Guy Bifkin Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 I've just finished "This Thing of Darkness" which I found to be a very enjoyable nautically themed book - http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/142050.This_Thing_of_Darkness   Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.E Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 (edited) Has anybody read any of the Dark Tower books? Are they any good? Â Edit: Or any of the Stephen King books? Which ones are best? Edited November 18, 2016 by Mr.E Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 I know you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but if it says "By Stephen King" on the cover, it'll be shite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.E Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 Ah, really? I've not read any of his stuff, yet people bang on about how good it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 They usually like metal though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gaffer Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 My housemate has most of Stephen King's books and told me once "you know the way you like wrestling? well I like Stephen King". That probably sums it up. He's generally awful but you may like it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.E Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 Fair enough. Â I'll ask about on my end, see if anybody I know has read any of his stuff, but I'll probably get something of his and give it a whirl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wordsfromlee Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 I read Misery and really enjoyed it. I love the movie too and saw that before reading the book so I don't know if it clouded my judgement but I'd say it's definitely worth a read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 Could be an age thing, I guess. Most SK fans I know started reading his stuff as late teens so perhaps they've stuck with him like people stick with a band they got into at an earlyish age? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator HarmonicGenerator Posted November 18, 2016 Awards Moderator Share Posted November 18, 2016 I like some Stephen King (I think The Stand is great). A couple of the Dark Tower books are pretty good, but there are also various times in the series where it disappears so thoroughly up its own arse it creates some kind of infinite arse time loop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Sergio Mendacious Posted November 18, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted November 18, 2016 (edited) King's books got a bit too bulky for me in the end — sure, The Stand is cracking, but by the time you've got a book like Insomnia stretching the storyline till it just snaps, I lost interest. 'Salem's Lot is a thing of beauty, because it basically introduced all of those Stephen King cliches before they were cliches. Edited November 18, 2016 by Sergio Mendacious Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merzbow Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 Clive Barker was my man back in the day, Weaveworld and the Hellbound Heart were better than anything I'd read by King. But I was also 16 at the time and bummed Anne Rice so he'll probably be shit if I went back to his stuff now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Sergio Mendacious Posted November 18, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted November 18, 2016 Barker's pretty good, but his short fiction is the best. In his longer works, I found that he loved to repeat the trick of "here's a villain // wait, here's a worse villain // the original villain is now more of a reluctant hero" Â Books of Blood are great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members ReturnOfTheMack Posted November 20, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted November 20, 2016 Working my way through the Mistborn series. Next up will be Matt Haigs The Girl Who Saved Christmas (I do love his stuff). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Gus Mears Posted November 24, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted November 24, 2016 "My name is George Nathaniel Curzon I am a most superior person My cheeks are red, my hair is sleak I dine at Blenheim twice a week"  Just finishing a decent biography of Lord Curzon, Foreign Secretary after WW1 and former Viceroy of India. Had a head like a pumpkin too.  Also got an outstanding book called 'The Wars of Afghanistan', by Peter Tomsen, a former US diplomat in the area. It's huge in scope and about as good a one volume explanation as to why Afghanistan is a basket case as you will find. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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