Bag of Bones by Stephen King - mid-career King has a lot to offer!

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Title: Bag of Bones | Author: Stephen King | Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton | Pages: 622 | Publication date: 22nd Septmber 1998 | ISBN: 9781444720686
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Content Warnings: Suicide, racism, infanticide
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[@BlankPageEmperor1334]

I actually read 'Bag of Bones' as my first long-form King novel while a senior in high school, about to go to college as an aspiring author. And I really liked it then! Wonder how I'd feel about it now, re-reading it as a thirty-something with a Real Job, who only writes occasionally as a hobby. Sentimental lol but I think I should try it again now.Thanks, Olly! Glad you liked it!

[@AllenFreemanMediaGuru]

I have read 28 S King books and also plane to eventually read them all. Now I will move up reading Bag of Bones sooner.

[@CriminOllyBlog]

Hope you enjoy it!

[@emmiewilliams7546]

Gentle pace is kind, the first 100 or so pages drag. However if you can get through the meanderings you'll find a good ghost story and custody story.

[@chrisinreallife2022]

I have a 'large plot of land' in a video game that took me forever to get, and will take me forever to landscape and decorate. And the name I gave it is "Sarah Laughs". That should tell you how much I love this book! It's such an underrated novel of his. It's got a lot of twists and turns that tie together in the end, haunting horror, sadness, happiness, and humor. And so many great quotes and lines I remember and sometimes even use in everyday life haha! "Ringing Bunter's bell"..."going to Manderly again"...."what if Mrs. Danvers is down there?'"..."V.C. Andrews with a prick"..."luckily I was a good squirrel and saved my nuts".... I will certainly be reading it again too. Amazingly, this is the ONLY King novel I've read! And I've read it twice. Mike Noonan is a great main character and you come to feel for him so much while reading. Same with Maddy. (I've read countless other books, but I'm now in "King mode" and have a list to start on this year. First stop: The Dark Tower Series~

[@katsnoveladventures1863]

It has been quite awhile since I read Bag of Bones, but I really enjoyed it. I remember a character I liked dies and rereading that scene to make sure Mr. King actually went through with his choice. I remember being devastated. 😂 I love character-driven books, and I think Stephen King writes characters well. I’ve gotten invested in many of his characters over the years, and love when they resurface in the King universe. Unfortunately, he can also break my heart like he did in Cujo. Listening to your review of Bag of Bones makes me want to pick it up again and reread it. Terrific video, Olly! 😊

[@Paul_Bond.]

I read Cujo recently, after failing on two previous attempts. Someone was obviously trying to tell me something as I felt like throwing it across the room at the end. Don't get me wrong it is a well written book but I found it both nihilistic and depressing. As the father of a ten year old son my empathy levels where going through the roof and if anyone deserved THAT ending it should have been his wife, so as a horror novel I suppose it works. Interestingly King was going through his Coke and Alcohol problems when he wrote this and claims not to even remember writing it. To which I say, lucky you pal, wish I could forget reading it.

[@readingwithavengeance]

Bag of Bones has been my all-time fave SK since it came out and there’s only a handful of his books I haven’t gotten to yet. Every time I recommend it, I give the disclaimer that the first 100 pages are rough. Nice review ❤

[@sidclark1953]

Been reading "Mauprat" by George Sand. Kick-ass. Lot more fun than "Jane Eyre". Henry James said it was "manly". Had to stop at page 70 when I realized it was an 1870 translation and a 1997 one was available. Just a hiccup I guess.

[@krisreviews]

I'm glad you gave this one another try and had a good time... I don't anything will ever beat Misery or Gerald's Game for me 🤗

[@ellagoreyshorrorstories7524]

In the 90s, I stopped reading King for a while, so I missed this one. Picked it up a few years later and I really enjoyed it.

[@CriminOllyBlog]

Yeah I was very much the same

[@simonpert2485]

Great video, thanks once again. Bag of Bones if one of my favourite Stephen King Books, one I have read several times over the years. Like you say, it was a shift in his writing and I agree about the villains, they were well-written and horrible but added to the book.

[@awebofstories]

I may have to give this a try. I think this is the book that I tried on audio a long, long time ago, but only made it a few minutes because King himself was narrating.

[@CriminOllyBlog]

Oh that's interesting, I always think that's a mistake except for memoirs

[@eriebeverly]

It's not enough that King blurbs every other new horror release but he has to do covert recs in this novel, too. Hilarious. Glad you found your way back to the book and enjoyed it.

[@CriminOllyBlog]

Ha ha ha yeah

[@stephennootens916]

I have to admit, I have been reading King off and on since I was in high school and it isn't until I started watching your reviews of his books that he pit two plot ideas together to write his book. It had never crossed my mind and the funny thong is when it is pointed out I wonder how I missed it.

[@spreadbookjoy]

I’m going to come back to this when I’ve read the book. I have a signed proof copy of this because Stephen King did a signing of it at the bookshop I worked at back in the late nineties when it came out (97/98 - can’t remember the year exactly) and was only the second time he ever visited the UK. I was a huge SK fan as a teen so read his work probably up until that point but never bothered with this. To be fair, the book has been wrapped up and kept safe because I can’t risk damaging it, but when I mentioned it in a video last year, someone told me it’s actually great and I should read it, so now I’m intrigued. I take it your review is also positive from your thumbnail so now am double intrigued!

[@AllenFreemanMediaGuru]

Buy a second reading copy?

[@spreadbookjoy]

@@AllenFreemanMediaGuru yes - a second copy is the plan! I’m going to see if the library has it first.

[@CriminOllyBlog]

That’s very cool! I’m super jealous. And yes, I really liked the book. I tried to read it when it first came out and didn’t get on with it and reading it now I can see why, it feels like a slight change of gear from his earlier stuff. But as a now middle aged person I enjoyed it a lot.

[@lesliepowell-mccarty7067]

I loved Bag of Bones! I even enjoyed the TV movie/miniseries starring Pierce Brosnan.

[@CriminOllyBlog]

I didn't know about that! Hard to imagine Brosnan in that role

[@lesliepowell-mccarty7067]

@@CriminOllyBlog He did a good job but I love him so that may be a biased opinion. 🙂

[@kaiju_k5042]

I keep hearing really good things about this one, so it was nice to get a review from you Olly. I really liked the part where you discussed writers and books being a theme in this story, big fan of that :)

[@ObscureBookAdventures]

I see so many BookTubers talking about Stephen King that I’m starting to wonder if this is a good to read one of the two King books I have. lol.

[@angelaholmes8888]

I really enjoyed this book it's really good and so underrated

[@DDB168]

Gosh, I almost missed this today. Oh, it's only Stephen "padding" King 🤭🤭

[@CriminOllyBlog]

lol

[@PokhrajRoy.]

If only I had read the book when I bought it. I thought it was quite thrilling, whatever little I’ve read.

[@anotherbibliophilereads]

I know I read this book in the 90s, but I can’t really recall a thing about it. Your plot summary didn’t ring any bells.

[@juliewashington2253]

Same for me.

[@reesf743]

This book and the Library Policeman are the two stories by King that gave me a new feeling of dread when reading his work. Up until then, I never expected this level of brutality in his books, it changed everything.

[@CriminOllyBlog]

The Library Policeman is a really interesting one - need to reread it sometime

[@lewiscarty5517]

I have this book, but I have the paperback version of the novel, but I haven't read it yet, but I have seen another KZbin video of this book being reviewed and the review was quite negative in some ways, and says that it has a similar idea to Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca in places too, but once I read it, I will see for myself if it's good or not, and I have seen some of the TV Adaptation, but it wasn't a great adaptation, but I will read it sometime.

[@M-J]

My streak continues! 😉

[@CriminOllyBlog]

lol

[@edlewisnoctreviews]

It's kind of a weird book. Yeah the villains in this book are really despicable.

[@CriminOllyBlog]

They really were!

[@bobcabot]

the movie is with your fellow English man James Bond and not bad...

[@CriminOllyBlog]

I didn't realise that - might have to check it out,

[@danecobain]

This is actually my least favourite Stephen King :D But I'm always glad when other people get something out of it!