books for empty rooms

TO READ OR NOT TO READ II Okay. I'm not going to lie. I did watch the movie before I read the book. But in all fairness, it wasn't my fault. The movie was so irritatingly persistent in the back of my mind that I just NEEDED something more than a stupid rescue. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, Between a Rock and a Hard Place has a "based-on-the-book-by" movie, "127 Hours". I'm sure you've at least heard about it, but if you haven't it's that James Franco movie where he looks high for other reasons than being high. But, anyway. Onto the book. It was another one I couldn't put down, yet couldn't (or really didn't want to) finish. Aron Ralston really reached and grabbed and pinched (like his dang NERVE) the heartstrings with his autobiographical debut about his experience of being trapped in Blue John Canyon, Canyonland, Ohio. Aron is a mountaineer and hiker extraordinaire. A once successful mechanical engineer

TO READ OR NOT TO READ I If only I hadn't taken so long to finish   Pet Sematary , I would be able to go into great detail the excitement I felt about the novel. I've never wanted to finish a novel as badly as I wanted to finish this Stephen King phenomena, but not for any other reason than it was sickeningly difficult to put down when I did get around to reading it. SO, in the end I didn't finish it. I mean, I read the end, but I was too anxious that I somehow, through my minds' own free-will I guess, skipped a few pages in the final chapter and epilogue and went straight to the end. Here's why: I was extremely sceptical about reading an older Stephen King as I had barely scratched the surface of SK's writing with a few of his short stories from Skeleton Crew . For an SK virgin, it was a daunting task of attempting to get through an entire novel, even a shorter one, so I ended up putting it off for weeks. When I finally plucked up the courage to start an a