The Dark Tower: Gunslinger Bk. 1 - Stephen King

The Dark Tower book 1 is a great introduction to a series which changes and challenges the reader with each passing book. Essentially a collection of short stories, which weave together to create the fabric of this world the eponymous gunslinger inhabits, The Dark Tower Book 1 is able to ease us into this strange mix of science fiction and western ...

Lisey's Story - Stephen King

Critics and Constant Readers alike may well be surprised with Stephen King s latest offering, which has been described as his most personal and honest novel to date, but which is much harder to define in terms of genre and story than his other novels and consequently, quite hard to review. On the surface, Lisey s Story is about a widow s recollections of her recently deceased husband, Scott, and the emotional journey she goes through to re-establish her place in the world and come to terms both with his absence and her demons about the past. Although she gets the title credit and is portrayed as her husband s saving grace, the real star of the piece is best-selling ...

Lisey's Story - Stephen King

job, I have taken lunch away from my desk only once, preferring instead to spend my free time surfing the web. The one exception was earlier this year when Stephen King’s “Cell” was newly published and I was so eager to read it that I preferred the book to the internet. When “Lisey’s Story” was published, I expected to do the same again. Instead the opposite was true; this time, the internet held a greater attraction than the next page of a new Stephen King novel, which doesn’t happen very often. Not to me, at any rate. Lisey Landon is the widow of Scott Landon; a successful and award winning novelist. Finally, a couple of years after his death, Lisey decides it’s ...