What Book(s) Are You Currently Reading?

[MoOff24]

In the middle of this

definitely better than the first one IMO. the ending is awesome. can't wait to read the final book.

[Fraze]

Not trying to be an ass here (this is like micmac help with quoting ~) but do some of you guys realize you can right click on a word to correct spelling? It's just like MS Word?

And I only bring this up because of the (sp) and I'm in the damn book thread.

Posting from mobile

[Fraze]

Did you read the talisman as well?

When King and the other guy wrote that, they tried to write in each other's styles so that the readers couldn't guess who was writing what part.

The first part of that book is all set up and background stuff. Which isn't really unusual with King's works. Ever read insomnia? The first half of that book is basically slow, boring nonsense that doesn't have much to do with the actual action of the book.

Yeah, read The Talisman and Insomnia.

I know that was their plan, and I thought it worked well in the talisman, but the first part of this book felt like there was no King involvement at all.

I think I know why, but you'll only understand if you've read it, have you?

[mtdman]

Yeah, read The Talisman and Insomnia.

I know that was their plan, and I thought it worked well in the talisman, but the first part of this book felt like there was no King involvement at all.

I think I know why, but you'll only understand if you've read it, have you?

Yeah I've read them both and listened to them a bunch too. The whole opening and setup is definitely very un-King like. But it changes as you get into the story. Black House is definitely nothing like The Talisman either, that kinda bothered me.

Supposedly King has mentioned writing another Jack Sawyer book.

[Fraze]

Yeah I've read them both and listened to them a bunch too. The whole opening and setup is definitely very un-King like. But it changes as you get into the story. Black House is definitely nothing like The Talisman either, that kinda bothered me.

Supposedly King has mentioned writing another Jack Sawyer book.

My issue is that one of the reasons I really like King is because of the depth he creates with his characters, and therefore the connection the reader gets to them.

The problem with the opening of the book is your riding with this mysterious narratator, and there can be no attachment to a non existant character, and you never get the internal thoughts that you normally would get with Kings characters.

[WhoWhat]

Posting from mobile

Are you rocking a Motorola StarTAC? Every mobile worth a damn has spelling error checking.

[mtdman]

My issue is that one of the reasons I really like King is because of the depth he creates with his characters, and therefore the connection the reader gets to them.

The problem with the opening of the book is your riding with this mysterious narratator, and there can be no attachment to a non existant character, and you never get the internal thoughts that you normally would get with Kings characters.

Give it some time.

[Fraze]

Give it some time.

Oh, I'm past it now, and enjoying the book a lot more.

[Fraserburn]

Just finished George RR Martins A Dance with Dragons
now working on Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

[mtdman]

Oh, I'm past it now, and enjoying the book a lot more.

Because of this conversation I'm listening to Black House again, currently. Good audio book version, one of the last books Frank Mueller narrated before he had his accident. I really like this book. I was largely over looked because it came out the same week as 9-11. IIRC it came out ON 9-11.

[sseelhoff]

Just finished re-reading "A Salty Piece of Land" by Jimmy Buffet. Not sure what I'm going to move onto now...