"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." - The Gunslinger: The Dark Tower (first book) by Stephen King
This line haunted me, at the time I hated King he was a fat, overblown writer who made glaring mistakes and badly needed an editor but, but this line hooked me. I read from the book eery time I was in a bookstore and finally bought the damned thing.
I've never read the Dark Tower books. Stephen King always seems to run out of steam before he runs out of words. His novellas were great - and did he write short stories. Oddly enough, Joe stuck a Dark Tower book in front of my face at the library today. Worth reading? (By which I mean, a decent otherworld to get absorbed in, not a literary lifechanger.)
Yes. I read all of the Dark Tower series,and although the books were uneven the overall stories were terrific. Interesting in places, riveting in others. All the Midworld parts were wonderful.
This entry might make me go buy copies of books that I remember from my youth.
I have always been a fan of historical fiction. I wish I knew the first line of My Brother Sam is Dead by Collier and Collier. It has an entry in books.google.com, but not page 1. I've also read the Kent Family Chronicles and the North and South Trilogy by John Jakes. Pretty cheezy stuff, but I loved it.
"Cheezy stuff" we lovemommyrexJuly 8 2008, 21:43:53 UTC
I've toyed with book snobbery along the way (I was an English major, after all), but my current thinking is that anything that people love to read is worth reading. Sure, it's better if it's well-crafted in any of its literary aspects, but I've come to respect reading even when it has no effect beyond entertainment.
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Michael Swanwick begins his tale North of Diddy-Wah-Diddy with "The train to Hell don't stop in New Jersey."
Love Bradbury though. Always have.
And such a lovely man.
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What was a drop? Was he afraid? Why did he always do it and how long had he done it?
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This line haunted me, at the time I hated King he was a fat, overblown writer who made glaring mistakes and badly needed an editor but, but this line hooked me. I read from the book eery time I was in a bookstore and finally bought the damned thing.
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I've never read the Dark Tower books. Stephen King always seems to run out of steam before he runs out of words. His novellas were great - and did he write short stories. Oddly enough, Joe stuck a Dark Tower book in front of my face at the library today. Worth reading? (By which I mean, a decent otherworld to get absorbed in, not a literary lifechanger.)
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I have always been a fan of historical fiction. I wish I knew the first line of My Brother Sam is Dead by Collier and Collier. It has an entry in books.google.com, but not page 1. I've also read the Kent Family Chronicles and the North and South Trilogy by John Jakes. Pretty cheezy stuff, but I loved it.
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