Are there more??Originally Posted by Jean
if you mean the one by Gaston Leroux (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra), I read it in French many years ago; I rather liked it.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking about.
You are really lucky that you could read it in French.
i read alot.Wow, that was quick. I think it took me about 4 months just to get about halfway thru.
"So many vows. They make you swear and swear. Defend the King, obey the King, obey your father, protect the innocent, defend the weak. But what if your father despises the King? What if the King massacres the innocent? It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or another."
READ IT! READ IT NOW!I've never read Skeleton Crew ...
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
I've never read Skeleton Crew ...read - its good, but not special.READ IT! READ IT NOW!I've never read Skeleton Crew ...
Just finished my 'book of lost things' it was good and i would recomend it, it seemed to have lots of Roland and dark tower reference or it may have been that i see DT references everywhere now
i have now started a little book called Utopia
doing a re-read of the DT Series..finished DOTT and starting the wastelands. also finished book by Anne McCaffery and her son Todd called Dragon Harper of Pern...its very interesting and deals with a pandemic flu going around the planet of Pern...sound familiar?
Does whatever a spiderman does.
Rereading Eragon by Christopher Paolini for the 7th time right now. Gonna reread Eldest and Brisingr after as well. Fantastic books.
Rereading Terry Pratchett's Thud!. I love it, because it's funny and somehow solemn at the same time. Quite different from his other Discworld books, imo. Samuel Vimes
I really, really dread the day when Pratchett loses his battle against Alzheimer's.
"...neither the stupid jokes nor the easy surface emotions were the truth of Cuthbert Allgood."
Ah hell, you convinced me, just like thatREAD IT! READ IT NOW!I've never read Skeleton Crew ...
I promised my friend I'd read one of her books right after I finished Order of the Phoenix ... but what momma don't know, can't hurt her
have you read anymore of OotP?
Yup, I'm on page..... 524
I'm going to be starting Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath either tonight or tomorrow.
John
Reading "Dawn." It's Phil Elverum's (from The Microphones and Mount Eerie, some of my favorite music ever) winter diary from time spent in self-imposed exile in a cabin in Denmark. An amazing look into his mind and also into how a person finds themselves in locations not expected. The book itself is incredible - it's bound in faux birch (feels real!), comes with a set of photos, a 19 song CD, and a nice little obi to keep it all snazzy.
My favorite bands can kick your favorite bands' asses.
The horizon is right and motionless like the EKG of a dying woman.
Hold on - fantastic books?? If by fantastic you mean derivative, devoid of any real literary merit, and general pabulum, then I agree. Paolini has managed to parlay a history of plagiarism into a career. Tolkein, Lucas, and a couple other guys all rub elbows in the horrific pages of what he calls a "book." Quotes are needed since they only make great kindling for camping in my mind.
My favorite bands can kick your favorite bands' asses.
The horizon is right and motionless like the EKG of a dying woman.
Whoa Fruno, tell us how you really feel.
Oh, you have only scratched the surface of my seething literary hatred.
My favorite bands can kick your favorite bands' asses.
The horizon is right and motionless like the EKG of a dying woman.
That is such a great book!
Just finished a reread of LSOE.
Currently reading, for the first time finally, SKELETON CREW.I KNOW! It took the purchase of the S/L for me to finally decide to move this up on the list. I'm a fan of good short stories and this is fitting the bill.
There are still plenty of other King books, some of which I own, that I have not yet read.
fixed it for you.That is such a greatbookseries!Thanks, John. I read it straight through and I still think of the cohesive story as one long book.
Based on my current first time read: Get on it, man!I've never read Skeleton Crew ...
"...that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little." ~ Ray Bradbury
Ditto, Patrick! The Jaunt somehow haunted me when I was young. I reread Skeleton Crew recently and enjoyed it. Go for it, Feev!Based on my current first time read: Get on it, man!I've never read Skeleton Crew ...
"...neither the stupid jokes nor the easy surface emotions were the truth of Cuthbert Allgood."
There are still plenty of other King books, some of which I own, that I have not yet read.
Get busy dude! If you start now, then you can finish them all this year.
Skeleton Crew was my first king book when I was but a wee lad. Fucking love that book! Glad you had time to read it and like it, Patrick.
My favorite bands can kick your favorite bands' asses.
The horizon is right and motionless like the EKG of a dying woman.
Just finished Brave New World.
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Lol I knew I'd get a rise out of someone.Hold on - fantastic books?? If by fantastic you mean derivative, devoid of any real literary merit, and general pabulum, then I agree. Paolini has managed to parlay a history of plagiarism into a career. Tolkein, Lucas, and a couple other guys all rub elbows in the horrific pages of what he calls a "book." Quotes are needed since they only make great kindling for camping in my mind.
By fantastic books I mean a series of books in which I have engrossed myself in fully and have enjoyed thoroughly.
This is a wonderful book.
Spoiler:
Neither, as the practice has shown. People are nothing as described in either of those books. They are just - you know, people, not different from those live in "freer" societies. That's the main reason why totalitarian models never work for long: they need different people, and have to do with the same old material that constantly fails them.
Basically both combined. Keep people confused.
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just finished Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Class "A" writing!!! This book could have easily been dull, but F. Scott just sucks the reader in, over and over!
All that's left of what we were is what we have become.
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