Song of Susannah :Dark Tower 6> Who has began reading?
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Song of Susannah :Dark Tower 6> Who has began reading?
Anyone out there reading it yet? I'm on page 165.
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I've read quite a bit of Stephen King, mostly in my younger days of highschool, many years ago. I have never picked up this series, and the amount of people raving about it these days, I think that I might have to reconsider and go for it. It'll be the next series after Erikson's. Cheers.
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Currently reading it. On about page 80 or so...
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. John Stuart Mill
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That's an odd response....
Kind of damning with faint praise, no?
So far I'm enjoying it but I'm only about 140 pages in. The castle on the verge of Discordia is very cool.
P.S. For those of you who read King regularly can it not be said that he has truly fallen in love with the device he calls the "mental construct"? Read Dreamcatcher and you'll see he employs the same technique to depicts one of the main characters mind and memory. It's imaginative but almost seems like a cop-out when overused.
Kind of damning with faint praise, no?
So far I'm enjoying it but I'm only about 140 pages in. The castle on the verge of Discordia is very cool.
P.S. For those of you who read King regularly can it not be said that he has truly fallen in love with the device he calls the "mental construct"? Read Dreamcatcher and you'll see he employs the same technique to depicts one of the main characters mind and memory. It's imaginative but almost seems like a cop-out when overused.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. John Stuart Mill
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I didn't mean for my comment to be one of faint praise. I really like this book, both in terms of character devleopment and question answered, generated, and yet to be answered. What of the kid in Insomnia? What of Jack Sawyer? Just who is Cullum going to see/get? What is the death that comes between Roland & Eddie?Brinn wrote:That's an odd response....
Kind of damning with faint praise, no?
So far I'm enjoying it but I'm only about 140 pages in. The castle on the verge of Discordia is very cool.
P.S. For those of you who read King regularly can it not be said that he has truly fallen in love with the device he calls the "mental construct"? Read Dreamcatcher and you'll see he employs the same technique to depicts one of the main characters mind and memory. It's imaginative but almost seems like a cop-out when overused.
I hated Dreamcatcher with a passion. Terrible book...even worse flick. I think maybe king was trying to figure out how to use the "mental construct" there to use it better in SoS.
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