Ian's Reading 2012

[~Andrea~]

Sounds like you're enjoying it. Looking forward to your thoughts when you finish it

 

What has always amazed me about Stephen King is his ability to take an idea that when you decribe it, sounds completely ridiculous, but he elevates into something that is both very believable

 

I totally know what you mean. He executes his outlandish ideas perfectly.

Edited December 7, 2012 by ~Andrea~

[ian]

Sounds like you're enjoying it. Looking forward to your thoughts when you finish it

 

 

 

I totally know what you mean. He executes his outlandish ideas perfectly.

 

I'll be honest - I think this is one of the best of his I've ever read.

[ian]

I'm reading "One Shot" by Lee Child for my next.

[ian]

Finished One Shot just before Christmas. I am now reading "Empty Chair" by Jeffrey Deaver. I imagine this will be the last book I read this year.

 

One shot BTW was excellent - almost tempted to go and see it at the pictures, but put off by the Tom Cruise!

[frankie]

Finished The Coffin Dancer bu Jeffrey Deaver and is the second book in his Lincoln Rhymes series. I thought this book was excellent, with the twists I was expecting coming form the exact opposite direction I was anticipating. Clever writing!

 

I suspect you've read the first one in the series, too, right? I found the first novel amazing, and I was fearing the second one could just not reach that standard, but it was so much better and 'far and beyond'. There were some really wickedly amazing twists to this book! One of my favorite thrillers, all time.

 

 

I'm continuing the theme of re-reading books I first read years ago. I picked up a Kindle version of Different Seasons by Stephen King. For those who don't know it, it's four short stories (one for each season) and contains "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption", which of course became the film The Shawshank Redemption.

 

I would say Rita Hayworth is one of the _very_ few stories that were better as a movie than a novel

 

I'm about 3/4 through Pet Semetary now, and it's terrifying! What has always amazed me about Stephen King is his ability to take an idea that when you decribe it, sounds completely ridiculous, but he elevates into something that is both very believable and hugely enjoyable (in a hide under the duvet kind of way!)

 

Agreed 100%! I also love King's way of making the characters so ... recognisable? And understandable? With all their faults and flaws. In my opinion King takes his time in putting the characters together, and I for one appreciate that.

[ian]

I suspect you've read the first one in the series, too, right? I found the first novel amazing, and I was fearing the second one could just not reach that standard, but it was so much better and 'far and beyond'. There were some really wickedly amazing twists to this book! One of my favorite thrillers, all time.

 

 

I read the Bone Collector some time ago, and have been waiting to get my hands on the series in order, as it was so good I felt it derserved it. Which leads me neatly to my last book of 2012 - The Empty Chair by Jeffrey Deaver, the third book in the Lincoln Rhyme series. The was a point early on in this book that I thought I wasn't going to like this, although I still can't pinpoint why. Maybe it felt a bit rushed. Still, I got into it, and the usual twists that Deaver is a master at are all evident. Right up to the last page, there are twists; some you guess, others you don't see coming. Perhaps not quite as good as the previous two in the series, but the bar is still set very high indeed.

 

And that's it for 2012! 43 books read, 1 DNF, 2 two out of fives and 5 five out of fives. Not a bad year at all!