Making progress on my buddy read with @dgingo on this extra day off!
It‘s been 2 weeks of reading this, it‘s good, I just can‘t get in the reading mood! Finally finished today and it‘s such a good book! Loved it!
It‘s been 2 weeks of reading this, it‘s good, I just can‘t get in the reading mood! Finally finished today and it‘s such a good book! Loved it!
Absolutely incredible. This was legitimately the best I've read from King in quite a while. There's so much I feel compelled to say about Fairy Tale, but so little I want to say, because the discoveries within are best left as the surprises they were for me. Read this book if you haven't. Savor it. Then insist someone you love does the same. Neither of you will regret it. 5/5
I love how this book really looked at what we would do for our pets. This was a great boy and his dog sorry with some good old fairy tale fantasy to mix things up.
⭐⭐⭐⭐
Side note: I'm ashamed to admit that it took me until a good 1/3 of the way through the book before I realized the cover image is supposed to be a spiral staircase down into the ground with a boy, holding a light, and a dog going down. Every single time I've seen this cover, since it first came out, I thought this image was a close up of the glowing eye of a blue, scaly dragon. 🙄😂🐲
Only a few chapters in on my current audio read, but I'm loving the narrator. #currentlyreading #libby
Can some please tell Stephen King that he is the G.O.A.T in these middle school streets.
I enjoyed the first part of this book with the interaction between Charlie, Mr Bowditch and Radar the dog. However, when Charlie and Radar went down the tunnel to fairyland it seemed to lose its way somehow. It dragged a bit and some of it felt childish. I almost thought I was Alice in Wonderland! I was quite pleased when I finally finished it although I will miss Radar - she saved it for me.
Tackle the TBR 🤓📚
What are you reading?
#boleybooks #fairytale #stephenking #mustread #bookbuds #bookchat
Rereading this one. “Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for that world or ours.”
First book of 2024 and it was a good one. Loved the characters, the setting and I always enjoy how Stephen King manages to pull you into his worlds. The book lives up to its title and delivers a great fairy tale. Perfect for winter escape reading!
Larkin! Above and Beyond. Sooooo far above and beyond. Every gift I have ever given is put to shame by this INCREDIBLE box! You even got Katie a toy (which she loves already)! Wow. Thank you thank you thank you!! Happy Halloweeeeen!!!!
@Larkken @wanderinglynn #HHS #HHS23
#Scarathlon - Photo Challenge - Legend
Two for one bc King is a legend and so are fairy tales in their own way…
#TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
“I‘m sure I can tell this story.”
#firstlinefridays
This is my favorite kind of Stephen King book. 😊😊😊
Happy Friday to @JessClark78 @majkia @Bluebird @BookwormAHN @JanuarieTimewalker13 @bookaholic1 @TheBookgeekFrau @KAO
Next up in #bookspinbingo October reads fairy 🧚♀️ tale hopefully 🤞 il fair better with this one that my last pick - reading 📖 along with little miss mollie moonbeam 🥰
Oh my gosh I totally forgot about this! I was going to open at midnight but my son said I should wait until morning so he could see me open it and then I forgot until this afternoon. Thank you so much @JamieArc I love it all. Sea salt caramels are one of my favorites and I‘ve had these kind before, SOOOO GOOD!
#fffs #fallingforfallswap
I had very high expectations for this books and I was not disappointed at all! It was simply amesing and so fresh.
I think I would have enjoyed this more if I liked fantasy more. Still, I can appreciate a good story and a good narrator.
Currently reading. Such a thick book. Dont think ill have it done by oct 1 to start my #scarathlon books but ill just renew it and read it after. Im ready for #scarathlon to start now.
I am so happy! Fairy Tale by Stephen King is finally published in my country! I already started to read. 💜💜💜💜💜
This friggin dog better be okay. I swear, I will not be if something happens to the dog.
I got this for my birthday last year and just bought Holly so I am FINALLY going in. I‘ll see you all on the other side.
It's been a long time since I've picked up a SK title! This feels like a farewell love letter to Horror.
This book was emotionally satisfying for me in a way that a lot of King‘s books aren‘t. Mainly, I think he wrapped it up well, which he doesn‘t always do. Fairy Tale does drag in a few places, especially after Charlie enters the fairy tale realm — some judicious editing would‘ve helped — but it‘s a solid story, and I liked it.
First my dog ate my copy of Fairy Tale when I was about halfway through; now my cat is preventing me from reading the library‘s copy of it!
The cover is fabulous .... the rest of the book is not! Oh dear, it was only sheer pig headed determination that made me actually finish this .... ugh! Sorry, that is harsh, but it really is just a mish mash of other stories and King even allows that there is nothing new in there, nothing original.... Mind you, everyone is different and I get that some people will love it- fair play! 💖
5-/5 ⭐
Già adoravo Stephen King come autore di horror, con "Fairy Tale" mi ha convinta anche come scrittore di fantasy.
Literally haven't read any Stephen King since I was a teenager!
I read this with my friend bookclub and even managed to convince my partner to join this month! We all enjoyed it and it made for great discussion. The world building was compelling and I was just as fascinated by Charlie's life before he entered the fairy tale world as during his adventures. I think we all agreed that the ending was a bit rushed but otherwise liked the story. Radar 🐕🦺 was my favorite character :)
I loved the first half of the book, got way too emotionally attached to the dog, and overall really liked this book. I felt that a few parts in the middle dragged, and it could have been edited down a bit.
The tedium of Regents week is made slightly more bearable by some time with Stephen King…
I‘ve been wanting to read this book for a while. Wow! It was LONG! But it was very good. Stephen Kings imagination has no end. I enjoyed reading about the scary, magical world of Empis, and the characters who lived there. Some I will never forget. I loved the parallels this story contained to other stories and fairy tales. I noticed many reference to The Wizard of Oz and to Star Wars. This book was a little too long, but I recommend it.
This is an adventurous fairytale that alludes to the familiar but is wholly its own. It‘s exciting, moving, creative — all around a good time. I read it alongside my Dad and we had a great talk about it afterwards.
I really enjoyed this. I'm glad I listened to it as well because the narration was incredible. I've heard it has been optioned by someone at the syfy channel. Rarely do book adaptations do the book justice, but I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with it. I absolutely loved the character of Charlie. This is a fantasy story but does have a touch of horror to it too. I can't wait to see how something I imagined is portrayed on the screen.
This was a boy and his dog story, and I didn‘t know if I‘d like it (not a dog person). It was the best thing about the book.
The real world section develops the characters and story very well. The fairy tale section swaps in a whole new cast that mostly falls flat. And the adventure had no real stakes.
But maybe that‘s the point - fairy tales aren‘t all they‘re cracked up to be.
🖋️: Montegrappa Mia Nirvana F
🩸: Robert Oster Orange Rumble
This is such a wild mixture of intentional pop-culture references. I really loved the 1st half, but it lost its focus as Charlie travels through the fantasy land. It reminded me so much of the movie Return to Oz. It gets very repetitious & I missed certain characters in the 2nd half. I think a different author would have been edited more. Still, the first half was an excellent reminder of King‘s skill.
“Good people shine brighter in dark times.”
This was my first novel by Stephen King... enjoyed the creepy characters and story; this book was definitely different than my typical spicy fantasy preference and felt it dragged at times.
Travelling next weekend, hoping to have finished the door stopper before Friday,as I don't want to carry it in the trains ;)