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Finished Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein, which is about how our author (a Canadian who writes about equality and climate change) sometimes...

I missed most of the 20th century and I feel that pain looking at older paperbacks compared to new ones. Because of some wonky ebay...

Me too! I can look at my shelves and see books both famous and obscure, and recall moments I read them hither and yon. And they were. No...

As someone who personally reads nearly exclusively in digital forms, this has always been my take. There’s a vocal minority of digital...

Yeah, and for books the mass market paperback is becoming an endangered species because of ebooks...but hard copies aren't going anywhere.

I recall an anecdote when, upon written poetry becoming a thing in Ancient Greece, one storyteller denounced it as marking the death of...

Currently reading Dog of War by Tchaikovsky. Starting off really well, Rex is such a Good Boy.

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

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...

For me it was Misery. For some reason I can handle supernatural horror far easier than grounded, mundane horror. Carrie and Firestarter...

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...

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...

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...

Honestly, most of the last quarter of the book could have gone and not harmed the story at all. I mean, I'd been reading King since...

I read Thomas Ligotti and Eugene Thacker and history. I do grimdark. But I do appreciate advance comments like that, because sometimes I...