Dang it. It's the price I pay for being a mythology fan and a Pagan. *sigh*
Dan Simmons Anyone?
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Dang it. It's the price I pay for being a mythology fan and a Pagan. *sigh*
I finished The Abominable a little while back. Thought it was excellent, though the detailed mountain climbing parts will be too much for some. Apart from that, the story was pretty straight forward...for Simmons that is.
I skimmed most of the descriptive passages about climbing. Why couldn't Simmons just say 'It was snowing extremely hard as they tried to climb up the side of the mountain.'?
Song of Kali was okay, but it felt a little xenophobic to me. I am sure that wasn’t Simmons’s intention.
I think he wanted readers to know how challenging climbing Everest was by making the story challenging in itself.I skimmed most of the descriptive passages about climbing. Why couldn't Simmons just say 'It was snowing extremely hard as they tried to climb up the side of the mountain.'?
Has anyone seen the previews for the new AMC movie The Terror? Is it going to be a show?
When I watch the trailer, I'm not so sure. It says inspired by true events. So, is this not an adaptation of Simmons' book?
Looks interesting and good!
His novel is actually based on the true events, that of the ill fated John Franklin Expedition. I see it's directed by Ridley Scott so it should be a corker!!!
Oh, ok, I didn't know that. Cool. I will read it one day. I've only read Summer of Night...is that what it's called. Similar to IT.
Looks awesome! I'm moving The Terror up on my TBR list. I'd like to read it before the show premieres.
For me it is in the top three of Simmons. First Carrion Comfort, Then A Winter Haunting and third The Terror. After that i place Summer Of Night.
I own all of these, but haven't read them yet. A while back, I got nice paperback copies of Carrion Comfort, Summer of Night, and Prayers to Broken Stones off Ebay for around $8 in total. I don't think the copies of Summer of Night or Prayers have ever been read.
One of the best feelings is walking into a thrift shop or used book store and finding a practically unread Stephen King paperback from the seventies or eighties (clean, unbroken spine, no writing in it). Has this ever happened to you? BTW...What is the best haul you've ever found?
Yes, I have found numerous unread older King paperbacks in my thrifting! I am amazed that they were never read and wonder how they survived intact, untouched. My best haul (or find, if that's what you meant) was when I found an immaculate 1st printing hardback of Carrie in a used book store and paid $7.99 for it. I assume that, because of it's size, that the book buyer thought it was a book club edition as those Doubleday King books were smaller than what we saw after he left them and went to Viking. Man, I practically ran out of that store after I paid for it! Kept waiting for someone to say 'Excuse me, sir, but we made a mistake and you have to pay $799 for that book.'
When I got to my car I thought about peeling off the price sticker, walking back into the store to the book buying area and ask them how much they would give me for that book. They had another copy in their glass case a few months before this happened, one that was in average condition and were asking $700 for it so they knew what the value of a 1st printing would be. They could have asked $1,000 for it easily as it's in very near mint condition. And, no, I won't sell it to you for $8.00. 
...I’ll give you ten, and let you swing a dead rat on a string....Yes, I have found numerous unread older King paperbacks in my thrifting! I am amazed that they were never read and wonder how they survived intact, untouched. My best haul (or find, if that's what you meant) was when I found an immaculate 1st printing hardback of Carrie in a used book store and paid $7.99 for it. I assume that, because of it's size, that the book buyer thought it was a book club edition as those Doubleday King books were smaller than what we saw after he left them and went to Viking. Man, I practically ran out of that store after I paid for it! Kept waiting for someone to say 'Excuse me, sir, but we made a mistake and you have to pay $799 for that book.'
Was this you driving home from the thrift store?Yes, I have found numerous unread older King paperbacks in my thrifting! I am amazed that they were never read and wonder how they survived intact, untouched. My best haul (or find, if that's what you meant) was when I found an immaculate 1st printing hardback of Carrie in a used book store and paid $7.99 for it. I assume that, because of it's size, that the book buyer thought it was a book club edition as those Doubleday King books were smaller than what we saw after he left them and went to Viking. Man, I practically ran out of that store after I paid for it! Kept waiting for someone to say 'Excuse me, sir, but we made a mistake and you have to pay $799 for that book.'
Lol...remember the helicopter scene from Goodfellas?
I'm surprised you didn't pass out. That's incredible!
It was pretty close to that! My hands were shaking to say the least.
So I finished The Fifth Heart by Dan Simmons a few days ago. This is the first Simmons book that it took me a while to get through. Maybe it was because of not being familiar with the Sherlock Holmes tales or anything by Henry James either, but some of it was not very readable for me. I did catch some of the 'nods' to the Holmes stories, but I'm sure there were tons in there that just went over my head. I have been trying to get a hardback copy of his 'newest' novel Omega Canyon but with no luck at all. It is available as an e-book on Amazon and the site lists it for sale as a book but it also says it will be 'available in one to two months'. WTH? I can't find it in an actual book store and when I asked about it at B&N I was told that it wouldn't be published as an actual book until January 2020. Well, it was listed on Amazon as being available in January of 2019 towards the end of 2018. I don't know who to contact to find out about this oddity....