Just started Stephen King's Duma Key (no spoilers)

[NEOhiodemocrat]

last night. Today read pg 188
"I did plenty of reading myself that February and March. I read more than I had in years--novels, short stories, three long nonfiction books about how we had stumbled into the Iraq mess (the short answer appears to have W for a middle initial and a dick for a Vice President)."
Then on 282 "...but I also thought Kerry was gonna beat Bush."

I love this guy :)

[lost-in-nj]

1. I LOVED this book

let me know when you get to the end


I LOVE SK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



lost


:hi:

[NEOhiodemocrat]

2. I love it so far

Just going to go do some more reading. I think I have read every one of his books to date.

[NEOhiodemocrat]

8. Stayed up till 2:30 AM

finishing it. I really liked it. Definitely hard to put down once you get into it. One of his better ones I have read lately in my estimation.

[Ian David]

3. You know, Stephen King owns a radiostation that carries drug-addled gasbag Rush Limbaugh. n/t

[pitohui]

4. stephen king has famously written he doesn't control content on his radio station

many many a year ago i remember reading his essay about how, wow, i'm a rich man now, i'm going to buy me a radio station -- and then he ended up being responsible for people's jobs and had to learn that, no, you can't play "twisted sister" on your radio station at 6 AM just because that's what YOU like -- he had taken on a responsibility to make the business a success

[Ian David]

5. Interesting. n/t

[MaineDem]

6. But he's VERY generous to the Democratic Party

He's one of the good guys.

[Orrex]

7. And to fledgling and would-be writers

Honestly, I don't care much for his writing, but I have a great deal of respect for the man.

[MaineDem]

9. That's exactly how I feel, too. n/t

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. It's good. Starts slow though.

I was about three quarters of the way through it before I was sure I was reading a horror novel.

And he saved the really, Really, REALLY creepy shit for the last 100 pages or so.

[XemaSab]

11. I'm a total wreck today

I was up until 6 reading it, and I only got to the part where they opened the picnic basket.

Predictably, I dreamed about the book for the 5 hours or so I was asleep. :scared:

[Broken_Hero]

12. I finished it about two months ago

it was pretty good, he does a damn good job of creating the world/situation for his characters....

The ending, and tragic story of the family involved was very interesting, and Freemantle's way in which he had to overcome his accident was very...it felt very real to me.

I also finished Lisey's Story, I finished it about three days after I was done with Duma Key...Lisey's story was pretty good, in that book the two impressions I came away with were:

I can no longer look at a can opener, the same way again....

His line of "Deep Space Cowboy" is now part of my lexicon...

[closeupready]

13. I really didn't care for it.

The Shining was brilliant. No question.

But this was just ho-hum. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too long and predictable.

[matt819]

14. You're probably done by now

Excellent book. I'm also about half way through listening to Under the Dome and am enjoying that. Far cry from Carrie.

[old mark]

15. I think he got much better ever since "Bag of Bones" - his later work

is just miles ahead of his earlier stuff...maybe he was not drunk when he wrote it...

mark

[AngryOldDem]

16. I didn't like it the first time around but I checked it out from the library again.

Some time has passed, so maybe my opinion will be different.

Right now I'm reading Pet Sematary -- every so often I like to revisit the Stephen King oldies but goodies.