Stephen King Book • Page 94

@Penlab is going to be so stoked.

 

First episode of Welcome to Derry absolutely ripped. I can’t wait for the rest of it.

 

Almost done listening to the audiobook of The Gunslinger. I am so in on The Dark Tower.

 

Hell yeah brother. Read Salem’s Lot between 4 and 5 if you haven’t read it and if you have a ton of time read the Stand between 2 and 3 and if you have a lot of time and a lot of patience read Insomnia after Salem’s. But Salem’s is both the most important other story to read and the shortest so

 

I was going to do The Eyes of the Dragon after this.

They don't have DT2 on Libby and I don't really want to buy books right now. Plus Dragon is a similar short length.

 

I honestly don't think you even need to read Insomnia, there's basically a self-insert through Roland moment in the last book where King tells you that Insomnia was a waste of time lmao

 

lmao fair, but i do kinda think you should spoil yourself then

That’s fair! The DT audiobooks are great, if you ever do consider getting them. They switch narrators after 4 but the me guy is like 85% as good in the end

 

yeah I think just reading a synopsis of it is fine. I'd argue the short stories Little Sisters of Eluria and Everything's Eventual add more to the DT experience than Insomnia but they're a bit harder to find these days unfortunately. Black House is also worth reading

 

Started The Gunslinger yesterday. I read it and The Drawing of the Three like a decade ago so practically reading them again for the first time. Hoping to throw myself into this series and follow along with one of the prescribed reading orders i've seen shared in here. Currently aiming for DT 1 and 2 and then The Stand (having never read it).

 

I’m really enjoying King Sorrow by Joe Hill (Stephen King’s son).

 

I don't think anyone in here but me and Chewbacca are watching it right now, but the last two episodes of IT: Welcome To Derry they started Incorporating an important plot device from another King novel I didn't except to see in this. the idea of psychic locked boxes from Doctor Sleep

I knew they were gonna touch on Shining stuff because (as in the book) Dick Halloran in part of this story and I figured they would loosely touch on the wider DT mythos stuff connected to IT that the movie didn't have time to cover, but I didn't expect them to go into stuff from that book. It makes perfect sense though as Halloran is in that too

 

I completely forgot to return to that show after the 3rd episode lol

 

Funnily enough, it got AWESOME after that.

 

Episode 5 is when it starts to get really interesting

 

Im watching but got distracted by some other shows for a few weeks. Need to catch up.

 

Finished The Drawing of the Three this morning and just started The Stand. Don’t wanna go back to work this week, just wanna lay around and read

 

The Stand is so peak I read it this year and already want to read it again

 

Yeah so I'm like halfway through and it's meeting every expectation so far. I get why so many people consider this his best and/or an all time favorite outside of just King. I will say that I came down with a pretty serious cold over the weekend and reading the first quarter of this book while experiencing some of the very same early symptoms described was a bit unsettling haha

 

The Stand absolutely rules

 

It might be my favorite individual book of his. Not sure but it's so good. So many moments stick with me.

 

The Stand is just so, so good. It's been several years at this point so a re-read (and because I have 2 different prints of it) will prob come again soon.

 

Read it in December of 2019. Crazy timing lol

 

I started it in April 2021 as I was in bed with Covid. I didn't get too far with the brain fog.

 

I read it in March 2020. No joke. It was wild.

 

Halfway through reading Misery. Kathy Bates obviously nails it and it's very hard to divorce her performance from the character, but man Annie is so so scary in the book.