(11-06-2017, 05:44 PM)Gettin\ Jaggy with it Wrote: Every two or three years I re-read Armor by John Steakley. Entertaining read without requiring too much mental exertion. I would also put Good Omens by Neil Gaimon and Terry Pratchett in the same category.

In general I enjoy fantasy, history (particularly military history), and science, but will read almost any genre.

I agree with several of the posters that have said that the first few books of King's Dark Tower series are great, but the end fell flat.

I remember reading IT when it first came out. I was in high school, and it was the first time my parents left me alone in the house for a week. A large, creaky house. I would read until two in the morning or so. I was scared out of my mind.

I had a similar experience when reading my first King novel, Salem's Lot. Upstairs in my grandmother's 19th century farm house, reading about a vampire boy hovering outside another boy's upstairs window, afraid to look out my own window and unable to stop reading because I didn't want to turn off the light. And I was 16, for crissakes.

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