chf
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09-25-08 01:57 PM - Post#63422
In response to campbellfam
I quit reading King several years ago because it seemed like he was just phoning in his new stuff. The Stand, however, is his best work, in my opinion. It's not really horror, more Sci-Fi/Crichton with horror elements.
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campbellfam
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09-25-08 02:56 PM - Post#63427
In response to chf
Thanks, I got it at Half price but it's really thick so I wasn't sure if it was truly worth the effort...
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eilish
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09-25-08 05:12 PM - Post#63456
In response to campbellfam
YES!!! It is my absolute favorite Stephen King. Read the original version... then read the 'author's cut' version. Mr. King's publisher demanded cuts to the original, and several years later Mr. King re-published the book and added most of the cut material back. It really added a lot to the story.
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MsAlyce
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09-25-08 10:22 PM - Post#63503
In response to chf
I think it is his best work too!
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ChrisH
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09-26-08 07:48 AM - Post#63526
In response to MsAlyce
I agree that it is his best book. I started reading his books when I was 12 so I read the newer ones even though they are not quite as good as the classics.
I have also read all the "Richard Bachman" books and also the ones he has written with Peter Straub.
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chf
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09-26-08 09:51 AM - Post#63548
In response to ChrisH
Funny, I started reading him when I was 12 also, but that was when the 'classics' were new. 
I loved "The Stand", "Pet Cemetery" just creeped me out (only book that ever kept me up at night), "The Dead Zone" was also a favorite.
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texmomma
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09-26-08 10:09 AM - Post#63551
In response to chf
After reading "IT" I'll never look at clowns the same way again. Truly a scary book. I'll also never forget seeing the movie "The Shining" when it first came out, I was probably about 12 years old and it was the first time I saw a horror flick.
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09-26-08 07:09 PM - Post#63629
In response to campbellfam
I was at Goodwill last weekend and found an old book by Pearl S. Buck called "God's Men." I read another book by Pearl S. Buck - "The Good Earth" - when I was younger and remember loving the story, so I am hoping this will also be a good read.
I also found Garrison Keillor's book "Lake Wobegon Days" and figured for $2, it would be worth the time to read it. It should be a funny book.
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kellyf
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11-10-08 09:38 PM - Post#69935
In response to chf
Pet Cemetery was definitely a scary book. I really got so attached to the family, especially the little boy Gage. Such a sad, spooky book. The movie was a let down. But it still kind of scared me. More gross than anything.
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eilish
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11-10-08 10:23 PM - Post#69943
In response to texmomma
I can remember seeing The Shining at the Park Forest Theater in Dallas. Middle of the summer, but you needed your winter coat inside the theater.... but that cold sure helped put you 'into' the movie. redrum
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kellyf
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11-10-08 11:55 PM - Post#69960
In response to eilish
Now that was one movie that was bone chilling!
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rclark
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11-11-08 11:16 AM - Post#70016
In response to V-Girl
are you reading right now? Or, if you aren't, what was the last book you read?
And now for something completely different ...
Anathem by Neal Stephenson.
If you liked his System of the World trilogy, you will probably like this, too.
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11-11-08 07:10 PM - Post#70099
In response to campbellfam
HBO is about to start airing a series based on a series of novels so I've started reading them- they're not bad. The author is Charlaine Harris- she has several series, this one is called "The Southern Vampire Mysteries"
These were written before the Twilight series and have a few similarities so I'm surprised I hadn't heard of them before HBO started production.
I was hoping someone would post about this series! I'm in love with the HBO series, True Blood. I was even more excited to find it is based on these books. I'm on book 3 of 8, and so far so GOOD. THe only problem is finding them. Everyone has been selling out.
I'm not one for Sci-Fi or Fantasy, but these are really good. I  Bill the vampire! lol
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V-Girl
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11-11-08 08:05 PM - Post#70105
In response to rclark
I'm reading "The Happiest Toddler on the Block" in an attempt to get some control over my 19 month old. The author likens toddlers to cavemen. He's definitely on to something.
Crazy doesn't even begin to cover it. 
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TAdams
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11-11-08 08:10 PM - Post#70106
In response to V-Girl
The author likens toddlers to cavemen.
Do they have a book for husbands?
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V-Girl
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11-11-08 08:36 PM - Post#70114
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Crazy doesn't even begin to cover it.
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campbellfam
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11-13-08 12:45 PM - Post#70307
In response to TAdams
I checked the Sookie books out at the library. Book 8 was a bit of a disappointment- just didn't feel like it went anywhere but I can't wait for book 9!
I also read Charlaine Harris's Harper Connelly series and enjoyed them (they all have "grave" in the title).
I've heard good things about MaryJanice Davidson's "Undead" series I'm on the waiting list at the library for the first one "Undead and Unwed"
In the meantime, I finally took my mom's advice and started Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum novels. They are a riot! 
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eilish
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11-13-08 01:47 PM - Post#70312
In response to campbellfam
MaryJanice's books are fun. So are the Bubbles Yablonsky series by Sarah Strohmeyer. If you like cooking and mysteries the Culinary Mysteries by Diane Mott Davidson are very enjoyable.
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12-23-08 08:27 AM - Post#74237
In response to eilish
I just started reading The Shack. Several friends referred it to me. So far, so good.
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Maurice
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12-23-08 05:03 PM - Post#74271
In response to gritter
I started re-reading World War Z by Max Brooks. Figured I enjoyed it enough the first time and with a movie in the works, it's time to refresh it. It's a unique horror story about the zombie apocalypse, as if it really happened. The book is not a novel but more of a historical piece, comprised of 'interviews with survivors' of the ten year zombie war, 10 years after it happened. Cleverly written, not in a cheezy horror way but in a way that makes it feel very real. A great way of holding the mirror up to society and having it take a look at itself, which is what most good zombie stories are about anyway.
Makes for good holiday reading. :) Zombies and werewolves are my favorite horror stories.
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