Oooh new Steven king....

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Has anyone who already likes Steven king read the dome? I am excited by the blurb, but queues in smiths today put me off....

It was when he came on with Florence (and the machine) and stood on the crash barriers. Dh was horrified at me!

To coin a phrase used by thesecondcoming recently, you are clearly Hormental.

(I cried at an advert for Eurostar the other day, and when DS2 asked me what was the matter, my voice went all breaky and squeaky and I said..."sucH a LOVely ADvert" and he walked away shaking his head)*

*Im not pregnant, or Pre menstrual or Hormental in anyway. I am just dull as a brush.

i am totally hormental. i think wizard and glass is best left until i'm a bit less sensitive. possibly when the dcs are about 20.

My book is here! Goodbye for now, mumsnet!

Am on page 434. Barbie has just been arrested. I can't bear it!

I have about 100 pages left to read of this. It is great. I have whizzed through it with my mouth gaping at some of what has gone on!

If you havent already got it, get it. It is goooood.

I stayed up til 3am on a school night to finish it. Very enjoyable.

I managed this on my holiday (and 5 other books!!) and really enjoyed it. Little teeny bit dissapointed with the end but think King has got his mojo back !!

Will be rereading the Stand again soon I think.

Had a massive bookfest on holiday tho which was pretty incredible considering we have 4 kids ranging from 9 months to 12 years, only read in the afternoons/evening after doing sightseeing, Chateaus and markets all morning/day (wine tasting anyone.....!!!) , still managed to spend a good amount of time in the pool, playing tabletennis and boules, and eating icecream, launching balloon powered helicopters, hunting for frogs and other wildlife etc. Possibly drank a little too much wine and beer, definitely ate too much bread and cheese and quite literally overdosed on icecreams but..... I was on holiday !!

Thank heavens for driving holidays - could never fly anywhere on holiday - my luggage allowance would be used on books !

I agree re the ending btw, but it's still the best thing he's written in years. I have rediscovered my love of sk. I wonder if I'd feel the same about James Herbert these days.....

I too have been on holiday and this convo had dropped off my active list - DAMN IT.

I re-read a James Herbert recently (well about a year ago) and just did this face all the way through. twas crap.

I have read a Jodi Piccoult (in desperation - truly a terrible read which I couldn't put down. I wanted to see how awful it was going to get...it was pretty bad)

Steig Larsson - 2nd in the millenium trilogy - enjoyed it

First 2 chapters of of The Island by Peter Benchley (who wrote Jaws) terribly amusing but was a book left in the apartment and therefore smelled of death and piss.

A Marian Keyes - always good fun

Small Island by Andrea Levy - V GOOD.

and I am jealous at all of you having read the Dome for the first time. [jealous]

Got back last night. Wish I'd taken a King with me but did have a v long conversation with a bloke in the pool about the genius of King!

I read -

The Woman In White - excellent

The Turn Of The Screw - okay

The Little Stranger - okay but a bit nothingy tbh and I didn't feel it really did much. It all felt as if I'd read it before tbh and I don't think she brings anything new to the historical novel genre. Would rather read a Victorian novel tbh.

The Journals Of Dora Damage - this was okay. The research was excellent and the characters were good but again, it felt a bit lightweight plot-wise.

Mr Pip - I liked this a lot. I was expecting it to be a frivolous sort of read and then a section of it shocked and horrified me and showed me that I'd totally misjudged the kind of book it was! The ending was quite nice, in a redemtive but not entirely 'happy-ending' manner, which fitted well I thought.

The first chapter of Julian Barnes' History Of The World. It was okay, quite clever and funny (but not as clever or as funny as I thought it would be) and it didn't feel right in the sunshine, so I stopped after the first chapter.

Re-read The Catcher In The Rye - I still don't like it!

We did quite a few long walks and days out and not much lounging around, so that's a very short list, for me!

Your books are all posh BG. Mine are all rubbish.

I have got Mr Pip lurking around the house somewhere, not got round to reading it yet.

I'm currently working my way through a really barking mad book about the Manson family. (I don't usually read stuff like this, but a friend said I must read it, and so I am..it's not bad actually - I'm not to the horror of it all yet though) and The Bolter.

I am determined to NOT BUY ANY NEW BOOKS until I have read all the ones I have bought and not yet read. (Although I really want to re-read The Dice Man - must resist, must resist)

Omg to The Dice Man - that and The Collector make me shiver whenever I remember them.

I've never read The Collector, is it good?

NO, NO, NOOOO. No new books. I've got to finish the final Millenium book, and the Manson one and The Bolter and Half of a Yellow Sun and Anna Karenina and and and

It's horrible - don't read it.

Half Of A Yellow Sun is v good.

I'm going to have to now. Now that you've told me it's horrible.

Thanks BG.

THANKS FOR NOTHING.

:)

The bolter's vg. Hurry up and finish it. Did you ever read the sequel to the dice man? Or am I imagining it??

I haven't read the sequel to it!

The search for the dice man. Not as seminal as the dice man. You don't need to add it to your amazon wish list.
But what's the collector??

Anyone read just after sunset? I seem to be woefully out of touch with Stephen king....