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[LMD]

The Mist(cant recall who stars in it)...is a good supernatural-cum-sci fi thriller with a twist at the end you don't see coming until it hits you in the face.

Thomas Jane is the main star in that one. I really liked the movie up until the twist at the end. Really really really disliked it.

Loved the original short story though. Much preferred the way that one played out.

[Music Head]

Bob Shacochis - The Woman Who Lost Her Soul - 2013



CIA stuff. Set all over the world from WWII to present day. I had a hard time connecting the five books that make up this one book. Just jumps all around too much.
A Pulitzer prize winner so I was expecting better.

Grade - C

Next up - George Washington's Surprise Attack by Phillip Thomas Tucker

[Jerome]

Tried reading 'Paradise Lost', the book included with the David Gilmour package, but to be quite honest it's just waffle to me.

[CRAZY-HORSE]

STEPHEN KING "dr.sleep"

the basic plot:
a sequel to "the shining"....
story sees the boy from the shining (dan) all grown up and constantly in trouble through alcohol abuse(like his father in the shining)...
he cleans up his act and gets a job working in a nursing home where he is dubbed "dr.sleep" by the other workers because he has a knack
of helping the elderly residents 'pass over'...
along the way he encounters a young girl, Abra, who also has 'shining', she, through her psychic abilities sees a young boy get tortured and murdered...
Dan picks up on her 'shining' and starts to communicate with her through their shared ability...
Abra soon realises that the people who killed the young boy have also murdered hundreds of other children as they drive across the US in the Winnebego/RV's...
those people call themselves the True Knot, they feed off the shining of children but they call it 'the steam'...
when they realise Abra has the most powerful steam they have detected the hunt is on to find her and collect her steam so they can survive.....
the climax happens at the site of the hotel that was burned to the ground in the original Shining book...

my impression:
a few twists and turns in this book...
no stupid boring waffling from King(as he tends to do sometimes)...
a good follow on from the original book with the loose ends tied up in this one...
all up,
a very good novel from King, so,
along with "mr.Mercedes" and "finders keepers", that makes it three very good books in a row
from King that don't let up and held my interest for the duration of each novel....

4/5

[Music Head]

Phillip Thomas Tucker - George Washington's Surprise Attack - 2014



one of the worst books of history I have ever read
560 pages
about the first 100 told about the weather that day
the next 400 described the 1 hour battle that took place
probably most of that made up for dramatic affect
the last 60 pages were pretty good
I did learn 1 thing I didn't know
this battle, in Trenton NJ, which was the turning point of the war, was with Germans
hell, I thought we were fighting the British

Grade - F

next up - Mr Mercedes by Stephen King

[CRAZY-HORSE]

ARNOLD SCHWARTZENEGGER "total recall: my unbelievably true life story"

Arnold's autobiography...
I love the guy's movies(except the Conan ones)...
interesting reading about his poverty striken childhood in Austria...
I don't understand weightlifting and the whole body building thing so that was boring...
coming to the US and his movies section was also interesting....
marrying into the Kennedy Clan also interesting...
Governor of California, a lot of regional politics which lost me also...
then came the deceit of his affair with his housekeeper which he covered up for over a decade
even when she gave birth to his child...what an ass he was!
only admitted it when confronted by his wife and a psychologist...
ive lost a lot of respect for the guy now since reading this but got to admire his determination
to get where he got...
I can only give this one an average score because the body building took up half the book...
so 2.5/5 for me.

[Music Head]

Stephen King - Mr. Mercedes - 2014



pop fiction. CH made me do it
Got off Mr. King after he did that Dark Tower thing.
Made an exception when CH posted his review of this.
Reads more like a Patterson book who is the only other current mystery writer I am familiar with.
Billed as a trilogy but it does have somewhat of an ending.
But the bad guy lives on so I assume he will rise from his hospital bed to terrorize again
Now I urge CH to pick up some classic literature
how about some Tolstoy?

Grade C

next up - Killing Jesus by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard

[CRAZY-HORSE]

C-grade....you're a hard man to please MH
I'm in the middle of his current collection of short stories called "bazaar of bad dreams",
I am somewhat disappointed overall.
As I've read the first two books of the Bill Hodges Trilogy, I will read the third when it gets released next year,
Instead of being an outright thriller like the first two I'm expecting some of King's supernatural crap in it.
If it is and its too weird he will lose me once again...

I gave up on him last time with The Dark Tower series, read half the first one and gave up.
I believe that series of novels in is in the early stages of being made in to a mini series for tv.
I wont watch it though, that sort of thing ain't my sort of thing.

[Donnie]

"Carrie" by Stephen King. Over halfway through it at the moment.

[Jerome]

Not a great fan of SK, but I thought 'The Stand' was very good. And then of course there is 'The Shawshank Redemption', which he had a hand in - easily the greatest movie ever made.