Jean's fantastic Rosemary's Baby comparison...though comments will have to wait. I am off for work.
Jean's fantastic Rosemary's Baby comparison...though comments will have to wait. I am off for work.
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 have actually never read that one, but have always thought it sounded interesting. I read once that it has a pretty unsatisfactory ending, but intentionally so.Originally Posted by Mattrick
I think all those short stories are in the paperback I picked up a few weeks back, containing his great short works, two of them for sure are in there; it contained The Scarlet Letter which is why I bought it then found a nice hardcover of The Scarlet Letter I had to pick it up. I bought a copy of The Marble Faun by Hawthorne as well, so if you have read it I'd like to know if it is worth bumping up my list.I love Hawthorne. When I was in high school I hated him because most of the interesting stuff about him, including stuff like him having a lot of guilt about his family being involved in the Salem Witch Trials and his sort of questioning the nature of religion and such in his works a lot as a result, were left completely out of the conversation because I live in the bible belt and people get cranky about that stuff(the same goes for Emily Dickinson and her very likely bisexuality and dislike of the nature of religion of her time). I knew next to nothing about Hawthorne and hated his work as a result. Once I went to college and learned a lot of the historical context to place him in and what he was actually addressing with his writing, I fell in love with his work.
The Blithedale Romance is another work I would recommend. It is very interesting when read in context of the sort of utopian communal living situation that he and a bunch of Transcendentalists of the time tried to build and failed called Brook Farm.
The short stories ""Young Goodman Brown," "The Minister's Black Veil,"Rappaccini's Daughter,and "Wakefield" are some of my other favorite works of his.
Jane Eyre is great. I had to reading for a Victorian Lit. class in college and wrote a couple of papers on it. I love every minute of it.
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.
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just finished my two Joe Hill books...I loved Heart Shaped Box. A really good book. Wish I would have read it first....lol. Read Horns first. It took me two weeks to read Horns and 3 days for HSB. I can see why a lot of people liked them.
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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 haven't read anything else from Hill, other than 20th Century Ghosts, but I was amazed at how good it was. I was expecting run-of-the-mill but got oh so much more.
It seems like that's on the bottom of a lot of people's lists. I really liked it when I read it. Kind of like a "pre" Dark Tower VII, rather than a more standalone installment.
A NEW GAME BEGINS
Thumbs up for all the Joe Hill love being shared here!
"...that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little." ~ Ray Bradbury
I'm in to book three of A Song of Ice & Fire: A Storm of Swords.
LOVING IT! So much good stuff has happened, and I'm only a third of the way through....
No spoilers please! (I know you won't, but I'm so paranoid...)
going away from the horror for now and reading these
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I just finished Wolves of the Calla in my DT reread and have started Song of Susannah.
John
After going through a ridiculous anthology phase the past few months (I must have read over 50 including 20th Century Ghosts which was excellent) I finished WTTKH (LOVED revisiting the Dark Tower world) and now re-reading Danse Macabre with the 2010 Forenote "Whats Scary" which I hadnt read before. Some really good stuff in there.
reality continues to ruin my life
Brice:
John: How are you enjoying your DT series re-read?
You're catching up to me. I finished Book 3 recently and decided to read some other things before starting Book 4 to stretch out the ASOIAF experience.
No spoilers, just that Book 3 is only going to keep getting better!
TN: So do you recommend DANSE MACABRE? I own an old paperback copy, but have never read it.
"...that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little." ~ Ray Bradbury
I very much enjoyed Danse Macabre. Of course it is very dated now, but King sure has a lot of insight into horror--both from the entertainment industry perspective (books, films, EC comics, etc.) and from general human nature.
For what it's worth (not much), Danse Macabre is the only King book I could never finish. Pour some sand down your throat and that's how dry it is. On Writting was great though with only one downside to it... a reprint from Danse Macabre.
I'm really enjoying it. It's been a few years since my last reread and am encountering stuff I'd forgotten.
John
Maybe I should give DANSE MACABRE another chance, divemaster. Like WeDeal, I couldn't get through it the first time, but loved ON WRITING years later.
Glad to hear it, John. Did you put TWTTKH into the mix mid-stream this go-round?
"...that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little." ~ Ray Bradbury
No, I plan on reading it after The Dark Tower book 7. It just seems right then.
John
I wish King would do a volume II of Danse Macabre beginning where he stopped in the eighties.
Brice - I kinda assumed the rest of the book will be awesome, as when stuff that has happened already is so early on in the piece, I can only imagine what is instore for the finale!
I think I'll be having a break after book 3 too. I've had so many recommendations for books by authors I've never read, so I really should finally pick one and experience something new...
I feel the same way. Right now, I'm about a third of the way through Wizard & Glass. I just finished The Wind Through The Keyhole, which is a great supplement to the original books.I'm really enjoying it. It's been a few years since my last reread and am encountering stuff I'd forgotten.
John
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