on a Crichton kick. I'd reading sphere and andromeda strain right now, just finished timeline and both jurassic's, and congo.
I love me some crichton
on a Crichton kick. I'd reading sphere and andromeda strain right now, just finished timeline and both jurassic's, and congo.
I love me some crichton
"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."
I love SphereDefinitely in my top 10.
I've been wanting to read Crichton's 13th Warrior still and Westworld.
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YAY! good to hear. It took me about half the book to really get into The Golden Compass. I hope you love it and don't give up. The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass are so freaking good.
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I like those too!
really? timeline and the lost world are two of my favorites of his. even more than jurassic park and congo.I love Sphere
"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."
[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Way-Wyrd-Brian-Bates/dp/1401905013/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231658352&sr= 8-1"]The Way of Wyrd[/ame] for the third time in fifteen years. Wonderful book.
"It's his eyes, Roland thought. They were wide and terrible, the eyes of a dragon in human form" - Roland seeing the Crimson King for the first time.
"When the King comes and the Tower falls, sai, all such pretty things as yours will be broken. Then there will be darkness and nothing but the howl of Discordia and the cries of the can toi" - From Song of Susannah
I intend to keep going.
YAY! good to hear. It took me about half the book to really get into The Golden Compass. I hope you love it and don't give up. The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass are so freaking good.After the movie I'm curious to see what inspired it all--and where it went afterward....
almost 2/3 into Rose Madder
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This is good to hear, as I have added these to my "to read" pile.
YAY! good to hear. It took me about half the book to really get into The Golden Compass. I hope you love it and don't give up. The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass are so freaking 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
Currently reading McCarthy's The Road, and I am deeply enjoying it.
yeah it's awesomeI
Im reading The Chronicles of Narnua. Im on the 5th book.
I'm taking a graduate seminar on him this semester. No previous exposure.Currently reading McCarthy's The Road, and I am deeply enjoying it.
Oh my God. Seriously. I tried to read Blood Meridian and it is the ONLY book I have started, and never finished. And it was for a class, for a GRADE.
You all amaze me. Really.
"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 think once you get used to the no quotation-marks thing, it's actually a very moving and entertaining book.
*Edit*
Referring to The Road here.
So the absence of quotation marks is a consistent thing in his writing? The only McCarthy I've read is No Country for Old Men in which I loved the story but hated the style, much of it due to that. It was very distracting to have to read "he said" after you've read something in order to know it's dialogue. It breaks the rhythm.
It does kind of break the rhythmn, doesn't it... wonder what McCarthy has against quotation marks? Or does he think he's being somewhat clever from excluding them?
*shrug*
When I first read No Country... last year, I suspected he'd never head of them, but that seems unlikely. I'm not sure what prompted the stylistic choice but I know I don't care for it. Perhaps it works better via audio book. I'll have to see what my library has.
Maybe in the audio it STILL says he said everytime.When I first read No Country... last year, I suspected he'd never head of them, but that seems unlikely. I'm not sure what prompted the stylistic choice but I know I don't care for it. Perhaps it works better via audio book. I'll have to see what my library has.
I think in the audio version the narrator actually says "quotation marks" whenever dialogue appears.
Oh, that would be fucking awesome if he hired some narrator irked by his lack of quotation marks who actually did that.
Personally, I have a major hate on for the guy, specifically because he can't use fucking quotation marks. He offends me as an English major.
I think he thinks he's e.e. cummings or something. He needs to get over himself. /rant
"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
"hate on" being the polar opposite of "hard on".
"It's his eyes, Roland thought. They were wide and terrible, the eyes of a dragon in human form" - Roland seeing the Crimson King for the first time.
"When the King comes and the Tower falls, sai, all such pretty things as yours will be broken. Then there will be darkness and nothing but the howl of Discordia and the cries of the can toi" - From Song of Susannah
EXACTLY.
"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
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