Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Not Bad, Not Great

Never Flinch by Stephen King

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Bingo: One. Two distinct storylines come together as one. You have to push through to the bitter end. No flinching, no turning away. it amazes me sometimes how long I’ve been reading Stephen King. At least since 12 years old, I think and I’m 57 now. I haven’t read everything but I’ve read a lot. Never Flinch was enjoyable if a little repetitive in places (King could always use a little editing).  It’s part of what started out as the Bill Hodges series, and now the […]

How far would you go to change history?

11/22/63 by Stephen King

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CBR18 BINGO: Repair, because the main character goes back in time to try to repair the damage caused by JFK’s assassination I had a high-school English teacher who mused that she didn’t think Stephen King would ever be counted among the “classics” because the sheer volume of his output inevitably led to some substandard attempts. Plus, there was the whole tie in with movie deals that undermined his legitimacy (this was back in the ’80s, when it wasn’t necessarily a given that a popular book […]

The Road to Hell

The Long Walk by Stephen King

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Cliff Young, a 61-year old sheep farmer, won the first ever Sydney to Melbourne ultramarathon in 1983. He did it by running slowly but most effectively and by sleeping only for two hours during the first night when his competition slept for six hours. Eventually, he skipped sleeping altogether. He won the race by a landslide and also set a new record. His stamina was forged in the 1930s when he run for days finding and gathering sheep in the Australian wilderness. Effectively, he had […]

The Past is Obdurate

11/22/63 by Stephen King

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Stephen King’s 11/22/63 is by far the best book I’ve read by him in ages. I absolutely loved it from beginning to end–especially the end because I find King so often duffs his endings. But this one was perfect. 11/22/63 is the story of Jake Epping, who is introduced to a time travel portal by a resident, Al, who owns the local diner. Al tells Jake about traveling to the world of 1958. Every time he returns to the present time, the timeline is re-set, […]

The Robot Who Cried ‘Wolf!’

The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King

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And so, I’ve finished the fifth level of my second trip to The Tower with Wolves of the Calla (which, incidentally, I have been mispronouncing in my head for over a decade and am still adjusting to the correct pronunciation, having now listened to the audiobook!). The main plot in this hefty tome is that our ka-tet of gunslingers, Roland, Eddie, Susannah, Jake and Oy, reach one of the last towns, the Callas, of their world and make a final stand to protect the town’s […]

Quick Questions with a Cannonballer: going analog with G.D. Giant

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Hi, G.D. Giant! Thank you for agreeing to participate in our Quick Questions series. Would you please tell us a little bit about yourself and how you found your way back to Cannonball Read? A little bit about me; I am an avid reader and an avid gardener. I live with the love of my life in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. He and I don’t have any kids, but we have several nephews and a couple of nieces nearby. I participated in Cannonball 9 […]



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