far from you was an amazing book. i will forever remember it and im so happy i saw this video. the book literally brought me to tears, so emotional like why 😭😭😭 i love this book and its currently one of my favorite.

Im all the way up to the boat scene im confused about what happened to cat and if this is after heleen and cats meet up or still still the flashbah back. I got thet made her watch what happened with steve but nothing more?

Was the rape scene in the Good Daughter worse than the rape scene in King’s Bag of Bones

I always question book shelves that are perfect and like in rainbow order, but these bookshelves... these are proper shelves.

Please find a new word for “essentially.” 😉

Too much bla bla bla in this book

Just stared reading Stephen King, I have read 11/22/63 and currently finishing Pet Semetary, thanks for the great video😊

Great review!

Any new horror books in 2024? Or maybe some new perspective in your Stephen King list? Hope you come back to KZbin! =DDD

Somehow I just saw this. Thank you! I loved what you said about CHILDREN OF THE DARK. Cemetery Dance just published a new version of it, along with the sequel, CHILDREN OF THE DARK 2: THE NIGHT FLYERS. Anyway, I appreciated this. Your review was awesome. Thank you!

i just finished this today! such a good book i haven’t read a book in full since i was super young so this was v helpful to get me back into reading regularly. also i totally agree i think this could have been a much longer book i want more!!!

Omg! I know this is an older video, but I just read this book about a week ago. I loved it! My favorite from him, for sure. LOVED the commentary on classism. The moments where we were questioning if what was going on was paranormal or not were also great. I was genuinely creeped out a few times reading this book! Also completely agree with your statement on people just not seeming to understand the financial hardship. When I heard that, I was like damn, you got $500?? That’s quite a bit. If someone hasn’t lived in poverty, they definitely wouldn’t be able to understand the desperation that comes with it. To me, the rules made total sense. (Minus not speaking unless spoken to) This would be the perfect reset. Someone who is truly in this situation wouldn’t pass it up, and if you claim you would, YOU’RE LYING! 🤥🧢😜 So, yeah, great point there. 😊 Overall, I agree with your review. Thank you! 🥰❤️

Thanks for this detailed review.

I looooved blackwtarer, in france they publish in 6 tomes haha (like pocket book)😊

Nobody references "A boy and his dog at the end of the world"

I just finished this book last night and it was overall ok I guess I liked the theme and setting. My issue with this book was I would get attached to one character or one chapter and want more of that for example I liked Jills section about the forming of the deadpools and then the chapter with the kid in the hotel that was being stalked by the two masked killers that showed up to the park but it feels we never get enough. Aslo the main plot kinda dragged for me because when you talk logic even without their phones or social media which seems to be what caused them to get stir crazy they had more than enough food, water, and shelter to survive this scenario and I just have a hard time with the idea that there are no real adults here so we gotta just kill each other for self preservation its a hard sell for me. I think if the storm had ruined a lot of the supplies then I could buy into the whole hunger games survival scenario. I also didnt care for the judge portion of the book either since they were so hard on Sam who didnt do anything wrong really I dont think he killed the girl at the start and if he did it was self defence outside of that they were ready to give that man life for nothing, asl with Brock getting life I didnt care for that either since you shouldnt be held accountable in my opinion for any given crime if youre in a apocalyptic scenario and forced to survive. I still enjoyed it and agree it would make for a good show or movie but there was a lot of huge plot holes and things that just didnt make sense for me if some of those things were re worked it would be a 10/10 for sure also as someone stepping into the horror genre of booked I was kinda bummed with the lack of gore and detail in that sense of visuals I was hoping for more telling of the carnage between groups and victims.

I think Ish survived in Earth Abides because he's bitten by the snake and rests up, and that means he misses the actual virus going around, not that the venom counteracts it, though Ish does consider that in the book 😌

What a surprisingly great book! I would not have chosen it for myself, but read it in book club and glad I did!

Very nice recommendations! I was quite afraid that I'd exhausted all the survival fiction in the world!! XD But I'm glad I found this video, because these are all three new books to me! And by the covers, I don't think I would've given them a second look in stores because I am very biased toward the old style of full painted and bright covers. I will have to open my eyes a bit more to new books in the future. :)

Missing this channel! Hope all is well with you Taylor!

So did Kat become the new queen? lol I’m a bit confused

Does this edition have illustrations.

At first I thought the ending wasn’t great. However, after mulling over it for a while, I came to understand that it was the only way it could end… “Ka is a wheel “…

Taylor where are you?!… I just found your channel and love it! Please come back!

Wait Till Helen Comes terrified me as a kid…definitely got me into horror, though haha😅

Nice video! I really enjoyed it. I wish you'd mentioned Duma Key, which was visible in the background all the time.... 😅

I've read 26 of them so far! Working on the 27th one which is The Stand now.

The coolest thing about this video is that it keeps getting darker around her. Hope you upload again soon.

Actually, it's never claimed that the fever burned the virus off. He actually suspects that the virus caused the fever, and he wonders if the snake bite helped him survive it.

Listen to the Talking Heads song Nothing But.... Flowers.

Try one second after. And not a cool way to start your list, that book was unreadable.

I hope wherever you are you’re okay. When I first started watching booktube about two years ago your channel gave me so many great recommendations. Now that I’ve read much more I still come back to your channel. But whenever I come to your channel I hope you’re out there enjoying whatever you’re doing. Thanks so much for leaving all these great videos up.

You're a very formidable reader indeed, to present us with a _very_ sizeable roster of works in the genre, recommended enthusiastically and winningly. My thanks, Taylor. It's been some time since you shot this 'cast, and you probably have enlarged your mental catalogue with a few of these older titles already, but (just in case) I ought to alert you to a few other works of note ...such as British writer John Wyndham's *The Chrysalids* (aka *Re-Birth*), where the descendants of nuclear war survivors are deeply pious (and ruthless) guardians of the biological Norm against the Mutant in plant, animal, or human. *This Immortal,* by Roger Zelazny, sees a post-nuclear Earth partially owned by aliens who see it as having potential to draw tourists. Wilson Tucker's *The Long Loud Silence* shows the Mississippi River as a fortified cordon protecting the still-living West from the now-dead East following a combination attack of nukes and viral infestation. Edmund Cooper's *The Cloud Walker* gives us a boy who dreams to make men fly again, in the face of the anti-tech Luddite Church. Norman Spinrad's *Songs From the Stars* is a delightful fancy set in the West Coast nation of Aquaria, where neo-hippies practice "white science" of muscle, sun, wind, and water, but the "black science" of internal combustion and atomics threatens to return. And lastly, Robert Heinlein's controversial *Farnham's Freehold* focuses on half a dozen people in a well-equipped home-made shelter following atomic war, who face a world unlike anything they (or we) could have possibly imagined. Hopefully these opuses by the grand older men of science fiction will spark something in you. Whatever comes of it, I wish you satisfaction, safety, and success in your endeavors. 🤓

The most brilliant thing about this book to me is how much Miriam and Lyla are like Elinor, despite being deemed unlike Elinor because they do not transform. In personality, perspective, and matter-of-factness, Miriam and Lyla are mirror images of Elinor. Elinor does what is practical for an apex predator and Miriam does the same but in the human arena. Lyla looks like she'll do likewise.

Great list of books. Thank you for not doing any spoilers😊

Good

So far, my favorite SK book is IT. The setting of the 1960's, the bonds of friendship between the "Losers Club," the town of Derry being incredibly fleshed-out and feeing real and alive, etc. There was one particular scene I was not a fan of, but since it was only 1-2 pages of a 1,000+ page novel I can easily skip over it and enjoy the other 99% of it. I have yet to read a lot of his best books, however. Like, The Stand, Pet Sematary (I'm actually about to start this one), Salem's Lot and The Dark Tower series. I have read The Shining and thought it was great. I think Kubrick's interpretation of it was absolute genius even though he changed-up the story a bit. I think that might actually be the one film I like more than the source material (barely though). The book I do find amazing. They're so close to each other that I honestly go back and forth over which I prefer. I think Kubrick's film is an example of a genuine cinematic horror masterpiece, the likes of which are extremely rare. And I think the Native American genocide aspect added a lot of weight to the story.

Yes favorites r quite objective many love tha stand while there r many people hate and felt bored reading it. The theme doesn't interest me much. I don't know how the stand can hook me up without boring me as its 1300+ pages long. So i haven't bought it yet im scared to read it.

Hey Taylor, just wanted to say if you ever decide to start posting videos again, I'm looking forward to that day.

I just got this book and will be reading it in either September or October. I'm planning on reading nothing but horror books for those two months. I also got Something Wicked This Way Comes and The Halloween Tree. (Salem's Lot, The Shining and Pet Sematary by SK, too.) Thanks for this video, by the way.

You haven’t read The Institute! Don’t waste your time.

I read The Stand first and then Swan Song a few years later and I definitely prefer Swan Song. I really liked The Stand but the ending was just reaallly disappointing. Swan Song on the other hand is a book that has just stuck with me like I think about it all the time haha. I know I'm comparing them right now (I feel like I am because everyone is always comparing them) but I do agree that they shouldn't be compared. They're both apocalypse books, the characters go on a journy in both of them, they both have supernatural things happening and I feel like that's where the comparison ends. They're just different as you said in the video.

I want to read Recursion. I read Dark Matter by Blake Crouch and it’s one of the better books I have ever read as far as thriller goes. I still think about that one after a couple years of finishing it.

Great Videos

Not really progressive when it comes to characters of color

Really thinking about adding this to my Spooky Season reads this year. Thanks for the review!

I really love your channel and all your Stephen king talk. You do a really great job. Makes me sad you had to deal with bullying.

I couldn’t find many of your books available for free on KZbin as audiobooks. Would you review a bunch of audiobooks for us please or tell us which ones we can find? I would not mind paying but I was disabled by violence and it’s very hard I’m hungry right now actually and it’s very painful. Thank you for your reviews.

The Dead Zone, especially with the way our World is today. Very underrated.

How a novel like this goes out of print is ridiculous! That’s why I hold onto my T.M. Wright collection like it’s gold.