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Originally posted by Chaplin I can't really fathom (or maybe I can) the extreme popularity of Stephen King amongst people on this message board. I like some of his older stuff, like The Stand, Misery and It, but he just got way too commercialized. Too many references to Pepsi or Levis for me.
I only like his older stuff. I have tried to read the past 3-4 books he has come out with only to find them impossible to get through. His older stuff is great though!! "Bachman Books" were short stories long before King became King. Very good stuff.
His stories recently have lacked much in the way of story-telling as he did in earlier stuff. It seems to me like he is just going through the motions.
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Originally posted by AZCB34 I only like his older stuff. I have tried to read the past 3-4 books he has come out with only to find them impossible to get through. His older stuff is great though!! "Bachman Books" were short stories long before King became King. Very good stuff.
His stories recently have lacked much in the way of story-telling as he did in earlier stuff. It seems to me like he is just going through the motions.
That's probably why he's retiring now that the DT series is complete.
He said that he felt as if he was starting to repeat himself and he wanted to get out when he started doing that. At least he's smart enough to recognize it.
Shawn
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Originally posted by mdamien13 I just finished "30 Days of Night" by Steve Niles. Very cool little graphic novel about vampires attacking a town in Alaska when the sun sets for a month straight.
Director Sam Raimi will produce the comic adaptation of 30 Days of Night. Created by Steve Niles, the comic is about a small town in Northern Alaska that is beset with evil vampires during a month of total darkness.
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I just started reading The Mask by Koontz, but after the first few pages I knew I'd read it before. It was in my stack of ones I hadn't read, so does anyone know if he put that book out under another title or author?
Originally posted by Audrey19 I just started reading The Mask by Koontz, but after the first few pages I knew I'd read it before. It was in my stack of ones I hadn't read, so does anyone know if he put that book out under another title or author?
Never even heard of that one...but it doesn't look like it's an older, renamed one:
Originally posted by Audrey19 I just started reading The Mask by Koontz, but after the first few pages I knew I'd read it before. It was in my stack of ones I hadn't read, so does anyone know if he put that book out under another title or author?
It's the second of two books originally released under the pseudonym of "Owen West."
Just before Christmas there was an advertisement for the book FOUR BLIND MICE. I saw it about 50 times and it looked interesting. Recently, I have once again had the chance to read and just finished it. In the first chapter they tell you WHO DID IT. The mystery was above average. I enjoyed the 2 and 3 page chapters. It made the reading go fast.
I read another cute mystery called " The Christmas Train" as I am drawn to any book about Christmas. That was a good book as it was easy reading.
Presently I am trudging through the novel "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister". The word trudging is a good implication of what I think of this difficult to read novel.
Originally posted by minercon Presently I am trudging through the novel "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister". The word trudging is a good implication of what I think of this difficult to read novel.
I bought that book for my wife for Christmas. She likes that author, but she hasn't had time to read it yet. Is it good?
Shawn
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Chaplin - I bought Robert Jordan's Eye of the World last night and have started it. Geez, the first book is over 700 pages long - lol. And there are ten of these in the series? Holy cow.
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I have started "Flags of Our Fathers" which is a book about the 6 men who raised the flag on Suribachi. It is written by the son of one of the flag raisers...the only man who lived a long life of the six. Good read so far. This was a truly bloody brutal battle in WW II.
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Alright Chap - I'm a quater of the way through [i]Eye of the World[i] so far. It's pretty good. I think the only part of the book that I dislike was the opening paragraph. Other than that, it's been excellent.
Thanks, now I'll probably be buying the second one this weekend because I'm sure I'll be done with this one by then.
I know that there are currently 10 books in this series. Is the 10th book the final one or is he still writing more on this story?
Shawn
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Originally posted by FischerKing Alright Chap - I'm a quater of the way through [i]Eye of the World[i] so far. It's pretty good. I think the only part of the book that I dislike was the opening paragraph. Other than that, it's been excellent.
Thanks, now I'll probably be buying the second one this weekend because I'm sure I'll be done with this one by then.
I know that there are currently 10 books in this series. Is the 10th book the final one or is he still writing more on this story?
Shawn
Still more-probably at least 2 more books, according to the author, but from what is happening by the 10th book, it seems like it's a lot more than 2 books that are left...
Oh, and that first paragraph is pretty much repeated at the beginning of every chapter 1 in every book.
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Originally posted by FischerKing Chaplin - I bought Robert Jordan's Eye of the World last night and have started it. Geez, the first book is over 700 pages long - lol. And there are ten of these in the series? Holy cow.
Shawn
There's a hardcover Jordan book at Target on clearance for $3.99. It's called Path of Daggers...
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