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1JordanLangston
I’m looking forward to doing this 50 Book Challenge, I came across this group around September last year and began a challenge to see how many books I could read in three months. I enjoyed doing the challenge but stopped posting how I was doing about two weeks before the end of the year, I think I read about seventeen books altogether from September to December.
I think I did quite well in all fairness, but not as well as I would have liked. Although the general target to reach is fifty books, I would like to read as many as possible, I’d say that I could reach seventy-five books altogether by the next New Year, but I would like to reach one-hundred...at least.
But now this is a new 50 Book Challenge, a New Year and I have new books to read. In this year’s 50 Book Challenge I will be posting at least one message on here each day to inform of how well I’m doing and how I’m progressing in the books I’m reading. I will list my books like such:
Book 1# The Stand by Stephen King.
Every book that I read this year will be posted in a thread. Every book I read, mentioned or refer to in a post will be touchstoned which you may have noticed. In my 2010 50 Book Challenge (this one) all the books I read I will categorise in the 2010 50 Book Challenge section of my library so they will all be listed for me to refer to and other members to see.
I haven’t got any certain plan of how I’m going to read my books but I plan to read a few Stephen King’s this year, I have several of them in my possession:
'salem’s Lot by Stephen King.
Cell by Stephen King.
Cujo by Stephen King.
It by Stephen King.
Song of Susannah by Stephen King.
The Bachman Books by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman.
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King.
The Stand by Stephen King.
The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub
I have already read 'salem’s Lot and It, so I have four months worth of Stephen King books to read. Four because I cannot read Song of Susannah as it is the sixth volume of The Dark Tower series, which has five volumes before it, therefore in order to understand Song of Susannah I must read all the other volumes. I have read volume one already (The Gunslinger) so I only have volumes two-to-five to get through then maybe I can read the final instalment The Dark Tower.
Hednesford library, my local library, has a fair few Stephen King books so I can just pop round the corner if I wish to read one. I think they have Lisey’s Story, Black House, Wolves of the Calla, The Dark Tower and some others.
Although it may seem this way, I am not going to be reading just Stephen King books. No, I will be reading all sorts of books, I read pretty much any book going, and I read lots of various books from many different authors. In my personal library I have about thirty books that I’ve yet to read and plan to read by the end of this 50 Book Challenge.
I’m sure by now that if you’re reading this post on my challenge that you’re tired of my lists, but you don’t have to read it I’m just keeping it here for personal reference (I will be striking out the books below as I read them):
1) Insomnia by Stephen King.
2) Duma Key by Stephen King.
3) Carrie by Stephen King.
4)The Stand by Stephen King.
5) Cell by Stephen King.
6)The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King.
7) Cujo by Stephen King.
8) Song of Susannah by Stephen King.
9) The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub.
10) The Bachman Books by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman.
a. The Long Walk.
b. Roadwork.
c. The Running Man.
11)Haunted by James Herbert.
12) The Spear by James Herbert.
13) The Magic Cottage by James Herbert.
14) Creed by James Herbert.
15) The Fog by James Herbert.
16) Moon by James Herbert.
17) Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris.
18) The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris.
19) Kiss the Girls by James Patterson.
20) The 5th Horseman by James Patterson.
21) Run For Your Life by James Patterson.
22) Beach Road by James Patterson.
23)BloodBorn by Kathryn Fox.
24) The Narrows by Michael Connelly.
25) Echo Park by Michael Connelly.
26) Whispers of Betrayal by Michael Dobbs.
27) The Lords’ Day by Michael Dobbs.
28) Death of a Blue Movie Star by Jeffery Deaver.
29) Mistress of Justice by Jeffery Deaver.
30) The Broken Window by Jeffery Deaver.
31) Skin and Blister by Victoria Blake.
32) Digital Fortress by Dan Brown.
33) Deception Point by Dan Brown.
34) The Bad Place by Dean Koontz.
35) Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz.
36) Dark Rivers of the Heart by Dean Koontz.
37) Second Violin by John Lawton.
38) Old Flames by John Lawton.
39) The Fighter by Craig Davidson.
40) To the Bright and Shining Sun by James Lee Burke.
41) The Seventh Scroll by Wilbur Smith.
42) Warlock by Wilbur Smith.
43) The Wildfire Season by Andrew Pyper.
44) Maura’s Game by Martina Cole.
45) The Jump by Martina Cole.
46) Code to Zero by Ken Follett.
47) The Sign by Raymond Khoury.
It does seem like a lot but I’ll read all of those without much trouble before the end of the year. Some of them I can’t wait to get stuck into, there are others that I don’t really want to even touch but I’m going to read them all anyway. I plan to read at least two books per week, which is easily done if I read at a good pace, but I think there are certain books in the above list that may only be able to be read in a long amount of time, like The Stand for example; the edition that I have is 1325 pages long, if I read one-hundred pages each day I’ll get through it easily in two weeks, if I do one-hundred and twenty-five pages per day I’ll do it in approx ten days. If I aim for one-hundred and fifty I’ll get close to about eight days. But, reading two-hundred in one day I shall read the entire thing in just under seven days, sounds simple enough to me.
So just to get it out of the way I think I will read:
Book 1# The Stand by Stephen King.
Just so it doesn’t slow down my reading for the rest of the year. For some reason I just think that I’m not going to enjoy reading this, I enjoyed It, which was about as long, but it dragged me down a bit. I don’t want to be reading about the same characters for ages, as I’m aware The Stand has mannnnnny characters. However, The Stand is split into three books; all contained in the same book, so it’s sort of like an omnibus but still the same book:
Book I: Captain Trips. (466 pages)
Book II: On the Border. (596 pages)
Book III: The Stand. (265 pages)
So if I get tired of The Stand I could finish at the end of Book I: Captain Trips, then read another book, and then read Book II: On the Border, then read a different book, then after I’ve finished that one I’d finish off The Stand with Book III: The Stand. I don’t know if that would speed me up or slow me down but it sounds like it gives me an easier read, but if I can really get stuck into it, I reckon I would be able to crack down on it in less than a week.
I’ve posted this thread pretty early, I’m starting The Stand on New Year’s Day.
Oh, and sorry the message was so long, the rest of the messages won’t be this long. Hope you all have a good New Year and good luck to your 50 Book Challenges this year.
I think I did quite well in all fairness, but not as well as I would have liked. Although the general target to reach is fifty books, I would like to read as many as possible, I’d say that I could reach seventy-five books altogether by the next New Year, but I would like to reach one-hundred...at least.
But now this is a new 50 Book Challenge, a New Year and I have new books to read. In this year’s 50 Book Challenge I will be posting at least one message on here each day to inform of how well I’m doing and how I’m progressing in the books I’m reading. I will list my books like such:
Book 1# The Stand by Stephen King.
Every book that I read this year will be posted in a thread. Every book I read, mentioned or refer to in a post will be touchstoned which you may have noticed. In my 2010 50 Book Challenge (this one) all the books I read I will categorise in the 2010 50 Book Challenge section of my library so they will all be listed for me to refer to and other members to see.
I haven’t got any certain plan of how I’m going to read my books but I plan to read a few Stephen King’s this year, I have several of them in my possession:
'salem’s Lot by Stephen King.
Cell by Stephen King.
Cujo by Stephen King.
It by Stephen King.
Song of Susannah by Stephen King.
The Bachman Books by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman.
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King.
The Stand by Stephen King.
The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub
I have already read 'salem’s Lot and It, so I have four months worth of Stephen King books to read. Four because I cannot read Song of Susannah as it is the sixth volume of The Dark Tower series, which has five volumes before it, therefore in order to understand Song of Susannah I must read all the other volumes. I have read volume one already (The Gunslinger) so I only have volumes two-to-five to get through then maybe I can read the final instalment The Dark Tower.
Hednesford library, my local library, has a fair few Stephen King books so I can just pop round the corner if I wish to read one. I think they have Lisey’s Story, Black House, Wolves of the Calla, The Dark Tower and some others.
Although it may seem this way, I am not going to be reading just Stephen King books. No, I will be reading all sorts of books, I read pretty much any book going, and I read lots of various books from many different authors. In my personal library I have about thirty books that I’ve yet to read and plan to read by the end of this 50 Book Challenge.
I’m sure by now that if you’re reading this post on my challenge that you’re tired of my lists, but you don’t have to read it I’m just keeping it here for personal reference (I will be striking out the books below as I read them):
1) Insomnia by Stephen King.
2) Duma Key by Stephen King.
3) Carrie by Stephen King.
4)
5) Cell by Stephen King.
6)
7) Cujo by Stephen King.
8) Song of Susannah by Stephen King.
9) The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub.
10) The Bachman Books by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman.
a. The Long Walk.
b. Roadwork.
c. The Running Man.
11)
12) The Spear by James Herbert.
13) The Magic Cottage by James Herbert.
14) Creed by James Herbert.
15) The Fog by James Herbert.
16) Moon by James Herbert.
17) Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris.
18) The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris.
19) Kiss the Girls by James Patterson.
20) The 5th Horseman by James Patterson.
21) Run For Your Life by James Patterson.
22) Beach Road by James Patterson.
23)
24) The Narrows by Michael Connelly.
25) Echo Park by Michael Connelly.
26) Whispers of Betrayal by Michael Dobbs.
27) The Lords’ Day by Michael Dobbs.
28) Death of a Blue Movie Star by Jeffery Deaver.
29) Mistress of Justice by Jeffery Deaver.
30) The Broken Window by Jeffery Deaver.
31) Skin and Blister by Victoria Blake.
32) Digital Fortress by Dan Brown.
33) Deception Point by Dan Brown.
34) The Bad Place by Dean Koontz.
35) Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz.
36) Dark Rivers of the Heart by Dean Koontz.
37) Second Violin by John Lawton.
38) Old Flames by John Lawton.
39) The Fighter by Craig Davidson.
40) To the Bright and Shining Sun by James Lee Burke.
41) The Seventh Scroll by Wilbur Smith.
42) Warlock by Wilbur Smith.
43) The Wildfire Season by Andrew Pyper.
44) Maura’s Game by Martina Cole.
45) The Jump by Martina Cole.
46) Code to Zero by Ken Follett.
47) The Sign by Raymond Khoury.
It does seem like a lot but I’ll read all of those without much trouble before the end of the year. Some of them I can’t wait to get stuck into, there are others that I don’t really want to even touch but I’m going to read them all anyway. I plan to read at least two books per week, which is easily done if I read at a good pace, but I think there are certain books in the above list that may only be able to be read in a long amount of time, like The Stand for example; the edition that I have is 1325 pages long, if I read one-hundred pages each day I’ll get through it easily in two weeks, if I do one-hundred and twenty-five pages per day I’ll do it in approx ten days. If I aim for one-hundred and fifty I’ll get close to about eight days. But, reading two-hundred in one day I shall read the entire thing in just under seven days, sounds simple enough to me.
So just to get it out of the way I think I will read:
Book 1# The Stand by Stephen King.
Just so it doesn’t slow down my reading for the rest of the year. For some reason I just think that I’m not going to enjoy reading this, I enjoyed It, which was about as long, but it dragged me down a bit. I don’t want to be reading about the same characters for ages, as I’m aware The Stand has mannnnnny characters. However, The Stand is split into three books; all contained in the same book, so it’s sort of like an omnibus but still the same book:
Book I: Captain Trips. (466 pages)
Book II: On the Border. (596 pages)
Book III: The Stand. (265 pages)
So if I get tired of The Stand I could finish at the end of Book I: Captain Trips, then read another book, and then read Book II: On the Border, then read a different book, then after I’ve finished that one I’d finish off The Stand with Book III: The Stand. I don’t know if that would speed me up or slow me down but it sounds like it gives me an easier read, but if I can really get stuck into it, I reckon I would be able to crack down on it in less than a week.
I’ve posted this thread pretty early, I’m starting The Stand on New Year’s Day.
Oh, and sorry the message was so long, the rest of the messages won’t be this long. Hope you all have a good New Year and good luck to your 50 Book Challenges this year.
2tjblue
Good luck to you in 2010! I hope you enjoy The Stand and don't let the size intimidate you. I used to be a big Stephen King fan and The Stand was one of his books I liked the most. I haven't read anything by him in a few years, but I can't remember which book turned me off. Guess I'll give him another try.
3JordanLangston
Thanks tjblue, I'm enjoying what I've read of The Stand so far and I've only got one-hundred and seventy pages through but about one-thousand more to go...well more than that but never mind I'm enjoying it. I'm especially enjoying the scenes featuring Nick Andros, the deaf-mute guy, I don't know why but he is one of King more interesting characters, but I have the feeling that he will be killed off soon as many of the other insteresting characters have been.
The size however doesn't seem too much of a bother with The Stand, I suppose it's becuase the story is good enough to fill so many pages. But Stephen King's other large work It, really bored me in some parts, but the good parts I zipped through. That took me about a month to read, I'm hoping that The Stand should only take me about two weeks at the most.
I'm quite the eager Stephen King fan, The Stand is only the fourth/fifth book of his that I'm reading but I've loved them all immensely.
Again, I apologize for having a long post yet again, it's just a habit of mine to go into uneccessary depth.
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The size however doesn't seem too much of a bother with The Stand, I suppose it's becuase the story is good enough to fill so many pages. But Stephen King's other large work It, really bored me in some parts, but the good parts I zipped through. That took me about a month to read, I'm hoping that The Stand should only take me about two weeks at the most.
I'm quite the eager Stephen King fan, The Stand is only the fourth/fifth book of his that I'm reading but I've loved them all immensely.
Again, I apologize for having a long post yet again, it's just a habit of mine to go into uneccessary depth.
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4jak1886
Hi Jordan. Just stopping in to say hello and good luck. You're very organized and planned out for this challenge. Lol. I'm just kind of winging it on mine. Anyway, Happy New Year! =)
5JordanLangston
Hey jak1886, yeah I do like to be really organised in pretty much everything I do particularly if it concerns books, yeah you should see how my books are ordered in my drawers in my room, my sister says its weird and that I have OCD...
Anyways, The Stand. Yes, I'm enjoying it immensely but today and yesterday I hardly read any of it, I've only read fifty pages today but I managed to slip in one-hundred and ten yesterday...so far. I still have all night (It's currently 20.06 in my region. The one that shows when the message was posted isn't right, it must be for the US region).
Yeah, I wanted to be at about page five-hundred by the end of tonight, but I have had little chance to read all day so I'm going to try and make up for it in the next few hours before I go to bed.
I began The Stand by Stephen King on Friday 1st January 2010. It's currently Sunday 3rd January 2010 and since then I've progressed to about page three-hundred and thirty. If I could I would finish the entire thing by Thursday 7th January 2010...but if not that then the 10th...if not that then the 13th but I truly believe I can do it by the 7th. So now, by the end of tonight I aspire to reach page five-hundred. Goodnight.
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Anyways, The Stand. Yes, I'm enjoying it immensely but today and yesterday I hardly read any of it, I've only read fifty pages today but I managed to slip in one-hundred and ten yesterday...so far. I still have all night (It's currently 20.06 in my region. The one that shows when the message was posted isn't right, it must be for the US region).
Yeah, I wanted to be at about page five-hundred by the end of tonight, but I have had little chance to read all day so I'm going to try and make up for it in the next few hours before I go to bed.
I began The Stand by Stephen King on Friday 1st January 2010. It's currently Sunday 3rd January 2010 and since then I've progressed to about page three-hundred and thirty. If I could I would finish the entire thing by Thursday 7th January 2010...but if not that then the 10th...if not that then the 13th but I truly believe I can do it by the 7th. So now, by the end of tonight I aspire to reach page five-hundred. Goodnight.
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6whitewavedarling
Good luck! I love The Stand, and I need to go back and read Talisman--I read Black House last year for a project on haunted houses and loved it. I can't help recommending though that you skip Cell in favor of some of the Dark Tower series or for Lisey's story or Duma Key, both of which I think are probably the best works he's finished next to The Stand. In any case, I'll look forward to hearing all of your thoughts! Good reading!
7JordanLangston
Hi whitewavedarling, or of course Jennifer. I'm loving The Stand too, I'm not making good progress in my opinion, not since I went back to school anyway. I'm only about one third of the way through the second book in The Stand, which is Book II: On the Border. I've been reading it for five days now and I know I can do better than six-hundred and thirty pages in that time. In theory at the rate I'm reading at now I'll probably finish the book by the upcoming Saturday...which isn't bad I suppose but I should do better.
If I read BloodBorn by Kathryn Fox, which I'm planning to read next, in one day I'll make up for lost time and then I should be back on track.
I kind of developed a schedule to read the Stephen King books I have.
January -- The Stand and The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Febuary -- Cujo and Cell
March -- The Bachman Books
June -- The Talisman and Black House
Altohugh I don't have Black House Hednesford library do and I can pick it up anytime. I'm sure I'll be able to read The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon in a day or two. If I want to read another Stephen King in each month I'll request a volume of the Dark Tower from the library and I can take it out and read it. I've read Volume I, The Gunslinger, but none of the others.
Oh and just to remind, I'm not just reading all Stephen King books I'm reading all sorts of variation but I just want to read a few Stephen King books in between reading other books this year.
Okk, back to The Stand...
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If I read BloodBorn by Kathryn Fox, which I'm planning to read next, in one day I'll make up for lost time and then I should be back on track.
I kind of developed a schedule to read the Stephen King books I have.
January -- The Stand and The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Febuary -- Cujo and Cell
March -- The Bachman Books
June -- The Talisman and Black House
Altohugh I don't have Black House Hednesford library do and I can pick it up anytime. I'm sure I'll be able to read The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon in a day or two. If I want to read another Stephen King in each month I'll request a volume of the Dark Tower from the library and I can take it out and read it. I've read Volume I, The Gunslinger, but none of the others.
Oh and just to remind, I'm not just reading all Stephen King books I'm reading all sorts of variation but I just want to read a few Stephen King books in between reading other books this year.
Okk, back to The Stand...
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10JordanLangston
Today I read up to page seven-hundred and fifty of Stephen King's The Stand but then I got really annoyed with the lagging and so I decided it was time to take a bit of a break from it. So just so I stayed in the mood of Stephen King I watched the 2004 film adaptation/mini-series of 'salem's Lot which I've never seen before and was really good. The film was set in a modern Jerusalem's Lot as opposed to the seventies one presented in the novel, but the story was the same, Ben Mears was played perfectly by...the actor who portrayed him (yeah, I don't know his name).
Also, it snowed today so I went out and had a snowball fight which was fun.
Then, I picked up my copy of my all-time favourite Stephen King book, 'salem's Lot, and read the short story that was in the back of it:
One for the Road. Which follows on from 'salem's Lot, sort of. But tomorrow I plan to get straight back on track with The Stand and maybe get around to about page nine-hundred...maybe more, I don't know yet.
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Also, it snowed today so I went out and had a snowball fight which was fun.
Then, I picked up my copy of my all-time favourite Stephen King book, 'salem's Lot, and read the short story that was in the back of it:
One for the Road. Which follows on from 'salem's Lot, sort of. But tomorrow I plan to get straight back on track with The Stand and maybe get around to about page nine-hundred...maybe more, I don't know yet.
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12JordanLangston
Yay! School is closed again today due to the snow. I'm back on track with The Stand, a bit behind but I'm sure if I really get back into it I'll catch up to where I should be soon.
A couple of months back a friend of mine was going to lend me '48 by James Herbert, she let me read a bit of it in tutor and what I had read was really good; descriptive, the same sort of writing style as King but less unnecessary blabber, therefore less lag and more focus on the plot. She hasn't borrowed me the book yet so I decided I'd buy my own copy. I went on Amazon Books the other day and typed James Herbert and straight away a boxset of six of Herbert's books came up, brand-new for only £4.50. I bought it and it should be arriving between the eighth and twentieth of January. The boxset includes:
Creed by James Herbert
The Fog by James Herbert
The Spear by James Herbert
Haunted by James Herbert
The Magic Cottage by James Herbert
Moon by James Herbert
I'm looking forward to reading them all. Some them have the sci-fi horror element, whereas others have the kind of supernatural themes which I prefer to sci-fi.
Oh and I've figured out how to touchstone books without it coming up the wrong name. Like just I tried to tag Moon and it came up with New Moon instead then I recognised the '(others)' button....
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Currently Reading: The Stand by Stephen King
A couple of months back a friend of mine was going to lend me '48 by James Herbert, she let me read a bit of it in tutor and what I had read was really good; descriptive, the same sort of writing style as King but less unnecessary blabber, therefore less lag and more focus on the plot. She hasn't borrowed me the book yet so I decided I'd buy my own copy. I went on Amazon Books the other day and typed James Herbert and straight away a boxset of six of Herbert's books came up, brand-new for only £4.50. I bought it and it should be arriving between the eighth and twentieth of January. The boxset includes:
Creed by James Herbert
The Fog by James Herbert
The Spear by James Herbert
Haunted by James Herbert
The Magic Cottage by James Herbert
Moon by James Herbert
I'm looking forward to reading them all. Some them have the sci-fi horror element, whereas others have the kind of supernatural themes which I prefer to sci-fi.
Oh and I've figured out how to touchstone books without it coming up the wrong name. Like just I tried to tag Moon and it came up with New Moon instead then I recognised the '(others)' button....
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13whitewavedarling
I'll be curious to hear what you think of Herbert; some of his books are sitting on my shelf, but I've yet to get around to them so far... In any case, good luck with The Stand :)
14JordanLangston
Hi, I went to see Avatar with my girlfriend yesterday and it was absolutely amazing, I've never believed film writers to have such amazing imaginations to come up with something as original as Avatar. It felt like something that would come from a professional fantasy novelists mind to produced such a successful story.
Anyway I'm fed up with reading The Stand now, I just can't wait to finish it, I've already got figured out what I'm going to say in my review and to be honest what I think of it is not good so far. The blabber has become less frequenr and is more focused on the plot but at the end of the day it's still too long. I'm on page nine-hundred and fifty...that's crap to be honest, I've only read twenty pages of it and I'm just not interested in it anymore, unless it starts to pick up a bit it's going to take me an age to read.
I think I might switch to another book for a bit and then go back to The Stand. Or I could just try and concentrate on it really hard and get to the good parts.
Also, my new James Herbert books from Amazon Books arrived on 8th January, a really quick delivery in my opinion. I'm really pleased with them, they're in brand new condition I can't wait to read them. I also bought Stephen King's first novel on Friday, Carrie which I should stop doing because I now have forty books to read. I do it all the time, I always browse the bookshops just 'to look' and usually end up buying a new book, I just can't help myself.
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Anyway I'm fed up with reading The Stand now, I just can't wait to finish it, I've already got figured out what I'm going to say in my review and to be honest what I think of it is not good so far. The blabber has become less frequenr and is more focused on the plot but at the end of the day it's still too long. I'm on page nine-hundred and fifty...that's crap to be honest, I've only read twenty pages of it and I'm just not interested in it anymore, unless it starts to pick up a bit it's going to take me an age to read.
I think I might switch to another book for a bit and then go back to The Stand. Or I could just try and concentrate on it really hard and get to the good parts.
Also, my new James Herbert books from Amazon Books arrived on 8th January, a really quick delivery in my opinion. I'm really pleased with them, they're in brand new condition I can't wait to read them. I also bought Stephen King's first novel on Friday, Carrie which I should stop doing because I now have forty books to read. I do it all the time, I always browse the bookshops just 'to look' and usually end up buying a new book, I just can't help myself.
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15JordanLangston
Yet again my school was closed today due to whether conditions. We've been having heavy snow for the past week in England. So yeah, school was closed and I had a pretty uneventful day apart from I'm coming very close to finishing The Stand I'm on the last one-hundred and fifty pages which I will certaintly finish before ten o clock tonight.
I've decided that at the end of every month I will put a short list of how I am progressing with my 50 Book Challenge. At the end of January I'll list every book that I have read in January and at the end of Febuary I will list all the books I read in January then the books I read in Febuary and so on. I know it's not the end of the month yet so I shan't bother listing what I've read so far...mainly because I haven't actaully finished any books yet, but by the end of tonight I will have done so. Then by the end of tomorrow I predict I will have finished Bloodborn by Kathryn Fox. By Wednesday night I will either have gotten halfway through The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon or will have totally polished it off...which of course I hope to do :D
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I've decided that at the end of every month I will put a short list of how I am progressing with my 50 Book Challenge. At the end of January I'll list every book that I have read in January and at the end of Febuary I will list all the books I read in January then the books I read in Febuary and so on. I know it's not the end of the month yet so I shan't bother listing what I've read so far...mainly because I haven't actaully finished any books yet, but by the end of tonight I will have done so. Then by the end of tomorrow I predict I will have finished Bloodborn by Kathryn Fox. By Wednesday night I will either have gotten halfway through The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon or will have totally polished it off...which of course I hope to do :D
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16JordanLangston
There we go I have finished The Stand and I'm really glad it's over with, I was getting tired of reading the same book so now I'm going to take a rest from reading and do something elsethen bed. I think I have school tomorrow now though because it probably won't even snow.
So tomorrow I will be starting a new book. Tomorrow I will do a review on The Stand and provide readers of this thread with a link should they wish to read it.
Now, the book I will be starting:
Book 2# Bloodborn by Kathryn Fox.
Ohh yeahh, it felt so good to announce my second book, I'm no longer reading The Stand, I'm onto a new book Bloodborn!! Yay!!
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Currently Reading: Bloodborn by Kathryn Fox
So tomorrow I will be starting a new book. Tomorrow I will do a review on The Stand and provide readers of this thread with a link should they wish to read it.
Now, the book I will be starting:
Book 2# Bloodborn by Kathryn Fox.
Ohh yeahh, it felt so good to announce my second book, I'm no longer reading The Stand, I'm onto a new book Bloodborn!! Yay!!
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Currently Reading: Bloodborn by Kathryn Fox
17JordanLangston
I finished Bloodborn by Kathryn Fox on Tuesday morning and I really liked it because it was soo short and I love short books because they're just easy to get through and I think I deserve a short book after The Stand. Bloodborn was like reading a CSI novel (like a fan fiction sort of book based on the TV series) I've never read a CSI novel but I assume this is what it feels like, I like to watch CSI whenever it's on sometimes but not very often so it was nice to read a book that was different.
I have reviewed The Stand by Stephen King and the review is very long, the longest I've ever done. The plot summary takes up the vast majority of it (the review, not the book) to be fair though.
If you wish to see the review of Stephen King's The Stand just click the link below:
JordanLangston's review of Stephen King's The Stand
So that's The Stand and Bloodborn gone so far and I'm pretty much at the end of my third book of the year. It is another Stephen King book, I was going to wait until I'd read another two books after The Stand but I just thought ahh, what the hell it's really short so I'll just read it now. I'll definitely finish reading it tonight and I will definitely write a review for it tonight and in my next post I will put the hyperlink to the review in it:
Book 3# The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King.
I don't yet know what I'm going to read after I've finished this but I will of course tell you in the next post, which will be very soon, it might even be tonight...
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Currently Reading: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
I have reviewed The Stand by Stephen King and the review is very long, the longest I've ever done. The plot summary takes up the vast majority of it (the review, not the book) to be fair though.
If you wish to see the review of Stephen King's The Stand just click the link below:
JordanLangston's review of Stephen King's The Stand
So that's The Stand and Bloodborn gone so far and I'm pretty much at the end of my third book of the year. It is another Stephen King book, I was going to wait until I'd read another two books after The Stand but I just thought ahh, what the hell it's really short so I'll just read it now. I'll definitely finish reading it tonight and I will definitely write a review for it tonight and in my next post I will put the hyperlink to the review in it:
Book 3# The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King.
I don't yet know what I'm going to read after I've finished this but I will of course tell you in the next post, which will be very soon, it might even be tonight...
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Currently Reading: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
18JordanLangston
There, I've finished The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon and I've already entered the review so if you want to read the review click the link provided below, I encourage feedback and what you think of my reviews:
JordanLangston's review of Stephen King's The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
So now it's time for me to move onto a new book, which I shall be doing tomorrow but I will post it on here now so you can see what I'm reading. It's a James Herbert book from the boxset I bought of Amazon Books a week or so ago, it's the smallest one of them all because I need to make up for time I lost reading The Stand and I just want to get a taste of Herbert because this is the first full James Herbert novel I will read, so:
Book 4# Haunted by James Herbert.
Herbert has been described by readers as the British equivalent of Stephen King, one good reason for me to read his works and on the back of The Fog it has a quote from Stephen King praising Herbert and his works.
So yeah, I'll be starting Haunted sometime tomorrow.
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Currently Reading: Haunted by James Herbert
JordanLangston's review of Stephen King's The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
So now it's time for me to move onto a new book, which I shall be doing tomorrow but I will post it on here now so you can see what I'm reading. It's a James Herbert book from the boxset I bought of Amazon Books a week or so ago, it's the smallest one of them all because I need to make up for time I lost reading The Stand and I just want to get a taste of Herbert because this is the first full James Herbert novel I will read, so:
Book 4# Haunted by James Herbert.
Herbert has been described by readers as the British equivalent of Stephen King, one good reason for me to read his works and on the back of The Fog it has a quote from Stephen King praising Herbert and his works.
So yeah, I'll be starting Haunted sometime tomorrow.
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Currently Reading: Haunted by James Herbert
19JordanLangston
I wanted to finish Haunted by James Herbert on the Friday after I started it but I've been ill all weekend plus it was my birthday on Saturday so basically I haven't read anymore than I had done on Thursday, although I'm still ill today I'm positive I'll finish it tonight as it is really short and I'm half way through at the moment.
On the plus side I got more books for my birthday. The first three which are shown beloware the ones my girlfriend bought me...yeah, it's true she's the best. Ok, on my birthday I got these books:
Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz.
Dark Rivers of the Heart by Dean Koontz.
Kiss the Girls by James Patterson.
The Sign by Raymond Khoury.
I've never read any of Raymond Khoury's books unless you include the first few pages of The Last Templar but I will read The Sign eventually after I've read the forty-seven books I have to read, lol. But as my girlfriend is amazing and knows what books I like she got me two Dean Koontz's :O who is one of my favourites although I only read like two of his books but I'm going to read Life Expectancy after I've done with Haunted. I'm not too far off the end of it at the minute so I think it's safe to say that I'll be done by about 18.00 tonight and I can read a bit of Life Expectancy too.
I got an iPod too for my birthday :D and my girlfriend got me dogtags which were engraved OMGG...ok, kind of irrelavent so lets get back to books.
With the money I recieved for my birthday off people I went to Birmingham with my girlfriend and bought some books and other things too:
Duma Key by Stephen King.
Insomnia by Stephen King.
Mostly these days I buy just Stephen King books because I like his writing and I suppose you could say I'm collecting them because I like the covers for them too. I buy the Hodder paperbacks editions which are very nicely presented.
I bought Insomnia because the cover was interesting and I got Insomnia because it was set in Derry (same setting as It) and I thought it would be quite interesting for me to read as I had quite acase of Insomnia myself not so long ago.
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Currently Reading: Haunted by James Herbert
On the plus side I got more books for my birthday. The first three which are shown beloware the ones my girlfriend bought me...yeah, it's true she's the best. Ok, on my birthday I got these books:
Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz.
Dark Rivers of the Heart by Dean Koontz.
Kiss the Girls by James Patterson.
The Sign by Raymond Khoury.
I've never read any of Raymond Khoury's books unless you include the first few pages of The Last Templar but I will read The Sign eventually after I've read the forty-seven books I have to read, lol. But as my girlfriend is amazing and knows what books I like she got me two Dean Koontz's :O who is one of my favourites although I only read like two of his books but I'm going to read Life Expectancy after I've done with Haunted. I'm not too far off the end of it at the minute so I think it's safe to say that I'll be done by about 18.00 tonight and I can read a bit of Life Expectancy too.
I got an iPod too for my birthday :D and my girlfriend got me dogtags which were engraved OMGG...ok, kind of irrelavent so lets get back to books.
With the money I recieved for my birthday off people I went to Birmingham with my girlfriend and bought some books and other things too:
Duma Key by Stephen King.
Insomnia by Stephen King.
Mostly these days I buy just Stephen King books because I like his writing and I suppose you could say I'm collecting them because I like the covers for them too. I buy the Hodder paperbacks editions which are very nicely presented.
I bought Insomnia because the cover was interesting and I got Insomnia because it was set in Derry (same setting as It) and I thought it would be quite interesting for me to read as I had quite acase of Insomnia myself not so long ago.
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Currently Reading: Haunted by James Herbert
20tjblue
Have you ever read anything by John Saul ? Since you like Dean Koontz and Stephen King you might like John Saul.
21JordanLangston
I've never heard of John Saul, but I will check out some of his books and see if I like him or not. If he's similar to Dean Koontz and Stephen King then I suppose his works would be appropriate. Thankyou for the recommendation! :)
Well I finished Haunted by James Herbert and I absolutely loved it, it was simply amazing, he's a really good writer and pretty suitable for me as I like the gnere of supernatural thrillers and stuff. I really can't wait to read anymore books by James Herbert (I have five more in my personal library to read) but I do not want to read anymore of them for now as I want to put space in between each authors book, like I want to read at least two more books by different authors before I lay a finger on another Herbert.
I've already posted a review for Haunted as have I done for Bloodborn. If you wish to see both reviews then just click on the links provided below and you will be taken straight to the webpage:
JordanLangston's review of James Herbert's Haunted
JordanLangston's review of Kathryn Fox's Bloodborn
And naturally I have moved onto a new book, one from a favourite author of mine and one of the books that my girlfriend bought me for my birthday. I've already broke into it and am about halfway through:
Book 5# Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz.
I don't think I'll finish it any time soon although I would like to, I'm enjoying it though, a very good story and really interesting (albeit really weird) characters in this particular story, seriously the character Koontz has thought up in this novel are amazing.
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Currently Reading: Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz.
Well I finished Haunted by James Herbert and I absolutely loved it, it was simply amazing, he's a really good writer and pretty suitable for me as I like the gnere of supernatural thrillers and stuff. I really can't wait to read anymore books by James Herbert (I have five more in my personal library to read) but I do not want to read anymore of them for now as I want to put space in between each authors book, like I want to read at least two more books by different authors before I lay a finger on another Herbert.
I've already posted a review for Haunted as have I done for Bloodborn. If you wish to see both reviews then just click on the links provided below and you will be taken straight to the webpage:
JordanLangston's review of James Herbert's Haunted
JordanLangston's review of Kathryn Fox's Bloodborn
And naturally I have moved onto a new book, one from a favourite author of mine and one of the books that my girlfriend bought me for my birthday. I've already broke into it and am about halfway through:
Book 5# Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz.
I don't think I'll finish it any time soon although I would like to, I'm enjoying it though, a very good story and really interesting (albeit really weird) characters in this particular story, seriously the character Koontz has thought up in this novel are amazing.
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Currently Reading: Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz.
22JordanLangston
Life Expectancy is doing my nut. It's a good book, but I simply can't rea it fast enough and I don't know why. This is taking up time on my 50 Book Challenge, I'm not even close to where I could be at the moment. So I'm going to put it aside for the moment and perhaps finish the rest of it at the end of the month.
In the meantime however, I'm going to move onto another book. Well, looks as though I've only read one crime thriller so far and I've got loas of them to read so I'm going to read a crime thriller...and it's gonna be a Patterson...and it's gonna be one of his new ones...and...I'm gonna read it...naturally:
Book 6# Run For Your Life by James Patterson.
Judging by the cover this looks like a good book...but of course we're not reading book covers here are we people, are we? Wait, are we?!! The answer is no, it's the content that counts and I've read a couple of reviews of Run For Your life and some have been really good reviews but others have said that he's used a similar formula that he uses in the rest of his novels. A man involved in murder (either caught in the middle or investigating it) and the killer gets the man's family involved and puts them in jeopardy...I've read a Patterson like that before.
But, I'm still gonna read it.
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Currently Reading: Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz.
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Currently Reading: Run For Your Life by James Patterson.
In the meantime however, I'm going to move onto another book. Well, looks as though I've only read one crime thriller so far and I've got loas of them to read so I'm going to read a crime thriller...and it's gonna be a Patterson...and it's gonna be one of his new ones...and...I'm gonna read it...naturally:
Book 6# Run For Your Life by James Patterson.
Judging by the cover this looks like a good book...but of course we're not reading book covers here are we people, are we? Wait, are we?!! The answer is no, it's the content that counts and I've read a couple of reviews of Run For Your life and some have been really good reviews but others have said that he's used a similar formula that he uses in the rest of his novels. A man involved in murder (either caught in the middle or investigating it) and the killer gets the man's family involved and puts them in jeopardy...I've read a Patterson like that before.
But, I'm still gonna read it.
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Currently Reading: Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz.
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Currently Reading: Run For Your Life by James Patterson.
23JordanLangston
Hell yeah, this is more like it. I'm reading this sooo fast...well, I've read a James Patterson book that was longer than this in a quicker amount of time but still (The book in question was Cross Country, read it in about one and a half days without any trouble...it's my favourite Patterson) I'm making good progress. I have about fifty pages left and then I'll be done with it. It's one of the best I've read from this author which isn't hard to say as his novels are all over the place, some really bad, others really good. I'd say Run For Your Life is curretly running on a par with Cross Country.
I like the Michael Bennet character better than I like Alex Cross, he just seems a lot more interesting in many aspects. This is only the second book in the Detective Michael Bennet series and the reader has already learnt a lot about him. I want the next Michael Bennet book when it comes out, Worst Case. I don't think I'm going to bother even getting Step on a Crack because Patterson personally thinks Run For Your Life is better than it's predecessor.
I desperately want to read another James Herbert. So I have '48 for a short amount of time so that is what I'll be reading after I've finished this. I'm eager to read it, I may even start reading it tonight if I feel like it. And also, if you've noticed that in the 'Currently Reading' section I provide below each post, in my previous one I put that I'm currently reading both Life Expectancy and Run For Your Life that is because I have not finished Life Expectancy and plan to do so shortly.
I'm going to pick Life Expectancy back up after I've finished James Herbert's '48 which I should read really quickly.
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Currently Reading: Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz.
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Currently Reading: Run For Your Life by James Patterson.
I like the Michael Bennet character better than I like Alex Cross, he just seems a lot more interesting in many aspects. This is only the second book in the Detective Michael Bennet series and the reader has already learnt a lot about him. I want the next Michael Bennet book when it comes out, Worst Case. I don't think I'm going to bother even getting Step on a Crack because Patterson personally thinks Run For Your Life is better than it's predecessor.
I desperately want to read another James Herbert. So I have '48 for a short amount of time so that is what I'll be reading after I've finished this. I'm eager to read it, I may even start reading it tonight if I feel like it. And also, if you've noticed that in the 'Currently Reading' section I provide below each post, in my previous one I put that I'm currently reading both Life Expectancy and Run For Your Life that is because I have not finished Life Expectancy and plan to do so shortly.
I'm going to pick Life Expectancy back up after I've finished James Herbert's '48 which I should read really quickly.
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Currently Reading: Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz.
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Currently Reading: Run For Your Life by James Patterson.
24JordanLangston
I need to keep posting messages more regularly, I'm not informing enough so I'm going to get back to posting a message each day from now on. So here's the first thing, I finished Run For Your Life by James Patterson on the night of the Tuesday just gone but I haven't yet reviewed it, but I will do soon hopefully tonight. I really loved Run For Your Life, I'd go as far as to say that it is probably my most favourite James Patterson book that I have read to date. Well, I've only read a few (Lifeguard, Mary, Mary, Cross, Cross Country and Run For Your Life in that order) but I think I can say this is the best Patterson yet...well, I liked Cross Country but Run For Your Life had a much better ending so I'm kind of torn between the two...leaning more towards Run For Your Life at this moment. But yes, I was very impressed with this.
As soon as I finished Run For Your Life I began another book and also finished it. It has been the second book I've read by James Herbert and I liked it but slightly disappointed by it...I think it was the thing with too much action to be honest. But it was alright overall:
Book 7# '48 by James Herbert.
I'll probably review it very soon...but I don't know when exactly so I'll just post a link whenever, not like anyone reads em anyway but yano. So I liked James Herbert's Haunted but I was let down on my second outing with him, but I'm not giving up on him like that, I'll definitely read some more of Herbert.
I'm gonna have to cut it short. I'm about to start another book:
Book 8# Carrie by Stephen King.
I'll post again later, or edit this one.
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Currently Reading: Carrie by Stephen King
As soon as I finished Run For Your Life I began another book and also finished it. It has been the second book I've read by James Herbert and I liked it but slightly disappointed by it...I think it was the thing with too much action to be honest. But it was alright overall:
Book 7# '48 by James Herbert.
I'll probably review it very soon...but I don't know when exactly so I'll just post a link whenever, not like anyone reads em anyway but yano. So I liked James Herbert's Haunted but I was let down on my second outing with him, but I'm not giving up on him like that, I'll definitely read some more of Herbert.
I'm gonna have to cut it short. I'm about to start another book:
Book 8# Carrie by Stephen King.
I'll post again later, or edit this one.
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Currently Reading: Carrie by Stephen King
25JordanLangston
Hi, I finished Carrie by Stephen King but I haven't reviewed it yet . . . neither have I reviewed the previous four books I recently read. I need to review them all very soon or I'll never get around to reviewing them and I want to review them as soon as possible so I have all praises and criticisms fresh in my mind. But rest assured that I will review them and as soon as thy're done I will post a link to each of them in the next post. If I review all of them tonight (which I'm planning to do) I will make another post later and include the links to the reviews and thell you how I'm doing in the book I am currently reading.
Which, incidentally, reminds me why I'm here to tell you all (you all? It's as though I'm speaking to an audience . . . which I'm not I'm mean really, who actually reads this thread?) of how I'm getting on with my fifty book challenge this year.
As I have said I finished Carrie by Stephen King . . . I finished it last night and I began a new book in my lunchtime today and I'm getting through it easily. When I begin my usual two-three hour read-a-thon (read-a-thon? It's like a marathon of reading. However, a read-a-thon would be like twelve hours straight of reading each day . . . which I haven't got room for really) I hope to read all of it.
My next book? Here it is:
Book 9# Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris.
Well, I've read Red Dragon which is the first that Harris wrote in the Hannibal series and I really liked that, it's one of my favourites (it's true, look in my 'Favourite' collection) and Hannibal Rising is brilliant so far.
So erm toodle-pip homebredwins and I'll be going . . .
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Currently Reading: Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris
Which, incidentally, reminds me why I'm here to tell you all (you all? It's as though I'm speaking to an audience . . . which I'm not I'm mean really, who actually reads this thread?) of how I'm getting on with my fifty book challenge this year.
As I have said I finished Carrie by Stephen King . . . I finished it last night and I began a new book in my lunchtime today and I'm getting through it easily. When I begin my usual two-three hour read-a-thon (read-a-thon? It's like a marathon of reading. However, a read-a-thon would be like twelve hours straight of reading each day . . . which I haven't got room for really) I hope to read all of it.
My next book? Here it is:
Book 9# Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris.
Well, I've read Red Dragon which is the first that Harris wrote in the Hannibal series and I really liked that, it's one of my favourites (it's true, look in my 'Favourite' collection) and Hannibal Rising is brilliant so far.
So erm toodle-pip homebredwins and I'll be going . . .
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Currently Reading: Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris
26JordanLangston
I've finished Hannibal Rising, I thought it would take me a lot longer to read it then that, I started it lunchtime yesterday (yeah, I sit and read in the corner in the computer room whilst all of my mates play games on www.projectham.com during lunchtime at school, lol. I'd choose books over that sad shit anyday). Anyway I started it lunchtime yesterday and only read for about two hours when I got home and I finished it as soon as I got back from my girlfriend's today . . . I'm really happy I read it this quick *GRINS LIKE IDIOT* :D
So, anyways, I need to move onto another book and I am very drawn to a book I recieved for my birthday. It is another Dean Koontz book and I'm aware that Life Expectancy annoyed me when I read it last week but I read the first few pages of this one and I was really hooked, I think I'll read this one:
Book 10# Dark Rivers of the Heart by Dean Koontz.
I hope it's as good as The Darkest Evening of the Year from Koontz, that was the book that got me into Koontz. This one is seven-hundred and something pages which is a lot longer than both Life Expectancy and The Darkest Evening of the Year but I'm sure it will be good just as long as it isn't too draggy and bloated . . . but Dean doesn't usually do that in his books anyway does he?
I'll commence reading tomorrow.
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Currently Reading: Dark Rivers of the Heart by Dean Koontz
So, anyways, I need to move onto another book and I am very drawn to a book I recieved for my birthday. It is another Dean Koontz book and I'm aware that Life Expectancy annoyed me when I read it last week but I read the first few pages of this one and I was really hooked, I think I'll read this one:
Book 10# Dark Rivers of the Heart by Dean Koontz.
I hope it's as good as The Darkest Evening of the Year from Koontz, that was the book that got me into Koontz. This one is seven-hundred and something pages which is a lot longer than both Life Expectancy and The Darkest Evening of the Year but I'm sure it will be good just as long as it isn't too draggy and bloated . . . but Dean doesn't usually do that in his books anyway does he?
I'll commence reading tomorrow.
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Currently Reading: Dark Rivers of the Heart by Dean Koontz
27JordanLangston
I'm currently about one-hundred and fifty pages through Dean Koontz's Dark Rivers of the Heart, I'm not very far through it to be honest considering it has seven-hundred and twenty-five pages . . . but I have a lot more time to read tonight then I had last night so I'm sure I'll get to about three-hundred, but I would like to get to four-hundred. So if I'm not too tired after I reach my target then I will proceed to four-hundred.
I like to read classic books, yano like books that were written by people who are dead (not writing when they were dead but are currently dead and no longer have ability to think or imagine . . . or write at all for that matter), such as Dracula for example. I like to read books from this era but I don't like to forget that there is some very famous books out there still that are often forgotten, I want to read those books. I've been looking at a lot of H. G. Wells books and I think I would like to read them like The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The Island of Doctor Moreau and stufffff . . .
I've also been thinking of some authors and books I'd like to read:
Clive Barker
Neil Gaiman
Frank Herbert
James Herbert
Stephen King
Dean Koontz
John Saul
Darren Shan
Dan Simmons
Peter Straub
H. G. Wells
Some really famous novelists in there. Clive Barker was recommended to me by another member of LibraryThing (Moomin_Mama) and John Saul was a recommendation of also another LibraryThing member (tjblue) and I hope to read some of their books sometime in the future, their meant to be writers of a similar genre to Koontz and King so seems like my kind of books. James Herbert, Stephen King and Dean Koontx of course I already read, Peter Straub is in there because he and Stephen King did two books together, The Talisman and Black House.
I'm gonna get back to Dark Rivers of the Heart in a few minutes so I shall be off.
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Currently Reading: Dark Rivers of the Heart by Dean Koontz
I like to read classic books, yano like books that were written by people who are dead (not writing when they were dead but are currently dead and no longer have ability to think or imagine . . . or write at all for that matter), such as Dracula for example. I like to read books from this era but I don't like to forget that there is some very famous books out there still that are often forgotten, I want to read those books. I've been looking at a lot of H. G. Wells books and I think I would like to read them like The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The Island of Doctor Moreau and stufffff . . .
I've also been thinking of some authors and books I'd like to read:
Clive Barker
Neil Gaiman
Frank Herbert
James Herbert
Stephen King
Dean Koontz
John Saul
Darren Shan
Dan Simmons
Peter Straub
H. G. Wells
Some really famous novelists in there. Clive Barker was recommended to me by another member of LibraryThing (Moomin_Mama) and John Saul was a recommendation of also another LibraryThing member (tjblue) and I hope to read some of their books sometime in the future, their meant to be writers of a similar genre to Koontz and King so seems like my kind of books. James Herbert, Stephen King and Dean Koontx of course I already read, Peter Straub is in there because he and Stephen King did two books together, The Talisman and Black House.
I'm gonna get back to Dark Rivers of the Heart in a few minutes so I shall be off.
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Currently Reading: Dark Rivers of the Heart by Dean Koontz
28eldashwood
If you like Koontz so far, take a look at Watchers. It's my favorite of his, followed by In the Corner of His Eye.
Happy reading! It sounds like you have quite the list mapped out.
Happy reading! It sounds like you have quite the list mapped out.
29JordanLangston
Hey, thanks eldashwood I'm always happy for recommendations on what to read. If I see Watchers in the library at any time I may take it out, or even better so I may just buy it if I come across it. My Art teacher saw me reading earlier today and because it was a Stephen King and she recommended a Dean Koontz novel to me that she had read at an age a little younger than me but she said it scared the hell out of her so I'll read that too . . . the book was called Phamtoms by the way.
I haven't finished Dark Rivers of the Heart yet, but that's not to say I won't finish it but I will just put it to one side for the moment. It was getting pretty tiresome to read to be fair, in all fairness Koontz lived up to the storyline of The Darkest Evening of the Year in Dark Rivers of the Heart but the description is just really annoying, it's nice to have lots of description when it's actually needed like when describing a room or explaining bloating out paragraphs with exciting descriptions to add tension and stuff . . . but when there's description when it's not needed like how Spencer's car gets carried of by a river of water and ends up wedged in between two rocks (that description lasted four pages by the way, so aggravating) just isn't interesting but annoyingly boring!
So, instead, so I didn't get to wrapped up in Dark Rivers of the Heart, I moved onto another Stephen King book:
Book 11# The Long Walk by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman.
It's not the paperback original but is one of the three books collected together in the Richard Bachman omnibus The Bachman Books. Yeah, it's one book, but it's three novels in one book so I'm counting them all individually as one book each. They're all fairly short books, about three-hundred to four-hundred pages each and I'm already a third of the way through The Long Walk so I should be able to get back to Dark Rivers of the Heart as soon as I've finished it.
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Currently Reading: The Long Walk by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman
I haven't finished Dark Rivers of the Heart yet, but that's not to say I won't finish it but I will just put it to one side for the moment. It was getting pretty tiresome to read to be fair, in all fairness Koontz lived up to the storyline of The Darkest Evening of the Year in Dark Rivers of the Heart but the description is just really annoying, it's nice to have lots of description when it's actually needed like when describing a room or explaining bloating out paragraphs with exciting descriptions to add tension and stuff . . . but when there's description when it's not needed like how Spencer's car gets carried of by a river of water and ends up wedged in between two rocks (that description lasted four pages by the way, so aggravating) just isn't interesting but annoyingly boring!
So, instead, so I didn't get to wrapped up in Dark Rivers of the Heart, I moved onto another Stephen King book:
Book 11# The Long Walk by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman.
It's not the paperback original but is one of the three books collected together in the Richard Bachman omnibus The Bachman Books. Yeah, it's one book, but it's three novels in one book so I'm counting them all individually as one book each. They're all fairly short books, about three-hundred to four-hundred pages each and I'm already a third of the way through The Long Walk so I should be able to get back to Dark Rivers of the Heart as soon as I've finished it.
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Currently Reading: The Long Walk by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman
30JordanLangston
I've finished The Long Walk and I'm pleased I did it this quickly so I can move onto the second book in The Bachman Books Omnibus, which is Roadwork. Although some might count The Long Walk as only one third of a book, I count as one in itself as it was originally released as a sperate novel, yes novel and not novella because I don't believe it to be a novella, I think novellas range between one-hundred and two-hundred pages. So swiftly moving on:
Book 12# Roadwork by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman.
I should be able to finish this one about the same length of time I read The Long Walk in because it's about one-hundred pages shorter and so I should be able to read just as quick.
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Currently Reading: Roadwork by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman
Book 12# Roadwork by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman.
I should be able to finish this one about the same length of time I read The Long Walk in because it's about one-hundred pages shorter and so I should be able to read just as quick.
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Currently Reading: Roadwork by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman
31JordanLangston
Hii. I haven't posted on here for absolutely ages, I've been really busy with coursework and it's only up until now that I've realised how long it's been since I've been on LibraryThing. Well, I haven't really read a lot over the past week or so because I've been doing my Art preparation for my upcoming exam in four weeks time, yes there's a lot of pressure. I have to do about six sheets leading up to the exam in order to get high marks . . . it really doesn't sound like a lot but it's boring enough to make you want to die.
So I decided I'd read the first two books in The Bachman Books by Stephen King, so that's what I did. I read both The Long Walk and Roadwork. I really liked The Long Walk although it seemed a bit dragged out for what it was but the ending scene with the dark man was intriguing as it linked Stephen King's works as Richard Bachman into his main novels writing as himself, such as The Stand and Eyes of the Dragon.
I will be reading the third and final book in The Bachman Books very soon, The Running Man. I would have reading it right after Roadwork but that one was so boring and confusing it could have put me off Stephen King for life. I can honestly say that if Roadwork was the first book that I had read by Stephen King I would never have read anyof his other books, it's a good job it weren't the first.
Right after finishing Roadwork, I moved onto my thirteenth book in my 2010 50 Book Challenge. It was another one from James Herbert, he is a really good writer and this one I read recently was much better than '48 and I'd probably say was about as good as Haunted which has been my favourite from James Herbert so far. The thirteenth book was:
Book 13# The Fog by James Herbert.
The Fog was one of Hebrert's most famous works and it certainly earned him a lot of attention, good and bad. One of the scenes was really distgusting, but still interesting however still sickening. If you've read The Fog you'd probably know which part I mean . . . or maybe you don't there are many sick scenes in The Fog.
But, of course I moved onto another book straight away. This book I've been looking forward to reading for a very long time. It has recently been adapted into film and was relased in cinema across the UK just last week:
Book 14# The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold.
I arranged to go and see the film with my girlfriend but I wanted to read the book before the film came out and we went to see it. So I went straight onto Amazon Books and ordered The Lovely Bones, it arrived two days later and the day after that I had finished it :D and I'd probably say it was the best book I had ever read . . . but my friends called me gay for reading it :( We didn't go and see the film after all due to typical British weather, the snow caused bad driving conditions. But we're going to go and see the film adaptation of it the weekend coming up. My Product Design teacher said she read the book and recently saw the film and the film was great but they missed some stuff out.
My girlfriend's Mom borrowed The Lovely Bones off me to read LOL.
Also, whilst on Amazon I ordered another two books:
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons.
Hyperion came in th condition it was promised 'Brand new', The Fall of Hyperion however, was claimed to be 'Very Good' condition and it was the worst condition book I have ever seen in my life. I started reading Hyperion on the Sunday just gone but I'm slowly chipping away at it as I can only read bit by bit due to so much coursework.
Book 15# Hyperion by Dan Simmons.
Okk, then I'm going to be off and continue my art work.
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Currently Reading: Hyperion by Dan Simmons
So I decided I'd read the first two books in The Bachman Books by Stephen King, so that's what I did. I read both The Long Walk and Roadwork. I really liked The Long Walk although it seemed a bit dragged out for what it was but the ending scene with the dark man was intriguing as it linked Stephen King's works as Richard Bachman into his main novels writing as himself, such as The Stand and Eyes of the Dragon.
I will be reading the third and final book in The Bachman Books very soon, The Running Man. I would have reading it right after Roadwork but that one was so boring and confusing it could have put me off Stephen King for life. I can honestly say that if Roadwork was the first book that I had read by Stephen King I would never have read anyof his other books, it's a good job it weren't the first.
Right after finishing Roadwork, I moved onto my thirteenth book in my 2010 50 Book Challenge. It was another one from James Herbert, he is a really good writer and this one I read recently was much better than '48 and I'd probably say was about as good as Haunted which has been my favourite from James Herbert so far. The thirteenth book was:
Book 13# The Fog by James Herbert.
The Fog was one of Hebrert's most famous works and it certainly earned him a lot of attention, good and bad. One of the scenes was really distgusting, but still interesting however still sickening. If you've read The Fog you'd probably know which part I mean . . . or maybe you don't there are many sick scenes in The Fog.
But, of course I moved onto another book straight away. This book I've been looking forward to reading for a very long time. It has recently been adapted into film and was relased in cinema across the UK just last week:
Book 14# The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold.
I arranged to go and see the film with my girlfriend but I wanted to read the book before the film came out and we went to see it. So I went straight onto Amazon Books and ordered The Lovely Bones, it arrived two days later and the day after that I had finished it :D and I'd probably say it was the best book I had ever read . . . but my friends called me gay for reading it :( We didn't go and see the film after all due to typical British weather, the snow caused bad driving conditions. But we're going to go and see the film adaptation of it the weekend coming up. My Product Design teacher said she read the book and recently saw the film and the film was great but they missed some stuff out.
My girlfriend's Mom borrowed The Lovely Bones off me to read LOL.
Also, whilst on Amazon I ordered another two books:
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons.
Hyperion came in th condition it was promised 'Brand new', The Fall of Hyperion however, was claimed to be 'Very Good' condition and it was the worst condition book I have ever seen in my life. I started reading Hyperion on the Sunday just gone but I'm slowly chipping away at it as I can only read bit by bit due to so much coursework.
Book 15# Hyperion by Dan Simmons.
Okk, then I'm going to be off and continue my art work.
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Currently Reading: Hyperion by Dan Simmons
32JordanLangston
Ha-ha, erm, well hi!
There is a reason I began with an awkward hello: I haven’t posted on my 2010 50 Book Challenge thread for one-hundred and fifty-nine days. It started off by me being overloaded with coursework and revision for GCSE exams and such, so I decided I needed to cut down on surfing the net and sadly on reading. My exams and coursework have been over for months now and I should have started posting straight away but truth be told: I simply couldn’t be arsed.
I still carried on reading, don’t you worry about that, aha yes I’ve read over fifty books since posting my last message about my fifteenth book this year. But just so I kept on top of what I was reading so I could list all of the books I have read this year, I’ve kept a collection in my library on LibraryThing called ‘2010 50 Book Challenge’:
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/JordanLangston
I’m pretty proud of how many books I’ve already tackled, I wish I’d have read more but I was a little slow around the February – April period and I read less, but still I’ve reached the fifty book mark and I’m hoping for seventy-five by the end of the year.
Listed below are all of the books I have read so far this year:
Book 1# The Stand by Stephen King.
Rating: ****
Book 2# Blood Born by Kathryn Fox.
Rating: ***
Book 3# The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King.
Rating: ****1/2
Book #4 Haunted by James Herbert.
Rating: ****1/2
Book #5 Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz.
Rating: ***
Book 6# Run For Your Life by James Patterson.
Rating: ****1/2
Book 7# Carrie by Stephen King.
Rating: ****1/2
Book 8# Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris.
Rating: ***1/2
Book 9# Dark Rivers of the Heart by Dean Koontz.
Rating: ***
Book 10# The Long Walk by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman.
Rating: ***
Book 11# Roadwork by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman.
Rating: **
Book 12# The Running Man by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman
Rating: *****
Book 13# The Fog by James Herbert.
Rating: ****
Book 14# The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold.
Rating: *****
Book 15# Hyperion by Dan Simmons.
Rating:
Book 16# The Daemon’s Curse by Dan Abnett and Mike Lee.
Rating: ***
Book 17# Bloodstorm by Dan Abnett and Mike Lee.
Rating: ***
Book 18# Reaper of Souls by Dan Abnett and Mike Lee.
Rating: ***
Book 19# The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
Rating: ****1/2
Book 20# Blaze by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman.
Rating: **1/2
Book 21# Books of Blood I by Clive Barker.
Rating: ****
Book 22# Mister B. Gone by Clive Barker.
Rating: ****
Book 23# American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
Rating: ****
Book 24# Stardust by Neil Gaiman.
Rating: ****
Book 25# ’48 by James Herbert.
Rating: ***1/2
Book 26# Fluke by James Herbert.
Rating: ****1/2
Book 27# In Your Dreams by Tom Holt.
Rating: **
Book 28# Just After Sunset by Stephen King.
Rating: ****
Book 29# The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub.
Rating: *****
Book 30# Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub.
Rating: *****
Book 31# Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy.
Rating: ****
Book 32# Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett.
Rating: ***
Book 33# Sourcery by Terry Pratchett.
Rating: ****
Book 34# Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett.
Rating: *****
Book 35# Going Postal by Terry Pratchett.
Rating: ****1/2
Book 36# Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan.
Rating: **1/2
Book 37# Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill.
Rating: ****1/2
Book 38# Lord Loss by Darren Shan
Rating: **
Book 39# Demon Thief by Darren Shan.
Rating: ****
Book 40# Slawter by Darren Shan.
Rating: *
Book 41# Cirque Du Freak by Darren Shan.
Rating: ****
Book 42# The Vampire’s Assistant by Darren Shan.
Rating: ****
Book 43# Dracula: The Un-Dead by Dacre Stoker.
Rating: **1/2
Book 44# The Time Machine by H.G. Wells.
Rating: **1/2
Book 45# The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.
Rating: *****
Book 46# The Spook’s Nightmare by Joseph Delaney.
Rating: *****
Book 47# The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger by Stephen King.
Rating: ****
Book 48# The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King.
Rating: ****1/2
Book 49# The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands by Stephen King.
Rating: *****
Book 50# The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass by Stephen King.
Rating: **1/2
Book 51# The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King.
Rating: ****
Book 52# The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah by Stephen King.
Rating: *****
So there is all of the books I have read so far this year, I’m aiming for seventy-five books now which I think I’ll reach without too much trouble. I’m starting sixth form in September doing English Literature, Media Studies, Psychology and Sociology. Well, it looks like it’s going to be a hell of a year with coursework for me; I’ll be okay as long as I don’t stray behind this time.
At the moment, book-wise, I’m really interested in epic fantasy and science-fiction. I’m still sticking to my normal ‘horror’ books, like Stephen King (and his son, Joe Hill. Heart-Shaped Box was awesome!) and I’m looking at getting H.P. Lovecraft’s Necronomicon too.
I recently bought a big ass Sword of Shannara trilogy omnibus by Terry Brooks from Amazon as well as The Night Angel Trilogy box set by Brent Weeks and can’t wait to start on either of them.
At the moment I’m reading:
Book 53# The Dark Tower by Stephen King.
and
Book 54# The Time-Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.
I started reading The Time-Traveler’s Wife and got about a quart of the way through and got pretty bored of it. I’m still reading it, but very slowly, I’m not exactly making it my main priority, it’s kind of a thing where I read about twenty pages of it in between every other book I read, he-he.
But The Dark Tower I’m really looking forward to seeing how it ends ^_^
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Currently Reading: The Dark Tower by Stephen King.
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Currently Reading: The Time-Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.
There is a reason I began with an awkward hello: I haven’t posted on my 2010 50 Book Challenge thread for one-hundred and fifty-nine days. It started off by me being overloaded with coursework and revision for GCSE exams and such, so I decided I needed to cut down on surfing the net and sadly on reading. My exams and coursework have been over for months now and I should have started posting straight away but truth be told: I simply couldn’t be arsed.
I still carried on reading, don’t you worry about that, aha yes I’ve read over fifty books since posting my last message about my fifteenth book this year. But just so I kept on top of what I was reading so I could list all of the books I have read this year, I’ve kept a collection in my library on LibraryThing called ‘2010 50 Book Challenge’:
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/JordanLangston
I’m pretty proud of how many books I’ve already tackled, I wish I’d have read more but I was a little slow around the February – April period and I read less, but still I’ve reached the fifty book mark and I’m hoping for seventy-five by the end of the year.
Listed below are all of the books I have read so far this year:
Book 1# The Stand by Stephen King.
Rating: ****
Book 2# Blood Born by Kathryn Fox.
Rating: ***
Book 3# The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King.
Rating: ****1/2
Book #4 Haunted by James Herbert.
Rating: ****1/2
Book #5 Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz.
Rating: ***
Book 6# Run For Your Life by James Patterson.
Rating: ****1/2
Book 7# Carrie by Stephen King.
Rating: ****1/2
Book 8# Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris.
Rating: ***1/2
Book 9# Dark Rivers of the Heart by Dean Koontz.
Rating: ***
Book 10# The Long Walk by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman.
Rating: ***
Book 11# Roadwork by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman.
Rating: **
Book 12# The Running Man by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman
Rating: *****
Book 13# The Fog by James Herbert.
Rating: ****
Book 14# The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold.
Rating: *****
Book 15# Hyperion by Dan Simmons.
Rating:
Book 16# The Daemon’s Curse by Dan Abnett and Mike Lee.
Rating: ***
Book 17# Bloodstorm by Dan Abnett and Mike Lee.
Rating: ***
Book 18# Reaper of Souls by Dan Abnett and Mike Lee.
Rating: ***
Book 19# The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
Rating: ****1/2
Book 20# Blaze by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman.
Rating: **1/2
Book 21# Books of Blood I by Clive Barker.
Rating: ****
Book 22# Mister B. Gone by Clive Barker.
Rating: ****
Book 23# American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
Rating: ****
Book 24# Stardust by Neil Gaiman.
Rating: ****
Book 25# ’48 by James Herbert.
Rating: ***1/2
Book 26# Fluke by James Herbert.
Rating: ****1/2
Book 27# In Your Dreams by Tom Holt.
Rating: **
Book 28# Just After Sunset by Stephen King.
Rating: ****
Book 29# The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub.
Rating: *****
Book 30# Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub.
Rating: *****
Book 31# Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy.
Rating: ****
Book 32# Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett.
Rating: ***
Book 33# Sourcery by Terry Pratchett.
Rating: ****
Book 34# Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett.
Rating: *****
Book 35# Going Postal by Terry Pratchett.
Rating: ****1/2
Book 36# Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan.
Rating: **1/2
Book 37# Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill.
Rating: ****1/2
Book 38# Lord Loss by Darren Shan
Rating: **
Book 39# Demon Thief by Darren Shan.
Rating: ****
Book 40# Slawter by Darren Shan.
Rating: *
Book 41# Cirque Du Freak by Darren Shan.
Rating: ****
Book 42# The Vampire’s Assistant by Darren Shan.
Rating: ****
Book 43# Dracula: The Un-Dead by Dacre Stoker.
Rating: **1/2
Book 44# The Time Machine by H.G. Wells.
Rating: **1/2
Book 45# The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.
Rating: *****
Book 46# The Spook’s Nightmare by Joseph Delaney.
Rating: *****
Book 47# The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger by Stephen King.
Rating: ****
Book 48# The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King.
Rating: ****1/2
Book 49# The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands by Stephen King.
Rating: *****
Book 50# The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass by Stephen King.
Rating: **1/2
Book 51# The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King.
Rating: ****
Book 52# The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah by Stephen King.
Rating: *****
So there is all of the books I have read so far this year, I’m aiming for seventy-five books now which I think I’ll reach without too much trouble. I’m starting sixth form in September doing English Literature, Media Studies, Psychology and Sociology. Well, it looks like it’s going to be a hell of a year with coursework for me; I’ll be okay as long as I don’t stray behind this time.
At the moment, book-wise, I’m really interested in epic fantasy and science-fiction. I’m still sticking to my normal ‘horror’ books, like Stephen King (and his son, Joe Hill. Heart-Shaped Box was awesome!) and I’m looking at getting H.P. Lovecraft’s Necronomicon too.
I recently bought a big ass Sword of Shannara trilogy omnibus by Terry Brooks from Amazon as well as The Night Angel Trilogy box set by Brent Weeks and can’t wait to start on either of them.
At the moment I’m reading:
Book 53# The Dark Tower by Stephen King.
and
I started reading The Time-Traveler’s Wife and got about a quart of the way through and got pretty bored of it. I’m still reading it, but very slowly, I’m not exactly making it my main priority, it’s kind of a thing where I read about twenty pages of it in between every other book I read, he-he.
But The Dark Tower I’m really looking forward to seeing how it ends ^_^
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Currently Reading: The Dark Tower by Stephen King.
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Currently Reading: The Time-Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.
33tjblue
Hey Jordan, I was wondering where you've been. Of course, studies come first. I see you've really gotten into Stephen King. It has been a very, very long time since I have read anything by him. Seeing your list reminded me I need to try something by James Herbert soon. Happy Reading!! -- Tammy
34JordanLangston
Hey Tammy :D
And yeah, I'm really loving Stephen King, he's become a very iconic writer and first of all it was just to see what was great about him and discovered he was well worth all of the hype, his stories are a great escape from reality . . . like coursework, fiction always helps you forget about the coursework weighing you down :P
On the brighter side, all of that struggling was worth it as I've come out with nine A*-C GCSE's which I'm pretty pleased with.
Oh I definitely recommend James Herbert to you, he's brilliant from what I've read. At the moment I've got a big list lined up of what I want to read, but after getting through them I'm eager to pick up another Herbert.
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I recently took Thud! by Terry Pratchett (by the way I'm planning on reading Terry Pratchett's entire bibliography for my 50 Book Challenge next year) out of the library, I only had a few days left to read it when I was half way through The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower so I kind of had to abandon it for Thud!.
I took Thud! back and took out The Lord of the Rings. I regret taking it out as it's going to be about a week and a half for me to get back to The Dark Tower.
Book 54# Thud!
I'm still reading book 53 and 54 after The Lord of the Rings so don't worry (because it looks like I'm adandoning then).
And yeah, I'm really loving Stephen King, he's become a very iconic writer and first of all it was just to see what was great about him and discovered he was well worth all of the hype, his stories are a great escape from reality . . . like coursework, fiction always helps you forget about the coursework weighing you down :P
On the brighter side, all of that struggling was worth it as I've come out with nine A*-C GCSE's which I'm pretty pleased with.
Oh I definitely recommend James Herbert to you, he's brilliant from what I've read. At the moment I've got a big list lined up of what I want to read, but after getting through them I'm eager to pick up another Herbert.
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I recently took Thud! by Terry Pratchett (by the way I'm planning on reading Terry Pratchett's entire bibliography for my 50 Book Challenge next year) out of the library, I only had a few days left to read it when I was half way through The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower so I kind of had to abandon it for Thud!.
I took Thud! back and took out The Lord of the Rings. I regret taking it out as it's going to be about a week and a half for me to get back to The Dark Tower.
Book 54# Thud!
I'm still reading book 53 and 54 after The Lord of the Rings so don't worry (because it looks like I'm adandoning then).
38JordanLangston
I took The Lord of the Rings omnibus out of the library abnout two weeks ago, this was probably a illogical thing to do as I was half way through reading Stephen King's The Dark Tower and The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, but I had been waiting a long time for The Lord of the Rings to be back in the library so I decided to take it why it was there.
It wasn't a mistake to do so either as I've already read the first two volumes and I'm halfway through the third volume of the trilogy:
Book 55# The Fellowship of the Ring by J. J. R. Tolkien.
Book 56# The Two Towers by J. J. R. Tolkien.
I'm going to finish The Dark Tower after The Return of the King but I'll probably never get back to The Time-Traveler's Wife because I can't get into it so as it's labelled as my fifty-fourth book in previous posts, I will rename all of the other labels for books in previous posts.
It wasn't a mistake to do so either as I've already read the first two volumes and I'm halfway through the third volume of the trilogy:
Book 55# The Fellowship of the Ring by J. J. R. Tolkien.
Book 56# The Two Towers by J. J. R. Tolkien.
I'm going to finish The Dark Tower after The Return of the King but I'll probably never get back to The Time-Traveler's Wife because I can't get into it so as it's labelled as my fifty-fourth book in previous posts, I will rename all of the other labels for books in previous posts.
