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Avatar wrote:The mind shudders...
Tee-HEE.

I'd be more harmful to myself than anyone else, I'm sure...

:::although I am sure my sensei would find it a fascinating weapon:::

I am still barely competant with my bo, despite my silver medal at the Florida Sunshine State Games several years ago. Perhaps once I am permitted to move on to sai, I can consider an Oriza...
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From an old post in the "OK, where do I start?" thread...
Cail wrote:It's funny, as the seasons start to change, I start looking for stuff to read. Part of me wants to do the cycle again, but DT:V and DT:VI were such disappointments to me, I'm not sure if I ant to try it again. Maybe I'll just read I-IV, and then VII.
Cail, I am afraid I am going to have to disagree with you once again. While I loved WaG, and wept at the story, so far I think Wolves grabbed me the most. I think it was the fastest I read any of these novels in the cycle so far.

Now...which book is Low Men in? I am hoping it's a quick read, as I am quite anxious to get to SoS.
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Hearts in Atlantis.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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Thanks Cail.

Yeah, I found that out. I also have a new problem...

:::Luci, please don't take umbridge at this, I am using his words:::

Hyperception is insisting I read all of Hearts in Atlantis. He pretty much read King's bibliography as Beorn finished it, and to quote him:

"IMO, Hearts in Atlantis is the closest thing King wrote to literature. I'll be highly disappointed in you if you don't read the whole thing."

:::grumble:::

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I went ahead and asked Hyperception for his definition of literature:

"Literature is something that takes the reader outside of himself in order that he may regard himself in a new or greater context. Most writing is a kind of narcotic taking the reader outside of himself as an escape. Most writing is not anagogical."
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Hmmm. Don't know about the literature comment, but I will say that the short stories in HiA are quite good, especially Chasing the Bitch.
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Heh...

Well, that's a big help to me Cail, reinforcing Hyperception's insistance that I read the whole thing. ;)
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*shrug* I didn't like Hearts.

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G-ds damn it.

That's what you get when you're the slowest reader in a family of bookworms who take turns reading the same things...

:::punching imaginary wall in frustration:::

:::overheard as I was folding laundry:::
"Daddy, how do you think Mommy will react when Ted comes into the series?"
"...Ha! How do you think she'll react when Sheemie returns?
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Say what???
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RAFO. :D

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Avatar wrote:RAFO. :D
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OK...

Low Men is done, :shudder:. I skimmed the other stories in Hearts in Atlantis, but none grabbed my attention until the last one, Heavenly Shades. I went ahead and read that one too. Perhaps I'll go back and read the other stories, after I'm finished with the Tower. Right now, I just want to proceed along that particular Beam...
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One quick question before I crack open Song of Susannah, since I am not going to read the additional strories right away. In Heavenly Shades, Carol/Denise mentions someone taught her how to go dim. Anyone I would know from previous readings? Do I need to read that particular story (and which one would it be) at least?
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It's been too long since I read it (and my retention from the period of time that I read it is nearly worthless).

Does sound familiar though.
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*nod*

Thanks Cail.

I already asked Beorn, and he only read it a few months ago. His reaction was identical, "That sounds right, but I don't remember who it was or which of the stories it's in." I'm sure Hyperception will know when he gets home from work. I also know he'll refuse to tell me, since I'm not reading the whole book when he told me I should. I'll ask anyway, but I already know how he'll respond...
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:::skepticsim shooting sky high:::

Oh, c'mon!! Roland and Eddie are actually going to meet the author???
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Menolly wrote::::skepticsim shooting sky high:::

Oh, c'mon!! Roland and Eddie are actually going to meet the author???
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...grrr...

You people are so aggravating!! :|

...but...OK... ;)
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So...

I didn't bring Song of Susannah with me on our road trip, as I get very car sick if I attempt to read while riding and I figured we wouldn't have time for me to read when we stopped. I just now finished Roland and Eddie's visit to Stephen King as portrayed in this book. It makes sense in the context of the story, but...well...it still strikes me as really egotistical.

Absolutely and utterly bizzar, even if all things do serve the Beam. I hope the story carries me away again. For me, this rankled...
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No comment. Yet. :D

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...grumble...

:::better than having it spoiled though:::
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