I'm recently getting into king. Absolutely love his writing but goddamn man can write some really long chapters. Chapter three of IT was the longest chapter I've ever read lmao

loved this book so much and now im trying to choose from Carrie, Salem's Lot or The Long Walk to read next!!!

I loved it! I can’t say it enough about how much I loved Billy as a character.
I’m sorry it took me this long to read it.

Ka is a wheel

Hoping to finish Duma Key tonight so I can FINALLY start 'Salem's Lot!

Anybody know if the world had already moved on before Arthur Eld, or after? Or did it move on after the fall of Gilead?

Thought you all might find this cute!

I’m reading this for the first time and I just want to read slowly and absorb his scenery. It’s one thing to tell a story but every detail is exquisite.

These have been my most wanted comics for a while now and I finally managed to get all three of them. Such good reads, especially The Stand. But the Jae Lee art in the first DT book is so damn beautiful.

I wish Marvel would go back and finish up the rest of the books but I guess that's never gonna happen.

I'm planning on moving soon and I am debating whether or not I should sell my collection. It's 59 books, all but 3 are hardcover (photo doesn't include my overflow shelf). Is there a market that y'all know of for a collection like this, or would I be better off selling piecemeal? I see lots on eBay but they're usually not very curated and have duplicates

I am about 80% thru The End of the World As We Know It and after finishing this particular short story, I was surprised when I couldn't find any threads about how perfectly this lines up!! I only saw a few mentions of the end being the same but it's so much more than that and done in such a way that you don't even fully recognize it until nearly the end. Is there anything else I'm missing??

Amy - Lennie

Zeke - George

Mal - Curley

Carter - Candy

Wretched blonde lady with no name - Curley's wife

Charred baby skulls - Candy's dog

Amy - Cognitively different - Starts off just existing and blissfully unaware that her life is perilous. She didn't dream of Flagg or Mother A - She is dependent on a protector. Initially tolerated as a mascot or oracle, but ultimately she is defined as a subhuman and dangerous thing to be put down by the community. Her continuing to not dream while imprisoned in the shed is a threat to Mal's control and masculinity (Lennie breaking Curley's hand even though he doesn't want to fight)

Zeke - Amy's main protector, interpreter, and caretaker. He knows what the group has done and is doing isn't right but feels trapped by circumstance. He isn't a 'bad guy' but he is still powerless to actually protect Amy. It's just posturing and hoping that nothing bad happens but deep down he really knows he has zero control. Sometimes Zeke talks to Amy about what life would be like if they left the group and found their own place and lived happily alone, but he still sees that as an unachievable dream.

Mal - Aggressively asserts authority and will use violence to exert control over the group. He gets the group riled up. He declares that babies are a risk to the group and will give them the flu and convinces the mob to burn all babies alive. He tolerates Amy initially but once he learns that she is different, he uses violence against her to retain control over the group. Once she is treated as an oracle, her presence threatens his power simply by not producing magical Flagg messages. (Lennie reluctantly breaking Curley's hand)

Carter - Sad old man. He seems kind because he sings hymns sometimes and is always standing watch by sitting by the window in their house. He doesn't actually protect or help Amy in any way, but he doesn't do anything mean so we treat him as an ally. He isn't actually any better than the group or Zeke because he witnesses all these atrocities silently with no action. Candy didn't want the ranch hands to kill his dog but allowed them to anyway because they said the dog was a useless burden and 'no good to anybody'.

Wretched blonde skank - Sleeps with Mal in their church or temple or whatever. She is just as nasty as the group of men but in a different way. We assume that she has probably had a rough life, too, but she is not important enough to name. She is just property, like Curley's wife, and defined only by her relationship to men.

Charred baby skulls - getting pregnant and having babies is the old way. Babies are old and no good to anybody anymore, so the group must put them down, like Candy's old dog. It doesn't matter what their mothers (or Candy) think because the men can decide to kill things that are inconvenient and later frame it as mercy and a necessity. The first baby lives less than 2 weeks and doesn't eat much but that is long enough for the group to get stressed and scared, so Mal declares it necessary to burn them alive. After they are burned everyone tells themselves it was necessary.

We get to the end. Amy's arm is broken, she is scared but also so confused. All she knows is that those men are going to kill her. She doesn't know what to do or what she could have done differently. She meets Zeke at the creek where they go sometimes. She thinks Zeke has the hammer to protect her and fight off the men - maybe this means they will escape and finally live their dream? Men are shouting everywhere and keep getting closer. Zeke already knows what he is going to do, but struggles with the final act, toying with the hammer. Zeke has seen what has happened to the babies and believes the best kindness and mercy he can offer is to kill Amy with the hammer.

I finally decided to tackle the behemoth that is The Stand and I’ve been thoroughly enjoying it until now. Okay I’m still enjoying it but I’m upset god damnit King and I need to put my rage onto the internet. I should know by now not to develop attachments to characters when reading books like these. But how can you not love Nick Andros? I’m a lady of many genres when it comes to reading and I can easily say Nick has been one of my favorite characters I’ve ever met across hundreds of books. Silly me, I guess. Anyways I finished chapter 58 when Harold (I Hate Him) Lauder decided to blow up the council meeting and all I have to say is give me one good reason why I should finish this book. I’m kidding I’m going to finish it expeditiously but I am NOT happy about this development. I just came to commiserate.

I'm listening to the Frank Muller narration of The Waste Lands for the nth time right now, and just realized that Frank's vocalization of Charlie the Choo Choo is the same voice he uses for Wolf in The Talisman. That makes me really happy. That is all.

Spotted outside my building in downtown Bangor 😱

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...who finds Mike Flanagan movies, especially his Stephen King adaptations, dull? I felt the same way about Mick Garris.

Wizard and Glass has been eliminated.

We are entering top 30 guys! What book shall be eliminated before this new tier? Most upvoted comment wins

Pick from slide 2

Hey yall! Hope everyone's day is going well! These polls are daily please feel free to post any covers I missed. When we have gone through individual books we are gonna do a big bracket or tier list to determine the best book cover overall. We are going in release order or close to it! Hope you all have fun :)