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[pockettheroach]

So I just started Wizard and Glass this morning, and I understand now, completely, why people have yelled (literally) at me for not reading this series before. This is SERIOUSLY FANTASTIC STUFF, people. The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. Read if you haven't, read it if you hate King, read it if you hate fantasy. It's fantasy, yes, but not at

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[draloreshimare]

*laughs* Yes, that is why everyone's been yelling. Funny thing is, I don't know an awful lot of people (IRL) who know of it, much less have read it.

[pockettheroach]

Yeah, it seems to be kind of like Good Omens--more a word-of-mouth thing than anything--except even more so, what with King being such a well-known author. It was just one of those I'll-get-to-it-eventually things, then last week lionessvalenti picked up the first two at a used bookstore for me...and it was all over. Hee.

[jemifal]

I read the first four when I was a sophomore and loved them. I'm waiting for the next three to come out in cheap paper back copies so I can buy them (and find the time to read them).
And by the way, your stuff was all mailed out this morning.

[pockettheroach]

Yay thanks! :D Good timing, too. Somehow my pinstripe pants I wear all the time randomly lost a button over the course of the weekend, and I don't think I even *wore* them...

I have all but the last right now, and the fifth I did buy new in the trade paperback, but the rest I picked up at Half-Price Books (except the first two, which I think lionessvalenti got for a dollar or something). I'm hoping I can hold off with the last four until this weekend, but we'll see--work is generally eight hours of reading time, and even with my usual hour or so of cartoons and half-hour or so of cleaning last night, I finished The Waste Lands about twenty minutes before I went home. (Is that the last one he wrote before his accident? I remember people going nuts about "what if he dies before he finishes the cliffhanger" and all that. I can see why. I read his book On Writing last year, and he goes into detail about the accident and recovery, and I remember thinking "Oh gods, what if that happened to Jo...")

[captain_jester]

YAY Oooh ooh you gotta read Salem's Lot before you read Wolves of the Calla...Just cuz...

[pockettheroach]

Good, I'm ahead of the game there :D I started reading King by picking up 75-cent paperbacks at Goodwill, so I've had an expansive education in his older works. Salem's Lot is one of my favorites.

[spiritfilledsmo]

vanilla ice...why didnt you call me ??? I would have totally gone and rocked out to uhh ice ice baby.. MAN!! haha when are you coming up to Yellow springs.....i want to hang out like woah.

CALL ME :)