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Post by Thorngrub on Apr 11, 2005 10:39:59 GMT -5
Yeah, I needed a Big Steve Kick Start bigtime -- I got stuck 3/4ths of the way through Vol 5 of the Dark Tower Series: Wolves Of The Calla. Put it down and read a bunch of other stuff. Then reading The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon and From A Buick 8 got me back into the STeve King vibe, so I've picked up where I left off in Wolves of the Calla.
Then there's just 2 more volumes to go, and my quest for reaching the end of the DArk Tower draws to its tearful close.
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Post by pissin2 on Apr 12, 2005 12:43:24 GMT -5
I just stole my dads copy of From A Buick 8 and started on it.
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Post by Thorngrub on Apr 12, 2005 15:42:50 GMT -5
Sweet. It's a good story. Nuthin mindblowin . . .but a nice way to pass the time.
I've got about 20 pages left in Wolves of the Calla.
I'm right back into it. Gunna have to go downtown and find me a nice used copy of Song of Susannah, in hardcover. Bet I'll find one for pretty cheap. Then I'll have to get meself the last one: The Dark Tower, Vol VII.
Man I wonder if Big Steve will ever go back on his word, and crank out some more books. I sure do hope so.
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Post by Thorngrub on Apr 13, 2005 16:42:56 GMT -5
Finished Wolves Of The Calla -- man am I impressed. Looks as if Big Steve is managing -- has managed, I daresay -- in achieving what heretofore may have been thought of as "the impossible": he has written The Dark Tower series. A fantasy series which, based on its very nature, manages to at once pay homage to, incorporate, tip the hat to, underline, and eclipse every other great fantasy story ever told, including certain epic well loved sagas initially borne on the silver screen, all the while maintaining its own significant tang and crucial identity, its own unique pacing only Steven King could provide, and not only that -- but because of its very nature -- is set irrefutably on the bedrock of literature's foundation itself as the unavoidable totemic figure outshining and shadowing over every other story ever written since the history of time with only one notable exception -- the Bible itself. Being that The Bible is accepted by millions the world over as an ACTUAL HOLY SCRIPTURE, I feel I can safely say that "THE BIBLE" is EXEMPT from The Dark Tower's competition, entirely. Making THE DARK TOWER the #1 fictional work ever crafted in the history of cheap literature.* *ALL literature is, by definition, cheap. If it ain't printed on freakin solid 24-carat gold, that is, just on readily available paper, whether hardbound or softbound, the shit is printed for the common man to be able to afford to go out and get hisself a copy and read it, by god. Thus, all the works of Shakespeare, Voltaire, Raymond Chandler, Ray Bradbury, you name it, it's all "cheap literature", the whole ball o' wax & papyrus. It's all "Pulp Fiction". [With The Singular Exception Of The Bible, that is . . .  ] And THE DARK TOWER reigns supreme above it all. Looks as if Steven King's retirement is a matter of immaculate timing. And I say thankya -- |
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Post by Thorngrub on Apr 19, 2005 19:36:06 GMT -5
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Post by patlogi on May 10, 2005 0:05:01 GMT -5
Didn't realize ol' JAC had a book thread going. Am reading "Fatal" by Michael Palmer."
Still haven't read "Wolves Of The Calla." Recently bought "Song of Susannah" at a really great discount price I might add, and think I need to start over at book one as I have sooooooooo lost interest in the adventures of Roland and Susannah.
Trip to the libarry...as I use to say library a long, long time ago...
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Post by patlogi on May 21, 2005 23:29:41 GMT -5
Decided to break down and read the "trilogy" from David Morrell. Starting with:  |
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Post by patlogi on May 31, 2005 22:20:35 GMT -5
Uh-oh. My favorite writer in the world's newest novel arrived in todays mail from literaryguilde.com. I don't know...it might take precedence in the order of reading materials...  What do you think JAC? |
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Post by JACkory on Jun 1, 2005 10:22:25 GMT -5
Uh-oh. My favorite writer in the world's newest novel arrived in todays mail from literaryguilde.com. I don't know...it might take precedence in the order of reading materials... What do you think JAC? Well, you asked... I think Dean Koontz is a hack. The level of his popularity is an enigma to me. Sorry, but I've never appreciated Koontz's stuff and I doubt I ever will. Currently I'm reading Loving God by Charles Colson and Systematic Theology Volume 3 by Dr. Norman Geisler. Haven't had much time for fiction lately, but I did just recently read The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis and thought it was incredibly good. |
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Post by patlogi on Jun 1, 2005 22:51:56 GMT -5
To each "his" own JAC. Tell me JAC. What kind of novels did you read growing up? Before your teens?
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Post by patlogi on Jun 2, 2005 20:08:21 GMT -5
Cat got yer tongue JAC? Or maybe you once read "The Cat In The Hat"?
Eh JAC?
Or maybe you didnt read much when you were young and growing?
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Post by patlogi on Jun 2, 2005 22:07:44 GMT -5
What about Murphy's Law JAC? Are you a believer in "what can go wrong, will go wrong?" I've always thought of that as the pessimistic viewpoint. Being the bouyant optimist that I am, I can honestly say that the only Murphy I believed in was Murphy Brown. Then my world was shattered, I was torn from the nemises's illusion (or was it my own self- induced delusion?) and faced the truth... Murphy Brown is Candice Bergman. Oh No!....Oh Yes! What a wowld...what a wowld.  |
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Post by JACkory on Jun 2, 2005 22:52:38 GMT -5
Cat got yer tongue JAC? Or maybe you once read "The Cat In The Hat"? Eh JAC? Or maybe you didnt read much when you were young and growing? What is your problem, Pat? You'd think I was expected to be trolling these boards 24 hours a day... What makes you think I didn't read much when I was young? Because I see Koontz as the talentless hack that he is? Yer startin' to creep me out, dude. |
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Post by patlogi on Jun 3, 2005 18:49:01 GMT -5
Well honestly JAC...you've always kinda creeped me out...but I continue to try. And I carry on...  |
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Post by JACkory on Jun 3, 2005 19:29:59 GMT -5
Honestly, I don't think I'd have it any other way.
Continue to try WHAT?
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