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    I'm re-reading the entire series back to back. (My first time) I just finished Drawing of the Three last night, and will be on to The Wastelands this weekend. The Wastelands has always been a bit tedious to me, and it's by far not my favorite book of the series. A thought on Drawing of the Three revised...I seem to remember that in the original versions of the first three books Eddie, and Susannah were never really identified as gunslingers, but it seems as though in the revised version Roland pegs them as gunslingers almost immediately. I kind of preferred the original version where it slowly dawns on Roland that they are to be gunslingers. Am I way off kilter here?

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    Quote Originally Posted by alinda View Post
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    oh, I hope you like it! Many people don't, but I do, and a lot (Fruno, too)

    Terrible T: Roland was quite soon aware of the fact that at least Detta was a born gunslinger.

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    bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Almost done with Heart Shaped Box, it was really good.
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    Thanks Jean, I have actually found a SK book I havent read, well, minus the new releases....I am enjoying it very much so far. I 1/2 expect a visit from the lowmen.





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    oh, I hope you like it! Many people don't, but I do, and a lot (Fruno, too)

    Terrible T: Roland was quite soon aware of the fact that at least Detta was a born gunslinger.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TerribleT View Post
    I'm re-reading the entire series back to back. (My first time) I just finished Drawing of the Three last night, and will be on to The Wastelands this weekend. The Wastelands has always been a bit tedious to me, and it's by far not my favorite book of the series. A thought on Drawing of the Three revised...I seem to remember that in the original versions of the first three books Eddie, and Susannah were never really identified as gunslingers, but it seems as though in the revised version Roland pegs them as gunslingers almost immediately. I kind of preferred the original version where it slowly dawns on Roland that they are to be gunslingers. Am I way off kilter here?
    TT, the only 'revised' is The Gunslinger itself - Drawing.. is not a revised book. (King talked about revising Drawing + Wastelands - but never actually did it.
    Anyway - on the point you raise - I think Roland formed the opinion quite early that they were both destined to be Gunslingers - unlikely as that seemed even to him!
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    Spoiler:

    test

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    It works!



    <--loves that spoiler button

    That was one of the first things I added.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt View Post
    It works!
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    It also sucks you in!
    I went over it a few times wondering if there was something other than "test" in there!
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    hee! me too!!

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    Bill, Capote's book IN COLD BLOOD is worth the read.

    I finished A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. Outstanding!

    Now on to DIARY by Chuck Palahniuk.
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    Slow down! You're making me look bad.



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    I read IN COLD BLOOD a year or so ago - didn't mean to create the impression that I was breezing through all these reads.

    I recommend A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. Great story, great writing style, awesome slang. Interesting foreward by the author. I didn't know that the whole world got the original 21 chapter book that Burgess intended, except the U.S. market who got only the first 20 chapters. The New York publisher cut the last chapter for the U.S. market when it was released in the early '60's and that's all we had for about 25 years. I'm glad this was the full version.
    "...that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little." ~ Ray Bradbury

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    i'm reading new moon by stephenie meyer.

    i hate both myself and maerlyn right now. myself for enjoying it, and maerlyn for making me read these books.

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    Damnit, I've been tempted to pick up that series a couple times. Don't encourage 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

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    seriously, don't. it's all teenage love/lust with vampires.

    i'm so ashamed.

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    Guilty pleasures. Good times.



    "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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    Quote Originally Posted by alinda View Post
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    I just read that earlier this year. Great story!!! I loved it, cover to cover!!!

    I'm really loving In Cold Blood, Patrick. I'm only about 60 pages in, but am savoring every page. It's my first Truman Capote book--it won't be my last!!!

    Oh, and it's a "group read" with BedofRoses. She's loving it too!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darkthoughts View Post
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    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 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
    He's probably being interviewed by FBI agents as we speak.

    Seriously though, that always annoys me. What's especially obnoxious is when I see that someone has scribbled a patently obvious/superfluous observation in the margins of the text.

    That's when I wish I had a DNA lab at home so I could track that person down and beat him into a coma of his own stupidity.

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    I finished The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle today at work and started on The Sign of the Four, which is one of his Sherlock Holmes books. Both are available as free audiobooks at http://www.librivox.org. I really enjoyed The Lost World, and I always enjoy Sherlock Holmes stories.

    When I have time I have been reading a bit of The Golden Compass, but school is still taking up too much time for that, finals are this coming week, after taht I can read more often.
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Ruthful View Post

    He's probably being interviewed by FBI agents as we speak.

    Seriously though, that always annoys me. What's especially obnoxious is when I see that someone has scribbled a patently obvious/superfluous observation in the margins of the text.

    That's when I wish I had a DNA lab at home so I could track that person down and beat him into a coma of his own stupidity.
    That, and people who think a highlighter should be use to highlight every.line.in.the.book.

    What is that? It's a HIGHLIGHTER, meant to HIGHLIGHT important points in the book. If you're going to highlight the whole book, you've missed the point.



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    "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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    Quote Originally Posted by Daghain View Post
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    He's probably being interviewed by FBI agents as we speak.

    Seriously though, that always annoys me. What's especially obnoxious is when I see that someone has scribbled a patently obvious/superfluous observation in the margins of the text.

    That's when I wish I had a DNA lab at home so I could track that person down and beat him into a coma of his own stupidity.
    That, and people who think a highlighter should be use to highlight every.line.in.the.book.

    What is that? It's a HIGHLIGHTER, meant to HIGHLIGHT important points in the book. If you're going to highlight the whole book, you've missed the point.

    In some books, every line of a few pages in a row might be heavily important. I highlight as I read when I realize that what I am reading holds merit, so sometimes I end up highlighting a couple full pages. Also, I can explain why some people write very obvious things in the margins of the pages that might seem dumb when some people see them. When reading a book for a class, especially a class that does a lot of discussion and paper writing, you often have to reference back to points in the book to pull quotations for a discussion or a paper. When you write a note about what is happening in a scene of the book in the margin, it makes it way easier to find that point of the book by flipping through it. I do this quite often myself and as a result, I am much better at making points in class taht I would be without them as I don't have to pause for near as long to look for the proof to back up my assertion. I even have bunch of notes through Uncle Tom's Cabin taht just say things like "Racism, paper" because I wanted to be able to quickly find them when I was writing a paper about the Racism and Prejudice of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
    Look, a couple of pages from my copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin from my American Romanticism class this semester to make a few of you cringe:
    This one just shows how a typical page in a book I use for class looks. "Christianity and Slavery at Odds" "He could have changed, implies the importance of abolishing slavery immediately" "Pointing out problems with Northern Abolitionist thought" "Shows people can overcome prejudice"



    This one shows notes that would seem pointless to someone else, but all had purpose for me, either as paper notes or stuff to bring up in class.
    "Haley does this because he hates to se it, not because it is cruel to slaves." "Admonishment of American thought, paper" Sarcastic admonishment of American clergy, paper"



    This is just an example of how sometimes the whole pages end up highlighted a I read


    This one was just comments on Tom that I wanted to bring up in class. and it makes a good example of how I tend to fill margins with stuff. " Tom wasn't against running away, at this point he just felt that God had called to him to minister to those in captivity"


    The notes on this page pretty much just state the obvious when reading the page, but they were used as notes for me to find the passages in class discussion. "More admonishment of Christians who condone or allow slavery" The second note says "Forgive them father for they know not what they do..." because i was wanting to not it for using in talking about Tom as a Christ-like figure.


    All in all, looking at the pages of any book I use for school would drive most of you insane.
    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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    My eyes! My eyes!

    Well, yours make sense, at least. I've seen some used books in the bookstore that have the most inane things highlighted - you wonder if the person even passed the class.

    I think I still have that Catholic school guilt thing where it is sacrilege to write in a book. But I never wrote in mine. I could never bring myself to do it, and I still can't. Yeah, I had to do some page-flipping to write papers, but that was easier for me to live with.



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    "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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    Not necessarily.

    Back in college whenever I would purchase a used textbook from the campus bookstore I expected it to be marked up.

    You expect books stocked by a public library to be relatively intact though.

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    Sometimes people get books for class from the library. I have before and I think I remember Erin getting a book for class from the library once as well. However, I don't write in those. Other folks have different opinions of public property, I suppose. Books are sometimes donated to libraries from personal collections as well. That's probably the two biggest contributions to books in libraries ending up like that.
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Ruthful View Post
    Not necessarily.

    Back in college whenever I would purchase a used textbook from the campus bookstore I expected it to be marked up.

    You expect books stocked by a public library to be relatively intact though.
    I did too, but there's a limit! If 99.9% of the book is yellow, I'm not buying it.

    I never bought highlighted books. I found them too distracting. I'd pay extra for the new, untouched version first. Usually, though, I could find a minimally marked up copy to use.



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    "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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