Just finished The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, and will be starting The Colorado Kid.
Just finished The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, and will be starting The Colorado Kid.
"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
Fruno: what came between you and Pendulum? I thought you were enjoying it?
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is the first Zuckerman novel I'll be reading.
I have no idea if you need prior knowledge about his life arc in order to understand this last volume.
Any advice from die-hard Roth aficionados?
Finished IT this morning. I'd forgotten how much I really enjoyed that book, it even ended perfectly...the endings being the only things that I sometimes have an issue with, with King books.
as we already discussed with Ruthful, someone should start a thread on King endings. I personally find them very good, but he said many people didn't - and it surprized me greatly. Definitely deserves a thread of its own.
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good idea - the only one, to be honest, that ever springs to my mind is The Talisman. The ending petered out and left me feeling depressed for ages...until Black House came along
I just finished reading Street Soldier: My Life as an enforcer for Whitey Bulger and the irish mob by Eddie Mackenzie. Its a great read but there is some real sick shit in it, i mean real sick, like the guy gets sexually aroused when he breaks peoples legs and he was raped when he was little boy. Like i said its sick buts its also fascinating, id recomend it to anyone if theyre not easily offended.
Currently re-reading The Talisman.
I have to concur -- King's biggest weakness as a writer is his tendency to create villains with glass jaws. His endings don't quite have the sizzle of the rest of the book. (The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is the worst offender in this case, in my opinion.)
Just started reading The Frost-Haired Vixen by John Zakour, fourth book in the Zachary Nixon Johnson series.
I loved IT and hope to read it again one of these days! SK endings ebb and flow. Some are good, some are bad. I never had a problem with TGWLTG for instance, but I'm not a big fan of The Stand's "Stand" at the end. Go figure!
Anyhoo....for the first time, I'm reading:
I plan to take my time with this one.
I liked TGWLTG all the way through too. Infact, it's one of my favourite King stories. I can't clearly remember the Stand's ending, but my subconcious agreed with you when you made that statement
Currently re-reading The Wastelands in English, cause I read it in Norwegian before. But I think I'll just jump to Wizard and Glass tomorrow when it arrives in mail!
/You Suck!
Jasko, that sounds like fun!!!! I re-read the DT books this year. What a rush!
Only in english for me.
I liked it too. It was "real life" terror and I know how easy it is to get turned around in a wilderness.Originally Posted by Darkthoughts
I liked TGWLTG all the way through too. Infact, it's one of my favourite King stories. I can't clearly remember the Stand's ending, but my subconcious agreed with you when you made that statement
I won't go into details about The Stand, but maybe later I'll mosey over to a spoiler thread.
That doesn't surprise me. Whitey Bulger is a real sociopath, so I would imagine the people he surrounds himself with have similar values.
I was going to borrow the book about the Bulger clan written by talk radio luminary/Kennedy nemesis Howie Carr until I realized some idiot had marked it up with personal notes and parenthetical thoughts.
I think people who do that to public library books in circulation should be subjected to routine beatdowns.
I hate it when people write in books. Feels sacrilegious to me.
"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
And it just bugs me. I have to STOP reading so I can guess why they underlined that specific word!I hate it when people write in books. Feels sacrilegious to me.
I am currently reading the first edition of THE STEPHEN KING COMPANION by George Beahm
I hate it when people write in books. Feels sacrilegious to me.
I have piles of books with writing all in them, though most all of them are school related.
There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long.. people. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.
I borrowed Dreamcatcher from the library a while back, and some total fruitloop had written the weirdest stuff into the margins, and underlined random words and phrases that made me feel they were quite disturbed. I'm sure I posted something he/she had written in this thread some where...certainly added to the tension in the story
Reading.
[squints]
Yeah, I guess that image is a little hard to make out isn't it?
It's Keven Anderson's The Saga of Seven Suns - Hidden Empire (book 1).
Sounds intriguing....
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