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.

 

[Nellisir]

'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 ...)

Dude.

I'm sorry about the loss of your mom, and the nightmares sound...absolutely awful.
(I understand both were some time ago, but....)

 

[overgeeked]

Just finished Matrix Games for Modern Wargaming. Nice little pamphlet on Matrix Games. I love the idea of Matrix Games and I’m sometimes surprised they haven’t taken off in RPG spaces. But then I remember they’re the antithesis of the “big numbers go up forever” style of mechanics that dominate the hobby. That they haven’t taken off with storygamers and minimalists is the real surprise. Some of the additional mechanics presented in the book remind me of Tunnels & Trolls, which is kinda weird but kinda cool.