Ugh. I was up all last night reading (yes, on the job). Boy have I fallen down a deep, dark hole...my friend/writing buddy/possible best-man Paul twisted my arm into reading Stephen King's first novel in the DARK TOWER series. THE GUNSLINGER is amazing, I have to admit--I was a skeptic. But boy does this shit get under your skin.
As a rule, I avoid series novels because:
1. I have literary ADD
and
2. Rarely is there a series that will justify itself. Does that make sense? Most series, I find, could actually be one really good book...and for some reason, some A-hole/Tolkien-lovin' idiot thinks should be 12!!!
Speaking of Tolkien, it may be blasphemy...but I can't even get through the RINGS books. Sorry nerds of the world...Tolkien is boring and falls under #2 of the above (my opinion). That said, THE HOBBIT is one of my all-time most re-read novels. Why? Well gee, let me see...maybe because it has all the good shit from the other RINGS books but, let me see...it has an ending I can reach in less than FOUR MONTHS!!!!
I'm telling you all of this to underscore how much I dislike series. There are only two ways to get me to participate with a series. One is to pay me (seriously, I need the cash right now). The other is to have SO MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS I HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO KEEP GOING. Damn you King, damn you...
Needless to say, I'm going to the library tomorrow and getting the next book.
For those not in the loop, THE DARK TOWER takes place in what first appears to be the Old West...but it's not (there is magic, and the remnants of our is society littered across the land...but our society has been forgotten). For a while, you think you're in the Old West. The the honky-tonk piano player starts playing "Hey Jude." Then you know you're not where you think you are. But no one knows who The Beatles are...it's just an old song/traditional type song. There are machines, but most of them don't work (and no one seems to know how to reproduce them). Yet we find an atomic powered water pump. Meanwhile our hero is chasing a dark wizard through the desert (and taking LSD). Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
How could I not want to keep going?
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When you're finished with the series, read Canticle for Leibowitz
it sounds like triguns setting
Yeah, it does have a lot of common with Trigun...but actually, as I was reading it, I was struck by how similar it is to that novel of mine I was kicking 'round.
You know, the one you keep harping at me to finish...yeah...never going to do that now (one of the characters is a "dead" ringer for one of mine).
I think you'd like it Leah, it's full of sex/sexual themes. It's not Pre-historic, soft-core porn...but you'd still like it.
:)
Your sister likes that stuff, not me
Honey, I was refering to CLAN OF THE CAVEBEAR...not a bodice ripper. You know what I'm talking about....
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