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kalimyre

Now we do the happy dance of geekery!

Mar 31, 2006 19:25

So, hubby is almost done with his military school thing in Georgia, and then he goes to Ohio for a few weeks to visit family but he doesn't want to take all his uniforms and crap with him on the motorcycle, so he mailed them to me. Big box. Arrived today ( Read more... )

personal, lj

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zekkass March 31 2006, 19:15:07 UTC

*adds Cell to reading list* I'm in the middle of the Green Mile, myself. Is Cell any good?

kalimyre March 31 2006, 19:18:13 UTC

So far it is; reminds me a little of The Stand, what with the whole end of the world and band of survivors finding each other thing. I'm only about a chapter in, though.

zekkass March 31 2006, 19:26:52 UTC

Ah, The Stand. I remember that one...It was good.

Well, when you're more than a chapter in, I'd like a review. King usually writes good books, but some just put me off. (Like Misery)

kalimyre April 1 2006, 08:37:06 UTC

Sure, I can come up with a review if I ever get time to actually finish the book. Also, you didn't like Misery? I thought it was okay; not his best, and at the end the psycho nurse was like a villian from a horror movie who will not die no matter what, but it had good bits.

Personally I love Firestarter and Rose Madder, Wizard and Glass (Dark Tower 4) and one of his Bachman stories, Thinner, and... well, really a lot of his stories.

zekkass April 1 2006, 08:42:33 UTC

Misery was creepy because of the crazed fangirl element, and now that I think about it, it was a little like Riven. (i.e. the fan kidnapping the author)

Firestarter was good, but I haven't read Rose Madder. I found DT4 (Wizard and Glass) to be slower than the first three books. Thinner was a dieting program gone crazy. (Bad old witch. Bad!)

kalimyre April 1 2006, 10:33:20 UTC

I thought DT4 started off slow, but once I got into the story it got really interesting. The ending I could take or leave, but the bit with the burning of the stuffy guys and charyou tree stuck with me.

The last few books in that series got all weird and meta and self-referential which I didn't like so much, and the ending of book seven was depressing, but it kind of had to be that way. The dialect of those stories stays with you for a while.

zekkass April 1 2006, 11:29:27 UTC

I haven't read DT6 or 7 yet, but I will get to them soon. I'm lookig forward to them, though. ;)

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