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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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 farJust finished McCammon's Mine. Starting on Swan Song next. Am I in for a treat?!
Just finished McCammon's Mine. Starting on Swan Song next. Am I in for a treat?!
I remember thinking that he (the sheriff) bought that tale rather easily about what where the silverdollar was found. It made me wonder....
So I've decided that, after having recently tackled the magnificent tome that is The Count of Monte Cristo (a fantastic door-stopper that took me literally months to read), I would throw myself into the fire yet again with Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.
I am a masochist. Help me.
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!
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.Just finished McCammon's Mine. Starting on Swan Song next. Am I in for a treat?!
In his first novel to follow the publication of his enormous success, The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck’s vision comes wonderfully to life in this imaginative and unsentimental chronicle of a bus traveling California’s back roads, transporting the lost and the lonely, the good and the greedy, the stupid and the scheming, the beautiful and the vicious away from their shattered dreams and, possibly, toward the promise of the future. This edition features an introduction by Gary Scharnhorst.
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.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.
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!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!
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!
Great Steinbeck fan myself. You've inspired mr to go back to some of his 'wonky characters'. ThanksThe 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.
I loved Fevre Dream so much! Read that a long time ago.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.
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.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.
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!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!