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Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire

Pet Semetary by Stephen King

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Somehow I never read this one as a kid. I think I recall my brother reading it and being super scared by it. Which is strange, because it IS terrifying, but I don’t think kids would be particularly vulnerable to it, as opposed to like It or The Stand. And then as an adult, I avoided it because I figured it would be outdated or cheesy (blaming the outdated and cheesy movie for that), but since they are thinking about remaking the movie, I figured why not. Oh! And this version was read by Michael C Hall, which sure, Dexter and all that, […]

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4/4/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:92 |

I wish I had a sköldpadda of my very own.

Song of Susannah by Stephen King

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For a long time I’ve stood by my assertion that Song of Susannah was my least favorite Dark Tower book, hands down. The last time I reviewed it (back in 2012), I even went out on a limb and said this: Song of Susannah, however, was my least favorite Dark Tower book when I first read it. And I can safely say that it will always be my least favorite. Well, I guess I can’t trust myself. Now that I’m almost another full loop through the saga, I’m not sure if my opinion is still the same. Is SoS still […]

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3/11/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:17 |

“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”

Night Shift, Skeleton Crew by Stephen King

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I think it would be fair to say that Uncle Stevie and I have an understanding. He writes, I’m a constant reader, and that’s that. And I’ve been known to reread some of the things that he’s written many times. Even when the stories are upsetting or dark or scary, there’s something comforting about them for me. Maybe because I started reading them at a really early age (seriously, way too early….what exactly was going on in the 1980s?), his writing is sort of a nostalgic part of my childhood. I can picture myself wandering around the adult horror section […]

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2/20/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:14 |

“I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we’re still alive.”

Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King

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I think its safe to say that I’m addicted to my Audible account. Driving around all day and meeting with demanding clients is hard, so the best thing I can do is lose myself in a great story and a great narrator. And I think that’s why I keep coming back to these Dark Tower books…the narration is great, the story always delivers something new for me, and it really doesn’t matter if I hear every single detail or not, because I’m stuck on Ka’s wheel and I know I’ll be returning to this story before long. Wolves of the […]

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2/15/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:12 |

Just Let Annie Have Him

Misery by Stephen King

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There are some authors whose work you can’t just sample and decide isn’t for you. I’ve struggled to get into King for most of my life and never finished one of his books. I got a Kindle copy of Misery on sale and finally decided that since I paid money for it, I’d better finish it. Besides, maybe I’d love it. I’ve tackled difficult-to-get-into material and loved it, like Dracula and Lovecraft’s complete works. When I got about four pages into Misery and hit the world’s most ridiculous and inappropriate rape metaphor, I immediately Googled ‘best Stephen King books.’ If […]

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2/4/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:3 |

In which Joe Hill takes one step closer to becoming the world’s greatest Stephen King impersonator.

Strange Weather by Joe Hill

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I’ve said this before: I can’t imagine it would have taken very long for the reading public to figure out that Joe Hill was really Joe King if he hadn’t admitted it himself. And in each book of Hill’s that I read, I see more and more of his dad in the writing. In fact, if you told me that two of the four novellas in Strange Weather had actually been written by Uncle Stevie, I would just nod, and say, “of course they were.” Because I feel like the first and last stories — “Snapshot” and “Rain” — really […]

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1/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:7 |

Sleeping for a while doesn’t sound that bad …

Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King

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The characters and overall plot line of Sleeping Beauties will be familiar to most Stephen King readers.  While he hasn’t explored a world without women before, he has made a career of looking at small towns facing extreme circumstances and using those small towns to stand in for society as a whole.  In some ways, this novel reminded me of Under the Dome, both in how isolated or confined the setting felt and in the way that the community quickly splintered and divided. As the news is filled with reports of women in Asia and Australia falling asleep, developing odd spiderweb-like […]

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1/8/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:3 |

Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.

The Wind through the Keyhole by Stephen King

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I’ve been in the car a lot lately, driving around for work. And while I love my satellite radio, I love my audible account even more. I’m listening to all of my favorite books, and it totally makes the time spent in the car seem less like work. This morning, I finished The Wind Through the Keyhole (and started The Wolves of the Calla!), and I must say, I enjoyed it much more this time (my second time reading and reviewing…the first was for CBR4!). The book fits into The Dark Tower series as book 4.5…it starts just as Roland’s […]

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1/2/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:2 |


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