Ghost Story is much more than mindless entertainment.
I will put that on my list, Brice.
"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
"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'll keep Ghost Story in mind, as well as Houses Without Doors. I've been hearing a lot about the former, but the latter might be good as an introduction to his writing.
I've always considered Insomnia a Dark Tower book, but without Roland's ka-tet.
John
hope you enjoy it!
Don't forget it's actually the prequel to The Lord of the Rings. That trilogy (or all four books, if you count The Hobbit) is one of the true classics of literature.
John
Erm.... Yes and no.
The Hobbit was written before The Lord of the Rings, so technically it's not a prequel, more of a "prelude." A prequel indicates that the story set earlier was written later.
However, The Hobbit was revised (especially in Chapter 5) after The Lord of the Rings was written, so at least in that case, I suppose it effectively became a prequel (of sorts), and that's the only version you can find nowadays....
Good point J&Y. Additionally, it wasn't intended to be a prelude to anything. Tolkien wrote LotR because of the response to The Hobbit. There was a call for "more stories about Hobbits" and from that, he developed LotR. Ultimately, that's what I love about The Hobbit. It is a great piece of the whole Tolkien story cycle, but it also works perfectly as a stand-alone story. I fell in love with that book when I was a kid, and re-read it annually [usually in September around Bilbo's birthday]
Yeah, it's amazing.... He didn't plan on publishing The Hobbit, much less writing The Lord of the Rings, but that's what he's most known for....
I finished salems lot this weekend and started on Rage... pretty good so far!
Just finished Black House, and next up on my list is Song of Susannah.
Dearly Devoted Dexter - Jeff Lindsay. Very enjoyable but like the TV series better.
I'm looking for a new to read...I not sure what
I just heard of this new series, but how am I gonna
find it, read it if I cant remember its name
goes to backtrack to the thread I was just reading.
*first thing to go is your short term memory...*
The answer is within
all matter is energy, all energy is GOD
What was the series about?
I'm in the middle of Attonement, by Ian McEwan. Good!
"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
Atonement is wonderful. The movie, not so much. The book, oh my.
I want to reread it soon and it has not been long since I read it.
Right now I am reading Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier. For the first time, kinda embarassing. It is one of those I keep forgetting to pick up.
But, it is good