What are you reading in 2025?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I love vampire fiction and Salems Lot left me very whelmed. Maybe I should give it another chance.

 

[prabe]

'Salem's Lot always struck me as a gloriously creepy novel, especially when the vampires start coming out of the woodwork in the last half-ish.

Pet Sematary is literally the only novel to have given me nightmares. Granted, I read it probably within a year of my mom dying, and I would have been like fourteen. (The nature of the nightmares should be clear ...)

 

[gban007]

I think Pet Semetary is the better book but 'Salem's Lot gets a lot of affection from me just because it leads to one of my favorite moments of all King's writing, toward the end of The Dark Tower.

I really need to read the Dark Tower at some point, maybe a goal for 2026.

 

[overgeeked]

I really need to read the Dark Tower at some point, maybe a goal for 2026.

My wife keeps telling me I’d love it, but I just haven’t gotten around to it yet.

 

[gnarlygninja]

If you like Stephen King, have read a lot of his books, and would be interested in how they all connect it's probably worth it. They were probably my greatest love (of books) as a teenager but when I reread them a few years ago the apple had lost a lot of its shine. There are still some great moments in it though.

 

[Thomas Shey]

If you like Stephen King, have read a lot of his books, and would be interested in how they all connect it's probably worth it. They were probably my greatest love (of books) as a teenager but when I reread them a few years ago the apple had lost a lot of its shine. There are still some great moments in it though.

While I dearly loved Carrie and Salem's Lot when I first read them, over time I became less and less enamored of his novels, though I still appreciated at least some of his short stories.