Spoiler alert geez

This is making me think about revisiting it because I genuinely hated reading MDV and couldn't get into it at all...

I gave up on King about 15 years ago.

That's wonderful, truly. Glad they met

It really depends on a few things. For one, if you're a night shift person... Typically audiobooks are your best friend because physically reading puts a lot of people to sleep. Just my thoughts.

I think his growth came from him being too cowardly to go on the mission at all because he didn’t want to die, to willingly giving up his life (so he thought) to save Rocky. That’s cool I guess, but it would have been pretty awesome for the Eridians to build him a one-way ship as soon as he got there so he could go back to Earth and meet up with everyone he’d once known. His coworkers would all be old or maybe even passed away. The kids he was so invested in that he couldn’t even cuss would be adults now (the ones who lived anyway). Let’s have him meet that smart asshole student and see what became of her! But nope. Instead we’ll just fuck off to Erid forever. Good luck Earth, nice knowing you!

I didn’t like Fairy Tale either, for most of the reasons you mention. King has never written a word he didn’t love, so frequently we get dull, drawn out preambles, usually about an alcoholic in some fashion, and lame endings.

He writes without a plan, makes it up as he goes. Most of his post-accident work is built upon the same blueprint, with new character names and an “interesting” hook for each book.

He wrote better books when he was high on cocaine and Schlitt’s, 70’s - about ‘88. They’re not perfect, but they’re everything the stuff from ‘99 on isn’t - scary, dark, gross, and passionate. He wanted to gross you out, to scare you with the darkest sides of humanity, to make you squirm. There’s a chapter in The Stand that’s only about nice, normal people dying in the saddest, grossest ways. IT is the same way - my favorite book of his. Misery reads like a stream of consciousness fever dream.

There’s so much value to his current stories - the Hodges trilogy show he’s a master of all genres. Revival is a fantastic read. But in his youth he wrote from a place that he’s spent the last 30 years trying to put behind him.

I started it and couldn't get past the ick.

Then I started All The Ugly and Wonderful Things.

Send help.

Gotta admit, I like this. I've read about this book but haven't added it to my To Read list, until now.

I read it a few months ago and I really liked it

I liked it, audiobook is solid

I used to track it via goodreads, but now I don’t. It started to feel like I was competing with myself after a while rather than enjoying the moment of reading so I stopped tracking.

However I know that some people track with excel sheets or even notebooks. X

I was able to borrow it. Is there any specific pages you want screen capped?

Edit: I made pngs of the entire book. How do I get it to you?

If you are not aware, there are 2 sister series the the Eisenhorn saga. The "Ravenor" series as well as the "Bequin Saga"(Pariah, Penitent and Emperor willing soon Pandemonium). All of which are amazing reads that just further expand the story Dan Abnett tells.

Father of two little boys. I highly recommend Elys Dolan's books if you're stocking. The "Dave" series is marvelous.

Thanks for posting this — you saved me some cash lol

Or accepted.

There was a ton of backlash when fertility treatments like insemination and IVF were first announced. Tons of people, mostly religious types, saying "that's not how children should be conceived," calling them "test tube babies" etc.

It is not like dune at all, dune's setting is a vehicle for some intelectual heavy lifting, 40k is, as much I have mad love for it, pretty shallow and dumb, ofc it reminds you of dune because is just that, all the dumb things about dune + tolkien stuff thrown in there.

If dune is meat and potatoes, 40k is just the potatoes.

But i will concede you that as far as fanatic legions of super soldiers go, the space marine crusaders leave the freemen yihadists in the dirt.

There are two for me.

The Green Mile by Stephen King.

John Coffey is one of the most moving characters I have read.

An American Ghost by Chester Aaron.

This is a lovely read, I really feel for the main character and often cry when I finish reading it. Time to get it down from the bookshelf again I think.

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I agree with you. I stopped reading it about three quarters of the way in.

Reminds me of a joke I heard, Henry Winkler was getting on a plane when the stewardess asked him if he'd like some headphones and he said, I sure would, and it's pronounced "Fonz."

I hated that the daughter >! with breast cancer!< was basically used as a plot moppet. >!She conveniently died and then the main character could commit/undergo euthanasia with no pesky relatives complicating the situation.!< It just seemed so lazy in terms of plotting.

I think the daughter was conceived in the 60s or 70s. Insemination might have been possible but probably wasn’t very reliable.

There was a middle section of books that was unbearable. If the series hadn’t been recommended to me by a close friend I’d have DNF’d it and been far happier.