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Bag of Bones (Classic)
Bag of Bones (Classic) | Stephen King
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Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine From iconic storyteller Stephen King, the twentieth anniversary edition of Bag of Bones, the #1 New York Times bestselling tale of grief, love's enduring bonds, and the haunting secrets of the past. Set in the Maine territory King has made mythic, Bag of Bones recounts the plight of forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan, who is unable to stop grieving following the sudden death of his wife Jo, and who can no longer bear to face the blank screen of his computer. Now his nights are plagued by vivid nightmares, all set at the Maine summerhouse he calls Sara Laughs. Despite these dreams, or perhaps because of them, Mike returns to the lakeside getaway. There he finds his beloved Yankee town held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, who will do anything to take his three-year-old granddaughter away from her widowed young mother. As Mike is drawn into their struggle, as he falls in love with both mother and child, he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations, ever-escalating nightmares, and the sudden recovery of his writing ability. What are the forces that have been unleashed here--and what do they want of Mike Noonan? First published in 1998, Bag of Bones was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. It was lauded at its publication as "hands down, Stephen King's most narratively subversive fiction" (Entertainment Weekly) and his "most ambitious novel" (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution). This anniversary edition serves as a keepsake volume for years to come.
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dariazeoli
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Scarier than King meant in the late nineties…

Texreader Whoa!! 😂😂😂 1mo
Clare-Dragonfly King is so good at horror! 😂 1mo
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keithlafo
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Still one of my favorite underrated King books. It‘s got spooky ghosts, romance, divorce court, and a wacky ending that feels both hopelessly optimistic and bittersweet at the same time. If you haven‘t read this book, give it a go (especially if you prefer lighter horror).

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BarkingMadRead
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LiseWorks That is so cool 6mo
Eggs WOW 😮 😮 Great photo! ☠️🖤💀 6mo
BarkingMadRead @Eggs thank you! Ogunquit understood the Halloween assignment. Their displays were insane! 6mo
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marleed I love how these skeletons are arranged each year. But yesterday I read a plea: plz don‘t purchase plastic skeletons as they fill up our landfills. Instead, use locally sourced skeletons. …Hahaha! 6mo
BarkingMadRead @marleed 🤣🤣🤣☠️☠️☠️ 6mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Love it!! ☠️🖤 6mo
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TheBookgeekFrau
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Eggs Excellent 👌🏼☠️🖤 6mo
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TheQuietQuill
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Mehso-so

Not so sure about this one. I was hooked sometimes, but then at times I felt it was too long winded. Kind of normal for King, though. And a huge trigger warning here which I wish I would have known: rape and child murders. I had to skip over some of the ending because I can‘t handle reading about that ⚠️

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Pikathulhu
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This is an incredible read, that is by turns beautiful, terrifying, and heartbreaking. The mystery at its heart is not one that reveals itself until the bitter end, and the journey to its ultimate conclusion is immensely riveting. Not only is the primary protagonist engaging and relatable (with some notable exceptions), this book's mostly female cast of secondary protagonists are an absolute delight, and are worth the price of admission alone. 5/5

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Pikathulhu
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@AkashaVampie Here's my shot at a #BookishMoodBoard for Bag of Bones! Being a mere 20% of the way through made it a bit tricky to summon the right imagery, but I had fun making this - thanks for the tag!

AkashaVampie U did great. Never read it. 11mo
dabbe Awesomeness. 😎 11mo
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TheBookgeekFrau
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One of my favorite SK books. I read it when it first came out and there was a definite shift in his writing. It was like he finally became comfortable writing his adult self and fears into his stories.

#ScaryFebruary #Bones

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Livyer
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Some of my Stephen King Books.. I didn't know I had 3 copies of Bag of Bones until I took the picture. 😅🎃
#October #Horror

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keithlafo
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One of King‘s most underrated books. What starts as an intriguing legal thriller quickly unravels and turns into a rumination about trauma, revenge, and racial violence. Mike is a great protagonist, too. I‘m really happy I revisited this book.

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johncadams
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I was intrigued by how the story explores grief at the loss of a spouse. It felt very raw indeed.

#StephenKing #horror

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DrLReads
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A re-read however, I remember this book being stronger. The first 2/3 are brilliant. The final 1/3 is comparably weaker. Mot my favourite King, but still solid enough.

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DGRachel
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Welcome to the #LosersClub open discussion for #BagOfBones!

Please be mindful of spoilers. We have new readers to King who haven‘t read all of his books. When referencing his other work, please keep this in mind for our new-to-King friends. Don‘t forget to tag each other in the comments so your friends can see your reply. Have fun!

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bthegood This was a so so for me. It started strong, then got tedious about 2/3 in. 3y
Karkar This was my second reading of Bag of Bones. I did not think I had read it before until I got into it. Tells you how much it stuck with me the first time. 🤪 3y
GHABI4ROSES @bthegood I read it when first released, and recall it the same. But heavens on that end for me! 3y
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DGRachel
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#LosersClub Discussion starts NOW!

Open discussion is in the FOLLOWING POST marked as a SPOILER. Find the post for #BagOfBones & tap "show me" on the spoiler tag to join in the discussion. Join in whenever you can! Today. Tomorrow. Next month! The post will always be up so just tag any of us & we‘ll jump in to discuss with you. See you there

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CloakNQuill
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Been on vacation, was looking forward to reading more once I landed. Unfortunately a friend got water on my copy. Looks far worse in person. @TheAromaofBooks I may abandon the five spots I have for this book this month.

TheAromaofBooks Oh no!!! Whatever you work out is fine. You can also sub in a different chunkster if you have one, or a few other books - whatever works best!! 3y
CloakNQuill @TheAromaofBooks will do once I get back home in a couple days 😊 3y
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Sleepswithbooks
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Just finished for #Losersclub2021 😃 Not scary, just a fun King read.

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Sleepswithbooks
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Happily reading “Bag of Bones” for #losersclub and am suddenly having a yearning for a scary movie marathon. Is anyone else already looking forward to this year‘s #Scarathlon or am I the only weirdo here?

MidnightBookGirl You are definitely not the only weirdo! I've been keeping a list of horror movies that I want to watch for #Scarathlon! 3y
KathyWheeler I would not mind seeing Bag of Bones made into a movie. When is this scarathlon? (edited) 3y
Sleepswithbooks @KathyWheeler - October 👻 3y
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Tattooedteacher
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I‘m enjoying all the references to other authors and professional respect he shows them. #losersclub @DGRachel

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BarkingMadRead
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A little pool time today, it‘s so so hot in SC right now!

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Tattooedteacher
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Started this today on audio for my commute. Tried to find the original cover art but couldn‘t find confirmation so here‘s my second favorite. #losersclub #stephenking

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bthegood
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This started strong and then got tedious at the 2/3 mark for me- #LosersClub #LosersClub2021
Did finish 3/3 for #NutsinMay @Andrew65 and now 5/6 books for #BFC21 @wanderinglynn

Andrew65 Great 👏👏👏 3y
PaperbackPirate I had the same response when I read it! It was so promising. 3y
bthegood @PaperbackPirate I've realized in rereading some King, there are a few I really love and, more than I remember, a few that are just okay, and I least one I panned. 3y
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bthegood
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Finished two of three books, tagged book may not be done by end of Sunday. But I will try.
#NutsinMay @Andrew65
#LosersClub #LosersClub2021

Andrew65 Great 👏👏👏 3y
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DGRachel
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This month‘s book is #BagofBones! Grab your copy and check back around June 18th (probably a few days later, because I‘m a forgetful ghosthost) for open discussion! #LosersClub #StephenKing #StephenKingInOrder #KingFromTheBeginning #ConstantReader #ReadAlong #BuddyRead #BookDiscussion #ghosthostpost

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BarkingMadRead
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bthegood
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#LosersClub #LosersClub2021

This explains why an author may get a bestseller and the reviews are not good - the last book was good so people pick up the next one.....

Make a great day everyone.

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bthegood
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1. I prefer mysteries, thrillers and horror (not true crime - it is what I read for work)
2. The story that most recently stuck with me - The Silent Patient (not scary but a mystery/thriller)
#Two4Tuesday
Thx for tag @TheSpineView
Want to play @TheNerdyProfessor?

TheSpineView You're welcome! Thanks for playing! 🤗😊😁 3y
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bthegood
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I know, this is early, but final exams this week, lots of grading, so I know not much reading the end of April, upside May will start with a reading bang!
#BFC21 @wanderinglynn reached fitness goals but not books 4 out of 6 read will try again next month😊
#AxeTheStacks @howjessicareads took 4 books off my TBR list🤗
Make a great day everyone.

wanderinglynn Great job! 🙌🏻 and good luck with grading exams. 3y
howjessicareads Well done! 3y
bthegood @howjessicareads thx and thx for hosting 3y
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DGRachel
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Just a reminder that May‘s #LosersClub read is #BagOfBones! Put your library holds in now, search your shelves, or buy a new copy, and check back on or about May 19th when we begin reading this one. Discussion will be in June. (JUNE?!? Where has the year gone?). #StephenKing #StephenKingInOrder #KingFromTheBeginning #ConstantReader #ReadAlong #BuddyRead #BookDiscussion #ghosthostpost

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SpookyDonut
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Just started this one yesterday. Already sucked in and hoping I‘ll love it since it‘s also out of my comfort zone.

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llcoolnate
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Thrilled to be done lol

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llcoolnate
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Still getting through it, but this dude was hungry for some “barely legal“ business when he wrote this one....christ....

JanuarieTimewalker13 Can you explain? I read this a while back...maybe a year and half ago, I remember the house, and I liked the book, but what do you mean? 3y
llcoolnate @JanuarieTimewalker13 lol undertones when he meets her, leading to thoughts, then a graphic sex dream, then eventual outward sexual conversations (disregarding how silly and unrealisticallyit was presented lol)-- and that's all I've read so far. Decent chunk left, so I'm sure there's more too be had. 3y
llcoolnate @JanuarieTimewalker13 horror is one of my favorite, if not my favorite genres. And yet how annoyed cheap sex scenes, goofy horny writing, and teenage-boy fantasy writing gets me makes me like..not the ideal candidate for horror. Hahaha. Just makes a book all that much better when the author isn't super horny and/or pandering lolil 3y
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JanuarieTimewalker13 Oh geez, I don‘t remember any of this. Was it his wife you‘re talking about? Didn‘t she die suddenly. Something about coming out of a drug store? 3y
JanuarieTimewalker13 Oh wait!! There was a younger woman with a child, is that who you‘re taking about? 3y
llcoolnate @JanuarieTimewalker13 yeah the young mother who he speaks in long sentences about her nipples and how she'd be in bed and how young she is and how shes only had slept with 1 other person but she wants him and on and on and on lolol. I like some King stuff, but some is weak and seems to be propped by the name. I still haven't read The Stand or Salems lot so I'm really hopeful there. 3y
JanuarieTimewalker13 You know what, there are men like that, it‘s creepy, I know. When I was younger and an older man would check me out, It made me pissed off. I haven‘t read The Stand yet. I read ‘Salem‘s Lot and I loved it. I still think my faves (thus far) are 11/22/63 and The Institute. (edited) 3y
llcoolnate @JanuarieTimewalker13 I need to check out the Institute. I really liked Misery and The Shining, so I'm not writing him off. And there are definitely men like that out there....but in this story it's supposed to be endearing..and it's odd, and creepy. I just get picky and when someone writes from the perspective of a writer with writer's block I find it lazy. When I think they're writing their own fantasies..weird. 3y
JanuarieTimewalker13 If you are going to read The Regulators and Desperation (companion novels/duology(sort of)), read Rose Madder first. Someone said that on Reddit. A character named Cynthia has her back story in RM. I didn‘t know that and I‘m almost done with D. Cynthia is a great character. 3y
JanuarieTimewalker13 I liked The Shining. I own Doctor Sleep but haven‘t read it yet. I prefer his paranormal and psychic stuff. That‘s why I loved The Institute. I‘m guessing Doctor Sleep has a lot of it bc it‘s the follow up on Danny. 3y
JanuarieTimewalker13 I think King wants to make you uncomfortable. I think he wants you to know this is what‘s going on in some people‘s‘ minds. He has taught me so much. I wish I had read him as a teenager 3y
llcoolnate @JanuarieTimewalker13 I'll grab Rose Madder then!! Thanks! 3y
JanuarieTimewalker13 You‘re welcome!! 3y
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llcoolnate
Bag Of Bones: A Novel | Stephen King

Nervously giving Stephen King another chance hahaha

bookaholic1 I liked this one...enjoy 4y
DAB Good luck.
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wanderinglynn Good luck. I appreciate King, but cannot read most of his books. 4y
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Bigcountry15 This is in my top 5 Stephen King books (that I've read). 4y
Reggie I think I‘ve read maybe a quarter of what he has to offer and this is my least favorite. I read it when it came out and maybe it was just me. Everyone I met who read this book LOVED it. 4y
llcoolnate @DAB lol thank you 4y
llcoolnate @wanderinglynn yeah I want to like them more than I do. The last several have been...rough. 4y
llcoolnate @Bigcountry15 oh good I need a redemption King book. Under the Dome, From a Buick 8, and the like were killin me hahaha 4y
bthegood @llcoolnate his short story The Reach is good, not a horror story, although I like his horror, it is a story that stayed with me. 4y
llcoolnate @Reggie yeah I'm 100% against the concept of an author writing from the perspective of an author with writer's block and forming a story based on life in his actual home town...and all that. Idk. As a multi-millionaire, best-selling, "king of horror", that concept seems really lazy at the very least. But who knows! Pluggin along with an open mind. 4y
llcoolnate @bthegood I'll need to check it out! 4y
wanderinglynn I read some of his non-horror books: The Body (the book the movie Stand By Me was based on) & The Gunslinger when I was much younger and liked them. And more recently I‘ve read Blockade Billy (novella about baseball) and On Writing. He has a few more not horror, like The Green Mile, but I haven‘t read those. 4y
llcoolnate @wanderinglynn yeah I heard the green mile was good! I liked On Writing, but haven't read much of the others 4y
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GreenGrl87
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#hauntedhallowswap Pictured are some of my favorite horror books. In general, I‘m a big time Stephen King fan. I love witches, black cats, and pastel goth. Other books I enjoyed that are not pictured include Fledgling by Octavia Butler and Hannibal by Thomas Harris. Somehow along the way I also ended up being really into zombie stories... The Girl With All The Gifts is another fave, but I still haven‘t read the sequel.

MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm WORLD WAR Z!!! ❤️❤️❤️😍❤️❤️❤️ 4y
GreenGrl87 @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm wasn‘t it GREAT!?!? 😍😍😍 4y
MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm @GreenGrl87 YES! It‘s the only book I‘ve reread numerous times. One of my all-time favs! ❤️😍❤️ 4y
wanderinglynn I enjoyed World War Z too. 👍🏻🎃🖤🧡☠️ 4y
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Incredible read - filled with insights such as these that catch you off guard. Could not put the book down once I reached page 540 of 660.

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Naz786
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⭐⭐⭐⭐/5. Sometimes I think Stephen King is a closet racist and gets away using slurs in his books 🤷‍♀️.

Reagan This is one I haven‘t read. 4y
Naz786 @Reagan I got this in a box set. It was a wee but slow but worth the read. I only found out there's a movie too with Pierce Brosnan I think. 4y
Reagan I love this cover! I have about 6 I have missed over the years that I am planning to tackle this year. 4y
Naz786 @Reagan I, pretty much just started to get into King's work. Been a big fan of Dean Koontz and dab into other horror authors work now and again if they look promising lol 4y
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Airykah13
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Thank you for my gift @Annl ☺️☺️ I can‘t wait to read it! #jolabokaflod @MaleficentBookDragon

Annl You are very welcome. My daughters and I read the book together one summer many many moons ago and really enjoyed it! 4y
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MumWhoLovesToRead
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My favourite book ever

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Addison_Reads
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One of my favorite King books, and I love this cover design. 💚

#Skeletons play a big part in the creepy events that happen in this novel as the main character seeks to find answers to the tragedies of the past.

#screamathonphotochallenge Day 16. @4thhouseontheleft

Reggie I don‘t know if it was just timing when I read this, but this is my least favorite of his. 🤔 4y
Reggie And when I was reading it everyone was saying it was his best. 4y
Addison_Reads @Reggie you're not alone. ☺ I know several King fans who don't like this one. They felt it was too slow and just not very engaging. Did you feel the same about it? My least favorite is probably Tommyknockers, but it's been years since I read it so I should probably give it another shot one day. 4y
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JacqMac
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#ghostly This book is the first thing that came to mind when I read today‘s prompt. I loved this book!!
#Scarathlon #TeamStoker 1pt
#ChillingPhotoChallenge
@TheReadingMermaid

BeansPage 🧟‍♀️ 4y
Buechersuechtling The cover makes me want to read that book. Looks really interesting. 4y
erank58 This is one of my favorite SKs of all time! So underrated 4y
JacqMac @Buechersuechtling It‘s very good. I recommend it. 4y
JacqMac @erank58 I agree. Very underrated. 4y
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BookedBySunrise
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Had this book on my shelf for awhile. Read close to 100 pages then put it down now picking it back up.. I love Kings plots but wish he wouldn't drag it out.. I always get frustrated with him and yell let's just get on with it already. I can't handle useless rambling but I'm also interested in the plot. Slowly but surely I can get thru it even if I read a few books in between

bookaholic1 This was actually one of my favorites 5y
BookedBySunrise @bookaholic1 , I'm struggling I thought I had read 100 but it's only 40 just feels like I've read more.. he just ramblings takes him forever when he could just say it and get to the actual point. I'm going to keep going maybe eventually it will grab me. 5y
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I finished this one out of stubbornness, rolling my eyes at the widowed, 40-ish author falling in love with the 22-yo, flawless single mother (even if the character is embarrassed at himself). The writing is self-conscious, like King can‘t get out of his own head. The narrator quotes Chandler—when you‘re stuck on a story have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand—after the damsel in distress dies in the narrator‘s arms. #30booksin30days

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Bigcountry15
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Re-reading one of my favorite King novels.

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eris404
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So here's a thing: I can't bear to write in a book and yet I am utterly delighted when I find someone else's marginalia, especially in such lovely handwriting.

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lindsay.edwardson
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Just started reading this last night. After just finishing Mr. Mercedes, I'm not sure if I should have taken a break from Stephen King...

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Brooke_H
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Mixed feelings about this book—it's not well written. It's messy with a bunch of loose ends King tries to tie up with a ridiculous Scooby-Doo style scene at the very end. I think King's editor probably just waved their red pen over the stack of pages and moved it along. Trigger warning for pretty much everything. It contains one of the most brutal and graphic rape scenes I've ever read. And yet I could NOT put it down.

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hyperashley
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5⭐'s. This is my new favorite Stephen King book! So beautifully written and full of suspense and ghosts.

JanuarieTimewalker13 I loved it too! 5y
JanuarieTimewalker13 I recently purchased Duma Key, which I hope to start soon 5y
hyperashley @JanuarieTimewalker13 I haven't read that one yet either 5y
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JanuarieTimewalker13 I love his books. ‘Salem‘s Lot was a fave also. 5y
hyperashley @JanuarieTimewalker13 I love his books too! Pet Symentary will forever be a fave of mine! 5y
JanuarieTimewalker13 Oooh, that was on sale on Book Outlet, next time I‘ll buy it!! 5y
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