Strange, I put off finishing Deathly Hallows to start my DT reread I'm sorry, I just couldn't ignore the pull of the beams.
I'll be done with HP pretty quick. I read 150+ pages in an hour or so the other night. So, as soon as it's done...back to TDT.
I swear, I almost typed: "back to TDK"
first can i say i am rocking you sig
now to business;-
Feeve ; i missed your post **bad candy**
it was so long since i read it, that i had forgotten what a fab book it is, i am currently reading Regulators now - and to show how long it is since i read both - i never realised he used the same characters names (it was approx 10 years since i read desperation and then years in between each book.) I actually got a bit of a kick out of it. It was like he had thrown names into a hat and then tagged them to a character, and then did the same again for Regulators (i know what i mean)
at the moment, Desperation has the edge on Regulators but i will come back to you on that one once I have finished it. Desperation is definatley back in the top ten. (i always love rediscovering a book)
I have been reading a lot of Peter Straub lately. I read his Blue Rose Trilogy (Koko, Mystery, The Throat) and I love them all. I have also read Lost Boy, Lost Girl, and The Hell-Fire Club. Both of these are very chilling novels.
I started reading Peter Straub because he wrote two books with Stephen King and I wanted to get know him and his writing better. You never know, maybe some of Peter Straub's characters could show up in the third book of The Talisman and Black House series. (I think it would be awesome if there was a Fee Bandileor a.k.a Franklin Bachelor vs. Jack Sawyer! )
My Library Obsession
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Cirque Du Freak - Allies of the Night (Book Eight) - Darren Shan
"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
the stand
"First comes the smiles, then lies. last is gunfire"
- Roland Deschain, of Gilead
And is it the original shorter version or the uncut version?
John
"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."
Just started
I so could not resist two of my favorite things, Star Wars and Zombies.
If you love me then love me..
Just finished:
"...that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little." ~ Ray Bradbury
Death Troopers was AWESOME!!
I picked up Song of Susannah on a whim at work cause I needed something to read on break.
Now Im headlong into a DT re-read. Finished Gunslinger in a day, ahlfway through DotT now.
I have not touched DT7 since it came out because I wasnt happy with it...Its time to give it another chance.
I lurk, therefore I am.
Normally I don't post the covers, but Drizzt looks so BAMF there...
That's funny: i've just been considering reading the Drizzt books recently, mainly because I want to learn more about the Forgotten Realms universe that quite a few of my favourite PC games (that i've mostly never been able to complete) are set in. Wasn't sure if i'd like them or not, but now I know you enjoy them Pond, well, I'll guess now I'll have to check it out! (After the Doctor Who book I've barely started and the Discworld novel I'm in the middle of, of course.)
Never be cruel and never be cowardly. And if you ever are, always make amends.
You are a walking talking Doctor Who encyclopedia to me. - Melike
I just read this, lookin for Shambhala Myth : It's really amazing , even through the "DARK TOWER"'s light : it seems that Stephen King had a visionary metaphoric VISION about this (Myth ?) he knows probably by name but without consciously beeing thinking at this, when he writes This initiatic Thing : The Dark Tower (even if he told about It that he doesn't really knows, writing this huge modern odyssey, where (&why ?) he was going to ............. the // more than ever seems amazing to me ..
http://www.victoria-lepage.org/shamb...itual_axis.htm
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I'm currently reading, "The Black Act" by Stoker Nominee Louise Bohmer--as well as, "End Times" by Stoker Nominee, Rio Youers.
I highly recommend both.
WANTED:
Dust jacket for The Shining SNL.
Dust jacket for 25th Anniversary edition of IT, signed, numbered, tray-cased copy.
Signed numbered limited edition of Josh Malerman's Goblin, published by Earthling Publications.
Oh I think you would love them! Especially the first trilogy set. There are 13 books total in the main story line, and are for the most part broken into story arches over 3 books. The first 3 are simply magnificent! Of course, I'm not saying the other ones aren't any good, but if you read any of them make sure you start at the beginning.
This is actually only one of 4 books I am reading right now - I'm also in the middle of John Dies at the End by David Wong, The Lost Hero, of the Heroes of Olympus series by Rick Riordan, and The TARDIS handbook
Define "beginning", since I know chronologically the Dark Elf trilogy is first, but the Icewind Dale books were written before those. What's more ideal: written order or chronological order? Or is either way good to read?
Never be cruel and never be cowardly. And if you ever are, always make amends.
You are a walking talking Doctor Who encyclopedia to me. - Melike
Personally, I find the Dark Elf Trilogy (Homeland, Exile, Sojourn) to be the best. Those 3 are generally placed at books. Though, the Icewind Dale trilogy is also quite good! Reading them in established book order though, is interesting. I think it's fairly easy to tell which books he wrote first. Thy style change is subtle - no more of a style change than what naturally happens over most series - but more noticable, I think because we are reading it from a "backwards" standpoint. The first 3 books are a little more polished, I think.
Chronologically, I think it makes more sense to start with Homeland. There's nothing that is given away about those 3 in the Icewind Dale trilogy, but you understand Drizzt and his actions better if you read his backstory first.