The Running Bibliophile

Have you ever found a book so depressing that it took you over four years to read?  Desperation by Stephen King was that book for me. Don't get me wrong . . . it was very well written but depressing beyond on belief, so I kept putting it aside to read other novels.  At one point, I was making so much progress that I really wanted to finish it despite it being so depressing, so I kept pushing through. Then, the nightmares began . . . every night for a week. I guess having multiple nightmares attests to how well written it is. As a side note, I've been a huge fan of horror movies since elementary school. Poltergeist , Halloween , and Nightmare on Elm Street were popular choices for me, and not one time did I ever have a nightmare.  I'm not sure I can say there any redeeming qualities about the plot . . . a few lessons learned and a semi happy ending, but that's about it. King wrote a sequel, The Regulators , under his pen name Richard Bachman, but if it is as...