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mike5998
November 19, 2010 01:31AM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
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i'm re-reading stephen king's dark tower series. i don't know why. i think it's ka.


funny, i'll finish the 7th book today or tomorrow. probably today.

9/9 to 11/18.

Question: Do you find yourself even mildly interested in Wind Through the Keyhole?


no.


but i'm mildly interested in why you'd ask whether i was mildly interested in it.


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jward
November 19, 2010 10:33AM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
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i'm re-reading stephen king's dark tower series. i don't know why. i think it's ka.


funny, i'll finish the 7th book today or tomorrow. probably today.

9/9 to 11/18.

Question: Do you find yourself even mildly interested in Wind Through the Keyhole?


no.


but i'm mildly interested in why you'd ask whether i was mildly interested in it.

Scale of 1 to 10: More interested in the question / Less interested in Wind Through the Keyhole?

I reread them recently as well, and I just saw that he was working on another Dark Tower book. "King said, regarding the Dark Tower series, "It's not really done yet. Those seven books are really sections of one long über-novel."
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mike5998
November 19, 2010 10:38AM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
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i'm re-reading stephen king's dark tower series. i don't know why. i think it's ka.


funny, i'll finish the 7th book today or tomorrow. probably today.

9/9 to 11/18.

Question: Do you find yourself even mildly interested in Wind Through the Keyhole?


no.


but i'm mildly interested in why you'd ask whether i was mildly interested in it.

Scale of 1 to 10: More interested in the question / Less interested in Wind Through the Keyhole?

I reread them recently as well, and I just saw that he was working on another Dark Tower book. "King said, regarding the Dark Tower series, "It's not really done yet. Those seven books are really sections of one long über-novel."


scale of 1 to 10? 5/5, even steven.

as for king's comment on the uber-novel thing, i think it's out of context. the dark tower books are done. there won't be an 8th dark tower novel. the "uber-novel" he's referring to is his body of work, which was interwoven throughout the dark tower books.

i'm pretty sure at least. 5 out of 10 sure.


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jward
November 19, 2010 10:49AM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
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scale of 1 to 10? 5/5, even steven.

as for king's comment on the uber-novel thing, i think it's out of context. the dark tower books are done. there won't be an 8th dark tower novel. the "uber-novel" he's referring to is his body of work, which was interwoven throughout the dark tower books.

i'm pretty sure at least. 5 out of 10 sure.

Yea. Looks like the new one will fall between Wizard and Wolves. I'm leaning a little lower on the scale though. Maybe a solid 2 / 2.5
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mike5998
November 19, 2010 11:59AM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
if you are correct sir, and i hope you are......that is very exciting to me. i'm afraid i have to admit, just the thought of it gives me a little boner.

2 / 2.5

i'm hoping it's the story of what happens right after mejis in "wizard and glass"..........jericho hill, the horn of eld, fall of gilead, etc. of course, he'll have to not pick up the horn after the battle is over.

of course!


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BroomPerson
November 21, 2010 07:03PM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
I love The Dark Tower with all my heart. One of the best book series ever IMO. I even dug the part with the author self-insertion, which is generally something that's terrible and trite and horrific.

Right now I'm reading The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. It's a collection of interwoven stories about the Vietnam war that are partly about the author's own experiences and partly made up. It's really emotionally moving. All the stories are told SO well. I really recommend it, even if you don't like books about war. If you're going to read one book about Vietnam in your life, make it this one.
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Kathaariancode
November 21, 2010 11:06PM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
Family Happiness. Finally.
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betamax
November 22, 2010 03:43AM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
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"I like Tolstoy; he's a joker."
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ImpelDown
November 23, 2010 11:28AM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
I'm liking all the support for the Dark Tower I'm seeing here.

Anyway, I just got Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by Sedaris and it's excellent. He's so funny and does a really great job of making the animals act just like humans, but still keep it so that it's very clear, and they are very aware, that they are animals and they should act as such. My favorite story in it, on my first read, is The Toad, The Turtle, and The Duck, but I think that's just because the punchline is so outrageous and I'm a whore for things like that.
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mike5998
November 24, 2010 12:16AM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
stephen king is one of those writers like dan brown.

they're not good and nobody likes them!


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mike5998
February 13, 2011 01:34AM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
highly encouraged

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all the books in this series are magnificent

The Little World of Don Camillo (1950)
Don Camillo and His Flock (1952)
Don Camillo's Dilemma (1954)
Don Camillo Takes the Devil by the Tail (1957)
Comrade Don Camillo (1964)
Don Camillo Meets the Flower Children (1969)

terrific short stories and drawings


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EvilEivind
February 13, 2011 08:04AM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
Life Of Pi. Hadn't expected the first part to be as long as it was, and having problems grasping how the lifeboat is designed, and just how big it is.


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Jamison
February 13, 2011 09:14AM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
Reading Ulysses right now. It's brilliant and has changed many of my views on what is possible in terms of the scope of a novel and really the basic idea of how people think. The Hades chapter is particularly good. Bloom is clearly afraid of death but views it almost as a practical concern of about the importance of one's job or eating lunch. Joyce's brilliance is the ability to show how life as a whole is a massive undertaking for any human.


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cirrhosis
February 13, 2011 10:22AM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
This thread
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jacobfiala
February 13, 2011 11:04AM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
Haunted by chuck palahniuk
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mike5998
February 13, 2011 01:33PM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
ugh. how did "guts" treat you?

one of the neatest writing ideas i've read in awhile. good short stories in a good story tortilla wrapping it all up into the most horrendous burrito ever.


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BroomPerson
February 13, 2011 03:53PM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
Oh yeah, Dark Tower fans:
I totally got a tattoo of Arthur Eld's sigul like a month ago. Should I post a pic?


like a vision straight outta Holly Hobbie
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Achillius
February 13, 2011 04:05PM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
Just finished Toni Morrison's "Beloved", which devastates utterly. Now reading "Lolita", which is moving sort of inexorably toward a devastation of its own, I'm starting to think.
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jacobfiala
February 13, 2011 06:29PM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
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ugh. how did "guts" treat you?

one of the neatest writing ideas i've read in awhile. good short stories in a good story tortilla wrapping it all up into the most horrendous burrito ever.
funny you should mention that, I got the audiobook and was listening to it at a basketball game when "guts" started and it got so intense that i thought i was gonna throw up so i walked to the bathroom and everything started to spin and stuff, next thing i know i woke up on the bathroom floor bleeding from my eyebrow, because apparently i went face first into the marble floor when i passed out. but golly, i loved that book. totally worth the ER trip.
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mike5998
February 14, 2011 10:08AM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
my reaction was not so visceral, but i did feel i had a "fight or flight" thing going on. i definitely wanted to stop reading for some reason. but i kept going. good thing, because i might not have picked it back up.

never read something that made me feel that way. i wanted to punch the book and run away, actually. and punch myself while i ran away for reading that story. and then eat the book and punch my haunted poop when it came out.

or something like that.

my suggestion is that no one read chuck palahniuk's "haunted" ever!


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jacobfiala
February 14, 2011 10:22AM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
But I ended up loving it, you just gotta fight thru that shit (it's just pride fuckin with you)
But I did also want to punch my haunted poop. I think thats a common reaction
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February 14, 2011 10:24AM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
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my suggestion is that no one read chuck palahniuk's "haunted" ever!

and now i totally want to!



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mike5998
February 14, 2011 10:32AM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
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my suggestion is that no one read chuck palahniuk's "haunted" ever!

and now i totally want to!

that was my secret plan.

if you get past chapter two, my hat will be off to you!


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betamax
February 14, 2011 10:36AM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
I'm also not really into my 'horror' stuff (is that what it would be termed? I'm not sure) so i'll probably hate it!
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mike5998
February 14, 2011 10:40AM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
it's not horror, i don't think.

more....terror.


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