I loved Doctor Sleep, but a few of the technology references made me cringe.It may seem weird to you, but writing pleases me more than plot. If you write like a 12 year old, like Mr. King did in DR. Sleep, sorry but that's a no from me.
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The old man and the sea. Ernest Hemingway
Reading Catastrophe: Europe goes to war 1914 by Max Hastings. Good history of a confused time. Not exactly a story to make you smile but interesting and wellresearched. Stops a bit in to the war so it is not a history of the first world war.
I just read The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. I really enjoyed the book even though half a dozen people tried to convince me to never read the book (because it was a terrible); and I hardly know anything about baseball ( before I read the book: I had a misconception that it was necessary to understand baseball, to be able to understand the book).
I just finished Stephen King's 'On Writing' and Brandon Sanderson's "The Way of Kings" this past week. Heh, King, Kings just noticed that, universe sending me a message?
I won't say much about 'On Writing' -already addressed in another thread, but thought it was great. Got this copy from the Library but will need to get one to keep on the shelf.
Brandon Sanderson surprised me. I'm an instant fan. I found the world he created unique, a nice change from the 'typical' trolls, elves and goblins and will get book two this weekend.
I also reread significant parts of some Terry Brooks, Patrick Rothfuss and Dean Koontz novels from my closet - I tried to read them with a writer's eye, to see how they handle different things like dialogue, backstory and the like but it's hard to do, I keep getting sucked into the story.
I won't say much about 'On Writing' -already addressed in another thread, but thought it was great. Got this copy from the Library but will need to get one to keep on the shelf.
Brandon Sanderson surprised me. I'm an instant fan. I found the world he created unique, a nice change from the 'typical' trolls, elves and goblins and will get book two this weekend.
I also reread significant parts of some Terry Brooks, Patrick Rothfuss and Dean Koontz novels from my closet - I tried to read them with a writer's eye, to see how they handle different things like dialogue, backstory and the like but it's hard to do, I keep getting sucked into the story.
Recently read Nemesis: The Death of Timmy Quinn by Kealan Patrick Burke. It was very good, I wish I could go and buy up everything else he has written right now!
Brandon Sanderson is one of the bright lights of the genre. He creates very good female characters and injects a lot of humour and action into his work which is welcome with some of the staid and lumbering fantasy novels out there.I just finished Stephen King's 'On Writing' and Brandon Sanderson's "The Way of Kings" this past week. Heh, King, Kings just noticed that, universe sending me a message?
I won't say much about 'On Writing' -already addressed in another thread, but thought it was great. Got this copy from the Library but will need to get one to keep on the shelf.
Brandon Sanderson surprised me. I'm an instant fan. I found the world he created unique, a nice change from the 'typical' trolls, elves and goblins and will get book two this weekend.
I also reread significant parts of some Terry Brooks, Patrick Rothfuss and Dean Koontz novels from my closet - I tried to read them with a writer's eye, to see how they handle different things like dialogue, backstory and the like but it's hard to do, I keep getting sucked into the story.
The Nameless
M-O-O-N - That spells Nameless
Madness. I'm from England, the only things I knew/know about about baseball are: someone throws the ball, some "sted head" tries to hit it out of the park, then runs around in a circle, and it can go all damn night. Didn't stop me enjoying TGWLTG (or blockade Billy), because from the moment I read the synopsis, i knew it was going to be a little girl lost in the woods facing her fears - and King has a history of doing that kind of thing very well.
I held back on the dark tower series because of how many people I heard say The Gunslinger is so hard to read - when I finally did, I got straight into it, found it nowhere near difficult.
started reading The Stand again. It has been a few years since i've read this story.
Does this book compare in any way with "The Guns of August"? I read the latter eons ago in H.S., and actually picked it up on sale last winter, thinking I would do a re-read. Haven't gotten there yet, but just curious if I might be better off reading the Hastings book, or maybe one and then the other??
Oh, I just finished my re-reading of it, 3 years later. Still, as enjoyable.
Enjoy it! I try reading it every fall, along with 'Salem's Lot, The Shining, and Needful Things. It's my tradition....
I think I'm going to reread Insomnia while I wait for the rest of my Tabitha King books to get here. It's been a couple of years since I read Insomnia last, and I remember liking it but not *loving* it. Maybe things will be different this time...
Only book of Hemingway's that I could tolerate.
I do not re-read many books but The Stand is number one on my small list.
Okay, I'm about 80 pages into Insomnia. Wow!!!! Maybe last time was a fluke because this book is really doing it for me now. Love the part where
I was grinning like an idiot!
Ralph accidentally drops a coupon into the sewer on the corner of Jackson and Witcham.
I was grinning like an idiot!
Well, to read The Stand again you have to prepare psychologically. It's an enormous tale... Took me a couple of days to really commit to it
finished Heartsnatcher, Boris Vian...I'd say give it a go, worth a read. Am starting On Elegance While Sleeping, Viscount Lascano Tegui, #73 for the year...goal still a hundred. I really liked how in Heartsnatcher Vian portrayed Clementine...overly protective mother, the way she imagines all manner of harm befouling her babes, boys all...and by extension, the implications of that to life in general. So on so forth and scoobie doobie doo.
If you read it...tell me what you think by story's end. In many ways the story is a real hoot as it does not necessarily follow the rules...it is a story and there's some fun and magic there as well.
If you read it...tell me what you think by story's end. In many ways the story is a real hoot as it does not necessarily follow the rules...it is a story and there's some fun and magic there as well.
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
yup - did my homework early!
Now however I may actually be out of the house on Friday at that time - doing that "oom-pah-pah" thing at the German Pavilion of Folklorama
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