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HollyGolightly

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@The Nameless - whew, you're all over the place in your reading at the moment. Let me know how you feel about Desperation. I have that now and I am thinking of taking a DT break and reading it.

@Mr. Crandall I put off reading DT until 2 years ago and have tried to plow through it. It's exhausting at times. I wish I'd read them as they were published and not tried to do it all together. But they are pretty fabulous. I'm halfway through DT7. Onward...
 

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I just finished 11/22/63, and am trying to figure out where to next. I've read Pet Semetary, It, all the short story collections, and even a series of Dark Tower graphic novels.

My question to you is: should I begin the Dark Tower series in proper (I've read the Gunslinger) or the Stand? They are both fairly lengthy commitments, but must-reads, I understand.
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The Nameless

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I am about to begin "The Sun Dog", just finished "The Library Policeman".
4 past midnight was one of my first few King books, I just loved the Langoliers, it's still one of my favourite stories. Let us know your favourite of the 4 when you're done with Sun Dog.
 

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@The Nameless - whew, you're all over the place in your reading at the moment. Let me know how you feel about Desperation. I have that now and I am thinking of taking a DT break and reading it.

@Mr. Crandall I put off reading DT until 2 years ago and have tried to plow through it. It's exhausting at times. I wish I'd read them as they were published and not tried to do it all together. But they are pretty fabulous. I'm halfway through DT7. Onward...
I have just finished chapter one - 43 pages out of 720. It's going to take me a while but I think I will definitely finish this one. Chapter 1 is very strange, creepy and a bit disturbing, there is no way I can stop now.

I had a few dt breaks, including 1 mid-book (w&g, Susan section). It was a bit too much for me to read them all in one go, I would have got a massive readers block.
 

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Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.

I've read this one before but it is good enough to deserve re-reads. If you have never read it and choose to read it, you will probably recognize it as the movie, "Apocalypse Now." "Apocalypse Now" is not an actual by the numbers adaptation of the novel but Coppola takes his Vietnam story and puts it into the structure of Heart Of Darkness. Both movie and book are about a treacherous trip down a river in search of a mysterious predecessor. This is one of my favorite classics.

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ghost19

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I just started two books at the same time, one is "On the Trail of the Assassins" by Jim Garrison. He was the district attorney for New Orleans when JFK was assassinated and is the only person to bring a trial against anyone other than Oswald in the JFK killing. I'm also reading "Reclaiming History" by Vincent Bugliosi who is on the other side of the fence and claims Oswald acted alone. I'm trying to compare and contrast how each author tries to get his point across. So far, Garrison uses a narrative format to explain what his office did and why they came to the conclusions about the conspiracy, while Bugliosi seems to write "Conspiracy theorists are wrong" about once every paragraph. I'm not sure if he's going for repetition or not but Bugliosi seems to be dancing around the point way too much so far. Bugliosi seems to very much look down upon anyone who differs with his point of view, going as far as saying "my book should be taken as definitive proof there was no conspiracy to kill JFK." I'm hoping Bugliosi gets off his high horse later in the book and starts coming across with some proof but so far about 100 pages into his novel he just seems to think he's very superior in this thinking....
 

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I just started two books at the same time, one is "On the Trail of the Assassins" by Jim Garrison. He was the district attorney for New Orleans when JFK was assassinated and is the only person to bring a trial against anyone other than Oswald in the JFK killing. I'm also reading "Reclaiming History" by Vincent Bugliosi who is on the other side of the fence and claims Oswald acted alone. I'm trying to compare and contrast how each author tries to get his point across. So far, Garrison uses a narrative format to explain what his office did and why they came to the conclusions about the conspiracy, while Bugliosi seems to write "Conspiracy theorists are wrong" about once every paragraph. I'm not sure if he's going for repetition or not but Bugliosi seems to be dancing around the point way too much so far. Bugliosi seems to very much look down upon anyone who differs with his point of view, going as far as saying "my book should be taken as definitive proof there was no conspiracy to kill JFK." I'm hoping Bugliosi gets off his high horse later in the book and starts coming across with some proof but so far about 100 pages into his novel he just seems to think he's very superior in this thinking....

The Garrison book is what the Oliver Stone movie JFK is based on. The movie takes a lot of criticism for trying to "rewrite" history but the movie should be viewed as Jim Garrisons' point of view and not history. Whether or not you believe any or all of Garrisons' claim, you have to give the guy credit for getting some of the documents and the Zapruder film public. I think the Garrison trial was the first time the film was shown to the public.
 

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The Garrison book is what the Oliver Stone movie JFK is based on. The movie takes a lot of criticism for trying to "rewrite" history but the movie should be viewed as Jim Garrisons' point of view and not history. Whether or not you believe any or all of Garrisons' claim, you have to give the guy credit for getting some of the documents and the Zapruder film public. I think the Garrison trial was the first time the film was shown to the public.
I may try Gerald Posner's "Case Closed" after I finish Bugliosi's novel. I've always leaned toward the multiple shooter side so I am somewhat biased but I'm being very open minded when reading Bugliosi's book. However, I feel like I'm being lectured to when it comes to reading his book so far.
 

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I may try Gerald Posner's "Case Closed" after I finish Bugliosi's novel. I've always leaned toward the multiple shooter side so I am somewhat biased but I'm being very open minded when reading Bugliosi's book. However, I feel like I'm being lectured to when it comes to reading his book so far.

The one thing I can never shake about the multiple shooters is the Zapruder film. It certainly looks to me like bullets coming from different directions. I mostly side on the Oswald acting alone except for that film. I know there are all of these theories on why it looks the way it does but the eye test says multiple shooters.
 

ghost19

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The one thing I can never shake about the multiple shooters is the Zapruder film. It certainly looks to me like bullets coming from different directions. I mostly side on the Oswald acting alone except for that film. I know there are all of these theories on why it looks the way it does but the eye test says multiple shooters.
I agree. Watching the Zapruder film and having shot rifles my entire life, the shots just don't seem to come all from one direction.
 

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Finished Anne Rice's The Wolf Gift and loved it. A real return to form for her.
Just started a reread of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. I read it when it first came out in 1995. I'm a huge fan of All things Oz, having read all 13 of the original Oz books and having seen the 1939 movie countless times. Wicked is a very good book and the writing is very accomplished.
 

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@carrie's younger brother I've been wondering how Anne Rice's books were lately. I was such a fan back in the 90s - all the Lestat books and Witch books. She kind of lost me with some of her weirdly tame crap.

I always have an upstairs book and a downstairs book. STill upstairs is DT 7. Downstairs is Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson - I got an autographed copy in a Goodwill thrift store. So far it's pretty great. I loved Speak and Winter Girls.
 

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Just finished Masques V, an anthology with lots of great writers and stories in it. I was disappointed to discover that the last 20 or so pages were filled with alot of typos tho. Not normally one to complain about typos but when there's alot of them it irks me.
 
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