Devouring Texts

Blarrrrgh, I did not enjoy this book at all. I haven't said that for a LONG time about Stephen King, so I trust that you'll allow...

I had a lot of fun reading Mr Mercedes. Even though I (naturally) relate King to alllll of the supernatural goodness that he brings to us ...

Of all the King books that have been released after starting my long voyage, Doctor Sleep is the one I was most apprehensive about. The Sh...

Joyland was, quite genuinely, a joy to read (groaaaaaan). It's another one of King's Hard Case Crime books (the last being The Col...

People have been telling me for the longest time that 11.22.63 is the best. Whether it's their favourite Stephen King book, or merely ...

I usually find with Stephen King that, even though there are scary things going on and things are kind of terrible, there are moments of b...

I started reading Under the Dome quite lacklustrely. It's a BIG book, which meant I didn't want to carry it round with me, you kno...

I finished Just After Sunset all the way back in (early) February, so I wouldn't expect this review to have anything substantial or ...

Oh man. This book. Before I tell you anything about it, I should tell you that it took me about a month to read. This was not a month whe...

"She's beautiful, but he senses that beauty is one of the least important things about her." Black House is the sequel ...

"He had long accepted that everyone had his own world inside, each as real as the communal world shared by all but impossible for ot...

"And oh man, why was the world so hard? Why were there so many spokes hungry for your fingers, so many gears eager to grab for your ...

"How foolish it is to write, what a pitiful bulwark against the world's hard realities and bitter home truths. How terrible to s...

"Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around." I've been really excited to read On Writing o...

Before I can even think about recounting things that happened this week, first I must say this: STEPHEN KING IS ON TWITTER, EVERYONE FREAK ...

"The world of the story had become so vivid to him that this real one now seemed false and drab." Hearts in Atlantis is, al...

"The world had teeth, and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted." Ah, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. When you decid...

Subtitle: That post other people have done that I'm copying because I'm too tired/lazy to write a review of anything. I've sto...

"The aspiring novelist should understand from the outset that fiction's goals were forever beyond his reach, that the job was an...