While I missed Annihilation in theatres, I was very pleased to see it show up on Netflix. I know there were some mixed reviews, but it certainly got people talking and I was thrilled to see a cast made up almost entirely of women (TESSA THOMPSON) in a real science fiction movie to boot. I had not read the book prior to seeing the movie and had tried to avoid reviews with spoilers. I found the movie deeply unsettling – moody and dark with interesting […]
Everything goes away, Jack Sawyer, like the moon. Everything comes back, like the moon.
This is a trope-filled fantasy novel that lives and dies by its uses of said tropes. It’s a road novel and it’s a novel that has the best and worst that Stephen King has to offer. I have no clue what particularities Peter Straub brought to this one because I don’t know his work at all and there’s so much Stephen King in this one it’s hard to separate. I did like this one a lot and think that it could make a very interesting […]
Holy freaking crap this was a long book.
cbr10bingo… Home something home So as my title suggests, this book was INSANELY long. And I’ve read IT by Stephen King!!! Ok I just checked, It was twice as long as this book. Why did it feel like the other way around??? I think Mr. Cronin went to the Stephen King school of TELL ME EVERY FREAKING DETAIL ABOUT EVERY FREAKING THING, and then took it fifty five steps further. Even though it doesn’t sound like it, I did like the book. I just absolutely […]
I would bet money that Stephen King has never been to North Carolina
I can’t remember the last time I read a book by Stephen King. I was a huge fan in my teens and 20s, but it’s probably been at least 20 years since I picked up one of his books. Recently, my daughter has started reading King, so when Joyland showed up in our shared digital library suggestions, I though, “Sure, why not.” I wasn’t disappointed, which was a great relief to me. Joyland isn’t a horror story per se, and is really more of a ghost story than anything […]