Kevin's Watch

Awww, Luci. I am sure you actually have the right of it. It's just not what I do, and I know, even if I agree with your POV, that I am not going to change...

A Gunslinger wrote:WaG is truly a great work...TDotT does indeed draw you in, and Wastelands is very exciting, bt WaG makes the reader LOVE the characters and lays the groundwork for truly understanding the whole of what Roland has given up for his quest. WaG defines Roland in a way the all prior and subsequent DT books do not.

It's a 2-3 hanky read, Menolly.

I am up to page 211 of the 668 page edition of W&G I got from the library. The trio just left the introductory dinner at the Mayor's House, where Roland learns of Susan's 'arrangement'.

Luci, I am sorry, but my usual reads are mostly fluff and nonesense. :::hanging head::: So far, this is much more to my liking.

I am sorry to disappoint...

Lucimay wrote:
i'm of the opinion you're all genre disloyal.

Why? Because I have a narrow usage of the word literature?

--A

OK...I gotta let this out...

I hate the Pink Grapefruit!

Even more than I despised Rita Blakemoore.

Ah Roland...
Why trust the visions in the Wizard's Glass???

:::double post, sorry:::

::dumbfounded, I just can not predict things in novels and my mind has decided any incarnation had to have the initials RF:::

:::idiot me:::

Marten? Flagg??

One and the same???

::here come the waterworks:::

Aye...ka has had it's way with 14 year old Roland Deschain. What a tragic beginning to a more than a lifetime long journey...

Onward to Salem's Lot.

Told ya.

Wizard and Glass is absolutely heartbreaking.

Cail wrote:Told ya.

Wizard and Glass is absolutely heartbreaking.

So you did warn me. So you did...

The thing that got me about it was that I knew it wasn't going to end happily, but the story unfolds so well.....It's like you can see the train barreling towards disaster, you know it's going to be terrible, but when it finally does wreck it just rips you apart with gut-wrenching sadness.

I cry like a baby every time I read WaG. Truly a beautiful and tragic tale. King's best, I believe.

Cail wrote:The thing that got me about it was that I knew it wasn't going to end happily, but the story unfolds so well.....It's like you can see the train barreling towards disaster, you know it's going to be terrible, but when it finally does wreck it just rips you apart with gut-wrenching sadness.

I cry like a baby every time I read WaG. Truly a beautiful and tragic tale. King's best, I believe.

:::sad smile:::

Right now, the story is too new for me to even consider rereading it. Perhaps one day...

Yeah, I'm not happy with the Marten / Flagg thing but anyway.

--A

:::only about a third of the way into Salem's Lot so this is still total speculation for me at this point:::

Vampyres?? Stephen King wrote about Vampyres???

As a quiet fan of Yarbro's Saint-Germain Chronicles, I am amazed I have never known that...

:::digging heels in and refusing to move:::

I am finally 40 pages away from the end of Salem's Lot. Yes, I read slowly, and no longer have the tenacity for reading that I had as a teen, when I could finish a book in a day. However, while I rarely dream, I avoid things like horror movies as they do cause me to have nightmares.

The circumstances in this novel are going from bad to worse. Father Callahan on a bus to NYC, having become who knows what. Dr. Cody searching for the Undead with the kid, Mark Petrie. Ben Mears making stakes. Matt Burke possibly relapsing and dying, the brains behind the defense...

I don't want to bring on nightmares. Can't I just stop now?

And yet Paul and Beorn are telling me I have to finish. Do I trust them or no?

Of course you have to finish.

--A

Avatar wrote:Of course you have to finish.

--A

I apparently stopped too late anyway. G-ds I'm tired today from not sleeping well.

:::sigh:::

At least today we're bringing Beorn to spend ten days with FIL, so when Paul and I return home tomorrow I can indulge myself in these flights of fancy or terror of mine.

I may as well go ahead and finish it now, and proceed on to Wolves of the Calla...

Wolves is a lot of fun. You'll enjoy it immensely.

Gosh darn it! I thought I bookmarked the list.

Av...I can't find the ordered list of the books to read again, especially since I can't get search to work.

:::hanging head:::

...sorry...

:::although maybe it's just because I'm tired today:::

This page has the lists, both my basic one, and the complete one.

(Search is broken. E-mail Vain and complain. Only my brilliant memory allows me to find anything... )

--A

Thanks you, Av! You saved me yet again.

And now...good night! I put off avoiding further nightmares long enough.

:::eyes alight:::

Oooo...

Where can I get me an Oriza plate?

The mind shudders...

--A