Andrew’s Wizardly Reads

It does have a problematic scene in it. I'm fully aware. And yet getting to know those kids and how what their lives turned into when they grew up and Pennywise and the kind of analyzation of humans being the real monsters along with Pennywise just oh this book is so incredibly good.

Oh my gosh. This is one of the few ones where I actually watched the movie adaptation immediately after finishing the book and it's just so incredibly good. The death row during the Great Depression and the analyzation of all the inmates on death row and exploring even though they're monsters and they've done terrible things exploring their humanity...

I love Needful Things. Needful Things is the one that I think really brought me back into King.

I love The Shining. I read The Shining in college and I just I s it's been over God when was college? It's been about 18 years and I still have vivid memories of sitting down, walking around, reading this book, and experiencing those scenes for the first time.

And I love Dumaki because it's one of the rare books that's not set in Maine or something like that. This one's set in Florida. And we're following a man who has just had a work site injury.

I like Misery a lot. It would easily be in my top 20.

probably Pet Cemetery as well, but I needed to do a reread on Pet Cemetery. It's been over 20 years since I've read that one. And , yeah, I need to I need to revisit that one before I'm going to include it on the list.

Oh my gosh, this deals with the JFK assassination, going back and living and changing the past. There's a great love story, arguably one of King's best endings, and it's one that like was recommended to him by like one of his kids. I love 112263.

And then I recently read Dr. Sleep. Dr. Sleep was really good.

This feels like the more refined version of Firestarter. I really like Fire Starter, but this takes some of the kernels that he kind of explored in Firest Starter and makes them dance.

And then the small town elements, like the first, I think two to three chapters, we're following a completely different story that then doesn't wrap back around until about the halfway mark. But that first little bit, that first initial prologue, oh, Chef's Kiss, I absolutely loved this book.

I liked Billy Summers because it's it's King not doing horror, per se. This is a hitman story, but he's found a way to take the author element, like making a character an author or a writer, and twist it in such an interesting way, and the love story and the end and just the way that things work out in Billy Summers. I didn't see it coming.

I was mortified and horrified at the villain here. I did not find them cartoonish. I found them compelling and scary as all get out because it's a group of people you just don't think to be scared of.

The group of boys who are going on the long walk, this is like truly dystopian. And the way they come together and they become adversarial and then they become friends and then they learn to love each other. And then they're also dealing with the horrors of what the long walk is.

This book is incredibly special. It's this kind of surreal coming-of-age with some horror and voodoo women.

This is fantasy western done incredibly well. I don't know. I just whenever I pick up a Kal Black book, my brain comes alive, and I start relating to the characters, the way that the magic works, the way that we have these characters written.

And Beware of Chicken is one of those ones where I started it, didn't think I was going to like it. I was just like, "That's not for me." And then I came back and I gave it a second try and I binged four books back-to-back-to-back-to-back.

Night Watch, Guards, Men at Arms, all five stars.

Snuff is just like with the just ice. Like I don't know, there's these certain lines that just jump out at you and I just love it so incredibly much that Discworld has to make this list.

There's just so much captured within I would say a relatively reasonably sized novel that it's just fantastic. And we deal with so many strong, strong themes here within Black Wind.

And while Crucible isn't my favorite entry in the series, I've gotten choked up while reading the book or listening to the audiobook. Either way, the book the book's character moments are just choking me up.

These Isaac Bell books are just so incredibly good. They're set in the early 1900s and we're following the Van Dorn Detective Agency. I'm currently on The Spy which is book number three and I think this is the fourth Clive Cussler book I've read in the last like five or six months.

Phantoms was really good.

Watchers was a phenomenal.