This one made me cry. I hope you can handle the time-line issues better than I did, tho.
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I've read a dozen or so Masterton and loved them all. Spirit, Sleepless, Flesh and Blood etc.
Herbert for me, started his slide downwards after Ghosts of Sleath. But he's written some good books!
The Wilful Princess and the Piebald Prince by Robin Hobb. A little two part novella covering the early days of the Farseer line. Not bad.
Still on The Children of the Sky by Vernor Vinge. Very compact read. Full of pretty much everything but the pages are still turning and it's finally speeding up.
Still on The Children of the Sky by Vernor Vinge. Very compact read. Full of pretty much everything but the pages are still turning and it's finally speeding up.
Have you read The Doorkeepers or Pariah? I've got both of those, but haven't got around to them yet.
Spirit was a good book and I liked Walkers too.
The worst James Herbert book I've read was Survivor. I didn't like that one at all.
Just home from a post-Labor Day camping trip, which afforded me nice bits of time for reading. I was a breath away from being done with "Carrion Comfort" when we headed to the hills, and finished it the first evening after we got set up. It was a heck of a story, and as always, so easy to get into. I was a little sad that Rob wasn't in the story line longer; he was my favorite character. I have the feeling I should learn how to play chess and then do a reread! I also finished an autobiography, "Doctor Dewey" by DeWitt Dominick, a local fellow of many talents, deceased now for over 30 years. Lots of interesting anecdotes and history from the area, and was the perfect book for where I was at! Last, but not least, I worked my way through most of the stories in "Close Range" by Annie Proulx, having only "Brokeback Mountain" to finish from that collection. (I read it several years back, and remember it as being an exquisitely beautiful story, so will definitely reread it now, as long as I have the book at hand.) While I appreciate her talent and writing style very much, the stories and characters are rather depressing. Starkly, so. I think it would be better to take them one at a time, with time out in between, to avoid being overwhelmed with the relentless sense of hopelessness that pervades these tales.
Just finished the 4th installment in Michael McDowell's 6-part southern gothic Blackwater serial novel. I am so happy that this was finally reissued as an e-book. What a great story and writer! I can't believe he was totally off my radar when he was alive and writing in the 70s and 80s. It's so nice to discover a "new" writer.
Currently reading The Painted Veil for my Lit Crit class. Enjoying it so far!
Re-reading The Great Gatsby for another class. Can't wait because it's been a while.
Also, reading Horns by Joe Hill
Re-reading The Great Gatsby for another class. Can't wait because it's been a while.
Also, reading Horns by Joe Hill
Just a follow-up to my earlier post regarding "Brokeback Mountain". I reread it this evening, and it is even more moving than I remembered. It may be the saddest story I've ever read; not the kind of sad that makes you want to cry, but leaves you feeling blue through and through. I never saw the movie, but if it captured even half the emotion laid bare in the pages of that story, it must have been mean to view. In my opinion, it is much superior to the other stories in "Close Range", even though most of them are quite good, especially "The Half-Skinned Steer". Fine reading if you have the inclination for some stories set in the wild west of Wyoming.
I only saw the movie. Or actually it was one of the few movies i didn't sit through because i found it boring.
I am currently/started Salem's lot ago at preciously 3:05am sunday morning.
I got interested in his work after reading Tabitha King's 'Candles Burning' which she finished for him. Might just have a crack at Blackwater!
Tattoos & Tequila, Vince Neil's autobiography.
Sounds interesting! I read Steven Adler's My Appetite For Destruction: Sex & Drugs & Guns 'N Roses a few years ago. It's amazing some of these guys are still alive!
The movie is a great film. The screenwriters (Larry McMurty and some woman) had to flesh it out alot by adding a story line involving the wives. There's a reason it won alot of awards.
I've always wanted to watch this movie. Hope it's still available to stream on Netflix!
Like Scootie says- it's a very sad film, not the kind that makes you cry really but just makes you blue- probably because you just know things would be different and that you hope they'd be different.
Im revisiting a place called Derry , Maine to catch up with a certain clown called Pennywise
I can't watch it without giggling, not because of the storyline (which is indeed sad), but because of my mother's reaction. She had no issues with the story, but she was highly ticked off by the setting: she lived in the town in which most of it is set during the time of the movie and was disgusted that they showed Riverton as this dirty cow town more appropriate to the Depression era than the 1960s. It's actually a neat, modern, bustling little town, and has been so for decades. "They make us look like a bunch of stupid, backward hicks," was her highly affronted reaction
Unfortunately, that happens a lot when you live in the intermountain west.
I can't read that one in the dark!!
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