What are you reading in 2025?

[Autumnal]

I’d lean toward Pet Semetary as the more developed work, but Salem’s Lot is overall very good and turns out to feed into later streams in King’s work. They’re both great.

 

[Old Fezziwig]

Now working out what I want to read of King next, of the ones I recall of being his more well-known known works, though on a basis of the list being formed early 2000s, I havent read Pet Semetary or Salems Lot, any recommendations on which of those two to pick up next?

I’d lean toward Pet Semetary as the more developed work, but Salem’s Lot is overall very good and turns out to feed into later streams in King’s work. They’re both great.

I'll second @Autumnal for Pet Semetary. King really has a tight grip on what he's working with there. It was a lightning bolt to me when I read it. There's a line from it that I still think about (“We’re all close. All the time.”). King's not usually that writer for me, but I'm not sure he's been better than he was here. More fun, sure, but it's a surprisingly good read.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Finished IT, a very bittersweet ending to a story that could be argued is about the power of friendship. Very good book though, and I like the way it interweaves the two different timelines with the idea that they are slowly recalling the original events. Pennywise a very spooky / dark villain, and some slight open ness to the ending - i usually like that openness to allow possibilities for villains to return, but Pennywise is such a nasty villain it leaves me in two minds around whether id want any possibility for him to return.
I did skim quickly over a certain part of the book, where I can sort of understand perhaps what King was going for, but still dont feel it was needed.

Now working out what I want to read of King next, of the ones I recall of being his more well-known known works, though on a basis of the list being formed early 2000s, I havent read Pet Semetary or Salems Lot, any recommendations on which of those two to pick up next?

I'd recommend Salem's Lot, but part of it is that I found some aspects of Pet Semetary extremely unpleasant and did not finish it.

 

[gnarlygninja]

Pet Semetary scared me more than probably any other book ever has, my aunt definitely should not have lent me that when she did.

 

[overgeeked]

Pet Semetary scared me more than probably any other book ever has, my aunt definitely should not have lent me that when she did.

For me it was Misery. For some reason I can handle supernatural horror far easier than grounded, mundane horror. Carrie and Firestarter? Cool. Fun ride. A mostly helpless man with a psychotic nurse? Gah!

 

[TiQuinn]

Finished IT, a very bittersweet ending to a story that could be argued is about the power of friendship. Very good book though, and I like the way it interweaves the two different timelines with the idea that they are slowly recalling the original events. Pennywise a very spooky / dark villain, and some slight open ness to the ending - i usually like that openness to allow possibilities for villains to return, but Pennywise is such a nasty villain it leaves me in two minds around whether id want any possibility for him to return.
I did skim quickly over a certain part of the book, where I can sort of understand perhaps what King was going for, but still dont feel it was needed.

Now working out what I want to read of King next, of the ones I recall of being his more well-known known works, though on a basis of the list being formed early 2000s, I havent read Pet Semetary or Salems Lot, any recommendations on which of those two to pick up next?

Pet Semetary and Salem’s Lot are my favorites of his. I lean towards Salem’s Lot though.

 

[gban007]

Thanks everyone, had enough Kobo points to get one free and based on initial responses went for Pet Semetary, but will likely also get Salems Lot at some point too

 

[Clint_L]

Nooooooo, the hand feel of a giant fat book is so delightful. The heft, the sensation of turning the pages. E-readers are souless, for me.

I’m sure folks once said the same thing about printed books.

eReaders have saved me a fortune, a ton of space, dramatically lowered my carbon footprint, and adjusted with my aging eyes and wrists. When I travel, I have my whole library, and if I need a new book while laying on my patio, I buy it right then and there.

I’m never going back!

 

[trappedslider]

I’m sure folks once said the same thing about printed books.

eReaders have saved me a fortune, a ton of space, dramatically lowered my carbon footprint, and adjusted with my aging eyes and wrists. When I travel, I have my whole library, and if I need a new book while laying on my patio, I buy it right then and there.

I’m never going back!

for me it depends on the book/series if i go with printed or the ebook version

 

[Autumnal]

I’m sure folks once said the same thing about printed books.

They did. It took at least a century for there to be a solid scholarly and collector consensus in favor of the printed word without major detractors.