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The Road to Hell

The Long Walk by Stephen King

July 2, 2026 by jormis Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Stephen King

jormis's CBR18 Review No:1 · Genres: Featured, Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Stephen King ·
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The Past is Obdurate

11/22/63 by Stephen King

June 18, 2026 by esmemoria Leave a Comment

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, […]

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esmemoria's CBR18 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Stephen King ·
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The Robot Who Cried ‘Wolf!’

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

June 16, 2026 by Caesar's Wife Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Stephen King

Caesar's Wife's CBR18 Review No:10 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Stephen King ·
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Quick Questions with a Cannonballer: going analog with G.D. Giant

June 1, 2026 by katie71483 2 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: News from MsWas Tagged With: Achraf Hakimi, Aldis Hodge, arkady martine, Jean Baptiste, Lee Pace, QQ, quick questions with a Cannonballer, quick-questions, Stephen King, The Princess Bride

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Through a wizened glass

The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass by Stephen King

March 22, 2026 by Caesar's Wife Leave a Comment

Wizard and Glass is number four in Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, and this is my second trip to the Tower. As a long Constant Reader, I always had mixed feelings about this book when I thought back on it. Most of the story takes place with Roland telling his ka-tet about his childhood and his first love, Susan, the girl in the window. It tells the story of three boys who are sent away, supposedly to keep them safe from being caught up in […]

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Caesar's Wife's CBR18 Review No:5 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Stephen King ·
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When a great story is adapted into a great movie, x2

Different Seasons by Stephen King

March 21, 2026 by KimMiE" 11 Comments

At least 30 years ago I read The Shining and really enjoyed it, so I’m not sure why I never picked up another book by Stephen King. Probably it’s because I’m not a huge horror fan, although Shirley Jackson’s Haunting of Hill House started to change my mind about that. Recently, a friend of mine convinced me that I should try Different Seasons, and knowing that it contained the novella that was the basis for The Shawshank Redemption, I thought, “Yes! Excellent idea!” It’s always […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr18, KimMiE", modern classic, movie adaptations, novellas, Stephen King

KimMiE"'s CBR18 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr18, KimMiE", modern classic, movie adaptations, novellas, Stephen King ·
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