Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

“First comes smiles, then the lies. Last comes gunfire.”

Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, #5) by Stephen King

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It’s sort of hard to be objective when a book sucks you in as hard as this one sucked me in. It’s not often anymore that I actually lose myself in a book—just straight up forget about my own existence, and become completely absorbed in a fictional one—but this one totally did that. It gave me the same feeling as The Drawing of Three, which is probably still my favorite in the series so far, though this one comes close. Roland and his ka-tet are once again back on the Path of the Beam, but along the way, their gunslinger […]

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9/14/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:79 |

Home is the place where when you go there, you have to finally face the thing in the dark.

It by Stephen King

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Drumroll…………. It makes its second appearance in my Cannonball Read in as many years. (Here is my review from last year.) But dangit, it’s just absolutely outstanding all over again. Honestly, I might be at a loss for words now, and I think that’s because Stephen King took all of them. All the words. It is so long. But it reads so fast! I can’t put it down, and I don’t want to put it down! It’s just one of those books. So, the timing of this is obviously because the movie releases this weekend, and I’m one of those […]

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9/7/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:38 |

Bird and Bear and Hare and Fish.

Wizard and Glass by Stephen King

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Once upon a time, I read Wizard and Glass for the very first time, and thought that there could never be a greater book in the world. I was swept up in the world of Mejis and horses and Roland and Susan and the Big Coffin Hunters. I didn’t mind being apart from Eddie and Jake and Susannah (and Oy!) for such a long time, because this story was EPIC!  It was romantic and tragic and IMPORTANT to the plot of the overall series. I wanted more and hated leaving young Roland and his friends when the story was over. […]

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9/5/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:51 |

I apologize in advance for all the swears

11/22/63 by Stephen King

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This falls into the category of: Intriguing concept. Poor execution. I haven’t read anything by Stephen King before, which is probably blasphemous, but I’ve seen several of his adaptations and figured that 11/22/63 was a good place to start, since I’m not a big horror fan, but I was wrong. This was an overwrought, bloated mess of a book. “Humans were built to look back; that’s why we have that swivel joint in our necks” Spoilers There are too many things going on in this book. Too many things that I could have slashed out of the final draft and […]

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8/26/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:88 |

I liked it, but I kept wanting to get back to the main story.

Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, #4) by Stephen King

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Well, I failed at my goal of finishing this series before the movie came out on August 15th*. Perhaps Ashley of past years could have finished the remaining three books in the next thirteen days (as of actually finishing the book), but Present Ashley is certainly not capable of it. *Will not now be seeing movie. Very upset at genius casting of Idris Elba entirely wasted. I was still going to give it a chance until I read they’d made Jake the protagonist and dumbed it down. STOP DUMBING THINGS DOWN THAT IS WHEN THEY SUCK. No thank you, I shall […]

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8/22/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:54 |

A Bunch of Stephen King Re-reads

Rita Hayworth and the Shawkshank Redemption, The Body, The Breathing Method, The Long Walk, The Running Man by Stephen King

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I recently drove to Maine on a road trip. Having read a bunch of Stephen King in my life and driving with someone who’d never read any of his books, I wanted to map the books a little along the path. These particular books were chosen for two main reasons: they’re not “scary” and they were available via Overdrive for the ride. The linking sort of worked out. If you read The Running Man on the way up, you follow the book, and if you read The Long Walk on the way down you follow the book. If you are […]

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8/10/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:323 |

Lucky #13

The Colorado Kid by Stephen King

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Writing a mystery with no solution is an easy thing to do. All you need is some inscrutable pieces of information and no way for a reader, or the characters, to be able to piece the whole thing together in a way that brings satisfaction. Bad writers do this kind of thing all the time and try to pass it off as enigmatic. It takes a master to write a mystery with no solution and still make the journey feel worthwhile to the reader. That is what Stephen King has done with The Colorado Kid. Steffi is a summer intern […]

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8/9/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:13 |

Some moments are beyond imagination.

The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower VII) by Stephen King

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Okay, I’m back. I haven’t lost my mind, or my grip on reality. Everything’s fine. It took me a long time to read this final installment of “The Dark Tower” series. Sure, it’s super long, but it’s shorter than a few of the other installments. I just truly didn’t want it to end, so I stretched it out, found distractions and procrastinations, and delayed the inevitable. This final chapter is less full of revelation, and doesn’t so closely ressemble a conspiracy theorist’s corkboard with pushpins and yarn (see also: Charlie’s Pepe Silvia wall in “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”). Though […]

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8/5/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:32 |

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