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Executioner’s Psalm

The Green Mile by Stephen King

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cbr11bingo – Reading the TBR. Stephen King can seemingly write a story any way he puts his mind to, and here he is in a decidedly Dickensian bent. Intentionally echoing the serial publication of Dickens’s novels, The Green Mile was initially published in six paperback installments, at monthly intervals. The story itself is told in flashback by an aged former prison guard named Paul Edgecombe, writing from the sunroom of his retirement home. In between dodging a contemptuous employee and spending quality time with a new companion, Paul records the story of what happened in the death row block of […]

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8/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:22 |

Not my wheelhouse, but it could be (Bingo #2)

Carrie by Stephen King

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Cbr11bingo Not my wheelhouse I don’t like being scared. Never have. When I was a kid, I had to leave the room if a commercial for a scary movie or show came on. I never wanted to go to haunted houses at Halloween, and I would avoid trick or treating at houses where it looked like someone was going to try to scare me. A few cannonballs ago, I reviewed Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, which is a dark story but not exactly horror. One of my kids was on an R.L. Stine kick a few […]

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8/3/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:36 |

Love of Reading Gone Wrong

Finders Keepers by Stephen King

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Bingo Square: Birthday (Stephen King’s birthday is 21 September) Even though I quite liked Mr. Mercedes, I can’t say I was that interested in more novels with the characters.  Based on who had and hadn’t survived in Mr. Mercedes, I felt like it ended well as it was, and I didn’t necessarily want to continue reading more about some of the characters without others also being around. However, I still ended up downloading the two other novels in the trilogy when I was granted a four day pass in April, figuring I might have some time for light reading on […]

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7/31/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:13 |

The Start of King’s Best Books

The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger by Stephen King

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Apparently lots of people who like The Dark Tower series don’t like this book, and I really don’t understand that. I love the whole series enough to have a tattoo from it, Song of Susannah is clearly the weakest of the books, and The Gunslinger is some of King’s best writing, ever. The exact criticism I hear of it, that it’s a western and not a horror, is what I think allows it to be so great, because it allows King to break from his own conventions and focus on prose instead of story. Thing about it: King writes great […]

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7/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:14 |

Life is a Carnival

Joyland by Stephen King

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CBR11Bingo Pick: Summer ReadTAs his first serious relationship disintegrates, New Hampshire college student Devin Jones flees New England for a summer job at an independent amusement park in North Carolina. Over the course of an extended summer he learns how to get over a girl, how to speak like a carny, and how to survive in a mascot suit on a hot day. He’ll also make a couple of lifelong friends, save two lives, and come to the aide of a struggling single mother and her disabled son. And oh yeah, he might just solve a murder. Devin has only […]

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7/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:19 |

Matchstick Girl

Firestarter by Stephen King

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CBR Bingo category: Birthday (Stephen King, born September 21, 1947) Firestarter feels very much like it could be one of the inspirations behind Stranger Things. A young woman has special abilities thanks to government experiments gone wrong and the government does everything it can to keep her under its control. Charlene “Charlie” McGee is the product of an unlikely marriage. Her mother and father signed up for an experiment in college because they each needed the $200 pretty badly. The mysterious drug known as Lot Six left most of the test subjects insane but instead, Andy and Vicki fell for […]

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7/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:18 |

Ever Closer to the Tower

The Waste Lands by Stephen King

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I have to say that it was great to re-read this and see the ka-tet all together again. I have issues with some of the upcoming books and heaven knows I will forever be irked by Song of Susannah and The Dark Tower as standalones. That said, this book helps set up the latter books as well as foreshadows what will become of some of the ka-tet I think. The main reason why I didn’t give this five stars was that I still loathe that whole story-line with Susannah and the demon. I just cannot with it and it made […]

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6/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:141 |

Ramblin’ Rose

Rose Madder by Stephen King

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I’ve become quite a fan of Stephen King in recent years, but a frequent complaint from the less enamored rings true about Rose Madder: the man could stand an editor. I have no doubt that had anyone not named Stephen King submitted this book as a manuscript, any editor worth his or her salt would have cut about 100 pages (they all would choose the same 100 pages to cut, I bet) and made this a much better book. As it is, Rose Madder is 550 pages of greatness stuck in a 650-page book. Content Warning: To discuss the plot […]

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6/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:17 |


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