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King writing about a political clown goofing his way into office spelling certain disaster, decades before Drumpf disgraced the White House. I hated James Franco as narrator; he sounds either hung over or bored for the majority of the audio. It was a well constructed story, though, with lots of foreshadowing and good payoff. #losersclub #constantreader

Had to bail, the opening was so bleak, I tried skimming forward a bit but I‘m still dreading reading on. Plus SK has been an idiot online this week 😂 wouldn‘t be a deal breaker but it‘s certainly not helping. As @dabbe says #hailthebail ! I‘ll check in with #losersclub & see what I missed @BarkingMadRead

Short #audiowalk today because of the potential for rain, so I didn‘t get much listening in.

I‘m switching between listening to this for #LosersClub and To Say Nothing of the Dog for my #audiowalk. I‘ve read The Dead Zone multiple times but think it might hit differently right now. Nice breeze. For awhile it looked like it might rain but didn‘t since I was prepared with my rain jacket. 😄

This month‘s book is #theDeadZone Grab your copy and check back at the end of the month for open discussion! Don‘t forget to tag me so I can see which version you have! #LosersClub #StephenKing #StephenKingInOrder #KingFromTheBeginning #ConstantReader #ReadAlong #BuddyRead

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Just a reminder that May‘s #LosersClub read is #theDeadZone Put your library holds in now, search your shelves, or buy a new copy, and check back on or about May 1st, when we begin reading this one. Discussion will be at the end of the month! #StephenKing #StephenKingInOrder #KingFromTheBeginning #ConstantReader #ReadAlong #BuddyRead #BookDiscussion

Just a reminder that May‘s #LosersClub read is #theDeadZone Put your library holds in now, search your shelves, or buy a new copy, and check back on or about May 1st, when we begin reading this one. Discussion will be at the end of the month! #StephenKing #StephenKingInOrder #KingFromTheBeginning #ConstantReader #ReadAlong #BuddyRead #BookDiscussion

This is our February selection for the Constant Reader book club. I‘ve watched the original 1983 movie adaptation multiple times and first read the book in 2015 as an audiobook. This time, I decided to read my physical copy. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it again and liked it better the second time.

Full review at abookandadog.com/blog/the-dead-zone

4✨ This was a really fun read that was suggested to me by my hubby‘s friend at the beginning of the year. It took me a while to get into it at first. It wasn‘t until he was in a coma that I started to get interested, but then I didn‘t want to put it down. John goes into a coma for 4.5 years and when he comes out of it if he touches someone he sees something about that person. I wish he could have had some sort of happy ending, but it wasn‘t to be.

I‘m going to be laying around most of the day/ week. I had an elective surgery today and boy am I sore. I‘m going to try to finish a few books today while I‘m laying around. The tagged is on my hit list to finish. #WinterGames #GingerbreadGems

Well, I don‘t drink so closest thing to a cocktail for #SelfieScavengerHunt is my Hot Cheetos Cocktail. If you don‘t like spicy use cheesy Cheetos, your favorite veggies, lemon juice, lime juice, and V8. Yum! #GingerbreadGems #WinterGames

October 25 #AutumnPlease Death @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#ScarathlonTBWList #TeamCryptKeepers I watched a Stephen King movie last night from 1983. I had never seen this one. I have not read the book either. I liked it.

The first King novel in my chronological read that I hadn‘t read before, and I loved it! Johnny Smith wakes up from a long coma with psychic abilities, and deals with the repercussions of his “gift.” The characters, the plot, and the themes of love, moral obligation, and loss are all so strong, I didn‘t want this to end. Even without supernatural abilities, everyone can relate to Johnny‘s struggle to find meaning in what life has handed him. 5⭐️

One of my favorites from King. One of his best-paced books. Greg Stillson feels intensely real, and some of the parallels here between Stillson‘s rise to power and the current political situation in the US is hair-raising.

Catching up on reviews—I read this for my IRL book club in October. This is the first Stephen King I‘ve read, and I really enjoyed it. Engaging writing, likable main character, super interesting ideas, and more thriller than horror. Although the setting felt a little dated, the political aspects of the plot actually felt very timely! 😬 (My book club watched the 1983 movie together, though—and that definitely DID feel dated 😂)

The first book in my read-through I hadn't yet read, I found The Dead Zone supremely enthralling. While part of it may certainly have been my lack of awareness of where the plot would take me, a much bigger part was certainly my affinity for Johnny. He's one of the more engaging and likeable characters King has written, and it's a dreadful joy observing the man live the best he can while waiting for the Sword of Damocles to inevitably fall. 5/5

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Sitting here in my reading nook with a blanket and a candle—it‘s finally feeling like fall here, with cooler evenings and even a little rain this afternoon. I‘m starting this book tonight… my husband‘s pick for our IRL book club this month. It‘s my first Stephen King, so I‘ll see how this goes!

Still listening to The Dead Zone audiobook. It was a great distraction while completing my body painting.
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🎧 I loved this tv show. The book was even better. Johnny is a better character in the book, more believable. I loved the call backs to other King books. I still love the TV show but the book brought a new layer!

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READING UPDATE!!

I listened to this audiobook last night! Currently on Ch 13! So far so good. 😃🙌

Listening to this audiobook for the #trappedonanisland #challenge while I work on a SFX Makeup to Welcome October! 😃🙌 Probably staying up all night, to work on it. 🥹🤷🏻‍♀️ Hope not. Wish me luck.🤞
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October is … Stephen King Readathon month!! Here are the books I chose for the 19 prompts. I own a lot of unread King!!! 🤷🏼‍♀️ Does anyone else have a horror filled October planned?

I did not love this one like I loved Salem‘s Lot and The Stand, but I‘m still glad I read it. It became more and more boring the further I read.

But I DID love that I was able to spend the first part of my Thanksgiving Day in PJ‘s, snuggling with my husband, both of us reading.

Onto the next book in my #readingStephenKing project: The Mist!! Reading King‘s books in chronological order is a personal challenge for me and I‘m really enjoying it.

Baffled. I read a lot of Stephen King when I was growing up but never got around to this one. Read it recently for a book club and could not believe how boring it was. Not at all clear on the success of this one. King is a great writer but yuck. I really love his short stories and novellas best. Plus The Dark Tower. I should go back and reread that one but oh there‘s so many books, so little time! #catsoflitsy #petsoflitsy #klaus

Always fun to find literary Easter eggs!! #readingStephenKing

Next up in my #readingStephenKing project: The Dead Zone!!

I started this six months ago but didn‘t make it past the second chapter. I got a slight start on it today. Feels like it is sticking this time 🙌🏻

Oh, this is a good one. #stephenking #horror #kindle

A bit slow in the middle but great character development. Not scary at all but reads more like a thriller near the end. Now I‘d like to watch the show.

4⭐️

I guess you could say this is my first “true” Stephen King that I‘ve read since my first was the Colorado Kid. I really enjoyed this a lot even though there were some parts that dragged. I‘m definitely looking forward to reading more from the author before I dive into the Dark Tower series.

Check out my Goodreads review for more: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3407147404

I am slowly working my way through all of Stephen King‘s writing. While I definitely prefer other books by him, this was still pretty good. It felt like it was a four act play to me. The pacing wasn‘t bad, but it was more four different segments than one major storyline.

There is something about Stephen King‘s writing that just sucks me in. I love his random characters that he brings to life, even if it is just for one small scene.

This was a fun one to revisit. Johnny is a great protagonist and while I don't find this to be one of King's scarier novels, it is still thrilling and engaging. 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Book and a beer! #stephenkinglonghaul

Stephen King is one of my favorite writers as well as the author I have read the most from. I will be the first to say however, it typically takes me a while to get sucked into his stories, all though once I am in, I am in deep. That was not the case with The Dead Zone. This was a fun exciting read from the first letter to the last punctuation. For anyone thinking about reading a Stephen King book for the first time, this is my recommendation.

Somewhere between a So-So and a Pick. The first 3/4 were good to read and especially the showing of human behavoir when faced with something unkown was just to real. But nearing the end King lost me, the story just dragged to much. Still rating it as a pick.

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Some of my planned books for December. Including the last few physical TBR books I own. But I got gifzed two advent calendars and I am sure, to find some books there to read in January 😉

Starting the new week with another big book :)

2020 read great book 📚🤩

Whew! There was a lot going on in this book. I loved Johnny‘s relationship with his Dad I think the most. His Dad was such a kind man who had to deal with quite a lot between his son‘s accident and his wife‘s misuse of their funds. Now I need to watch the movie to see how it holds up. #AuthorAMonth #Scarathlon2020 #TeamHarkness +16pts

Yesterday was the end of #LittenListen I managed to finish Christine and started The Dead Zone. Total listening time came in at a little over 3 and a half hours for yesterday. +31 pts for #Scarathlon2020 and #TeamHarkness

Another Halloween listen narrated by the very talented James Franco! I wasn‘t familiar with this one at all before starting but enjoyed the 1970s political angle as well as the characters. King sure makes the villains vile here (that dog scene!!). I listened to it at every opportunity and thoroughly enjoyed it, though I wouldn‘t count this as one of his spookier reads. I am curious to check out the screen adaptations now! #AudioColoring

A classic Stephen King book about a man with psychic abilities who shakes hands with a politician claiming to be “just another guy” and gets a flash of the end of the world. I liked this one as a teenager, but was scared of it as an adult. I love King‘s books but sometimes am frustrated when his endings fizzle. Not the case with this one.
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Great story telling from the all-time Master of Horror. Johnny Smith is a fun character to follow and all of his relationships with the other characters are very well written.

August has been a productive reading (and listening - about half were audios) month for me. I enjoyed most of these, with over half of them getting ⭐⭐⭐⭐. My favorites of the month were The Dead Zone (which was superbly narrated by James Franco) and Rapture in Death. The only one that got less than 3 stars for me was Children of Time, which was surprisingly disappointing. I really expected to love it.

When I decided to read all SK works in publication order it was purely because I was told this was the easiest way to spot signs of the multiverse and I think I've found my first cross overs! This book directly mentions Salems Lot and Carrie.
I imagine reading this in the early 80's the character of Stillson would have seemed ridiculous but you can definitely see the parallels between him and Trump.

My Saturday afternoon! 😻💕📚

I'm about 100 pages away from the end of this book and it is definitely ranking up there with my other favorite King stories! He is just a master of characterization, which is one of my favorite aspects of his writing and why he's one of my favorite authors! 💕

The resemblance between Stillson/Trump is terrifying! 😨

I could have done without the animal cruelty scene though. 😩🤢

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First night of the season sitting out on my balcony reading! 😀💕📚