Who Should Read This Book - Constant Readers who have not gotten to it yet or any adult who likes a ripping good story that is considered horror but is much more. What’s the Big Takeaway - Childhood fades away and we forgot the monsters under our beds…but does that mean they’re not real? And…
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The Bill Hodges Trilogy – Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers, End of Watch (Review)
Who Should Read This Book - Stephen King fans (obviously) but especially readers of fiction who might not like horror but want to read some King. This whole series (Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers and this one) would be a fine entry into the non-horror side of King. What’s the Big Takeaway - King is known…
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Evil, Good and God in Stephen’ Kings Desperation (Review)
Stephen King certainly knows how to tell a story which emphasizes the darkness and sin and evil in this world. In this book, an evil spirit (or something) is awakened under the ground of a small mining town in Nevada. This spirit/demon possesses human bodies and murders everyone in the town. It then captures a…
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#26 – The Stand by Stephen King (My 100 Favorite Books)
Don't start reading this book if you have a cold. You'll think you're going to die. Stephen King is a master storyteller and this book may be his best (Full Disclosure: I've not read IT and I probably never will. Though I like King, I don't much like horror!). This book about a superflu that…
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#58 – Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King (My 100 Favorite Books)
I missed out on reading Stephen King for much of my life. I think it was because I knew of him as a horror writer, and I am not a fan of horror. But I finally picked up his Dark Tower series, then began reading some of the books that tie in, and my mind…
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The Walkin’ Dude Is Still Walkin’ – Thoughts on Evil
"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." So begins The Gunslinger, the first book of Stephen King's fantasy epic series, The Dark Tower. Over the course of the series we learn that the man in black is in fact a character familiar to King's universe, Randall Flagg. Flagg is an…
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Stephen King, CS Lewis and Believing Fantastic Things
Stephen King's novel Salem's Lot is the story of how vampires destroy a small town. In the midst of this, some characters figure out what is going on and try to rouse the town to fight back. They run into many obstacles, such as skepticism. At one point a priest, Father Callahan, is trying to…
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Journeying to the Dark Tower (Reflections on Stephen King’s magnum opus)
Last year I read The Gunslinger by Stephen King. Published way back in the 70s, this book tells the story of the last Gunslinger, Roland of Gilead, pursuing the demonic man in black across the desert. Roland's goal is to find the mythical Dark Tower, the center of all existence. I love fantasy stories so…
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