Stephen King Fans discussion

Discuss Black House here. Please mark all spoilers for those reading along this month.

Angie wrote: "Discuss Black House here. Please mark all spoilers for those reading along this month."

Angie, can you PLEASE block Pupperino from the group? Everyone is sick of their constant disruptive, nonsensical "test" posts.

It's absurd how they are not bothered by this.

I recently read Black House again, and enjoyed it even more this time around. And I was surprised at all the references to the Dark Tower characters, I hadn’t remembered there as being so many.

I think I may have enjoyed The Talisman more, but I still give this book 5 stars (the third time around). Jack may have aged, but the storyline does not. I love all the references to King's other books, and can't wait for the new book!

Marc *Dark Reader with a Thousand Young! Iä!* wrote: "Angie wrote: "Discuss Black House here. Please mark all spoilers for those reading along this month."

Angie, can you PLEASE block Pupperino from the group? Everyone is sick of their constant disru..."

Yes I'll do that . I only get on here every few days and so I hadn't noticed yet. Thank you for letting me know.

After doing this re-read of the book (view spoiler)[The section about Judy Marshall and her losing her mind eerily reminded me of the woman Lindsay Clancey who's been in the news. Now I know it's not the same at all but every time I read what Judy was doing I couldn't help but think of Lindsay. Then when Wendell Green is in his car and driving to the scene of one of the crimes and he's recording his report into a tape recorder, he states that he could be on the news giving an ongoing commentary on the things happening as they happen. Wow, how different it was then compared to today. He talks about news being written while it's happening. Today we have facebook live, podcasts, news 24 hrs on TV. Just a thought that popped in my head while reading this about Wendell. (hide spoiler)]

In preparation for the new book I finally read this and loved it! So excited to get to the new one!

Chris wrote: "In preparation for the new book I finally read this and loved it! So excited to get to the new one!"

I didn't remember how much it ties to The Dark Tower!

I read this fairly recently. I loved the style it was written in. Quite a bit different from other King books. I thought Henry was super cool! Judy was great too. Loved the dark tower connections. I always enjoy discovering them.

I really enjoyed that book. It really is a full-on "Dark Tower" book. - I hadn't realized that.

One thing I really liked was the way the narrator took us flying above the town and its people' popping down from time to time to visit various places and to meet and learn about some of the people. It was so surreal.

Favourite characters: Henry of course. Also the bikie gang they were so cool.

Looking forward to the nest book.

Cordelia wrote: "I really enjoyed that book. It really is a full-on "Dark Tower" book. - I hadn't realized that.

One thing I really liked was the way the narrator took us flying above the town and its people' popp..."

I thought the flying above the town was clever. Great way to introduce us to the places and characters of the book.

Angie wrote: "Chris wrote: "In preparation for the new book I finally read this and loved it! So excited to get to the new one!"

I didn't remember how much it ties to The Dark Tower!"

I forgot as well!

To be honest, I didn't enjoy this one as much as I enjoyed the Talisman.

First time reading. I did read The Talisman, but not during last month's re-read.

They are quite different. Black House feels more horror and streamlined. Not as much back and forth between this world and The Territories.

The Talisman is probably bigger in scope and complex, but I think I prefer Black House. The mystery/horror focus on The Fisherman murders really won me over and it was all very creepy.