BOOKS THREAD

thanks. I'll do it that way.

 

Finished "Joyland" by Stephen King last night. It was short, sweet and a terrific read.

Crime novel set in the early 1970s at a carnival in North Carolina. College kid trying to track down a serial killer. Book is a coming of age story with a couple minor plots that weave nicely into the main story. No horror associated with this.

Book is softcover released by Hard Case Crime publishers. Really, really well done.

 

And if you've got a Kindle (or iPad, or whatever), the eBook version of "The Yiddish Policeman's Union" is $1.99 today only on Amazon.

 

SHIT, missed it by a day

While trying to figure out what to read I bought the wife Dan Brown's Inferno. We share a Kindle account so I started reading that. Fast read, but I can't help but picture Tom Hanks and hear him as Robert Langdon

 

Read Gone Girl last week on vacation.
Pretty good story, but by the end I couldn't decide which character I hated more.

Glad to hear that. It'll be next up for me.

 

Just finished this. It's an old book (came out in 2003), but I just got into King's stuff the last couple of years, and this was my latest. Some of the 14 short stories were better than others, but still really good. Now it's onto Joyland.

 

I have alwyas been much more a fan of his short stories and novellas than his novels.

 

I thought it really started to fall apart in the last 50-100 pages or so. Just became a conventional pot boiler, wit contrivances and plot holes and all. It seems like a book in which a novelist had a great concept and just couldn't carry it all the way through, don't you think?

 

Just ordered Power Moves, by Karl Welzein. You should, too.

 

Knocked out Joyland in a couple of days. Really enjoyed it. Had some scary moments, but nothing creepy. Kinda had a little love story working through there as well.

 

Has anyone tackled 'Infinite Jest'?

 

After I finished I was more interested in what sort of revenge Amy would enact on Jeff and Greta for ripping her off. If she was that nuts with the truck driver, I had no doubt she was planning a slow roast in hell for those two.