Ya, that’s why I’m asking you guys!SK’s blurbs are (almost) never to be trusted.
Ask about the next book on your TBR pile.
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Thoughts on Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy?
I often have problems with McCarthys books. Its something about their style.... Dont know exactly what. But that said i liked Blood Meridian. I have read two others The Road and one more and had difficulties finishing them. So in my view its his best. But i havent read more than three books.
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Has anyone read or heard of carnival of shadows by R.J. Ellory? I got it pretty much because of the cover and it's set in a travelling circus in 1959.


Kansas, 1959. A travelling carnival appears overnight in the small town of Seneca Falls, intriguing the townsfolk with acts of inexplicable magic and illusion. But when a man's body is discovered beneath the carousel, with no clue as to his identity, FBI Special Agent Michael Travis is sent to investigate.
Led by the elusive Edgar Doyle, the carnival folk range from the enigmatic to the bizarre, but none of them will give Travis a straight answer to his questions. With each new turn of the investigation, Doyle and his companions challenge Travis's once unshakeable faith in solid facts and hard evidence.
As the consequences of what has happened become ever more disturbing, Travis struggles to open his mind to a truth that defies comprehension. Will he be able to convince himself that things are not what they seem? Or will he finally reconcile himself to a new reality - one that threatens to undermine everything in which he has ever placed his trust?
Led by the elusive Edgar Doyle, the carnival folk range from the enigmatic to the bizarre, but none of them will give Travis a straight answer to his questions. With each new turn of the investigation, Doyle and his companions challenge Travis's once unshakeable faith in solid facts and hard evidence.
As the consequences of what has happened become ever more disturbing, Travis struggles to open his mind to a truth that defies comprehension. Will he be able to convince himself that things are not what they seem? Or will he finally reconcile himself to a new reality - one that threatens to undermine everything in which he has ever placed his trust?
How about a TBF pile, as in To Be Finished? I still have the last third of Varney The Vampyre to choke down. Damn thing is thick as a cinder block. A long running penny dreadful series that has its moments, but one can only take so much at a time. When it's good, it's great, but when its bad it...kinda sucks.
Start that thread and I'll have about 15 books to put in it!
Same here. Let's get r done, Muskie.Start that thread and I'll have about 15 books to put in it!
Ok so should,you read these books right after each other? Do they complement each other.
For me the first one i read confused the reading of the second one. The characters have the same name but are not the same characters really. Uncle Stevie did an interview about this and explained the thought process behind. In my opinion one of his bad ideas. When i read Regulators first i liked it more than Desperation. At the reread i read Desperation first and liked it and disliked Regulators. In my brain the characters names were attached to a certain persona, when then a different persona enters with the same name my brain turn itself into a corkscrew and i lose focus on the book. But thats me. There are others here that have no problem with this.
Same for me, Kurben. I agree.
I agree. I read Desperation first, then The Regulators. Very confusing.
Its more of a quote i think. This is SK saying something about it. I still maintain it was a bad idea.
About The Regulators, Stephen says: "I had been toying with this idea called The Regulators because I had a sticker on my printer that said that. Then one day I pulled up in my driveway after going to the market and the Voice said, 'Do The Regulators and do it as a Bachman book and use the characters from Desperation but let them be who they're going to be in this story.' These books were an opportunity to test the idea of using characters as a repertory company. There are some passages that are word for word the same in both books and there are also little jokes." He explains further: "It's just like actors who do Hamlet one night and Bus Stop the next."
Thats not strange.I STILL dont understand!!
I am a fan of McCarthy in that his writing is so beautiful. But never read him in the wrong mood. Nothing good ever happens to anyone. Strangely, The Road is one of the few that have a shred of hope.
I took them as completely different and didn't try to put them together. In a way they were. One was a road trip gone very, very wrong and one was a town meltdown.
LOL...McCarthy in a nutshell. In The Road
the man and the boy find a can of peaches and I remember feeling elation then realizing, "oh, this is probably going to be the high point of the book."
Sad, but true (and a little funny). Still a great novel, though. I need to read more of his work.
Can anyone give me some info(NOT SPOILERS) on Sleeping Beauties?
Have you clicked on the ad at the bottom of this page? It also includes an excerpt.