Decided to listen to the Dark Tower series while I drive from job to job, and read "Misery" I am trying to take it slowly with it...about 50 pages in and already love it.
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Just finished McCammon's Mine. Starting on Swan Song next. Am I in for a treat?!
Swan Song back on the back burner while I read library books: The second Walking Dead novel (The Road to Woodbury). George R.R. Martin's Fevre Dream is on deck, then I think David Nicholls' Us is in at the library. Nicholls' last one pissed me off right at the end, so I'm curious where he goes with this one. His Starter for 10 is a book I really enjoyed.
Starts a little slow, but that's expected for a big, world building book. It's character-driven, which is a change from his They Thirst. Pretty reminiscent of The Stand (as far as I've read--about half way through it). It's interesting so far
What did you think of Mine? I have his Usher's Passing to read when I finish Swan Song.
Love them both . . .Mine really got my goose! Crazy with a capitol Cray-cray!
Hmmm. . .you just gave me a different way to look at it . . .I hadn't thought of that.
They are kind of hard reads but I found them to be enjoyable. You have to set your mind for them and just flow with it and don't try to rush. Most of them are big azz books too!
Thankfully, I have my Kindle Paperwhite so they are light as a feather. I've been dealing with the flu lately so perhaps this might be a side effect from the fever (
), but I'd be really proud of myself if I could read some more of the hefty classics. It'd be a shame to not read them just because they are the size of small elephants.
Did you like Mine? Yes, you're in for a treat with SS! Just try not to compare it to The Stand while reading it, you'll like it more that way. I think SS has more heart than The Stand does.
Finished The Moon Is Down...good story...and the history of that story is as interesting...see previous post. Starting The Wayward Bus...
I've considered that idea...a bus...passengers get on...maybe none of them get off. Steinbeck did it already. There is nothing new under the sun. Steinbeck wrote to his friend and editor Pascal Civici that "it is a cosmic bus holding sparks and back firing into the Milky Way and turning the corner of Betelgeuse without a hand signal." Steinbeck's "Sweetheart" is the ancestor of "Further". Vacilador...a Spanish word, a word for which we have no equivalent in English. One critic said it has sleazy characters, depraved and meaningless. Hoo-yah! Reminds me of that Chaucer play I saw in the ago...to the Rebel Corners lunchroom! Onward & upward!
I've considered that idea...a bus...passengers get on...maybe none of them get off. Steinbeck did it already. There is nothing new under the sun. Steinbeck wrote to his friend and editor Pascal Civici that "it is a cosmic bus holding sparks and back firing into the Milky Way and turning the corner of Betelgeuse without a hand signal." Steinbeck's "Sweetheart" is the ancestor of "Further". Vacilador...a Spanish word, a word for which we have no equivalent in English. One critic said it has sleazy characters, depraved and meaningless. Hoo-yah! Reminds me of that Chaucer play I saw in the ago...to the Rebel Corners lunchroom! Onward & upward!
Starts a little slow, but that's expected for a big, world building book. It's character-driven, which is a change from his They Thirst. Pretty reminiscent of The Stand (as far as I've read--about half way through it). It's interesting so far
What did you think of Mine? I have his Usher's Passing to read when I finish Swan Song.
I liked Mine, but I think I prefer Mystery Walk (I've only read those two so far). I mean, Mine had me glued to the pages but I couldn't really connect to the characters as much? I dunno.
I'm four chapters into Swan Song and really loving it so far. I especially love Swan. Her little garden is so sweet and so heartbreaking!
Hi Walter! I've been on a Steinbeck reading trend myself. I enjoyed The Moon Is Down and also The Wayward Bus. Bus does have some rather smarmy characters in it, but they're tame by today's standards. Enjoy!
The bus just pulled into Rebel Corners and the looker got off, the old lady stayed on, and Louie is mad. I want a 'Little Wonder Artificial Sore Foot'. Heh! I just search-engined it...must be something Steinbeck made up. I think this is the 11th Steinbeck title for me. Of the better-known stories...maybe read years ago...I haven't reread In Dubious Battle. East of Eden...awesome...all of them are good stories. I've got...Travels with Charlie...I think that is the title...have that one next.
Great Steinbeck fan myself. You've inspired mr to go back to some of his 'wonky characters'. Thanks
Grapes, Eden, Pearl, Charley, Mice (What DID he do up in Weed?). That's about It.
Re-reading The Alienist. Tomorrow, I am sending a few books over the mountain to skimoms side of it. Either by an Alberta Clipper or by Canada Post!
I loved Fevre Dream so much! Read that a long time ago.
I just read We Were Liars by E. Lockhart. It's YA novel about a high-society family that spends every summer on their private island off Massachusetts. The eldest granddaughter has an accident, and from this accident, she suffers amnesia and migraines. She tries to remember what happened and piece together that one summer on the island. I really loved this book and enjoyed Lockhart's prose. Reading the reviews on Goodreads, some either love it or hate it. It's good to know less about this book. It's a very short read, less than 250 pages, so it moves quickly. Overall, I would say it's a pretty good YA mystery or suspense novel.
All of those 'gag' gifts in Bus are things that Steinbeck thought up. Can you imagine if we had the same PR/Merchandising craze back then like we have now? All of those items in the book would be on shelves in stores for folks to buy!!! I have read East Of Eden 4 or 5 times in my lifetime and have always found something new in those pages. Read The Pearl way back in 7th grade. Didn't quite 'get it'. Have read The red Pony recently, along with The Winter Of Our Discomtent, The Long Valley and The Wayward Bus. Have a copy of Sweet Thursday sitting in my TBR pile but am not going to read it til I have another 'new' Steinbeck to read afterwards.
This is freaking me out. Several years ago, you, Staro, recommended that I read The Alienist...one of my top 5 favorites. This morning, for some reason, I thought, "I really should reread that." Then I read this post...I don't know...our minds were syncing or something. I'm heading to the basement to dig it out!
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