Saw the miniseries in the early nineties. Now, finally I am reading the audiobook during corona quarantine.
Perhaps, Stephen king’s all time best. It shows that King is truly one of the great masters. A Great idea that has been put to paper making all fit smoothly, the characters, the plot, prose.
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Tremendous. An epic. The hardest book to put down I've read in a long long long time. ( )

This apparently is the novel that most Stephen King fan say is their favourite. I am not sure about that, but I do know it’s an extremely good and arguably important book. It certainly one of those books that I’m glad I’ve read. This was the second time that I read it, having read it when I was in my late teenage years. I could remember little apart from parts of the final third, And it seemed like a new book.

I think with any book that’s over 1000 pages long, one gets very invested into it. That’s along with Stephen. King’s folk style means that you really feel something about the characters. This is the sort of book that a bookclub could discuss for six months.

Is it his best, it certainly very different from the normal Stephen King run. There’s no really detailed recollection and depiction of America in the 1960s or 50s, and there isn’t a professorial or author type of character living somewhere in Maine. Don’t get me wrong, turns up but it’s not like what he’s done before.

I’m not gonna leave any spoilers here, but you’ll never forget the journey that the characters make. ( )

One of the better Stephen King books I've read. I really enjoy the large casts in books like this and there was a good array of likable and unlikable characters, plus there was some decent character development. I'm definitely glad I didn't read this at the start of the pandemic - some earlier chapters would have hit far too close to home. ( )

Even better with this reread in 2022 (first read was in 1984). ( )