I couldn't read the Dark Tower series. and I neer read Salem's Lot. How odd.
Sir? I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.
Zoe ,'The Train Job'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
beth b - Nov 25, 2009 2:37:56 pm PST #10406 of 28370
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Beverly - Nov 25, 2009 5:36:46 pm PST #10407 of 28370
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I love his Night Shift collection of shorts. For a long book writer, King can turn out some good shorts. Several of those were set around Castle Rock, as well.
Atropa - Nov 25, 2009 10:34:10 pm PST #10408 of 28370
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
The book I want to see King write a sequel to is Danse Macabre. It's one of the best guidebooks to the horror genre I've ever read, and I would love to read his take on more recent stuff.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Nov 26, 2009 2:11:42 am PST #10409 of 28370
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
I used to borrow Stephen King off my dad's bookshelves - he had dozens of them. My favourite was always 'Needful Things'. I like creepy.
Kathy A - Nov 27, 2009 10:48:20 am PST #10410 of 28370
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
The book I want to see King write a sequel to is Danse Macabre.
Oh, my yes!! I wrote a junior high paper on King in 1979, using Danse Macabre as the central point. Love that book!
Katerina Bee - Nov 30, 2009 4:06:32 pm PST #10411 of 28370
Herding cats for fun
Crap! The system ate my post. Darn, it was a good one.
Anyway, to paraphrase: HATED the ending of the Dark Tower series. Thought inserting multiple Stephen Kings into the narrative was just awful. I prefer to think that I don't remember having read that far.
Still haven't finished "The Historian," alas. I do look forward to getting back to the action because it's set in Budapest.
Typo Boy - Dec 01, 2009 12:54:26 pm PST #10412 of 28370
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
John Scalzi narrates a conversation he and a friend have about a bottle of good scotch Scalzi has provided:
Deven: This approximates what Romulan ale ought to be,”
...
Deven: Mind you, it’s not blue, like Romulan Ale is supposed to be.
Scalzi: We could fix that if you’d like.
Deven: No. We couldn’t.
Scalzi: Sure we could. We’ve got blue food coloring.
Deven: Don’t make me stab you.
megan walker - Dec 01, 2009 6:38:14 pm PST #10413 of 28370
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
As part of my 2010 24-in-a-year reading resolution on Facebook, I’d like every other book to be one I should have read but haven’t. Does anyone have a preferred translation of
Don Quixote
or
War and Peace
to recommend?
For the record, the rest of the list is as follows:
The Awakening
Beloved
Catch-22
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
The Education of Henry Adams
The Handmaid’s Tale
Macbeth
My Antonia
La Princesse de Clèves
Wide Sargasso Sea
Although I’m considering replacing Catch-22 with either One Hundred Years of Solitude or Love in the Time of Cholera. Thoughts?
-t - Dec 01, 2009 6:45:11 pm PST #10414 of 28370
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I loved One Hundred Years of Solitude but didn't care for love in the Time of Cholera at all. Catch-22 is also worth reading.
Amy - Dec 01, 2009 6:46:32 pm PST #10415 of 28370
Because books.
That's an excellent list, megan. Although I have to say I've never head of La Princesse de Clèves.