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The Maze Runner
The Maze Runner
James Dashner | 2011 | Children
9
8.0 (55 Ratings)
Book Rating
Read Long Before the Movie
As a reading teacher for middle school I have been through more copies of this book than I can count. It is a fast paced book that reminded me a little of "Lord of the Flies" . In fact I recommended that book to kids who liked this but wanted a challenge.
  
For His Pleasure
For His Pleasure
Suzanne Rock | 2017 | Erotica
8
8.7 (3 Ratings)
Book Rating
A good read, the sex scenes are super hot, I love the game they play and a cold shower was nearly called for. I'd figured out the bad guys early on which was a bit disappointing and I thought the ending could have been a bit more dramatic. I enjoyed the more that the first one in the series.
  
Ready Player One
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline | 2011 | Fiction & Poetry
10
8.9 (161 Ratings)
Book Rating
I listened to the audio and loved it. I'm not a big fan of audio books but have a lot of driving time because of work. I think I enjoyed it more listening to it because Wil Wheaton did a "kick ass job" reading it. It definitely made me chuckle at a few parts of the book.
  
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Zuky the BookBum (15 KP) rated Misery in Books

Mar 15, 2018  
Misery
Misery
Stephen King | 1987 | Fiction & Poetry, Horror, Thriller
10
8.7 (86 Ratings)
Book Rating
Also read my review here: http://bookbum.weebly.com/book-reviews/misery-by-stephen-king

<b><i>”Annie Annie oh Annie please please no please don’t Annie I swear to you I’ll be good I swear to God I’ll be good please give me a chance to be good OH ANNIE PLEASE LET ME BE GOOD -”
“Just a little pain. Then this nasty business will be behind us for good Paul.”</b></i>

Well hot fucking damn. Is this the best book I’ve read all year? <b>I think it might be.</b> I am officially a Stephen King fan. A “Stephen King convert” as my mother is calling me. Misery is a goddamn masterpiece. It’s <i>so</i> tense. I don’t know how anyone can write so well that I’m actually squirming. <b>LEGIT SQUIRMING AS I READ.</b>

Misery is about a bestselling author, Paul Sheldon, who, after celebrating his completion of his next (and best) book, drinks a little too much champagne and gets himself into a nasty car accident in the middle of nowhere. He wakes to find his legs shattered but splintered (splinted???) in a mysterious house. Luckily, or unluckily, he’s found himself saved and in the capable hands of his number one fan and ex-nurse, Annie Wilkes.

I put off reading Misery for, oh I don’t know, maybe 5 years? I watched the film, of course, because disliking a film can be down to a number of variables, the wrong director, actors you dislike, bad script etc, but not liking a book, <i>a Stephen King book</i>, is down to one and one thing only, the author. And I was <i>so</i> terrified I wouldn’t like Stephen King! Honestly, terrified is this right word for it. I didn’t want to turn around in a house, no, a society, that claims Stephen King is a modern day Charles Dickens, of sorts, and say “nah, not that into him myself”. But lo and behold, I ended up liking both the film and the book, thank Christ. The book more so than the film, but isn’t that usually the case? Although the actors for both Paul and Annie in the film version were <i>spot on.</i>

I don’t think I’ve ever been so vocal whilst reading a book. Misery had me yelping and oohing and arring and laughing and yucking all the way through. King’s writing is so vivid you <i>are</i> Paul Sheldon for the duration of the book. You’re Paul, rolling around in his wheelchair, holding your breath and crying and sweating, hoping that car you hear isn’t Annie’s. Hoping she’s holding those Godsent Novril tablets every few hours to subdue your pain. Wondering how the hell you’re ever going to be able to escape. You completely immerse yourself in the nail biting story, page by page. This is a perfect novel from start to finish, that’s all I have left to say.

If you’ve never read Stephen King before, start with Misery. <b>I double donkey dare you.</b>
  
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Hazel (2934 KP) rated The Hanging Club in Books

Jan 12, 2018  
The Hanging Club
The Hanging Club
Tony Parsons | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
I admit to being a bit of a fan of Tony Parsons having previously read and enjoyed <a href="https://readingstuffnthings.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/the-slaughter-man-by-tony-parsons.html">"The Slaughter Man"</a> so I was more than pleased when I was accepted to review The Hanging Club by the publisher RandomHouse UK Cornerstone via NetGalley and for which I am grateful as, yet again, Mr Parsons has written a great book.

Full review at <a href="https://readingstuffnthings.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/the-hanging-club-by-tony-parsons.html">Reading Stuff 'n' Things</a>.
  
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ClareR (5885 KP) rated Dark Matter in Books

Apr 11, 2018  
Dark Matter
Dark Matter
Blake Crouch | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry
Unputdownable!!
I read this in one sitting: I was a captive audience, stuck on a train for a 6 hour journey. Honestly though, I would have found it very hard to drag myself away from it if I'd read it at home as well. It's such a rollercoaster of a story and i wouldn't be at all surprised if it's optioned for a movie (is it yet?). It's probably mainly about 'the road not taken', and how we make life choices that we then feel stuck with. But what a way to do it!
  
Vanquished (Hell Kat #1)
Vanquished (Hell Kat #1)
Vivi Anna | 2006
7
7.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
3.5 stars.

It was a little shaky at the start for me, what with their being a sex scene almost straight away, but once Hades entered the picture I was quite content to continue reading.

I found the storyline good but also a little odd in places, it was like a mix of different genre's; futuristic, paranormal, fantasy.

Can't say I was a fan of the ending but since I know there's a second book in the series, it helps to create a...foothold? shall we say for it to continue from.
  
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Jaylyna Miller (4 KP) created a post

Apr 22, 2019  
I have a Facebook. I keep in touch with family that lives out of state. I usually enjoy it. Buy lately I haven't. It seems to be about politics. Donald Trump this or Donald Trump that. I
     
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Ajowens425 (8 KP) created a post

Jan 23, 2019  
I love horror movies, I could spend all day watching them. But I also love a variety of other things. Romances, suspense, Adventures, actions, superheroes, historical. I could go on forever. I also love reading and writing.