What you reading? Your fav books? The book thread

[MCT]

MCT-  Guess I need to revisit Pet Semetary because I don't remember being disappointed at the way it ended.  Wasn't it one of those that let's the reader decide what the outcome was?

Yeah it was actually..........
No need to get into it though because it's based on a reader's perception............

If King had went further with it, I think it would've ended up being too repetitive...just my opinion, though.

True...............BUT that's not the part troubling me.......
About halfway through......the intensity really picks up (Rising Action)...........but at the end.......I just didn't find it that intense........and the WORST part was that it was rushed......almost as if King was shuffling the readers "out the door"............... ......it felt a little contrived.........

I'm sorry that you didn't enjoy it more and found the sentence structure poor.  I've never noticed that when reading a King novel.  But, I read strictly for entertainment and don't analyze sentence structure as I'm reading... so you may be right.    All I know is that I enjoy the flow of (most) Stephen King books.  A good read to me has more to do with the rhythm/flow of the work than anything else.

Well I mean that's just a matter of opinion......no biggie....

   And yes, King writes books for the masses.  If his books weren't easily digestible, he wouldn't be on the best-seller list so often.

Ah!!!!!..........but Anne Rice books are not exactly "easily digestible" yet she is perpetually a best seller..........
(She may not have sold as many books as King......but I wouldn't say she's far off)

  If you are looking for books that are more "literary"...find another author.  King's not going to be right for you.

Yes.......but don't you see?............that's exactly what I'm trying to find out.........."Is King right for me"?

And don't worry....I've got enough "literary" authors' as it is............I'm just somewhat interested in King...........I mean I'm 100% confident that he would never turn into my fav writer or anything..........but I want to give him a chance......like I said Pet Semetary was "decent"......AND many, many, many ppl love King........

Are you a book critic?  hehe

Well I guess I am........(I just don't get payed)

 
Just wondering since you feel the need to "judge King as a writer."  I feel like I'm back in college taking English 101.  What happened to just enjoying a book without it having to have a higher meaning or whatever?  

Oh that's quite possible...............in fact that's how I was able to "enjoy" Pet Semetary.............

One last thing---who IS your favorite contemporary author?  (besides Anne Rice) I'm just curious about what you think is a good book.  

First of all.......how did you know I like Anne Rice......?.....lol...

Well..let's see.........
I don't have a favorite....per se..............but these are my "fav's":

-David Brin
-Orson Scott Card
-David Gerrold
-Arthur C. Clarke
-Tolkien..........
-Terry Pratchett
-Michael Crichton
-MARK "FUCKING" TWAIN!!!!!! (Serious btw)

And as for classic stuff.......well like I said Twain.......Shelly.....Stoker.....(I HATE Washington Irving)

HOMER RULES!!!!!!!!!!.........The "Illiad" is awesome.......

I dunno........
ah.................Steve White......Gentry Lee(lol)........William Golding........Robert Frost(poetry).......The OTHER "Shelly"(Percy)............George Orwell.......H.G. Wells....Jules Verne...........I could go on for a  bit......lol.....

[pilferk]

Dickens "A Christmas Carol"

 

[lastroots]

Dickens "A Christmas Carol"

 

Yeah, I also thought about reading it again this year.

However, I'm currently reading one of if not the most important and most fascinating persian author, Sadeq Hedayat - his short novel "Buf-e Kur" (english: The blind owl), originally released in 1936.


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[Sukie]

First of all.......how did you know I like Anne Rice......?.....lol...

Well..let's see.........
I don't have a favorite....per se..............but these are my "fav's":

-David Brin
-Orson Scott Card
-David Gerrold
-Arthur C. Clarke
-Tolkien..........
-Terry Pratchett
-Michael Crichton
-MARK "FUCKING" TWAIN!!!!!! (Serious btw)

   I thought that MY memory was bad...there was an Anne Rice thread not too long ago.  I remember you posting about how you were starting to read the Mayfair witch trilogy.

I haven't read anything by any of those authors except Crichton and Twain.  I found that strange until I googled them and found that they are sci-fi authors.  Sci-fi just isn't my cup of tea.  

As for the "literature" you posted, I'm embarassed to say that I haven't read anything that could be considered classical lit. since college.  Somehow those good intentions to go back and read some of the classics just never evolve past the good intentions stage.  

[Where is Hassan Nasrallah ?]

CALVIN & HOBBES !!!!!!!!!!

(books, yes, books)
 

[Prometheus]

a white paper on internet firewalls/VPN/security

pretty intresting stuff LOL

[MCT]

   I thought that MY memory was bad...there was an Anne Rice thread not too long ago.  I remember you posting about how you were starting to read the Mayfair witch trilogy.

Yeah I know...........<singing>"I was only joking my dear" (Rod Stewart)......that's why I "lol'd".........lol......

I haven't read anything by any of those authors except Crichton and Twain.  I found that strange until I googled them and found that they are sci-fi authors.  Sci-fi just isn't my cup of tea.  

Some of those authors don't limit themselves to sci-fi..........
AND............why don't you like that genre of writing?

As for the "literature" you posted, I'm embarassed to say that I haven't read anything that could be considered classical lit. since college.  Somehow those good intentions to go back and read some of the classics just never evolve past the good intentions stage.  

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions..............lol..... yeah....I know what you mean though..........

[BabyJenks]

i'm starting Blood Canticle-Anne Rice and putting It-Stephen King on hold for awhile.

[lastroots]

Sousan Azadi - Out Of Iran


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[Gunner80]

Frank Herbert's-Dune, for the fifth time.

[lastroots]

Moli?re - Le Malde Imaginaire (again)


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[FoR_wHoM_tHe_bEll_ToLLs]

As Meat Loves Salt - Maria McKann

[The New Fiona Apple]

Great Expectations-Charles Dickens

[Prometheus]

hey BJ when u get BC read give us a low down on it, i know its got to be a must read

[Izzy]

Byzantine Civilisation by an A. Whitting

[Dot]

I?m reading a book called "History?s biggest misteries"...by Massimo Polidoro. It talks about the bermuda triangle, pyramids of Egypt, crop circles, Loch Ness monster and lots of other misterious stuff.

[axls_locomotive]

-David Brin
-Orson Scott Card
-Arthur C. Clarke
-Tolkien..........

excellent choices, David Brin is a great adventurer

Currently reading The Precipice by Ben Bova

[MCT]

excellent choices, David Brin is a great adventurer

Brin is awesome. He represents the "best" in the genre of sci-fi, IMO.

What have you read by him anyway?

[Izzy]

This thread

I am also reading 'Modernity and its malcontents: ritual and power in postcolonial africa' by Jean Comaroff

[axls_locomotive]

excellent choices, David Brin is a great adventurer

Brin is awesome. He represents the "best" in the genre of sci-fi, IMO.

What have you read by him anyway?

It was such a long time ago, before I went into university, sundiver and i think ive read startide rising too...very original work, I was thinking of either him or Asimov for my next read...which novels do you recommend?