Ziggy by Tom Wilson & Tom II for March 02, 2025

The new Stephen King? What happened to the old one?

I’ve always thought he was too wordy for no real reason in his stories. I prefer Victor Hugo.

Ah, the good old horrors of biiig books: a tome on your knee to deform your anatomy…

How about reading online, Ziggy?

Did he rewrite “The Stand” again?

Here is some light reading if you are interested;

Treatise on Light – by Christiaan Huygens

Light is Like Water – by Gabriel García Márquez

To the Lighthouse – by Virginia Woolf

Light: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age – by Bruce Watson

Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century – by Wolfgang Schivelbusch

Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees – by Lawrence Weschler

Understanding Physics: Volume 2: Light, Magnetism and Electricity – by Isaac Asimov

Mr. King’s books did get quite monumentally large back in the ’80s, which prolonged the reading enjoyment as he always had a great story. But he seems to have pared his works down again.

Why would she even consider Stephen King as light reading?

what, that book’s got light ideas in it. :D

“light” reading for Stephen King is like trying to light a candle with a short match in the pitch dark (very late at night!)

Reading is for losers, I’ll wait for the movie…;)

You look at King’s books and he really was not that good.

And he wrote it in the 2 weeks since he finished his previous book!

Not all his tomes are that big. And his short story collections are great.

“Light reading”? That thick?

Wonder what book that’s supposed to be. I thought I heard he has a new one out. But Under the Dome was pretty thick and even for a paperback, it seemed pretty heavy. That’s one I have to read again. Gotta download it though. I gave my paperback to a guy I was working with. I don’t think he got very far in it before he died suddenly. Darn it! If I’d known that was gonna happen, I wouldn’t have given it to him!

i don’t think Stephen King has ever been considered as “light reading”

i thought ziggy said “light reading”

If I’m going to read anything in that genre, I MUCH prefer Dean Koontz… almost NO profanity, some of his books are thrillers, but have humor to make you laugh out loud, and unlike King, I can re-read Koontz’s. King can tell a good story, in a very long book, until the end. I was disappointed in the endings enough, I quit reading his books.