I wasn’t a huge fan of IT either. In general I tend to love his non horror stories over the flat out horror ones. 11/22/63 is my favorite one of his.
11/22/63 is probably my favorite too! It's hard to pick though. The Stand, Misery, and 'Salem's Lot are all up there as well.
Depends on how much you'd be sad if you were spoiled? lol
I did this recently with an Audio book that the teacher I was subbing for in our Summer Camp played while he was driving and only because it was a children's book with something like "The robot eyed the carnage... blah blah blah" as one of the lines, and obviously, if this audio book is missing the last disc of chapters, I needed to find out what happened to this robot (but not enough to buy it and read it, obviously, lol). I think there was a part later on that talked about what animals looked like frozen in snow and a predator describing eating prey... it was delightfully dark for a middle grade story, lol.
I decided I didn't care enough about it to care about being spoiled, so I did look it up on Wikipedia, but the plot summary was just the same synopsis as on Amazon, which doesn't give away the ending. So I guess I'll never know how it ends, unless I decide to finish reading it someday. We'll see.
Wow, robots and dead animals? That does sound dark for a children's book, but some of them are. I read a Louis Sachar book called "Fuzzy Mud" this past year that was pretty unsettling for a middle grade novel. It was about an outbreak of microorganisms that cause horrible side effects when they come into contact with humans. Great sci-fi thriller for middle grades.
Do you buy all your books too, Julie? And how long does it typically take you to read?
Yeah, for the most part. I should use the library more. I like to collect them, though, and reread the good ones. How long it takes me to read varies depending on the book and how much time I have. I can get through a page-turner in a few days; I read the entire last Harry Potter book the day it came out. But if it doesn't hold my attention, it can take me months to get through a book.