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a room and empty shelf...
a book on mental health...

Ranking Stephen King (Update #1)

so, since i started dome i have been wondering... how would i rank all the king books? decided to blog them.

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1. the stand (HS)
2. the dark tower (HS)
3. the drawing of the three (HS)
4. the gunslinger (HS)
5. the wizard and the glass (HS)
6. the wastelands (HS)
7. wolves of the calla (HS)
8. song of susanna (HS)
9. bag of bones
10. salem's lot
11. insomnia (HS)
12. pet sematary (HS)
13. the shining (HS)
14. just after sunset
15. blaze
16. the green mile (HS)
17. hearts in atlantis (HS)
18. the talisman (HS)
19. black house (HS)
20. it
21. different seasons (HS)
22. christine (HS)
23. the eyes of the dragon
24. cell
25. lisey's story
26. duma key
27. desperation (HS)
28. the dark half
29. needful things
30. the dead zone (HS)
31. gerald's game
32. the regulators (HS)
33. misery
34. the coloraldo kid
35. firestarter
36. cujo
37. rose madder
38. from a buick 8 (HS)
39. dolores claiborne
40. rage
41. roadwork
42. the longwalk
43. roadwork
44. cycle of the warewolf
45. carrie (HS)
46. thinner
47. dreamcatcher (HS)
48. the tommyknockers
*on writing would be around #30, but it is non-fiction.

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there are two collections on the list (three if atlantis is counted, which is shouldn't be) but here is my list of those and the rest:

1. just after sunset
2. everything's eventual
3. different seasons
4. skeleton crew

*i am reading: night shift off and on.

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what i have yet to read (no novels):

1. danse macabre (non-fiction)
2. four past midnight (collection)
3. nightmares and dreamscapes (collection)
4. storm of the century (screenplay)

i am also sure there are a few short stories, a comic or two, and such randomly. most of which (or all) would be pretty much unobtainable. as well as"weeds" which was an earlier short that was posted on a men's magazine (cavalier) site... can't find the story there any longer though.

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wow, that took longer than i had thought it would. planning on updating this after dome and again as i read what's left.

Update: "HS" are books I read in high school.

:)

Guaranteed

"On bended knee is no way to be free
Lifting up an empty cup, I ask silently
All my destinations will accept the one that's me
So I can breathe...

Circles they grow and they swallow people whole
Half their lives they say goodnight to wives they'll never know
A mind full of questions, and a teacher in my soul
And so it goes...

Don't come closer or I'll have to go
Holding me like gravity are places that pull
If ever there was someone to keep me at home
It would be you...

Everyone I come across, in cages they bought
They think of me and my wandering, but I'm never what they thought
I've got my indignation, but I'm pure in all my thoughts
I'm alive...

Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere
Underneath my being is a road that disappeared
Late at night I hear the trees, they're singing with the dead
Overhead...

Leave it to me as I find a way to be
Consider me a satellite, forever orbiting
I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me
Guaranteed"

-Eddie Vedder

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: )

Commala-come-come
The battles now begun!
And all the foes of Men and Rose
Rise with the setting sun.

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Stephen King said today that he is not yet finished with the Dark Tower novels.

Under the Dome

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november 10th, although i am going to be on the mercy of the USPS. over a thousand pages, and every review i have read has been stellar.

i'm not expecting it to be as good as the stand but i would not be disappointed if it was.

also, up comes out this week... the 10th as well.

good week, sobering week.

Slanted Light

walking through these busy streets
seeing these empty sights
and bright lights
of the city of night

carrying my habit in my hand
wearing my heart on my sleeve
we say we once knew
each other from faraway

drifting like leaves
grains of sand in endless winds
wandering and wondering
where the next turn will take us

just like yesterday
tomorrow is indifferent to today
so we are one
on these city streets of slanted light