The way I listened to the audiobook version of this novel narrated by John Slattery didn’t do it justice. Being on holidays, away from home and my usual commuting and exercising habits, I listened in short grabs, either just before going to sleep or when I woke up in the early hours of the morning a...
I almost gave it 4 stars... so, call it 3 1/2?There were a couple of points I wanted to mention:- the main character painted with oils, but there was never mention of how long it takes oils to dry. it was written to sound like the painting would be done, then ready to cover with a sheet in the morn...
It sounds cruel to say this, but I kind of miss the old coke-snorting alcoholic who wrote Cujo and The Shining and The Dead Zone and Misery and a lot of those scary-ass short stories in Skeleton Crew and Night Shift, et al. That doesn't mean I'm not glad that Stephen King sobered up and no doubt ext...
I think favorite books are often just as much a matter of fate as the quality of the work itself. When I read Farewell to Arms the winter of 2011, I was in just the right place to be awed by Hemingway's novel of love in the midst of war. It's really too bad that Hemingway's reputation so often overs...
I've read a lot of King. I read a lot of King, and this is among his best. I know some people feel that after his accident he lost his touch for the creeping horror that made him famous, but I assure you that is not the case. This book proves that King not only still has it, he's still improving. I ...
*Sigh* I was listening to the audio book version of A Farewell to Arms, and I was honestly trying to enjoy it. I did like the dialogue between the soldiers, although my skin prickled every time the narrator used the racial slur W**. I also found the love interest, Catherine, insufferable. She was to...
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