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The Boss wrote:
hellboy wrote:
The Boss wrote:
The series was better,
What series?
Sorry The story was much bettwr
Sorry, I still don't understand. The story/series/something was much better than what (The Stand I presume)?
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N.Y.H.C. wrote:just finished "the Talisman", fucking excellent book. I have "Dr. Sleep" on the way.. currently reading Mario Puzo's lost Godfather prequel screenplay (turned into a novel, posthumously) "The Family Corleone", it's an easy read especially if you're a Godfather freak like me.

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Helljoy: I remember read "THE STAND" as a series of extremely short novellas. Thus, the "series" was better.

I don't remember anything, to be honest. Sorry for the confusion.

Change of subject: Has anyone read "HIS DARK MATERIALS"? Please don't let the (frankly wonderful) movie put you off. The books have an underlying subtext that is just fucking devastating.

I highly recommend them.

Try to get the non-American version. The lead female character has a beautiful sexual awakening that makes her seem like such a real human being that it's sad that it was left out. There's nothing graphic, but it relies on your imagination. I felt like weeping while reading that part, to be honest. It was gorgeous.

Also, they kill God. No spoiler, because you'd have to be retarded to not be able to see that coming.

Still awesome, though.
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Stephen King's books would be a lot better if he actually planned out an ending before he started writing. It's annoying how many of his books end with the main characters using some sort of bullshit magic to solve their problems. Even the books that don't have a deus-ex machina event generally have unsatisfying endings. Duma Key is the perfect example of a good book that really falls apart at the end.

He could also use an editor, someone to trim some of the fat off of some of these books. 11/22/63 really did not need that weird "time hobo" subplot.

I feel like there was another complaint I wanted to add, but I don't remember what it was.

Anyways, The Talisman is probably one of the better books he's written. Probably because it was co-written by Peter Straub. Really solid modern fantasy adventure book. Really enjoyed it.

I just remembered my other complaint.

Black House was alright, but had too much Stephen King in it. It wasn't as much fun as The Talisman. It didn't help that it had to be tied into The Dark Tower. That's my third complaint about Stephen King, he has to fucking tie everything into the Dark Tower lore. I don't want to have to read 7 other books to understand this one book that is a sequel to another book that wasn't related at all to those other 7 books.

Anyways I've read a couple of Peter Straub books and they're pretty good. At least Ghost Story is, I don't really remember much of the other one. Lost Boy, Lost Girl was the other one and I do remember thinking it was pretty good, but it's been a few years. I revisited Ghost Story last year and that one holds up, so I'd assume Lost Boy, Lost Girl does as well.
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Right now I'm reading Bleak House. Well not right now right now, right now I'm reading these words that I'm typing right now.
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UndKeineZwEier wrote:Stephen King's books would be a lot better if he actually planned out an ending before he started writing. It's annoying how many of his books end with the main characters using some sort of bullshit magic to solve their problems. Even the books that don't have a deus-ex machina event generally have unsatisfying endings. Duma Key is the perfect example of a good book that really falls apart at the end.

He could also use an editor, someone to trim some of the fat off of some of these books. 11/22/63 really did not need that weird "time hobo" subplot.

I feel like there was another complaint I wanted to add, but I don't remember what it was.

Anyways, The Talisman is probably one of the better books he's written. Probably because it was co-written by Peter Straub. Really solid modern fantasy adventure book. Really enjoyed it.

I just remembered my other complaint.

Black House was alright, but had too much Stephen King in it. It wasn't as much fun as The Talisman. It didn't help that it had to be tied into The Dark Tower. That's my third complaint about Stephen King, he has to fucking tie everything into the Dark Tower lore. I don't want to have to read 7 other books to understand this one book that is a sequel to another book that wasn't related at all to those other 7 books.

Anyways I've read a couple of Peter Straub books and they're pretty good. At least Ghost Story is, I don't really remember much of the other one. Lost Boy, Lost Girl was the other one and I do remember thinking it was pretty good, but it's been a few years. I revisited Ghost Story last year and that one holds up, so I'd assume Lost Boy, Lost Girl does as well.
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The Boss wrote:Helljoy: I remember read "THE STAND" as a series of extremely short novellas. Thus, the "series" was better.

I don't remember anything, to be honest. Sorry for the confusion.
Yeah, not sure what you're talking about still. There are no novellas for The Stand as far as I can tell. Maybe you're thinking of Stand By Me?
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hellboy wrote:
The Boss wrote:Helljoy: I remember read "THE STAND" as a series of extremely short novellas. Thus, the "series" was better.

I don't remember anything, to be honest. Sorry for the confusion.
Yeah, not sure what you're talking about still. There are no novellas for The Stand as far as I can tell. Maybe you're thinking of Stand By Me?
Nah, brother, seriously:

I bought this "package" from a second hand book store: It was seven (?) VERY thin novellas of "THE STAND".

I'm starting to get that this was something incredibly unique, so I get why you don't believe me.
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Yeah, not sure what you're talking about still. There are no novellas for The Stand as far as I can tell. Maybe you're thinking of Stand By Me?
Nah, brother, seriously:

I bought this "package" from a second hand book store: It was seven (?) VERY thin novellas of "THE STAND".

I'm starting to get that this was something incredibly unique, so I get why you don't believe me.
Not so much a case of not believing you (though I can't find anything by searching on Google). More that I'm trying to get more info so that I can find them, as I expect they'd be something I'd enjoy reading.
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hellboy wrote:
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Yeah, not sure what you're talking about still. There are no novellas for The Stand as far as I can tell. Maybe you're thinking of Stand By Me?
Nah, brother, seriously:

I bought this "package" from a second hand book store: It was seven (?) VERY thin novellas of "THE STAND".

I'm starting to get that this was something incredibly unique, so I get why you don't believe me.
Not so much a case of not believing you (though I can't find anything by searching on Google). More that I'm trying to get more info so that I can find them, as I expect they'd be something I'd enjoy reading.
Oh, really? Sorry, I read you all wrong, then.

I strongly suspect that they were short-short one-offs. They were fundamentally chapter-based.

Weird you can't find anything about them online. Makes me regret palming them off once I was done. They sound downright rare now.
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They were actual stories, not graphic novels?
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hellboy wrote:They were actual stories, not graphic novels?
Yes. As I said, they were, as far as I could tell, the actual chapters - broken up into novellas.

On topic, still with it: "HOUSE OF LEAVES".

I have never read a book that hurt me as much as that one. "SIDDHARTHA" made me cry (hard) on an existential level - but "HoL"? Wow.

Read it if you have lived a good life. Otherwise, get the tissues ready.
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The Boss wrote:Ugh, people who read King.

And think that reading him is worth it.

Just, ugh.
it's just fun. I've been doing that lately. whatevers fun. life's been crazy. need to just sit back and be entertained sometimes I guess. I haven't read anything thought provoking in a while actually.
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I tend to read before bed so really thought provoking stuff is a little counteractive. Stephen King stuff is fine in that regards, though I don't really like his horror stuff so I'm no fanboi.

His recent book with time travel and JFK was interesting
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hellboy wrote:I tend to read before bed so really thought provoking stuff is a little counteractive. Stephen King stuff is fine in that regards, though I don't really like his horror stuff so I'm no fanboi.

His recent book with time travel and JFK was interesting
I'm happy you read that one. It was very interesting. It would make a good movie.
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Fair enough. I apologise for sounding like a dick with my posts.

Whatever floats your boat, right.
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Finished both The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear at M0G's recommendation. Both excellent books and worthy recommendations for anyone who enjoy fantasy novels.

Currently reading Aztec by Gary Jennings, which is a historical fiction novel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_(novel)
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"MAGICIAN", by Feist.

It's really fucking great, as I've mentioned. It's something of a classic, if I understand correctly.

It feels like it hearkens back to that time where a decent fantasy story could be told without overly "purple prose" and pretensions of seriousness. It's just a fun story, well written, with decent characters.

So far, I don't think it's the classic everyone has made it out to be; but then again, I'm only up to the part where
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. And leading up to that part was easily the darkest act of the book so far.

I have a feeling that the rest of the book is going to be incredibly serious and "real", but it's hard for me to say after reading Martin's rubbish. Dude nearly ruined fantasy for me.
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It's been a long time since I've read Magician (possibly over 20 years). I remember it being a good book, but I think I lost interest in Feist's work after the first three novels. I will probably re-visit this again one day.
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I would have to look it up to work out where I stopped but I have read at least a dozen of them (Rift War Cycle books). So I guess I must have enjoyed them.

They are easy to digest, escapist, fantasy story telling which is often enough from a read.
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hellboy wrote:It's been a long time since I've read Magician (possibly over 20 years). I remember it being a good book, but I think I lost interest in Feist's work after the first three novels. I will probably re-visit this again one day.
"MAGICIAN" is the first in a trilogy, am I correct?

If so, I'm thoroughly going to enjoy this. :)
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"MAGICIAN" is the first in a trilogy, am I correct?
From memory that is correct.
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Re-reading A Feast for Crows.
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Not sure if manga counts, but I'm currently reading Vagabond which is drawn and written Takahiko Inoue and based on the novel Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa. It's beautifully drawn and pretty great.
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