{"id":47491,"date":"2015-02-19T13:58:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T02:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=47491"},"modified":"2016-03-01T09:27:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T23:27:48","slug":"stephen-king-recommends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2015\/02\/19\/stephen-king-recommends\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen King recommends&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you haven&#8217;t been following, we&#8217;re kind of obsessed with Stephen King&#8217;s twitter feed. It&#8217;s a treasure trove of crazy genius.<\/p>\n<p>You can find tweets in the third person where he refers to himself as &#8216;Honey Badger&#8217;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Honey Badger don&#8217;t give a shit about Valentine&#8217;s Day. But I like it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephen King (@StephenKing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenKing\/status\/566662335734239232\">February 14, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And some magnificent dad jokes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\nThe difference between an onion and a bagpipe: nobody cries when you chop up a bagpipe.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephen King (@StephenKing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenKing\/status\/553535611853099008\">January 9, 2015<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But most of all, we love it for his musings on books.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at some of his latest, including praise for Australia&#8217;s own Liane Moriarty!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>I&#8217;m dismayed about Ruth Rendell&#8217;s stroke. I hope you guys will spare a good thought for her. Her books are simply amazing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephen King (@StephenKing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenKing\/status\/558678698258599936\">January 23, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/search.ep?author=Ruth%20Rendell\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Click here for more from Ruth Rendell<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\nTHE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, by Paula Hawkins: really great suspense novel. Kept me up most of the night. The alcoholic narrator is dead perfect.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephen King (@StephenKing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenKing\/status\/559683663810797568\">January 26, 2015<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/the-girl-on-the-train-paula-hawkins\/prod9780857522320.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Click here for more from <em>The Girl on the Train<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Trivia Night is the climax of BIG LITTLE LIES, by Linda Moriarty. It&#8217;s a hell of a good book. Funny and scary. She nails the feuding moms.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephen King (@StephenKing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenKing\/status\/564610468162326528\">February 9, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/liane-moriarty\/author934.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Click here for more from Liane Moriarty<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\nReading the last book in Carsten Stroud&#8217;s horror\/suspense NICEVILLE trilogy, THE RECKONING. Out in August. Good God, what an achievement.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephen King (@StephenKing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenKing\/status\/565491550579601408\">February 11, 2015<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/search.ep?keywords=Carsten+Stroud&amp;productType=917504\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Click here for more from Carsten Stroud<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you haven&#8217;t been following, we&#8217;re kind of obsessed with Stephen King&#8217;s twitter feed. It&#8217;s a treasure trove of crazy genius. You can find tweets in the third person where he refers to himself as &#8216;Honey Badger&#8217;. Honey Badger don&#8217;t give a shit about Valentine&#8217;s Day. But I like it. \u2014 Stephen King (@StephenKing) February 14, 2015 And some magnificent dad jokes. The difference between an onion and a bagpipe: nobody cries when you chop up a bagpipe. \u2014 Stephen King (@StephenKing) January 9, 2015 But most of all, we love it for his musings on books. Here&#8217;s a look at some of his latest, including praise for Australia&#8217;s own Liane Moriarty! I&#8217;m dismayed about Ruth Rendell&#8217;s stroke. I hope you guys will spare a good thought for her. Her books are simply amazing. \u2014 Stephen King (@StephenKing) January 23, 2015 Click here for more from Ruth Rendell THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, by Paula Hawkins: really great suspense novel. Kept me up most of the night. The alcoholic narrator is dead perfect. \u2014 Stephen King (@StephenKing) January 26, 2015 Click here for more from The Girl on the Train Trivia Night is the climax of BIG LITTLE LIES,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5013],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56002,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47491\/revisions\/56002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}