word, even stronger to my point it isn't as if the King books were back to back and this is a republic; what is nominated is voted upon. participate or don't.
like I said, my mom just read it. I said, "do you recommend it?" and she said, "no." but don't despair; her reason is the reason she quit reading King in the first place. she used to love him but while pregnant decided that bringing a baby into a world wherein men could reasonably conceive of and write about such evil was unhealthy 27 years after her last birth she decided to go round again and found nothing had changed endorsement: there is an explicit reference to jack reacher
just finished Neverwhere and am torn between jumping into Under the Dome, getting a slight head start since I always seem to lag in the discussion, and reading Lost City of Z. What if another book makes a late push and beats out UTD? THEN WHAT, TMB BOOK CLUB?
Will be my second. Plan on reading quite a few of his this year. After this I'll prob hit up The Stand sometime around spring/summer.
Starts so good and fizzles out a little towards the end but so worth it to read them all. Wizard and Glass (the fourth one) is one of the best books I've ever read.
Im going to be late to this party this month. Im reading A Storm of Swords and am about 35 percent through it. I doubt I finish it up in the next 3 days.
To be honest, none of these really interest me. I may sit this one out. If you guys say it's really good then I'll start whatever wins but I'm going to wait. Plus, I just finished Section V of The Twelve and am really into that right now.
Started UTD. Would be my first King novel; odd, I know. About 2% of the way in (it's a fucking monster of a book), I switched to Lost City of Z and knocked out about 15% of it. Will try to finish it before mentally committing myself to UTD. Methinks there will be excessive detail.
Odd to hear people say this is my Nth King novel where N < 10. I went through a Stephen King period years ago and read all of his shit up to that point, to include: Carrie 'Salem's Lot The Shining The Stand The Dead Zone Firestarter Cujo Pet Semetary Christine The Talisman Cycle of the Werewolf IT The Eyes of the Dragon Misery The Tommyknockers The Dark Half All of his Bachman books Most of his anthologies / short stories My favorite is one of his lesser known works, The Eyes of the Dragon. Firestarter is dumb, The Tommyknockers is boring. IMHO, his best work can be found in his short stories.
What didn't you like about it? Outside of the what's spoilered below, I loved the whole thing. Spoiler Lee Harvey Oswald stuff that took up like 15% of the book in one chunk, mainly because I was so invested in what was going on outside of his story. I understood why it was there, because it was necessary, but just was a bore and not as exciting as other stuff.
Was supposed to read a copy of Carrie that a girl I had a crush on in 6th grade gave me. Spent too much time jerking it thinking about her to pick up the book. Still have that book, actually. Dunno why I never read King. The ones in which I'm interested are huge (Stand, IT, Shining) and I just didn't do it.
Completely off topic and I'm always late to read the books anyway, but Under the Dome reminded me of The White Mountains trilogy I (had to?) read sometime as a kid. Anyone else?
Not for me. I'm pretty sure it was before I was a full-fledged lit licking member. I read 11/22/63 to catch up in December. I did it, though. I just think King is so main stream it's easy to read his stuff outside of the book club. I'd rather read awesome books that are a little less known. Hence all my submissions. That being said, when his book wins I'm sure I will like it. Spoiler the book club hates dogs
I love dogs, I just don't to read tear-jerking books about them. No kidding, my mom has read every single dog book nominated in this club with her book club of old ladies.
It's not tear jerking (Art at least), just for chicks. Nothing in that book is over dramatic or anything. I would be in you court 100% if I hadn't read the Art. I hate sappy shit generally speaking, so I understand the apprehension.
Anything dogs will be tear jerking for me. Put one dog down a couple years ago and my second one is getting up there in age now too. Not even trying to put that on the forefront of my mind.
Well fuck you guys I'm reading the dog book without you then... After I finish Shadow of the Wind and UTD.
I'm picking back up now that I'm wrapping up Lost City of Z. Lots to be done, but seems like a cool story.
With only twelve votes cast, Under The Dome takes it. http://the-mainboard.com/index.php?threads/february-2013-tmb-book-selection-under-the-dome.119692/