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He was having a seizure of projectile vomiting. This was not considered a sign of good health in medical circles

Tommyknockers; Elevation; Rose Madder; Nightmares and Dreamscapes; The Green Mile by Stephen King

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The Tommyknockers – 3/5 Stars This book has some significant issues, but it’s also very good at a few things. The biggest issue is that it’s a little too on the nose with so much of the characterization and subplots. It’s a little too convenient that, for example, so many of the characters in the book are immune through slightly ridiculous ways to the central supernatural element of the book. So the book itself involves a writer living in a small town in upstate Maine stumbling across (literally) the corner of an alien spacecraft and becoming increasingly obsessed with unearthing. […]

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12/8/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:423 |

Still One of the Best Horror Books of All Time

The Shining by Stephen King

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I’m a huge horror fan, but am very picky about horror books. There are lots of great horror movies out there, but I always think there are far fewer great horror novels. Horror seems to work better as a short story or novella when written, for some reason, perhaps just because it’s hard to build and maintain tension for the entirety of a novel. But King? He tends to know what he’s doing when it comes to writing horror, even if he is often bad at endings. The Shining is, I think, the very best example of his talent. I’ve […]

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11/28/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:47 |

It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating

Insomnia; Firestarter; Christine; Cujo; The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King

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Insomnia – 2/5 This is one of the most 1990s books I’ve ever read, and that is sometimes ok, and almost never a boon. It’s also likely one of Stephen King’s most 1990 book, and that’s not a good thing really, and in fact this book is pretty bad. Often, as it happens in king books, the supernatural element is less good than the fictional parts of the book. Not only is that the case with this book, the supernatural element becomes so distracting, so goofy, so cringeworthy, and so annoying that it actively takes away from what is good […]

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10/25/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:386 |

Turns out King IS capable of writing something I don’t enjoy

The Regulators by Richard Bachman

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The Regulators was something of a rarity for me. Dreamcatcher aside, I’ve not often read a Stephen King book that I didn’t really enjoy. As I’ve been mostly reading in chronological order, I’m well aware that his best is now probably behind me, but I do hope that the rest to come is still better than this. Written under the name of his alter ego, Richard Bachman, The Regulators is a companion piece to Desperation, a decent read in which an entity named Tak was roused from its slumber beneath a mining operation and lay waste to the titular town […]

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10/7/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:69 |

“When the mind’s filter disappeared, the big picture disappeared with it. There was no forest, only trees. At its worst, there were no trees, either. Just bark.”

The Outsider by Stephen King

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The reviews on Uncle Stevie’s latest tome have been mostly similar: a great, suspenseful first half, telling a story about a police investigation into the brutal murder of a child by a seemingly innocent man…and a less successful second half, filled with supernatural elements and a character from earlier novels. Most reviews have pointed out that the story presented in the first half were quite enough for a full novel: local good citizen arrested for horrific crime, town turns against him and his family, regardless of what his alibi may be. I’m talking about spoilers now, so be careful if […]

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10/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:36 |

Classic King – not for the faint of heart

The Stand by Stephen King

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I adore post-apocalyptic literature and have read many of the Stephen King biggies (The Shining, Misery, Carrie, Pet Cemetary, It, Salem’s Lot, Christine, Needful Things, Thinner) so not sure why I hadn’t read The Stand but I think the size of the volume probably had something to do with it. At 1153 pages The Stand is less a hobby and moreso a lifestyle choice. His fifth book, written in 1978, it was definitely a blast from the past. I snagged the copy held for me at the library and was downright crestfallen to learn that I actually picked up the 10th […]

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9/23/2018 |

Everything goes away, Jack Sawyer, like the moon. Everything comes back, like the moon.

The Talisman by Stephen King; Peter Straub

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This is a trope-filled fantasy novel that lives and dies by its uses of said tropes. It’s a road novel and it’s a novel that has the best and worst that Stephen King has to offer. I have no clue what particularities Peter Straub brought to this one because I don’t know his work at all and there’s so much Stephen King in this one it’s hard to separate. I did like this one a lot and think that it could make a very interesting and good tv show. It would be a bad movie since for the most part […]

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9/8/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:343 |

I would bet money that Stephen King has never been to North Carolina

Joyland by Stephen King

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I can’t remember the last time I read a book by Stephen King. I was a huge fan in my teens and 20s, but it’s probably been at least 20 years since I picked up one of his books. Recently, my daughter has started reading King, so when Joyland showed up in our shared digital library suggestions, I though, “Sure, why not.” I wasn’t disappointed, which was a great relief to me. Joyland isn’t a horror story per se, and is really more of a ghost story than anything else. There are the usual King-universe elements, a youthful male protagonist (aka a King stand-in), […]

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9/6/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:18 |


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