had some free time. And finally, I went for a walk at lunch today, found a cute table outside a sandwich shop, and sat down to finish it. I’m pretty sure that this was only my second time through this specific collection of stories from Uncle Stevie. Kind of strange […]

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4/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:17 |

Scary Cat

Pet Sematary by Stephen King

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I’ve been working my way through Stephen King’s bibliography lately and the release of a new film adaptation made Pet Sematary a natural enough choice for my latest foray. Louis Creed is a doctor who moves his family from Chicago to Maine in order to take a job at a university hospital. He becomes fast friends with his 83-year-old neighbor, Jud, who shows the Creed family the unusual feature of their property. The children of the town have a tradition of burying their dead pets in the woods behind the Creed house, with grave markers and everything. (The title’s unique […]

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4/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:8 |

The triumphant return of the Constant Reader

The Outsider by Stephen King

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I am a die-hard ‘constant reader’ of Stephen King, who has ridden the rollercoaster of almost all of his novels (particularly his classics). He is such prolific author, reliably churning out page-turners each year, so it is incredibly easy to just stick with his stable. In recent years, however, I’ve made a conscious effort to avoid his allure. I’ve tried my best to branch out, read new things. … But for my 6th Cannonball Read selection, I fell back into old habits. The Outsider is a story in two parts. The first part, a ‘who-dun-it’ detective novel posing an impossible […]

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4/2/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:6 |

The Continuing Adventures of Danny Torrance

Doctor Sleep by Stephen King

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I thought about waiting 30 years to read Stephen King’s sequel to The Shining, in order to reflect the gap in time between both the release of the two books and their setting. In the end I decided I didn’t have the patience. Yes, Danny (now Dan) Torrance is all grown up and still grappling with his special talent, the one Dick Hallorann called “shining.” Dick is out of adult Danny’s life, as is his mother Wendy, both dead, and the beginning of the novel finds Dan adrift. Unfortunately, he inherited his father’s love of the bottle, and drifts from […]

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3/22/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:6 |

Go Crazy? Don’t Mind if I Do

The Shining by Stephen King

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I haven’t actually seen Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of The Shining, but it’s a testament to that film’s iconic status that even I couldn’t help but notice how different the original novel is from the movie. Without trying to spoil anything, there’s no cascade of blood coming out of an elevator and no creepy set of ghost twins either. There is, however, one hell of a dynamite premise, for either a book or a movie. For the few of you who might need an introduction: Jack Torrance is a fired teacher and a formerly promising writer who, in desperation, accepts […]

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3/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:5 |

The Continuing Saga of Castle Rock

Elevation by Stephen King

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I was honestly surprised to see that King keeps returning to Castle Rock. I thought he was done with his fictional town, but he keeps coming back. There’s some nice callbacks to former novels and to his latest “Gwendy’s Button Box” too. The main character in this one, Scott Carey bugs me a bit though (one of the reasons why I gave this just four stars). He decides he is going to force his friendship on a woman that doesn’t want it (for good reasons) and there seems to be a slightly messed up message by King here that all […]

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2/25/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:52 |

Shuffle

The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King

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What can I say. This was fantastic from beginning to end. Reading how Roland drew Eddie, Odetta, Detta, and then Susannah was wonderful from beginning to end. King made everyone come alive and I still smile thinking of our initial ka-tet. I can’t wait until the next book. “The Drawing of the Three” follows seven hours after Roland has his palaver with the Man in Black. The last gunslinger is told that he is going to be drawing three and is warned about what is coming next. We see as Roland comes across doors along a lonely beach filled with […]

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2/22/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:51 |


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