Stephen King 2025 read-along discussion

Hello, Constant Readers!! It's August! Normally on a regular year....I'd be a bit foggy on the date during the summer, but never the month we are currently in. I do apologize for being a few days late.

This month's book is The Colorado Kid. A short book, (thank goodness, for I am struggling with his longer books this year) at a whopping 205 pages, I think we'll all be able to finish this one. This book came out in 2005 and is apart of the Hard Case Crime book series. His other book, Joyland is also apart of this series. For King....Joyland was way watered down. This is King's version (in my opinion) of a cozy mystery.

After researching a movie or tv show for this book, I found that 'HAVEN' an American-Canadian supernatural drama series was loosely based on this book. It ran from from 2010-2015. I did not know this show existed. Now I'm going to have to look it up. All five seasons is currently on Netflix. Anyone want to binge this with me after we read the book???

Ok my horror lovers...I hope you have a great reading month. Let the reading gods shine down upon us in this dreary time and give us a supernatural strength to read more this month than we have in all the previous months. Good luck and happy reading!!!

Welcome! I was excited to get to it but even more so after your review! Hopefully I'll at least have it started by this weekend. And thank you for the link to the preorder. I had no idea!

Starting it right now!

I own both so I’m ready to start. It’s been a long time since I’ve read it so I’ve forgotten what it’s about:)

Just ordered it. Never read this one before.

Maza wrote: "Thoughts on the book so far?"

I actually read it fairly quickly just over a few days and I really enjoyed it! Very different for King. In my review I said that it kind of reminded me of an episode of Buzzfeed Unsolved and I stand by that lol

I’m halfway through The Colorado Kid and I’m not very impressed. I agree, not Kong’s typical style of book. There’s a lot of dialogue and less descriptions. It’s just now getting interesting, but the beginning is a major drag.

Okay—I finished. I am so disappointed. I have never given a King novel so few stars! Does anyone else feel this book was a let down?

You guys it’s September! How? It seems like the longest & fastest year of my life . Hoping u ladies are happy & healthy:)