Does it have the excised 21st chapter or does it have the I'm Stanley Kubrick and I'll end my movie where I damn well please ending?
It is one of my favorite stories ever.
Does it have the excised 21st chapter or does it have the I'm Stanley Kubrick and I'll end my movie where I damn well please ending?
It is one of my favorite stories ever.
War and Remembrance.
"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 am reading it on my ipad, which is handy because i have the concordance pulled up on another page with the nadsat translations so I can go back and forth. The vernacular voice is my favorite part of the book. Along with Huck Finn, I think that A Clockwork Orange is a prime example of this style of writing. I was unaware that this slang was a bastardized version of Russian. I am curious if Jean has read it, and what he thought of the slang.
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I'll finish (or better restart and finish) it now that I have a Kindle. I didn't like it at all when I tried first, and I found the "Russian" slang preposterous. I think I may expand on this after I've [re]read it, there's an interesting philological problem here.
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yes, I know
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Moved on to Dewey's Nine Lives. Still not reading as much as I'd like to... oh well.
Reading Christine!
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 for you, Jean!
I've been enjoying Feast of Fear before bed each night. Also, I started Horns.
"That which you think, becomes your world" Matheson
It's a very fast read. You won't be able to put it down once you really start. I suspect Chuck Hogan wrote the actual book with Del Toro providing the plot and visuals to him. Del Toro's command of English isn't all that great. Clearly he does alright for himself but the prose has Hogan's stamp all over it: technological/scientific terminology, street/urban lingo, sharp dialogue, ridicilous tempo... all Hogan. I highly suggest this book to everyone looking for something different from a vampire book. This one ain't pretty and it gets darker and more hopeless more you read it.
I'll just say that it and The Passage are the best vampire books I've read in a very long time.
And would you consider many of those good or great ?
And if so - NAMES.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.