Insomnia is not only a fine novel, but it's a fine example of King showering love and affection on another writer -- Stephen Dobyns's Cemetery Nights, one of the most splendid poetry books of the last few decades, plays a minor but important role. King annoyingly didn't use any of my personal favorites, but the ones he did use were pretty spot-on for the story he was telling, and it was just so fun to stumble on one writer I love in the middle of another writer I love.
Never send a minion to do a god's work.
Glory ,'The Killer In Me'
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."
JZ - Oct 31, 2012 1:19:24 am PDT #20055 of 28370
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Anne W. - Oct 31, 2012 1:37:55 am PDT #20056 of 28370
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
One not-King book I want to reread is Peter Straub's Floating Dragon. I remember it scaring the shit out of me
Oh, hell yes. There are images and moments from that book that still stick vividly in my mind after my single reading nearly 30 years ago.
Another fun (and scary and gruesome) read is The Talisman, which Straub and King co-wrote. It's a wonderful quest/pursuit/road-trip novel about a teenaged boy who is trying to save his mother's life.
Atropa - Nov 01, 2012 11:58:37 am PDT #20057 of 28370
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Ha! Guess who just won an ARC of the new Gail Carriger novel, Etiquette and Espionage?
t the gloatycakes tag does not close
sumi - Nov 01, 2012 12:01:41 pm PDT #20058 of 28370
Art Crawl!!!
No!
When is it coming out?
Soonish, I hope.
Atropa - Nov 01, 2012 12:04:52 pm PDT #20059 of 28370
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
When is it coming out?
Her blog says Feb. 5, 2013.
EpicTangent - Nov 01, 2012 2:29:35 pm PDT #20060 of 28370
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
XKCD on 50 Shades of Gray:
Just came frighteningly close to spewing Mountain Dew (Code Red) on my monitor at work. Awesome.
sumi - Nov 02, 2012 9:29:39 am PDT #20061 of 28370
Art Crawl!!!
Damn. Want it NOW.
Amy - Nov 04, 2012 7:26:58 am PST #20062 of 28370
Because books.
Help? I hate that I'm so clueless about tech stuff. I DL'd Great Expectations from Project Gutenberg, the Kindle edition, but ... how do I put it on my Kindle? Or was I supposed to do it *on* the Kindle?
Amy - Nov 04, 2012 7:26:59 am PST #20063 of 28370
Because books.
Didn't need to say it twice.
Consuela - Nov 04, 2012 7:32:46 am PST #20064 of 28370
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Amy, I don't know whether the Kindle can read a .txt file without it being converted to MOBI. If it can, you can email the file to your Kindle through Amazon.
If it can't, you need to convert it and then email it.
I use Calibre, which works kind of like iTunes for ebooks. It's a free application, regularly updated, and you can use it to manage your ebooks, and convert the files to and from MOBI (the Kindle format), EPUBS, TXT, HTML, DOC, and so forth. That way I have a bunch of fic from the AO3 filed the same way as regular books are.
One of the advantages of Calibre is that you can get an extension that strips the DRM from Amazon books, so you can load them on a different type of ereader (like a Nook) if you want.