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And So it Begins #CBRBingo

The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger by Stephen King

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July is incredibly tough month for me at work, in a good way, so I haven’t been reading as much as I do the rest of the year. Most of my reading the last three weeks has been audiobooks on my commute and when I had a few moments to unwind at home I chose television over writing reviews. When I saw the first post about Cannonball Bingo I got excited because now it looks like I saved my backlog of reviews for the contest and not general laziness. Stephen King’s The Gunslinger fits a couple categories for me (ex. […]

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8/1/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:80 |

A Simple and Concise Exploration of Writing and the Man Behind the Words

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

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I have read most of what Stephen King has written.  I think there was probably a point in time where I could have said I had read all of his novels (short stories are a whole different ball game), but the man is prolific and I haven’t necessarily made a huge effort to always keep up with what he is doing.  Sometimes he explores topics I am not as interested in.  For example, I held off on reading the follow up Bill Hodges books after Mr. Mercedes because I was a bit resentful about a few developments and deaths in […]

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7/31/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:141 |

The first half of this book is excellent, the second half a little less so.

The Outsider by Stephen King

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So I did the audio on this one, and I definitely think that affected my reading, for the better. Will Patton is a good narrator (he’s the same one who narrated the Bill Hodges trilogy). Sometimes books are significantly affected by a good or bad audiobook narrator, so I just wanted to say up front that I think that is going on here for me, and I think you should know that going in. I probably would have been less forgiving without the audio. Some slight spoilers below, but if you’ve read the blurb, you’ll probably be fine. This book was […]

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7/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:79 |

The Way Out Is Through

The Outsider by Stephen King

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An under-remarked facet of Stephen King’s genius is his eye. Like John Updike or Joseph Conrad, he sees more than we do, then carefully sets down what he sees, until a bright yellow bra strap or red lips moving in a black goatee become sharp, silvery hooks. Try and free yourself. The Outsider, in which that eye sees quite a bit, is at least two novels, imperfectly grafted. The first–and best–centers on a Little League baseball coach arrested for a terrible violation: the rape and murder of an 11-year-old boy. The case against him (built for us partly through police interviews) […]

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7/2/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:2 |

…and his name that sat upon him was Death, and Hell followed with him

Desperation by Stephen King

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Out on a lonely stretch of desert highway, there’s a cop. This cop is not the sort you’d ever want to meet, let alone so far from civilisation, but a bunch of unrelated travellers – a family, a couple, a writer and his road trip manager – are about to do so anyway, and find themselves entering a living nightmare in the aptly named town of Desperation. A lot of this book feels incredibly cinematic, with the images of the open door of the abandoned RV, overturned bicycles, flashes of metal in the hot sun and the gathering carrion eaters […]

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7/1/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:46 |

“What am I going to say if I end up standing in front of God the Father Almighty and He asks me to explain why I did it. That it was my job?”

The Green Mile by Stephen King

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For some years now, I’ve been reading through the works of Stephen King in chronological order. I’d avoided picking this one up for a while, having watched the movie a zillion times, but while the storyline held no surprises for me, what did surprise me was just how insanely good it was regardless, with King’s words rapidly catching hold of me and not letting go until I’d stayed up way past bedtime, breathlessly turning pages and gulping back tears. In case you’re one of the very unlikely people to have never heard about The Green Mile, it centres around the […]

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6/25/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:44 |

This ain’t no party. This ain’t no disco. This ain’t no fooling around.

One on One by Tabitha King

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I am ashamed to admit, that although I have read pretty much every single word ever published by Stephen King, and most of Joe Hill, and even some of Owen King, I had honestly never even considered reading Tabitha King. It wasn’t until PattyKates wrote a review of One on One back in 2015 that I ever really even thought about reading Tabitha King. That review convinced me to order a used paperback copy, which then sat on my TBR shelf until last weekend. I needed something to read at the pool, so I grabbed it. I had no idea […]

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6/4/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:23 |

An amazing but ultimately explicable act of legerdemain?

The Outsider by Stephen King

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Texas Dracula. But also a murder mystery and police procedural. So the new Stephen King is pretty much the old Stephen King in terms of subject-matter, the plot and narrative, and even a recurring character (whose cameo I was not so sure about…but it turned out ok). And the result of familiarity mixed with 2018’s general sense of things (there’s an AIR of Trump in this novel, but not that much)…and the significant change of setting makes this is a solid book in general. It’s still localized in the plot and scope, so it’s more akin to the Bill Hodges […]

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5/29/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:168 |


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