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Vulture Ranks All 62 Stephen King Books (Worst to Best). I'm not sure what Vulture is, and I disagree strongly with some of their ordering, but it was nice to see a list of his books with short summaries. I knew I had read a lot of his books, but I hadn't realize I've read nearly them all. I skipped all the baseball books (three total?) other than The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.

Let's see. I haven't read:
Blaze (hadn't even heard of it before this list!)
Blockade Billy (baseball)
The Colorado Kid (never heard of it)
Christine (I should get to this one)
Firestarter (another old one I should get to)
The Running Man (I heard it was meh, so avoided it)
Faithful (baseball)
Thinner (old, I should read it)
11/22/63 (new book I haven't gotten to yet)
The Shining (I might have read this as a kid, but I really should reread it)

So that's seven non-baseball ones I missed, and two baseball ones I have no interest in. Not bad, out of 62 books!

One of the biggest ones I disagree with is The Long Walk. They rank it as #47, but it would easily be in the top five of my list. The only monsters in it were of the human sort. It haunted me for days after I finished reading it.

Unfortunately my reading has slowed to a crawl, even though I'm reading (rereading) a good book: The Pride of Chanur. I picked up a new game (Ice Age Village), and since the app runs on my ipad, it's a choice of reading or playing. Playing usually wins. :/

Date: 2012-04-25 11:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] liedra.livejournal.com
You haven't heard of The Colorado Kid? Have you seen Haven? I've not read TCK but Haven is based on it. Recommended :-)

Date: 2012-04-25 03:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thistle-chaser.livejournal.com
OH! I guess I have heard of it then, I did watch Haven for a while. It's now on my to-read list! All the missing books are, other than the baseball ones. (Luckily there are just a few of those.)

Date: 2012-04-25 01:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gmth.livejournal.com
I just finished 11.22.63 myself. If you do read it, let me know! I'd love to talk to someone about it. (It's a loooooong one, though.)

My reaction to The Long Walk was similar to yours. I still think about that book every time I'm walking somewhere, and how I'd be dead now if I were on the Walk because no way I'd be able to keep up the pace.

Date: 2012-04-25 03:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thistle-chaser.livejournal.com
I'd like to read 11.22.63, but it's low enough on my list that I haven't even bought it yet. His new Dark Tower book just came out, so that'll be the next thing I read. (How bad do I feel that he writes books faster than I can read them! That's so messed up.)

I still think about that book every time I'm walking somewhere, and how I'd be dead now if I were on the Walk because no way I'd be able to keep up the pace.

I know! Not even just the pace, but things like they have to use a "break" to go to the bathroom on the side of the road... and people jar it to save it like some kind of a collector item... Such a good book, easily one of his best ones.

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