Off Topic What books are you reading?

Some of the time that works. Other times, I just want him to get on with it. I get that he was trying to build this mythological thing but sometimes its just not to my taste.

 

having another go at 'the silmarillion'...doubt it will all become any clearer though, even harder to keep up with since my stroke but god loves a trier apparently.

 

He does, and good luck with your recovery.

 

I’ve read TLOTR and The Hobbit many times. Can I buggery get away with The Silmarillion though.

 

Reading that also atm. Definitely a slow burner

 

I’m around 250 pages in. It’s getting a bit more interesting now.

 

Only 170 here but feels like it is starting to get to the meat of the story. Reminds me a wee bit of the Talisman

 

Yep, but no where near as good.

Have you (and @Evil Jimmy Krankie ) read Billy Summers, now thats a good story by Mr King

 

Not read that one yet mate but thanks for the recommendation.

 

Likewise.

 

I'm reading We Die Alone...true story of survival of a Norwegian commando during WW2.
His epic fight to avoid capture by the Germans, the freezing conditions and the brave people of Northern Norway who risked their lives to help him.
This is the third time I've read this book as it's so inspiring.

 

@Jarca and @Evil Jimmy Krankie I was first introduced to Mr King at the age of 16, I found a book in Woolworths, intrigued by the cover I bought it. Salems Lot! I had no idea what the story was about, but he has had me hooked for around 50 years now (some ****e in amongst it but some crackers)

 

That the one by David Howarth? I was thinking of buying that one.

 

Transformed: Moving to the Product Operating Model - by Marty Cagan

and

Right Kind of Wrong: Why Learning to Fail Can Teach Us to Thrive - Amy Edmondson

Yep, I work in consulting

 

The Stand is probably my favourite book of his

 

Currently writing a novel and reading 'A minute to Midnight' by David Baldacci ...

... anyone who likes well written tense crime dramas should read them both

 

Such a brilliant writer. I’d say unique. There are many books and films about vampires; so many that they’ve become predictable and not really frightening. It was with this mindset that I started to read Salems Lot not expecting to be gripped by it. And true, some of it was the usual stuff. But then, when the hero goes down into the cellar where the vampires were sleeping…. My eyes were racing over the words, willing him to get out… so many times I have read similar fiction that it had become old hat. King brought a fresh experience to an old situation.
Also, the only time I’ve felt the hair on the back of my neck prickle while reading a book was The Shining, where the boy opens the bathroom door and the old woman in the bath sits up! As a story-teller Stephen King is way above anyone else I can think of. Dracula by Bram Stoker was good, but if King had written it, it would have been so much better. In my opinion.

 

Mine too, the first of his that I read. That and The Shining are my favourites.

 

I’ve just finished A Minute to midnight. Halfway through the 3rd book. It’s all been great, so far.