LEVITICUS
So many rules to follow!
So many poor animals slaughtered!
So much blood sprinkled!
Most of the decrees make sense in a health and sanitation and infectious disease and moral aspect, but you can not make a garment using two different kinds of thread? I do not understand that one.
I'm sure if there is intelligent life somewhere out there in the universe, they are wise enough to stay away from us.
And the people bowed and prayed, to the cell phone god they made...
Gardens of the Moon - Steven Erikson
Wanted
CD Carrie Portfolio 719
Dark Tower S/N LE's 171 or 203
ANY Stephen King S/N LE #171 or 719
A Storm of Swords #218 or 346
Ancillary Justice #455
American Gods (+ SC Reader copy) #624
Michael Whelan original art
DT VII: Michael Whelan Remarque
I've only read one Bentley Little book, The University, and it scarred me so much I've been hesitant to pick up another by him, although I do have The Store sitting on my bookshelf for if I decide to. Not sure if all his books are like this or I just picked the wrong one to start with, but it was all gratuitous sex throughout the whole book, it was so off putting. Let me know what you think of The Bank once you're finished.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
Just finished Recursion by Blake Crouch. It was really good, but I think I liked Dark matter better. Finished The Troop by Nick Cutter. I really liked the story and the way it was done with the news clips, but it was more gory than scary to me. Just starting Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons.
I loved Recursion. The wait for a new Blake Crouch is torture.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
I haven't read any Bentley Little books but that's the vibe I get from the plot descriptions and reviews: gratuitous gore and sex for the sake of having gratuitous gore and sex.
I really enjoyed Recursion as well but think that I also liked Dark Matter more. I got The Troop for Christmas but haven't felt it calling to me yet.
I finished Full Throttle last night and am going to finally start On Writing in the next day or so. I've had it on my list for forever (!) and had been "saving" it (it's one of the ten or so unread King books I have left ) but feel like it's the right time now that I'm in the middle of re-writes for a new book.
A NEW GAME BEGINS
ANYTHING DT Related #246
Dead Zone First Edition F/F or NF/NF
Dune, The Border by Don Winslow, Regulators (re-read), If It Bleeds , The Langoliers (re-read)
seeking: anything DT related #246
ANYTHING DT Related #246
Dead Zone First Edition F/F or NF/NF
Finished Black Hills last night. As typical of Simmons' historical fiction he gives the reader a lot to work through and think about.
I just want to say that Houses Under the Sea by Caitlin R. Kiernan is one of the finest short stories I have ever read. Definitely top 10, possibly top 5. Wow! Just wow.
I've yet to read Black Hills - it's on my list of Simmons' recent work that I've yet to around to. The last recent novel of his I read was Drood, which I enjoyed immensely. Although I have read some of his back catalogue more recently than Drood.
HBJ
“If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Looking for SubPress Lettered::
Angel's Game and Prisoner of Heaven (Zafon)
Ilium (Simmons)
Thanks! Will try to get to it soon.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
Tonight I begin a special re-read. I am embarking on reading the Stand, uncut in the middle of this pandemic lockdown! crazy huh?
I dont believe I have ever read the uncut version before and it's certainly possible that I have not read the Stand since I was a teenager. It is hard for me to remember my early King reading history. I do remember being enraptured by the Stand when I first read it. It really knocked my socks off.
and now I am off to experience the Dark Chest of Wonders
Wanted
CD Carrie Portfolio 719
Dark Tower S/N LE's 171 or 203
ANY Stephen King S/N LE #171 or 719
A Storm of Swords #218 or 346
Ancillary Justice #455
American Gods (+ SC Reader copy) #624
Michael Whelan original art
DT VII: Michael Whelan Remarque
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It, if we're talking King books now, with the Stand a very close runner-up
(otherwise... everything Dickens and Dostoyevsky ever wrote, and Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis). Yours?
(actually, as a mod I am supposed to redirect us both to a thread where favorite books are discussed, LOL)
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It will just be one post for me, my eyes have gotten to where I can't read, at least not for more than ten minutes at a time so I am way behind.
Of King's IT is my favorite as well and The Stand too, just like Bears!
Not King, I also love Dostoevsky (especially Crime and Punishment and The Brothers' Karamozov).
Anything by William Faulkner.
Anything Truman Capote wrote, love James Joyce, Moby Dick, Thomas Harris (for the most part).
Catch-22, Lolita, The Great Gatsby, I like Anne Rice and Chuck Palahniuk too.
Maybe we should be redirected! Ha! Sorry, more to name....I've actually never read Dickens, except for A Christmas Carol.
oh grrrr so sorry about your eyes! have much the same with mine, so understand you very well
whenever your eyes allow you to read again, let's come to this thread (I re-quoted you there)
https://www.thedarktower.org/palaver...oks-of-my-life
and then go on. It is interesting, and I sooooo missed these conversation during my absence
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!