Stephen King l 2018

Stephen King is my favourite author and I think he is one of the best writers of our time. With his incredible characters and gripping plots in every genera from Drama, Horror, Thriller, Western, a little bit of everything. 

I don't think there is anyone on earth who can dislike all of Stephen Kings books, if you don't like one? try another until you find one you like because there will be one in the mix I promise. 

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 Carrie 

 'Salem's Lot 

 Rage 

 The Shining 

 The Stand 

 The Dead Zone

 Cujo 

 The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger 

 Christine 

 Thinner 

 Cycle of the Werewolf

Desperation 

 IT 

 The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three 

 Misery 

 The Tommyknockers

 The Dark Half 

 The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands 

 Gerald's Game 

 Dolores Claiborne 

 Insomnia 

 The Green Mile

 The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass 

 Bag of Bones 

 The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon 

 Black House 

 The Dark Tower V: The Wolves of the Calla 

 The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah 

 The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower 

 The Colorado Kid 

 Cell 

 Black House 

 The Dark Tower V: The Wolves of the Calla 

 The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah 

 The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower 

 The Colorado Kid 

 Cell 

 The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole 

 Joyland 

 Doctor Sleep 

 Mr. Mercedes 

 Revival 

 Finders Keepers 

Duma Key  

Under the Dome 

11/22/63 

 End of Watch 

 Sleeping Beauties 

Night Shift

Nightmares and Dreamscapes

Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

Just After Sunset

 Different Seasons

Skeleton Crew

Four Past Midnight
Gwendy's Button Box

Lisey's Story 

Hearts in Atlantis

 Dreamcatcher
The Outsider
The Talisman

2019 TBR
15 Books to completion!

The Long Walk
 Danse Macabre
 The Running Man
Firestarter
 Roadwork
Needful Things
Rose Madder
The Eyes of the Dragon
The Regulators 
Pet Sematary
 From A Buick 8  
 Blaze
 On Writing
 Full Dark, No Stars
 The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

Stephen King l 2017

1. The Shinning
2. Carrie
3. It
4. The Green Mile
5. The Dead Zone
6. Bag of Bones
7. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
8. Cell
9. Cujo
10. The Tommyknockers
11. The Mist
12. Under the Dome
13. Dr. Sleep 
14. Joyland
15. 11/22/63
16. Blockade Billy
17. Black House
18. Christine
19. The Colorado Kid
20. Cycle of the Werewolf
21. The Dark Half 
22. Desperation
23. Dolores Claiborne
24. Gerald's Game
25. Salem's Lot
26. The Stand
27. Misery
28. Insomnia
29. Mr Mercedes
30. Finders Keepers
31. End of Watch 
32. Skeleton Crew
33. Nightmares and Dreamscapes
34. Night Shift
35. Just After Sunset
36. Everything's Eventual
37. Different Seasons
38. Four Past Midnight
39. The Gunslinger
40. The Drawing of the three
41. Wastelands
42. Wizard and Glass
43. Wolves of the Calla
44. The Song of Susannah
45. The Dark Tower
46. Sleeping Beauties

Richard Bachman

1. Rage
2. Thinner

Book Review - The Dark Tower

The Dark Tower

(The Dark Tower VII)

Stephen King

9 Stars
1050 Pages
Western / Mystery / Thriller / Epic Saga / High Fantasy

We finally come to the epic conclusion of the masterpiece that is the Dark Tower series. I am not putting down a summary because anything would give way too many spoilers away.

This is the best ending I have read in so long, maybe ever! I was worried that it would be disappointing after all that has happened but that was a waste of time. King has just given readers or at least this reader the ultimate finale, SO satisfying. It was closed and yet open all at once, a perfect balance it was an unexpected twist as well (just when I thought I had it all figured out) and it is never really the end because King is still building more books into his universe.  I am dreading the movie now, or is it a TV show? because even in 2017 with the best actors ever there is no way to recreate it all to satisfy me.

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Book Review - The Song of Susannah

The Song of Susannah

(The Dark Tower VI)

Stephen King

8 Stars
544 Pages
Western / Mystery / Thriller / Epic Saga / High Fantasy

With the business in the Calla complete, we discover that Susannah has gone missing, taken captive by the manipulative Mia in the confusing aftermath of the great battle. Jake, Eddie and Roland race against the clock - time has grown very short for the tower while their minds were occupied elsewhere - Find Susannah, protect the rose, keep Calvin Tower safe from agents of many worlds, convince Tower to sell the vacant lot, stop the breakers save the beams and get to the tower... is it a quest two men, a boy, a bumbler and (if they find her) a woman can complete?

I want to start out by saying that this was still a fantastic read, an amazing book and a must read novel. Compared two the past couple of novels that started out running, and with such a big cliffhanger at the end of the last book, I found that this story took longer than expected to get going and there were a few parts that dragged on. Along with the mind boggling completeness of the world King has built, and the gripping maddening wonderful plot. We meet a host of new and wonderful characters that I fell in love with. Other the Eddie, Jake, Sus and Oi the first three novels didn't have many other characters to hold onto, we found a few in Wizard and Glass but sadly they where all characters of the past who had already travelled out of the story. In the Calla we where introduced to some who will come into themselves in this novel, Mia, Mordred, Callahan. The Talisman and the Black House in drawn in along with The Breakers.  I can't wait for the conclusion to the tale, I haven't been able to put the series down so far!

Book Review - Wolves of the Calla

Wolves of the Calla

(Dark Tower V)

Stephen King

8.5 Stars
931 Pages
Western / Mystery / Thriller / Epic Saga / High Fantasy

And so the Gunslingers and us the reader learn of the Calla, Callahan (of Salem's Lot) and the wolves. I was caught up in the story from page one.
In the Calla almost all people are born twins, and once a generation (every 25 years or so) the wolves come, grey men on grey horses. Stealing one child from each pair of twins who between the ages of 2 - 15. The stolen twin will be returned within months, their minds broken and ruined, they will grow to be toddlers as big as giants and they will die young of a terrible wasting disease. It has been so for more than 100 years. But this time it isn't just the wolves who are coming to the Calla. Roland, Susannah, Jake, Oi and Eddie will be there too. That is not the only problem for our gunslingers, they must also fight the battle of the rose in New York, convincing Calvin Tower and holding at bay the thugs from Eddies past. Susannah is keeping a secret from everyone including herself and while the gunslingers fight this noble fight time is passing... and the beams that hold the tower have very little time left.

The farther into these stories I get the more I love them. The more I reflect on them the more enchanted they seem. The whole world is just so perfect. I would recommend reading It, Salem's Lot, Hearts in Atlantis, The Dead Zone and a handful of other random King novels of your choice before reading this series because it will add so much to the experience.

With the movies coming out everyone should read these.
Everyone should read these anyways!

Book Review - Wizard and Glass

Wizard and Glass
(Dark Tower IV)
Stephen King

8.5 Stars
Pages
Fiction / High Fantasy / Saga/ Series / Thriller / Western / Mystery

This novel starts at the cliffhanger Wastelands ended on. Roland, Eddie, Jake and Suz are aboard the suicidal monorail named Blaine, they have a bet with the super computer. If they ask him a riddle he cannot solve then he will let them live, if he can solve every riddle when he reaches the end of the line Blaine will continue at his 800+ mph and kill them all.
We also go back in this novel to the beginning of Roland Deschain's day's as a gunslinger, as a boy of 14 in the land of Gilead; before the world truly moved on.  We meet the enchanting Susan his one true love, Bert and Alain his best friends and what befell them in that time and place so long ago now.

This was the best novel so far (I honestly can't decide between 1,2&4 but whatever) I have been wondering about Roland since the first novel and finally we got some answers to all the hints! I was speed reading the last half or quarter of book 3 to get to this and it didn't disappoint. I loved it and was upset at ever having to put the book down to do anything else. Everything in this is so well rounded and fully written. Each place, person and thing doesn't just seem real but is real. King truely has brought this all together in a masterpiece! He is a genius and I can't wait to finish the remaining novels on my TBR and get to the Stephen King Universe book that illustrates how it has all been woven together.

Book Review - The Wastelands

The Wastelands

(Dark Tower III)

Stephen King

7 Stars
422 Pages
Fiction / Fantasy / Western / Thriller / Mystery

This book begins with Roland, Suzanna and Eddie following the beam on their mission for the Dark Tower, Eddie and Suz are apprentice gunslingers and along with learning how to shoot, they and we are treated to more about how the world was before it "moved on". The Old Ones -who are turning point between this time and the time before it- sound like something out of a satirical science fiction, from the hints given we are lead to believe in a nuclear war and/or biochemical warfare. The war happened for an unknown reason, between people with incredible technologies, such as; cyborgs and possibly the ability to travel though time and space.
Having altered the past in New York, Roland has created a paradox in time, and that knowledge of what has been, could be and will be has started to tear his mind into pieces, as the madness snowballs a race against time begins to save the gunslingers sanity.
As if that is not enough they must still find and draw the third foretold person into their party.

I am loving this other side of King and when I start or end a book I keep wondering why I didn't get into them sooner because they are just amazing. A neutral note for the books, each is so different from the others that I just can't get into a rhythm with reading them. While they have action packed seconds where you can't put the book down they lack King's usual babbling lulls, this is such a clear and fleshed out realm and their are increasing references to other King works as we go along (which I love)
About half way through this I found out that the fourth book is about Rolands past and I rushed through the final chapters a little faster than I should have probably.

2017 is the year they come out with the Dark Tower movie and I am hoping it drives more people to these novels because they are SO worth reading!!!

Book Review - The Drawing of Three

The Drawing of Three

(The Dark Tower II)

Stephen King

8 Star
Pages
Fiction / Series / Thriller / Horror / Mystery / Adventure / Fantasy

I have become totally obsessed with this series! How did I not read it sooner!
Roland is the last Gunslinger and his destiny is to reach the Dark Tower. In the last book we were introduced to his world while questing after the Dark Man. In this novel Roland is completing the prophecy spoken by the oracle, that he would draw three people from our world into his own. These people will help him reach the tower.

I loved this book so much! I am normally a King fan and I  know that his style is not for everyone but this series is the exception to that rule. The set up is just as detailed but the novels flow at a faster pace, there is tons of action, it does not fall into the horror genera; any fan of epic fantasy would love it too. If you like Westerns I would recommend these as well. The characters are amazing,  it would give too much away to go into detail, but it is easy to picture them as real people. The world is relatable and logical, which isn't always important but I keep coming back to that fact and if alternate realities and everything did exist this is how I picture them.

I would love to hear what you think of The Dark Tower and/or Stephen King :)

Book Review - The Gunslinger

The Gunslinger 

(The Dark Tower I)

Stephen King

7 Stars
231 Pages
Fiction / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller / Mystery 

I have this series as an omnibus, which has been sitting on my TBR shelf being daunting and terrifying for at least a couple of years now. I was very pleasantly surprised at how fast I got through this first book. It was the perfect size to introduce me to this amazing but vast world. We meet Roland - who I have read about in quite a few other King novels, including The Talisman, The Black House and Little Sisters of Eluria - he is our main character and I love him. Roland is a Gunslinger, and he is chasing the "Man in Black". Jumping between the past and the present we learn about the land, the world, the people and its customs. I don't want to go into detail because I would be giving too much away but it is action packed and beautiful.
Any lover of epic fantasy - The Songs of Ice and Fire aka Game of Thrones, Redwall, or The Books of Pellinor - will love these novels. A totally different breed of King novel, that still holds onto the essence of King.

Series Review - Stephen King Short Stories

101 Short Stories

by Stephen King

Date Started : November 1 2016
50 % Done : December  15 2016
Date Finished


All of these are going to be out of 5 stars instead of my usual 10 star system. I like short stories but they are not something I read with any consistency.

512 Pages, 22 Stories

Skeleton Crew : 4 Stars
The Mist - 4.5 stars I have this as a stand alone novel as well,  I can read and reread it over all over. I love the movie too. Some of the first monsters that come to mind when I think of things truely terrifying.
Here There Be Tigers - 3 Stars
The Monkey - 3 Stars
Cain Rose Up - 4 Stars
Mrs. Todds Shortcut - 3.5 Stars
The Jaunt - 3.5 Stars Reminds me of an old radio play I used to listen to wish I could remember the name
The Wedding Gig - 2 Stars
Paranoid : A Chant - 3 Stars
The Raft - 3 Stars
Word Processor of the Gods - 4 Stars
The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands - 3.5 Stars
Beachwood - 2 Stars
The Reapers Image - 3 Stars Reminds me of the movie Oculus 
Nona - 3 Stars
For Owen - 3 Stars A beautiful poem from King to his son. A little odd among the horrific stories but not out of place at the same time. 
Survivor Type - 4 Stars My weird fascination with cannibals 
Uncle Otto's Truck - 3 Stars
Morning Deliveries (The Milkman) - 4.5 Stars
Big Wheels : A Tale of the Laundry Game (The Milkman 2) - 4 Stars
Gramma - 3 Stars
The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet - 3.5 Stars another "old" feel like a radio play?
The Reach - 3 Stars It was the perfect note to end on

816 Pages, 24 Stories

Nightmares and Dreamscapes : 3 Stars
Dolans Cadillac - 3.5 Stars
The End of the Whole Mess - 3 Stars
Suffer the Little Children - 3 Stars Villiage of the Damned
The Night Flier - 4 Stars
Popsy - 4.5 Stars I felt so justified reading this
It Grows On You - 3.5 Stars
Chattery Teeth - 4 Stars Another justified ending!
Dedication - 2 Stars Good story just not my thing
The Moving Finger - 3 Stars
Sneakers - 2 Stars
You Know They Got a Hell of a Band - 4 Stars
Home Delivery - 3 Stars
Rainy Season - 3 Stars Makes me think of The Reaping and Cabin in the Woods
My Pretty Pony - 2 Stars
Sorry, Right Number - 3 Stars
The Ten O'Clock People - 3 Stars
Couch End - 3.5 Stars This I would love to see as a Tv Show Episode
The House on Maple Street - 3 Stars
The Fifth Quarter - 2 Stars Been reading Sin City comics by Frank Miller. Felt very in tune with those stories. 
The Doctors Case - 4.5 Stars
Umney's Last Case - 4.5 Stars Inkheart Stephen King style I loved it!
Head Down - 2 Stars
Brooklyn August - 2 Stars
The Beggar and The Diamond - 3 Stars It didn't fit in, was totally the wrong way to wrap up or else it would have been rated higher. 

336 Pages, 20 Stories

Night Shift : 4 Stars
Jerusalems Lot - 3.5 Stars
Graveyard Shift - 4 Stars I would love to read a novel like this, reminds me of The Zoo TV show.
Night Surf - The Stands, Captain Trips. Love references to other books.
I am the Doorway - 2.5 Stars
The Mangler - 3.5 Stars
The Boogyman - 3.5 Stars
Grey Matter - 3 Stars
Battleground - 4.5 Stars
Trucks - 4 Stars I love when humanities "brilliance" comes back to bite it in the ass.
Sometimes They Come Back - 4 Stars
Strawberry Spring - 3.5 Stars
The Ledge -
The Lawnmower Man - 3 Stars Love greek mythology references
Quitters Inc. - 3.5 Stars
I Know What You Need - 4.5 Stars
Children of the Corn - 5 Stars One of my favourites
The Last Rung on the Ladder - 4 Stars
The Man Who Loved Flowers - 3.5 Stars
One for the Road - 3 Stars
The Woman in the Room - 3 Stars

367 pages, 13 Stories

Just After Sunset : Stars
Willa - 3.5 Stars
The Gingerbread Girl - 2.5 Stars I was not a fan of the main character, I just sat there and thought stupid girl over and over and over again. Totally disappointed
Harvey's Dream - 3 Stars
Rest Stop - 3 Stars
Stationary Bike -
The Things They Left Behind - 4.5 Stars
Graduation Afternoon - 3 Stars
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The Cat From Hell - 4.5 Stars
The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates - 3.5 reminded me a lot of Sorry, Right Number. Macabre love story
Mute - 2 Stars *wayyy to long for what it was, if it was shorter it would have been good but just ended up boring
Ayana - 3.5 Stars
A Very Tight Place - 2.5 Stars Good, but lost points for being too drawn out

464 pages, 14 Stories

Everything's Eventual : 2.5 Stars 
Autopsy Room Four - 3 Stars
The Man in the Black Suit - 3 Stars
All That You Love Will Be Carried Away - 2.5 Stars
The Death of Jack Hamilton - 2 Stars
In the Deathroom - 3 Stars
The Little Sisters of Eluria - 4 Stars *the best story of the bunch, and it got points for being part of the Dark Tower Series
Everything's Eventual -
LT's Theory of Pets - 2 Stars
The Road Virus Reads North - 3.5 Stars
Lunch at the Gotham Cafe - 3.5 Stars
That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French - 2.5 Stars
1408 - 3.5 Stars
Riding the Bullet - 3 Stars
Luckey Quarter - 2 Stars

Four Past Midnight : 4.5 Stars
The Langoliers - 4 Stars
Secret Window, Secret Garden - 3.5 Stars
The Library Policeman - 4 Stars
The Sun Dog - 4 Stars
Different Seasons : Stars
Shawshank Redemption - 3 Stars
Apt Pupil - 4.5 Stars
The Body - 4 Stars
The Breathing Method - TBR!

Stephen King

Stephen King has published 66 works of fiction (which include several novels of short stories )to date. It is my mission to read them all so far I have read :

1. The Shinning
2. Carrie
3. It
4. The Green Mile
5. The Dead Zone
6. Bag of Bones
7. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
8. Cell
9. Cujo
10. The Tommyknockers
11. The Mist
12. Under the Dome
13. Dr. Sleep 
14. Joyland
15. 11/22/63
16. Blockade Billy
17. Black House
18. Christine
19. The Colorado Kid
20. Cycle of the Werewolf
21. The Dark Half 
22. Desperation
23. Dolores Claiborne
24. Gerald's Game
25. Thinner
26. Salem's Lot
27. The Stand
28. Misery
29. Insomnia
30. Mr Mercedes
31. Finders Keepers
32. End of Watch 
33. Skeleton Crew
34. Nightmares and Dreamscapes
35. Night Shift
36. Just After Sunset
37. Everything's Eventual
38. Different Seasons
39. Four Past Midnight

So 66 % done which is 27 Novels to go. Trying for 12 or more of his books a year!

Book Review - End of Watch

End of Watch 

Stephen King

8.5 Stars
432 Pages

I have finally gotten around to the last novel of the Bill Hodges Trilogy! I got the beautiful hardcover for my birthday this year :)

I am torn between the positives and negatives of this novel, Positives : I really loved the characters right from the first book, strong fully formed characters are one of King's many talents and he did not disappoint. The dual points of view from both the heroes and the villains was incredibly well done. Evil is evil is evil, none of this justifying bad guy angst that has become such a popular trope - that I absolutely despise .
Negatives : I was so excited with the first two novels that there was nothing supernatural going on - it was a refreshing change - and while the supernatural was good and I loved the conclusion (although it is heartbreaking) I think a better idea could have been thought up. The book was consistently action packed and fast paced yet still managed to be a little drawn out (another King signature).

Overall I just love this series so much and most of my complaints are very very minor, picking at the little things that I noticed and some that I got watching a few other peoples reviews (which are now stuck in my head ) when I had completed the novel.

Book Review - Finders Keepers

For readers, one of life's most electrifying discoveries is that they are readers - not just capable of doing it (which Morris already knew), but in love with it. Hopelessly. Head over heels. The first book that does that is never forgotten, and each page seems to bring fresh revelation, one that burns and exalts :Yes! That's how it is! Yes! I aw that, too! And of course, That's what I think! That's what I FEEL! - Stephen King

This is one of the best quotes because it is SO true.

Finders Keepers

(The Bill Hodges Trilogy)

Stephen King

528 pages
9.5 stars
Mystery / Thriller / Murder / Serial Killer /
Med Level Read

The highest rating I have given to a book this year! It is phenomenal, amazing, twisted, dark and creepy. I love the characters, I love how there are two stories that blend together seamlessly. King is a master there are no strange leaps in logic or plot holes big enough to drive a car through. It is eerily realistic, a must read!
This is the second novel in the trilogy and it has been almost a year since I started it. Which for me is a very long time but I still remember Mr. Mercedes clearly. This is one of the few trilogies that I am purposefully reading slowly. There is so much to take in and they are such great novels. One of my favourite things is the POV, in both novels we have had the villain as well as the hero's side. Even more enjoyable is the lack of "villain angst" where it turns out our bad-guy has a troubled passed and is really more misunderstood "a product of nurture" or lack there of. Which is one of the most annoying trends that has turned up in the past few years. I could go on and on but I am trying not to include spoilers!

-You just HAVE to read this trilogy!!!

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Book Review - Misery

Misery

Stephen King

Stars 8
Pages 369
Med Reading Level
Horror/ Thriller / Psychological / Dark

Being a Stephen King this has been on my TBR for a while, I have watched bits and pieces of the movie and mostly knew what the novel was about. It just didn't seem very appealing, like it was going to be one of Kings incredible character novels. That would lack on the action, too much buildup and setting, maybe a little bit anticlimactic

I was really wrong, this was an amazing book, probably one of my fastest King reads. I just couldn't put the book down, read it all in one day. There was so much action, and just a perfect balance of "this can't be happening" and "this is so real". That King added a book into the middle of this book, gave a glimpse that he could write whatever he wanted. If he wanted to write sterotype, super mainstream popular novels I'm sure he could. If he wanted to write YA I'm convinced he could and he would dominate in every field.
I am just happy he chose to stick with his own visions instead of fallowing advice I am sure he got from publishers at some point.

Wrap Up - July 2016

Once I started this list I realized I had done more reading than I thought, pretty happy with what I got through this month.

1. One Foot in the Gravc, Jeannie Frost *reread
2. Halfway to the Grave, Jeannie Frost
3. At Graves End, Jeannie Frost
4. Long Hard Road Out of Hell, Marilyn Manson *reread
5. Serial Killers the faces of evil - Magazine
6. In the Afterlight, Alexandra Bracken
7. Killer Families : murder by dads, moms, kids and spouses, Sylvia Perrin

Was really excited to get back into Jeannie Frost's, Night Huntress Series, they are quick and easy reads. I really like her characters and will post a review of it all. I did find that by the end of the third novel I just wasn't feeling it (nothing to do with the book). I didn't start the fourth, tried a different romance, couldn't get into it. Tried a few lighter novels one adult one ya, just wasn't sparking any interest. In a bit of a reading slump.

Also picked up The Stand, read just under half on several occasions, its a pretty sizable detailed slowish read. Around halfway through it now hoping to finish it in August.

Book Review - NOS4A2

NOS4A2
Joe Hill

8.5 Stars
686 Pages
horror/ thriller / supernatural /

Vic McQueen is a finder, using her bike she can almost always find anything that has been lost. Welcome to the world of inscapes, where Miss Maggie's tiles can answer any question, and  the immortal Charlie Man hides away his stolen children in the magical inscape of Christmas-land, a peaceful world filled with all the joys of christmas all year round a paradise... as long as you don't mind the fine print.

My goal for this year was to read at least one Stephen King book every month, but they started to get repetitive. So to change things up a bit I said one adult horror novel much like King each month and the next best thing to King? His son Joe! I find Joe Hill to be an easier quicker version of Kings novels with a lot of the same writing style (understandably). I raced through Horns last month (and have not yet watched the movie...still) and decided to grab this next.

This is one of those reads that I cannot say enough good things about. I loved this book, such a great read I had hard time putting it down. I really felt for these characters; liked the good guys, loathed the bad guys, associated with Vic and her family. I loved Lou's character to pieces. I was close to tears when Hooper died. Despite the fact that we jumped around in time a bit it was easy to fallow, pages 404 & 511 referenced Derry and Pennywise (it, 11/22/63, insomnia - King), The Tree house of the mind (Horns -Hill), The True Knot (Dr. Sleep - King) I was in my element knowing I had read all these associated novels!

If you liked this I would recommend

        

The Horror Readers Evolution

It all begins with Halloween... Scooby Doo. Mysteries. The transformation scene in Pinocchio.

Picture Books

• The Big Pumpkin, Erica Silverman
• Too Many Pumpkins, Linda White
• Spooky Hour, Tony Mitton
• Boo! Robert Munsch 

Children's Horror

• Goosebumps, RL Stine
• Fear Street R L Stine
• Shivers, MD Spenser
• Spine Tinglers, MT Coffin
• Scary Stories, Alvin Schwarts 
• Bone Chillers, Betsy Haynes

YA Horror

• Coraline, Neil Gaiman
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs

Classics

• Frankenstein, Mary Shelly
• Dracula, Bram Stoker
• Dr. Jekyll & Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
• Edgar Allen Poe, Collection

Adult Authors

• Richard Laymon
• Stephen King
• Richard Matheson
• Dean Koonze
• Jack Ketchum
• Clive Barker

Famous Movies That Are Books

• The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty
• The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
• Rosemary's Baby, Ira Levin
• Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris
• Jaws, Peter Benchley
• 30 Days of Night, Tim Lebbon
• Cabin in the Woods, Tim Lebbon

There are lots of things here that I left out so please leave a comment if you have a must read horror novel that comes to mind right away.

2015 January to May Wrap up + Mini Reviews

This is me playing catch up for the year

Wrap Up

1. Dirty Rocker Boys, Bobbie Brown
2. Skinny, Donna Cooner
3. The Fault in our Stars, John Green 
4. Prince of the Icemark, Stuart Hill
5. Gerald's Game, Stephen King
6. The TommyKnockers, Stephen King
7. It, Stephen King
8. The Bourne Supremacy, Robert Ludlum
9. The Bourne Identity, Robert Ludlum
10. Clash of Kings, George R Martin
11. A Game of Thrones, George R Martin
12. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louise Stevenson
13. The Lost Hero, Rick Riordan
14. The Son of Neptune, Rick Riordan

Mini Reviews

Loved - It

Hated - The Tommyknockers, I hated this book, the only thing that got me through was my promise to read all the Stephen Kings and the references to other books, this is the first Stephen King I have despised.

Classic - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Series's

1. A Song of Ice and Fire
2. Lost Heroes of Olympus
3. Bourne

Disappointed - A Game of Thrones and Fault in our Stars, both for the same reason. I was told I absolutely HAD to read them, they where amazing, that I had never read anything quite like them, on and on and on. After much harassment I did read them, they are good but they are not great or overly original. I would classify The Fault in our Stars as average writing a YA version of My Sisters Keeper with a less than original plot that left me thinking a wanna be JD Salinger.

Non Fiction - Dirty Rocker Boys

Stephen King

I have Read 24 Stephen King Novels

1. The Shinning
2. Carrie
3. It
4. The Green Mile
5. The Dead Zone
6. Bag of Bones
7. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
8. Cell
9. Cujo
10. The Tommyknockers
11. The Mist
12. Under the Dome
13. Dr. Sleep 
14. Joyland
15. 11/22/63
16. Blockade Billy
17. Black House
18. Christine
19. The Colorado Kid
20. Cycle of the Werewolf
21. The Dark Half 
22. Desperation
23. Dolores Claiborne
24. Gerald's Game
25. Thinner

I am more than halfway through / In the process of reading.. most of these are his short story collections

1. Nightmares and Dreamscapes
2. The Needful Things
3. Insomnia - Started this June 3d
4. Full Dark No Stars
5. Everything's Eventual 
6. Nightshift

My Top TBR

1. The Talisman
2. Salem's Lot
3. Mr. Mercedes