Firecrackers!! It's July and I'm reading...
why would you read them out of order?
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
Cos she's a maverick.
Cause I had no idea they had the same characters, that's why. But I won't put HHA down now, so there.
Actually, I think it makes the most sense to read HHA after KMJ and then go back to PD whenever you feel like it. It's sort of a side adventure, written in a different style than the other two.
I didn't know anything about them when I read them either, I read PD first.
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
Just finished Carrie, I knew the story but thoroughly enjoyed the book--the structure of the story was amazing (reminded me of Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit).
Just started Rico Slade.
Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote.
Just started Rico Slade.
The structure for Carrie was really ahead of it's time (in my opinion). We see stuff like that all the time now - Chuck even uses it. But when that was written, it wasn't as common. That's what I liked about the book so much. Probably my second or third favorite King.
I hope one day soon King becomes known as a groundbreaking writer who helped save a genre rather than a popular writer, which so many people peg him as.
You look like the type of guy / gal, who would like:
Reading The Book of Lost Things again
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
What's even more amazing is that I think that Carrie was his first book.
Just finished Rico Slade and started The Never Enders.
Carrie was his first book.
What did you think of Rico Slade? Fucking great right? Am I right?
started on Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
Just started Rico Slade.
The structure for Carrie was really ahead of it's time (in my opinion). We see stuff like that all the time now - Chuck even uses it. But when that was written, it wasn't as common. That's what I liked about the book so much. Probably my second or third favorite King.
You will tell us about the structures, malaka.
I finished a couple of Chelsea Handler's books....entertaining, I guess, but mostly bathroom reading kind of entertaining. Not that I do anything like that, seeing as how I'm a girl and girls don't have intestines or do icky things.
I won't watch the Saw movies or anything that's too visually grotesque, but I will read the shit out of some Jack Ketchum and the like. So yesterday I read Depraved by Bryan Smith (predictable, gross, and FUUUUN!)and now I'm working on this short story collection, Ruthless: An Extreme Shock Horror Collection.
I also downloaded Scary Rednecks & Other Inbred Horrors because we'll be poolside all weekend and I enjoy anthologies that don't require commitment for that sort of thing.
Finished Perfume a couple of days ago. It's alright light reading, but the ending sort of spoiled what i liked about it. Loving the shit out of Capote's 'In cold blood' though.
Today I'm gonna start Sinister Miniatures by Kris Saknussemm for the August book club thread as it was delivered this morning.
All this talk of Stephen King has made me want to read one of his soon. I still have a few of my shelf I haven't gotten round to reading. Probably I'll mix the Saknussemm book up with The Regulators as it's the only Richard Bachman book I haven't read yet.
Just out of curiosity, what do folks think about the alter-ego Stephen King books? I really enjoyed all of them so far except for Roadwork. That one was too slowly paced and got a little boring.
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Baer's Penny Dreadful.
My geek side has kicked in really powerfully lately. I barely read anything except the kind of stuff I would find excruciatingly dull on a normal day. Also I can't stop talking about all of it so everyone around me is getting bored.
thanks for sharing.blackhawk tactical pants.
— Spambot
"I could have done worse!" exultantly cried the murderer Lebret, sentenced at Rouen to hard labor for life. — Félix Fénéon
Don't tell me you started Finnegans Wake!
Nope. I've been reading the chapter on Force and the Understanding in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and trying to go through it without ripping pages out, as well as several books on Lacan, a 1966 PhD dissertation I found online on one of Faulkner's least popular novels (A Fable), a book on discourse theory, and essays by Walter Benjamin. I really don't feel like reading fiction at the moment.
It's as if all the work I should have been doing this year has doubled in interest and suddenly it seems worth doing.
thanks for sharing.blackhawk tactical pants.
— Spambot
"I could have done worse!" exultantly cried the murderer Lebret, sentenced at Rouen to hard labor for life. — Félix Fénéon
Just started Rico Slade.
The structure for Carrie was really ahead of it's time (in my opinion). We see stuff like that all the time now - Chuck even uses it. But when that was written, it wasn't as common. That's what I liked about the book so much. Probably my second or third favorite King.
You will tell us about the structures, malaka.
Are you asking me to?
If I remember right, it alternates chapters between the narrative and newspaper stories. And I think some chapters start with a first person account (like an oral history type thing). I don't remember exactly how the book was set up. It was years ago since I've read it. Maybe somebody else can jump in? Or I can reanswer when I get home and flip through my copy.
what a geek!
Just started Rico Slade.
The structure for Carrie was really ahead of it's time (in my opinion). We see stuff like that all the time now - Chuck even uses it. But when that was written, it wasn't as common. That's what I liked about the book so much. Probably my second or third favorite King.
You will tell us about the structures, malaka.
Are you asking me to?
If I remember right, it alternates chapters between the narrative and newspaper stories. And I think some chapters start with a first person account (like an oral history type thing). I don't remember exactly how the book was set up. It was years ago since I've read it. Maybe somebody else can jump in? Or I can reanswer when I get home and flip through my copy.
The novel was blocked into three sections. He used newspaper stories, court transcripts, an autobiography, and scholarly journals to buffer between POV shifts within each section. Absolutely incredible that he pulled it off so well in his first novel.
Made me laugh in a bunch of places--actually had to stop for a bit after Bobcat Goldthwait and the midget stripper.
I'm not reading them in order. I'll read that too.