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Began June 10, 2024 - ending around 2030
ENTERTAINMENT PART 1
I had said a few days ago that only a small portion of my reading time would be for entertainment based books, but it appears to me that i may want to re-think that. Not every single SK book is here but this is what i am pleased with, and by the time my grand journey is wrapped up, i hope there’d be at least 2 new SK novels before his time is up, even though i keep hearing in reviews that he’s too political, i see it rather that he’s a chronicler of the current times whenever he happens to be writing, for good or ill. Nostalgically i take to his early 90’s novels the most, around ‘95 i had been exposed to Nietzsche who changed everything, coming back to King this day feels like i’m returning to an idyllic state of innocence, a time where the book was scary, not life itself.
This entry shall be devoted to just the entertainment reads while i still have SK to read, after this long journey which may indeed require more than 100 other novels, because i don't want SK to be most of what is being read in this category. In other entries in this thread i shall be covering other categories, including theology, philosophy, history, true crime, feminism, and disturbing/depressing books.
If just one person gets an idea of what they'll read next, and does so, and then enjoys it, then my time here making this document isn't wholly selfish, and was of some use.
I begin with a cluster of King
Carrie / The Dark Half and Mr. Mercedes, with more i might put into the mix, along with Night Film by Marisha Pessl.
1 - Carrie - 1974 -- 13%
2 - ‘Salem’s Lot - 1975
3 - Rage - 1976
4 - The Shining - 1977
5 - The Stand - 1978
6 - The Long Walk - 1978
7 - Night Shift - 1978
8 - The Dead Zone - 1979
9 - Firestarter - 1980
10 - Roadwork - 1980
11 - Cujo - 1981
12 - The Running Man - 1981
13 - Danse Macabre - 1981
14 - The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger - 1982
15 - Different Seasons - 1982
16 - Christine - 1983
17 - Pet Sematary - 1983
18 - Cycle of the Werewolf - 1983
19 - The Talisman - 1984
20 - Thinner - 1984
21 - Skeleton Crew - 1985
22 - IT - 1986
23 - The Eyes of the Dragon - 1987
24 - The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three - 1987
25 - Misery - 1987
26 - The Tommyknockers - 1987
27 - The Dark Half - 1989 -- 5%
28 - Four Past Midnight - 1990
29 - The Dark Tower: The Wastelands - 1991
30 - Needful Things - 1991
31 - Gerald’s Game - 1992
32 - Dolores Claiborne - 1993
33 - Nightmares and Dreamscapes - 1993
34 - Insomnia - 1994
35 - Rose Madder - 1995
36 - The Regulators - 1995
37 - The Green Mile - 1996
38 - Desperation - 1996
39 - The Dark Tower: Wizard and Glass - 1997
40 - Bag of Bones - 1998
41 - The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon - 1999
42 - Hearts in Atlantis - 1999
43 - On Writing - 2000
44 - Dreamcatcher - 2001
45 - Black House - 2001
46 - From a Buick 8 - 2002
47 - Everything’s Eventual - 2002
48 - The Dark Tower: Wolves of Calla - 2003
49 - The Dark Tower: Song of Susannah - 2004
50 - The Dark Tower VII - 2004
51 - The Colorado Kid - 2005
52 - Cell - 2006
53 - Lisey’s Story - 2006
54 - Blaze - 2006
55 - Duma Key - 2008
56 - Just After Sunset - 2008
57 - Under the Dome - 2009
58 - Stephen King Goes to the Movies - 2009
59 - Full Dark, No Stars - 2010
60 - 11/22/63 - 2011
61 - The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole - 2012
62 - Joyland - 2013
63 - Doctor Sleep - 2013
64 - Mr. Mercedes - 2014 -- 2%
65 - Revival - 2014
66 - Finders Keepers - 2015
67 - The Bazaar of Bad Dreams - 2015
68 - End of Watch - 2016
69 - Sleeping Beauties - 2017
70 - Gwendy’s Button Box - 2017
71 - The Outsider - 2018
72 - Elevation - 2018
73 - The Institute - 2019
74 - Gwendy’s Magic Feather - 2020
75 - If It Bleeds - 2020
76 - Later - 2021
77 - Billy Summers - 2021
78 - Gwendy’s Final Task - 2022
79 - Fairy Tale - 2022
at least 100 entertaining novels
1 - Night Film -- 2% -- supposed to be scary, and it has pictures!! If and when i finish a book i'll hop on over to the official book thread and boast about it there, this thread here is just a plain old document of a reader who divides his time between his kindle, film collection, dad, and sleep.
2 - American Psycho -- 2% -- i love the movie and i always heard how the book is so much more extreme, but i've failed at trying to read it, as it seems too full of descriptions and names of things. I hope to get through it this time.
ENTERTAINMENT PART 1
I had said a few days ago that only a small portion of my reading time would be for entertainment based books, but it appears to me that i may want to re-think that. Not every single SK book is here but this is what i am pleased with, and by the time my grand journey is wrapped up, i hope there’d be at least 2 new SK novels before his time is up, even though i keep hearing in reviews that he’s too political, i see it rather that he’s a chronicler of the current times whenever he happens to be writing, for good or ill. Nostalgically i take to his early 90’s novels the most, around ‘95 i had been exposed to Nietzsche who changed everything, coming back to King this day feels like i’m returning to an idyllic state of innocence, a time where the book was scary, not life itself.
This entry shall be devoted to just the entertainment reads while i still have SK to read, after this long journey which may indeed require more than 100 other novels, because i don't want SK to be most of what is being read in this category. In other entries in this thread i shall be covering other categories, including theology, philosophy, history, true crime, feminism, and disturbing/depressing books.
If just one person gets an idea of what they'll read next, and does so, and then enjoys it, then my time here making this document isn't wholly selfish, and was of some use.
I begin with a cluster of King
Carrie / The Dark Half and Mr. Mercedes, with more i might put into the mix, along with Night Film by Marisha Pessl.
1 - Carrie - 1974 -- 13%
2 - ‘Salem’s Lot - 1975
3 - Rage - 1976
4 - The Shining - 1977
5 - The Stand - 1978
6 - The Long Walk - 1978
7 - Night Shift - 1978
8 - The Dead Zone - 1979
9 - Firestarter - 1980
10 - Roadwork - 1980
11 - Cujo - 1981
12 - The Running Man - 1981
13 - Danse Macabre - 1981
14 - The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger - 1982
15 - Different Seasons - 1982
16 - Christine - 1983
17 - Pet Sematary - 1983
18 - Cycle of the Werewolf - 1983
19 - The Talisman - 1984
20 - Thinner - 1984
21 - Skeleton Crew - 1985
22 - IT - 1986
23 - The Eyes of the Dragon - 1987
24 - The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three - 1987
25 - Misery - 1987
26 - The Tommyknockers - 1987
27 - The Dark Half - 1989 -- 5%
28 - Four Past Midnight - 1990
29 - The Dark Tower: The Wastelands - 1991
30 - Needful Things - 1991
31 - Gerald’s Game - 1992
32 - Dolores Claiborne - 1993
33 - Nightmares and Dreamscapes - 1993
34 - Insomnia - 1994
35 - Rose Madder - 1995
36 - The Regulators - 1995
37 - The Green Mile - 1996
38 - Desperation - 1996
39 - The Dark Tower: Wizard and Glass - 1997
40 - Bag of Bones - 1998
41 - The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon - 1999
42 - Hearts in Atlantis - 1999
43 - On Writing - 2000
44 - Dreamcatcher - 2001
45 - Black House - 2001
46 - From a Buick 8 - 2002
47 - Everything’s Eventual - 2002
48 - The Dark Tower: Wolves of Calla - 2003
49 - The Dark Tower: Song of Susannah - 2004
50 - The Dark Tower VII - 2004
51 - The Colorado Kid - 2005
52 - Cell - 2006
53 - Lisey’s Story - 2006
54 - Blaze - 2006
55 - Duma Key - 2008
56 - Just After Sunset - 2008
57 - Under the Dome - 2009
58 - Stephen King Goes to the Movies - 2009
59 - Full Dark, No Stars - 2010
60 - 11/22/63 - 2011
61 - The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole - 2012
62 - Joyland - 2013
63 - Doctor Sleep - 2013
64 - Mr. Mercedes - 2014 -- 2%
65 - Revival - 2014
66 - Finders Keepers - 2015
67 - The Bazaar of Bad Dreams - 2015
68 - End of Watch - 2016
69 - Sleeping Beauties - 2017
70 - Gwendy’s Button Box - 2017
71 - The Outsider - 2018
72 - Elevation - 2018
73 - The Institute - 2019
74 - Gwendy’s Magic Feather - 2020
75 - If It Bleeds - 2020
76 - Later - 2021
77 - Billy Summers - 2021
78 - Gwendy’s Final Task - 2022
79 - Fairy Tale - 2022
at least 100 entertaining novels
1 - Night Film -- 2% -- supposed to be scary, and it has pictures!! If and when i finish a book i'll hop on over to the official book thread and boast about it there, this thread here is just a plain old document of a reader who divides his time between his kindle, film collection, dad, and sleep.
2 - American Psycho -- 2% -- i love the movie and i always heard how the book is so much more extreme, but i've failed at trying to read it, as it seems too full of descriptions and names of things. I hope to get through it this time.
Last edited by Jeff; 06-10-24 at 05:15 PM.