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I finished the audiobook of Stephen King’s ”The Langoliers” from Four Past Midnight the other day. I really liked it!

I remember watching the tv movie (tv show?) of this story in class back in high school but I remembered very few things about it. I remembered the main premise, Dinah, and how terrible the langoliers looked, but apart from that I didn’t remember any of the other characters or the plot.

It’s a fun premise and engaging characters. The audiobook is read by Willem Dafoe who’s clearly having a lot of fun.

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I started listening to Stephen King’s Four Past Midnight yesterday. I’m three hours into Willem Dafoe’s reading of ”The Langoliers” and I love it so far. Late yesterday, when the rest of the family was sleeping I was doing some tidying on the deck while listening to this. As the wind and the rain blew around me I got genuinely scared by this story. Can’t really remember when a book scared me like that the last time.

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Sitting on the deck out in the backyard. The family is asleep and I’m slightly drunk on bourbon. Doing some writing with an actual pen & paper and reading Stephen King’s ”The Body”.1

Life ain’t too bad at the moment.

My POV on the deck. Book in hand.
  1. Yes, actual reading. Not listening to an audiobook. ↩
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Okay, the end part of The Ritual of Chud chapter in ”IT” was weird. It’s got to have been weird in the mid eighties as well, right?

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I will finish IT within a few hours, and I’m four books deep into The Dark Tower. Where do I go next, The Shining or The Wolves of Calla?

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I’m currently listening to Stephen King’s It and I think King har become my favorite author. Right now I’m in a passage where Bill Denbrough clearly voices Kings opinions on authors that are probably more respected in literary circles than he is, that is more focused on the sociocultural, -historical, -etc. of their stories than the stories themselves and I love it. Similarly the part in The Wastelands where Jake writes stream of consciousness bordering on gibberish and gets praise by his teacher feels like King grinding an axe.

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I’m currently listening to Salem’s Lot. Once again, a Stephen King book. I think I’m on a King bender at the moment.

I think this book had quite some influence on the original Twin Peaks. The (first?) funeral scene gave me a lot of the same vibes as Laura’s funeral, and the towns of Twin Peaks and of Salem’s Lot doesn’t appear to be that different.

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posted this read on and tagged it with Reading Stephen King The Dark Tower The Waste Lands
Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_III:_The_Waste_Lands

I finished The Waste Lands last week and it was absolutely fantastic. The Dark Tower seriers seems to get better for each book.

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I was fully onboard ”The Dark Tower” after ”The Drawing of the Three” and ”The Waste Lands” really kicks things into high gear. I did not see the thing with and about the bear coming.

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posted this note on and tagged it with Maratonmarschen Reading Stephen King The Long Walk

I’m currently reading ”Maratonmarschen” by Richard Backman. It’s the first book I’m actually reading (as opposed to listening to) in a long while and it’s hard to get into the habit of reading. I’ve only gotten a few pages in but it’s really good.

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