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Its pretty cool how King describes this area on the map almost perfectly.

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I just finished the audiobook. I swear I thought I read this when I was younger- but I had not!

All I can say is HOLY CRAP!!!

This is such a great story. And no joke, it was so well written that there were many times I almost stopped listening because of how the characters were acting; specifically >!the scene where Buster physically makes his wife help him escape the cuffs, abuses her physically, verbally, and emotionally, and then goes on to kill her!<.

Now to watch the movie…

I have about 9 hours left of Tommyknockers and I'm wondering if pennywise may have been one of the original Tommy knockers. He's not too far off from Haven, he's an alien being, they're on the same level of the Tower, and they both been around a very very long time.

Please reassure me that the rest of this book isn’t as sad as this part was 😭

Been collecting for the past few months. Loving to see the collection grow (not pictured: Everything’s Eventual).

While technically not a Stephen King book, as it was written under his psudonim Robert Bachman and written as a short story... The Long Walk is still by far the story that has hung with me and haunts me slightly. I read it when I was 16 and the characters in the story were mostly my age, it was easy to imagine the boys I knew in their places. As they fell one by one, I wet the pages with my tears. First book to ever move me in such a profound way. I guess we all remember our first. When reading his later works I have always waited for a reference to any of them. Haven't found any, yet. Do you know of any references in other works?

I’ve read the original version and I’m 1/4 of the way into the uncut version. I wish SK hadn’t changed the setting to the 90’s, there’s just too many 80’s references in there still. The fashion, decor, music, cars.. everything in fact! I’m going to carry-on because it’s such a great book, but why mess with the times - the 80’s were much cooler!

I'm listening to Cujo on audiobook while cleaning the house and I'm thinking of a million ways to get out of the situation. So you're a middle aged woman, in the Pinto, you have a 4yo, you're in the Cambers driveway, gravel doorway, and a huge fluffy bloody St. Bernard who's crazy attacking you. So what do you do? Also it's 1981. Blind the dog? Stab it? My idea is to dismantle the passenger seat and get a metal rod and just duel it out. Any other ideas???

I just read Everything Eventual(the short story) and I have a question about TransCorp. Is TransCorp, The Shop and the Institute the same company? If not, what is the difference? I just got curious when I read about TransCorp.

Shout out to this subreddit! I never would have considered this beauty without you and I thoroughly enjoyed it! Definitely one that should be more popular. What other SK non-popular stories are we loving???

I'm currently over halfway through Misery and I also really want to read Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. Should I read them both or should I finish Misery first? Do you ever read two books at once?

I clearly need some help understanding things from Bobby’s Mom’s Perspective.

I having a tough time understanding her character. In the beginning not trusting Ted makes sense trying to protect Bobby and making sure Bobby is safe. But we quickly learn that although she doesn’t trust Ted it is clear there is an instant dislike that is unjustified from the start.

I wasn’t alive when this story is set, but it is clear that Liz Garfield already has some issues, Lying about Bobby’s Father, emotionally unavailable or supportive or Bobby. I get the impression that she never wanted to be a mother and that she is blaming every bad thing on Bobby’s Father’s Death. Before anything that happened at the end of young Bobby, Ted, and her story it is clear that she already has a huge chip on her shoulders.

She is rude, and unkind, and lashes out at Bobby and Ted. She clearly has a both trust issues and a case of making bad decisions. I understand that she is trying to make things work as a single mother and her job selections are limited.

When Bobby is reading her mind he knows that she has a lot of money hidden everywhere. Which she is clearly try to hold on to incase troubles arise. But is there another reasoning am missing here?

Her bad mistakes, and not taking responsibility for them as well as blaming others just makes me mad. I am sincerely trying to understand her though. So I clear believe I am missing something.

Before what happens with her work trip and how she handled everything with Carol and Bobby and Ted she wasn’t a good person and even after everything was explained to her she was still a hateful, selfish person. And the cause of Ted’s down fall. It feels as if striking out against Ted and Bobby is her way of trying to gain control and get back at those who hurt her…

What happened to her was terrible and should never happen to anyone. And my heart hurts for her, but how she treated Bobby and Ted is unforgivable.

If someone can help shed light on her as a person? And help me understand her perceptive from both before and after the work trip.

Any insight or clarification would be appreciated

Thanks

Humorous coincidences

Linda Perry has a big hat, hair that matches it described in book, resembles in movie.

The line in 'What's Goin' On?' "take a deep breath, and I get real high" probably is referring to steam.

Another lyric "trying to get up that great big hill" probably meaning the Roof of the World.

They're a band that travels all across America, as did the Knot..

and so many more!

Salem’s Lot

I’m planning on having a fully Stephen King filled summer. Here are the books I’ve read so far, what do I read next?

• Mr Mercedes series
• The Holly series
• Revival
• Green Mile
• Billy Summer
• Fairy Tale
• The Mist
• The Shining
• Currently reading Doctor Sleep

"For the small children, bedtime is come. Time for the babies to be packed into their beds and cribs by parents who smile at their cries to be let up a little longer, to leave the light on. They indulgently open closet doors to show there is nothing in there.

And all around them, the bestiality of the night rises on tenebrous wings. The vampire's time has come."

-- SALEM'S LOT, by Stephen King

If you like horror novels, or vampire books, this is a must read book.

~100 pages in and loving it so far. I think 2000s-era SK is fantastic.

Any of you have King Books that you believe are slow but never bore you and you still enjoy ?

I put the Talisman here because thats happening to me right now. Its a slow burn( IMO) compared to other books ( King's or otherwise) but I haven't been bored at all .

Im halfway through and i am enjoying it quiet a a lot