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Post by Marv on Jan 22, 2020 23:32:13 GMT
Finally finished it...Good book, especially the second half, which is uncommon for a King novel. Im mostly happy cuz it feels like i havent finished a book in forever.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Jan 23, 2020 1:52:08 GMT
That's good to know, because I've started it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2020 2:18:28 GMT
Finally finished it...Good book, especially the second half, which is uncommon for a King novel. Im mostly happy cuz it feels like i havent finished a book in forever. I really liked it. Liked the second one less so, didn't really like the third one at all.
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Jan 29, 2020 15:17:23 GMT
I enjoyed the book when I read it a few years ago, I also enjoyed the first season of Mr. Mercedes on TV, I couldn't watch the second season because this old lady just couldn't stay awake, it was past my bedtime. I think Stephen King is one of the great writers of the 20th & 21st centuries, my favorite Sepen King book is Delores Claiborne.
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Post by Marv on Jan 29, 2020 23:44:53 GMT
I enjoyed the book when I read it a few years ago, I also enjoyed the first season of Mr. Mercedes on TV, I couldn't watch the second season because this old lady just couldn't stay awake, it as past my bedtime. I think Stephen King is one of the great writers of the 22th & 21st centuries, my favorite Sepen King book is Delores Claiborne. I wanted to check out the show eventually. Im a fan of Brendan Gleeson. According to goodreads ive read about 47 of Kings novels so far...so you could say im a fan. My fave is Hearts in Atlantis. I enjoyed Delores Claiborne but i saw the movie first so i knew what to expect mostly.
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Post by Vassaggo on Jan 31, 2020 14:24:31 GMT
I liked the first and second book very much and half of the 3rd (it kind of falls apart).
I've been a fan since Middle School in the Late 80's Him and Koontz got me into reading for pleasure. That's why I have like 1000+ books in the library. I still enjoy most of King's work. Koontz I just buy/read out of habit.
Currently I have these King works in my library (all hardcover except a few that don't come in HC. Also I'm not so much of a nut that I have these memorized for me to just type out. I have to keep a Excel Spread Sheet when I go Book Buying so I don't buy something I already have especially if it's Rare (for all Authors) So I just cut and paste)
As for Favorites I kind of see the Dark Tower Cycle as 1 long story, and it would be my Favorite, but if I had to choose individuals. The Drawing of the Three, Wastelands, The Dark Tower and Wolves of he Calla. Not DT books The Stand, IT, Desperation, and Christine.
Main
11/22/1963
A Book of Horrors
Bag of Bones
Black House
Blocklade Billy
Carrie
Cell
Christine
Cujo
Cycle of the Werewolf (turtleback edition)
Desperation
Different Seasons
Doctor Sleep
Dolores Claiborne
Dreamcatcher
Duma Key
Elevation
End of Watch
Everythings Eventual
Finders Keepers
Firestarter
Four Past Midnight
From a Buick 8
Full Dark No Stars
Gerald's Game
Ghost Brothers of Darkland County
Gwendy's Button Box
Hearts in Atlantis
Insomnia
IT
Joyland
Joyland Illustrated Edition
Just after Sunset
Lisey's Story
Misery
Mr. Mercedes
Needful Things
Nighmares and Dreamscapes
Night Shift
Pet Sematary
Revival
Rose Madder
Salem's Lot
Skeleton Crew
Sleeping Beauties
Stephen King Goes to the Movies (SC)
Stephen King: Three Complete Novels: Carrie; Salems Lot; The Shining
Storm of the Century
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
The Colorado Kid
The Colorado Kid Illustrated Limited Edition
The Dark Half
The Darkman Poem
The Dead Zone
The Eyes of the Dragon
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (Autographed)
The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon (Pop Up Kid's Edition)
The Green Mile: Coffey on the Mile (SC)
The Green Mile: Coffey's Hands (SC)
The Green Mile: Night Journey (SC)
The Green Mile: The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix (SC)
The Green Mile: The Mouse on the Mile (SC)
The Green Mile: The Two Dead Girls (SC)
The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel (HC)
The Institute
The Outsider
The Shining
The Stand (1st Edition Signed)
The Stand (Complete and Uncut)
The Talismen
Tommyknockers
Under the Dome
The Dark Tower Cycle
The Gunslinger (Original Version 2nd Edition)
The Gunslinger (Revised Version)
The Drawing of Three (1st edition 2nd Printing)
The Drawing of Three
The Waste Lands
The Waste Lands (1st Edition)
Wizard and Glass (1st Edition)
The Wind through the Keyhole (1st Edition)
Wolves of the Calla (1st Edition)
Song of Susannah (1st Edition)
The Dark Tower (1st Edition)
Richard Bachman
Blaze
The Bachman Books (collected HC)
The Running Man (1st Edition SC)
The Regulators
Thinner
Non Fiction
On Writing
Danse Macabre
Faithful
Secret Windows
Hearts in Suspension
Nightmares in the Sky
The Dark Tower: A Concordance, Volume I
The Dark Tower: A Concordance, Volume 2
The Dark Tower Complete Concordanse 1st Edition
The Dark Tower Complete Concordanse Revised
Stephen King Comic Books/Graphic Novels
The Dark Tower
The Gunslinger Born
The Long Road Home
Treachery
Fall of Gilead
Battle of Jericho Hill
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger
The Journey Begins
The Little Sisters of Eluria
The Battle of Tull
The Way Station
The Man in Black
The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three
The Prisoner
Bitter Medicine (SC bound to HC by 3rd Party)
House of Cards (SC bound to HC by 3rd Party)
Lady of Shadows (SC bound to HC by 3rd Party)
Last shots (The Sorcerer, Sheemie's Tale, Evil Ground, SoFell Lord Perth) (SC)
The Stand Graphic Novels
Captain Trips
American Nightmares
Soul Survivors
Hardcases
No Man's Land
The Night Has Come
Stephen King Presents N (SC)
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Post by Marv on Jan 31, 2020 23:10:35 GMT
I'm a fan of the Dark Tower as well.
Ranking the series...
Wolves of the Calla
Drawing of the Three
The Waste Lands
The Dark Tower
Wizard and Glass
The Gunslinger
Song of Susannah
Wind Through the Keyhole
I love the characters, in particular Roland and his ka tet. The relationships between them are my favorite part of the story.
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Post by Vassaggo on Jan 31, 2020 23:38:15 GMT
I'm a fan of the Dark Tower as well. Ranking the series... Wolves of the Calla Drawing of the Three The Waste Lands The Dark Tower Wizard and Glass The Gunslinger Song of Susannah Wind Through the Keyhole I love the characters, in particular Roland and his ka tet. The relationships between them are my favorite part of the story. Have you read the Revised Version vs the Original Version of The Gunslinger? The first time I read the original it was kind of a hard slog. King has stated that sometimes the book is the boat and the reader is the skier and sometimes it's the other way around. In the original version it was definitely the reader pulling the boat. The revised (came out in 2003 I think?) adds more In-World Speak, throws a Taheen in, makes Roland less of a bastard, and just brings the style in more inline with the other books. My rankings would be: The Drawing of the Three Wastelands The Wolves of the Calla The Gunslinger (revised) The Dark Tower The Gunslinger (original if I had to rank) Wind through the Key Hole Wizard and Glass Song of Susannah. He's been threatening on writing another .5 novel to address the Battle of Jerihco Hill (the fall of gilead), but in the books that he has he can't find a way in. They addressed it in the Comics. The only way I could see it is maybe between The Drawing of the Three and Wastelands during his Time in the Paradox. There is some time there during their training that is unaccounted for. You could put it in there as part of his Paradox Sickness, but you wouldn't have a lot of interaction in current time. It would set up a nice resonance of backward looking books. The Gunslinger is told in series of flashback. Drawing is pretty forward looking (Odetta/Detta Flashbacks) Battle of Jerico Hill would be Flashback Wastlands is pretty forward looking Wizard and Glass Flashback Wind is nested flashbacks Wolves is pretty straight forward (with Callahan's Flashbacks) Song of Susannah Straight Forward (with Mia Flashbacks) The Dark Tower Straight Forward (Ted's Flashbacks) Sometimes I forget how much the whole story is told using Flashbacks.
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Post by Marv on Jan 31, 2020 23:42:36 GMT
I'm a fan of the Dark Tower as well. Ranking the series... Wolves of the Calla Drawing of the Three The Waste Lands The Dark Tower Wizard and Glass The Gunslinger Song of Susannah Wind Through the Keyhole I love the characters, in particular Roland and his ka tet. The relationships between them are my favorite part of the story. Have you read the Revised Version vs the Original Version of The Gunslinger? The first time I read the original it was kind of a hard slog. King has stated that sometimes the book is the boat and the reader is the skier and sometimes it's the other way around. In the original version it was definitely the reader pulling the boat. The revised (came out in 2003 I think?) adds more In-World Speak, throws a Taheen in, makes Roland less of a bastard, and just brings the style in more inline with the other books. My rankings would be: The Drawing of the Three Wastelands The Wolves of the Calla The Gunslinger (revised) The Dark Tower The Gunslinger (original if I had to rank) Wind through the Key Hole Wizard and Glass Song of Susannah. He's been threatening on writing another .5 novel to address the Battle of Jerihco Hill (the fall of gilead), but in the books that he has he can't find a way in. They addressed it in the Comics. The only way I could see it is maybe between The Drawing of the Three and Wastelands during his Time in the Paradox. There is some time there during their training that is unaccounted for. You could put it in there as part of his Paradox Sickness, but you wouldn't have a lot of interaction in current time. It would set up a nice resonance of backward looking books. The Gunslinger is told in series of flashback. Drawing is pretty forward looking (Odetta/Detta Flashbacks) Battle of Jerico Hill would be Flashback Wastlands is pretty forward looking Wizard and Glass Flashback Wind is nested flashbacks Wolves is pretty straight forward (with Callahan's Flashbacks) Song of Susannah Straight Forward (with Mia Flashbacks) The Dark Tower Straight Forward (Ted's Flashbacks) Sometimes I forget how much the whole story is told using Flashbacks. Im not sure...but it was probably the original since it was around 2003-2005 and i had borrowed it from an aunt. So she had probably had it for at least a few years. I think i have the revised one on my shelf now. I had intended to reread the series eventually and picked it up for myself. Ive also read some of the comics when they first came out featuring young Roland and many of the Wizard and Glass events.
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Post by Vassaggo on Feb 1, 2020 0:46:32 GMT
Have you read the Revised Version vs the Original Version of The Gunslinger? The first time I read the original it was kind of a hard slog. King has stated that sometimes the book is the boat and the reader is the skier and sometimes it's the other way around. In the original version it was definitely the reader pulling the boat. The revised (came out in 2003 I think?) adds more In-World Speak, throws a Taheen in, makes Roland less of a bastard, and just brings the style in more inline with the other books. My rankings would be: The Drawing of the Three Wastelands The Wolves of the Calla The Gunslinger (revised) The Dark Tower The Gunslinger (original if I had to rank) Wind through the Key Hole Wizard and Glass Song of Susannah. He's been threatening on writing another .5 novel to address the Battle of Jerihco Hill (the fall of gilead), but in the books that he has he can't find a way in. They addressed it in the Comics. The only way I could see it is maybe between The Drawing of the Three and Wastelands during his Time in the Paradox. There is some time there during their training that is unaccounted for. You could put it in there as part of his Paradox Sickness, but you wouldn't have a lot of interaction in current time. It would set up a nice resonance of backward looking books. The Gunslinger is told in series of flashback. Drawing is pretty forward looking (Odetta/Detta Flashbacks) Battle of Jerico Hill would be Flashback Wastlands is pretty forward looking Wizard and Glass Flashback Wind is nested flashbacks Wolves is pretty straight forward (with Callahan's Flashbacks) Song of Susannah Straight Forward (with Mia Flashbacks) The Dark Tower Straight Forward (Ted's Flashbacks) Sometimes I forget how much the whole story is told using Flashbacks. Im not sure...but it was probably the original since it was around 2003-2005 and i had borrowed it from an aunt. So she had probably had it for at least a few years. I think i have the revised one on my shelf now. I had intended to reread the series eventually and picked it up for myself. Ive also read some of the comics when they first came out featuring young Roland and many of the Wizard and Glass events. Easiest way I could tell if it's revised or original is if The Man in Black gives Annie the bartender in Tull a piece of paper with the number 19 to unlock the weed eater's mind to tell her what Death is like. This is a trap that turns her nuts and wants to die. Roland kills her out of mercy not because someone was using her as a shield and he killed her just to kill the guy behind her. Makes him less of an asshole.
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Post by Marv on Feb 1, 2020 1:38:44 GMT
Im not sure...but it was probably the original since it was around 2003-2005 and i had borrowed it from an aunt. So she had probably had it for at least a few years. I think i have the revised one on my shelf now. I had intended to reread the series eventually and picked it up for myself. Ive also read some of the comics when they first came out featuring young Roland and many of the Wizard and Glass events. Easiest way I could tell if it's revised or original is if The Man in Black gives Annie the bartender in Tull a piece of paper with the number 19 to unlock the weed eater's mind to tell her what Death is like. This is a trap that turns her nuts and wants to die. Roland kills her out of mercy not because someone was using her as a shield and he killed her just to kill the guy behind her. Makes him less of an asshole. It was definitely the original version then.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Feb 21, 2020 2:31:16 GMT
I finished Mr. Mercedes, and it was quite good. Now I'll be moving on to the second one of the trilogy, Finders Keepers.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Mar 8, 2020 5:14:35 GMT
Finished Finders Keepers today, and I ended up liking it a lot better than Mr. Mercedes. Better story, better writing, a more interesting array of characters, and a much more exciting climax.
Can't wait to get started on End Of Watch.
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