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Another Book Thread

I’m currently reading Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus—it’s such a fun and thought-provoking story! I love finding book recommendations online, and usmagazine sometimes features great celebrity book picks and reviews. It’s a nice way to discover something new to add to the reading list.
 
The summer of 2020, that’s when I read my first Stephen King book. Knowing nothing about any of his books’ contents beyond It and The Shining, I decided upon The Stand as it was one of his most popular books. This happened to be the expanded version, which, in his foreword, he said is most like the finished book he handed to the publishers before they forced cuts for length, etc..

That was the wrong time in history to read The Stand for the first time. The early parts of the book, Captain Trips might as well have been COVID-19, based upon dang near all the symptoms. Freaked me the F out.

Now I’m on my fourth reading of The Stand, and I have to say that it’s been my favorite of his, followed by It, and then perhaps 11-22-63. I tried getting into The Dark Tower series, but couldn’t get past the first few chapters before becoming completely bored with it.
 
St. Clown said:
The summer of 2020, that’s when I read my first Stephen King book. Knowing nothing about any of his books’ contents beyond It and The Shining, I decided upon The Stand as it was one of his most popular books. This happened to be the expanded version, which, in his foreword, he said is most like the finished book he handed to the publishers before they forced cuts for length, etc..

That was the wrong time in history to read The Stand for the first time. The early parts of the book, Captain Trips might as well have been COVID-19, based upon dang near all the symptoms. Freaked me the F out.

Now I’m on my fourth reading of The Stand, and I have to say that it’s been my favorite of his, followed by It, and then perhaps 11-22-63. I tried getting into The Dark Tower series, but couldn’t get past the first few chapters before becoming completely bored with it.
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Glad you enjoyed The Stand. The uncut version is arguably my favorite novel of all time. I read Stephen King in High School. Pretty much after High School I stopped reading him and never read The Dark Tower series although I intend to at some point.
 
Life is a hospital where every patient is obsessed by the desire of changing beds. One would like to suffer opposite the stove, another is sure he would get well beside the window.

-- Beaudelaire, "Anywhere Out of the World"
 
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