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Dr TinselD
Dr TinselD
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I don't like Anita Shreve much.

I'm going on to Find a Way, thanks to the lovely Bint.
McGoohan
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I love Stephen King. Always very readable.
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Only ever read one Stephen King - It. Couldn't put it down! Don't know why I've never read any more though.
GregP
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Don't think I've ever consciously read Stephen King. I used to read James Herbert when I was a teenager, because that's what teenage boys did in the 1970s.
Chrisull
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Always preferred King to Herbert, King would go into weird existential territory at times (It), or nostalgia for bygone eras (Christine) - which made such books epicly long. Pet Semetary (sic) is like a modern day M R James or W W Jacobs (the Monkey's paw), very little happens in it, but there's a deep underlying dread, and it has a brilliant ending.
Diogenes
Diogenes
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Stephen King is a brilliant writer, and also very good on writing.

I'm another who read James Herbert. Sven Hassell was another mainstay of the teenage boy.
McGoohan
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I read a few Herberts but they're all pretty wafer thin characterisation-wise compared to King. Though they did always reach the necessary gross-out threshold.
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mulbs
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Green Mile - I thank you *takes bow*
Seven Little Nemos a-swimming
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Stephen King is a great writer and The Shining is one of the scariest books I have ever read!
Dr TinselD
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Also read loads of James Herbert when I was a teenager.

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Welcome to Season Eight

March 2025 (Night-owl)
One Grand Summer (Ewald Arenz, trans. Rachel Ward)
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Appliance (J O Morgan)
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