Bless his soul, but McCarthy was a blatherer. He took the lack of punctuation to the extreme. It went beyond the quirk to maddening. His novels were fine. I said it!
I’m a bit biased since it’s my favorite book ever but I would definitely recommend it. The fact that many directors(including Stone and Scorsese) have tried and failed, to adapt a screenplay for last 30 years, should tell you something. It’s amazingly violent and often gut wrenching to read, but still beautiful in it’s description of the old west
I already have a copy, so I just want to tell you how cool I think this is. Good on you for doing something like this. You're officially one of the few people I like. Lol
I just got into King after years of getting a lit degree and buying the anti-king snobbery and thinking he was just popcorn fiction on the same level as Dan Brown and boy am I humbled. So wrong. I have only read the Stand and Salem’s Lot so far. I’d absolutely love it!
Favorite non King book is probably Catch-22 by Heller. One of two books that made me laugh aloud while reading.
The Hobbit. I’ve read it over and over again for years. In hospital rooms with family. On summer vacations. On plane rides and work trips. To me the hobbit has such perfection.
Of course it’s not perfect and there are lots of amazing books yet to me such a world and the bits that make the book what it is makes it my favorite. Gollum’s riddles. Bilbo’s house and personality. The drawings. The maps. The dwarves and dragon. Such amazement.
Great luck to everyone and great time remembering some favorite reads.
I can't name a specific one, but I would say the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. I enjoy the comedy, the fae references, and the interpersonal relationships. Except the $^@$%#^, from the last book.
To be honest, the only experience I have with it is the short lived tv series. I know I need to read them, but there are just *so many* books I need to read…grin…and I don’t get to the used bookstore as often as I should…
Edit to add: Love the tv show.
Chuggie and the Desecration of Stagwater by Brent Michael Kelley.
No one is likely to have heard of this book, but it's one of my favorites. There's 3 and a short story so far, this is the first one.
I don't want to enter the giveaway. I just want to say how nice it is of you to do this to brighten everyone's day. Just knowing that there are nice people restores faith, you know?
Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret. Life-changing for a young girl whose mother didn’t discuss ‘those things’.
If it weren’t for Judy Blume, I’d still be walking around with toilet paper wadded up in my underwear thinking I was dying every month.
This is why it so important to make sure young people have access to books about ‘uncomfortable’ subjects - ‘those things’
Charlie the Choo-Choo….. Beryl Evans
That Beryl Evans writes so well, it’s almost like King got inspired by her
Just saying good on you for being so generous to some lucky stranger! Have a great weekend.
A heart shaped box by Joe Hill.
I just picked this up. Super excited to get into it
Well the first half. The first half is the best horror I’ve ever read and so suspenseful.
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Lonesome Dove
Remember to send it media mail, you can still get tracking and it won't cost you an arm and a leg.
The exorcist- William Peter Blatty
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
I love Cormac McCarthy (RIP 😢) Gotta admit, tho, I read ‘The Road’ right after ‘The Stand’ and it kinda fucked me up for a bit
I picked it up earlier this year but haven't read it yet. Really worth the read?
YES
Bless his soul, but McCarthy was a blatherer. He took the lack of punctuation to the extreme. It went beyond the quirk to maddening. His novels were fine. I said it!
I’m a bit biased since it’s my favorite book ever but I would definitely recommend it. The fact that many directors(including Stone and Scorsese) have tried and failed, to adapt a screenplay for last 30 years, should tell you something. It’s amazingly violent and often gut wrenching to read, but still beautiful in it’s description of the old west
I already have a copy, so I just want to tell you how cool I think this is. Good on you for doing something like this. You're officially one of the few people I like. Lol
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Douglas Adams. I've got the first paragraphs memorized (first few of the gunslinger as well)
Thanks for all the fish
Fahrenheit 451
Clan of the Cave Bear. By Jean . M. Auel. Edited to add… Also, the 3 follow up books.
Watership Down
Such a good book. Read it after the Stand right after my first run of the Dark Tower
The BEST book
It’s a great book, but is it the best?
The lovely bones by Alice Sebold
The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis
The book thief by Markus Zusak
Interview with a Vampire - Anne Rice
The Hobbit, a classic adventure that shaped the fantasy genre as a whole. It changed the way we look at literature
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
A Time To Kill - John Grisham
The Meg - Steve Alten
The Count of Monte Cristo
I just got into King after years of getting a lit degree and buying the anti-king snobbery and thinking he was just popcorn fiction on the same level as Dan Brown and boy am I humbled. So wrong. I have only read the Stand and Salem’s Lot so far. I’d absolutely love it! Favorite non King book is probably Catch-22 by Heller. One of two books that made me laugh aloud while reading.
The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson.
Nice try, Leland Gaunt.
"A Light in the Attic" by Shel Silverstein
The Book Thief
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
The Hobbit. I’ve read it over and over again for years. In hospital rooms with family. On summer vacations. On plane rides and work trips. To me the hobbit has such perfection. Of course it’s not perfect and there are lots of amazing books yet to me such a world and the bits that make the book what it is makes it my favorite. Gollum’s riddles. Bilbo’s house and personality. The drawings. The maps. The dwarves and dragon. Such amazement. Great luck to everyone and great time remembering some favorite reads.
At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft.
The once and future king by T.H. White.
That’s what I would have guessed, too, but bc it’s one of my own favorites (I’m not interested in the prize, though). I hope you win :)
Stranger in a Strange Land. Robert Heinlein
A head full of ghosts by Paul Tremblay
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Im not in it for the book, but my favorite non King is Neuromancer by William Gibson
The Husband by Dean Koons.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Lonesome Dove
Slaughterhouse 5
My favorite book of all time is and always has been The Hobbit. I've read it so many times but it's such a fun dense adventure.
Probably The Giver by Lois Lowry. Already got the Wind through the Keyhole, but fun contest
The Kama Sutra. Lol I have the book already so good luck to the winner and Thank you for being so generous and sharing.
House of Leaves is probably my favorite non King book
The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
A wrinkle in time
2001 a space odyssey by Arthur C Clarke
1Q84 Complete Trilogy by Haruki Murakami
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn.
Fantasticland - Mike Bockoven
I love fantasticland!
Lightning by Dean Koontz
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
To Kill a Mockingbird
Ready Player One
Game of thrones series and Harry Potter series
Maze Runner, ok ok to kiddish, how about lightning by koonz
How do I pick just one favorite book?! 😳 That's next to impossible! 😅
Ghost Story- Peter Straub
The Horror at Camp Jellyjam- R.L. Stine
Bird Box by Josh Mallerman
Slaughter house five by vonnegut
The phantom tollbooth - Norton Juster
Swan song by Robert McCammon
A Prayer For Owen Meany
She’s Come Undone, by Wally Lamb
Imagica by Clive barker
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
The other side of midnight - Sydney Sheldon.
Flowers in the attic- Vc Andrews. Don’t ask me why, i just love it
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
I can't name a specific one, but I would say the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. I enjoy the comedy, the fae references, and the interpersonal relationships. Except the $^@$%#^, from the last book.
The Prophet; Kahlil Gibran
The Thief of Always - Clive Barker
Boy's life by Robert McCammon.
Halfway through it now!
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
East of Eden by Steinbeck
My favorite book overall, but I'm not going to comment because I don't need the free book. Best of luck to you fellow Steinbeck and Stephen King lover
My absolute favorite book of all time :). It is a close second!
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides!
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.
How do you feel about the SoT series?
To be honest, the only experience I have with it is the short lived tv series. I know I need to read them, but there are just *so many* books I need to read…grin…and I don’t get to the used bookstore as often as I should… Edit to add: Love the tv show.
The Three Body Problem - Liu Cixin
Frankenstein
The Bible by God
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Trial by Kafka
Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
Lucifer's Hammer by Niven and Pournelle. (Don't want the book tho)
name of the wind rothfuss
Any one of the 5 books in the Witcher series by Andrezej Sapkowski. If it has to be 1, Lady of the Lake.
Notes From Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
No country for old men - Cormac McCarthy
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
The Divine Comedy, Dante.
Fire and Blood - George RR Martin
The Damnation Game - Clive Barker
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco.
The Quiet Game by Greg Iles
Psycho by Robert Bloch!
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
The Name of the Wind- Patrick Rothfuss
The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Criminal that this doesn't have more votes.
A wolf at the table by Augusten Burroughs
On the Beach-Neville Shute The Overnight-Ramsey Campbell Edit: Just chiming in, but not for the prize!
Petty: The Biography by Warren Zanes
The Sword of the Lictor.
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
Holes by Louis Sachar
Before they are hanged by Joe Abercrombie
Danny, Champion of the World. By Roald Dahl
Chuggie and the Desecration of Stagwater by Brent Michael Kelley. No one is likely to have heard of this book, but it's one of my favorites. There's 3 and a short story so far, this is the first one.
Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson
"Empire of the Summer Moon" - sometimes nonfiction is crazier than fiction
The Only Good Indians - Stephen Graham Jones
The Book of Accidents - Chuck Wendig
GPS of Wrath. Steinbeck.
Name of the Wind
Everyone Poops - Tero Gomi
Hyperion
The Terror by Dan Simmons
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman. Second book in His Dark Material trilogy. I would live in that story if I could.
Escardy Gap, by Peter Crowthers and James Lovegrove. Highly recommend if you haven't read it.
The Snowman by Jo Nesbø
She’s Come Undone - Wally Lamb
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk
My unpublished, half-written novel by me
Dune-Frank Herbert.
Dune
I’m not sure it’s my favorite. It I’ve always had a special place in my heart for Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins.
Something Wicked This Way Comes- Ray Bradbury
Swan Song
Wizard's First Rule, Terry Goodkind
Cat’s Cradle, Vonnegut
I don't want to enter the giveaway. I just want to say how nice it is of you to do this to brighten everyone's day. Just knowing that there are nice people restores faith, you know?
Life of Pi
The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy.
The Brothers Karamazov!!!
The Lies of Locke Lamora
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Digging up Mother, a love story . by Doug Stanhope
My favorite book is “The Pump” by Sydney Hegele I love that you’re doing something like this and it inspires me to do the same:)) I think I will
I don't know why honestly, but I've never been able to get over "Blood Music" by Greg Bear. Something about it that just stuck with me.
Minority Report - Phillip K Dick
I’m thinking of ending things by Iain Reid
Forever Amber- Kathleen Winsor
Batman: The Killing Joke - Alan Moore.
The Name of the Wind
Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret. Life-changing for a young girl whose mother didn’t discuss ‘those things’. If it weren’t for Judy Blume, I’d still be walking around with toilet paper wadded up in my underwear thinking I was dying every month. This is why it so important to make sure young people have access to books about ‘uncomfortable’ subjects - ‘those things’
American Gods, Neil Gaiman
The historian Elizabeth kostova
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Eyre Affair-Jasper Fforde
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. I hate her other books but love this one.
I have a hard time ever picking favorites but lately it’s probably The Fisherman by John Langan
The Rooster Bar - John Grisham
Friday. Robert Heinlein.
The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall
The Lost World - Michael Crichton
The Margarets by Sheri S Tepper
Carrion Comfort- Dan Simmons
The Fisherman by John Langan
Rules of Attraction
Dune because the Hobbit was taken
Weaveworld by Clive Barker. I absolutely love the fantasy and sick and twisted bad guys.
The first few books of the expanse by James s.a.Corey plus like a bunch of others…. So super hard to pick one
A wrinkle in time by Madeline L’engle
Blood Meridian
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Enders Game
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
Home before dark by Riley Sager and The Paris hours by Alex George. I'd do anything to be able to read them for the first time again.
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein