Never,never..
I'd love to do a nice long post, but I'm strapped for time. I'm supposed to be productive or something while I'm at work.
Finished reading (finally!) Under The Dome by Stephen King. I'm LOVING his newer books more and more. Of course he still throws in some wierdness for his twist. People always refer to King as the master of horror. I don't think his books are necessarily horror material. If anything the real horror is the thing staring back at you in the mirror, he's just the one holding it up for you. The thing that makes his charactors so good, is the care he takes in crafting them, they really become REAL to him, and all the better/scarier for it. The only horror I see in his books is the horror that we as human beings are capable of creating for ourselves. King touches the dark parts that lie in everyone's minds, THAT'S why he's is such an effective storyteller.
Anyway, Under The Dome contained more sadness, than I was prepared for, but ended with more beauty and grace than I hoped for. Thumbs way up from me.
Then I picked up Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. I read it in two days, finished it this morning. I think it's a book that will stay with me a long time. The main charactor Kathy, is the narrator, and I don't want to give anything away but it REALLY makes you ask ethical questions about when is enough, enough? That would be in regards to medical science. At what point do we turn people into slaughter animals? Since when is it any better to do THAT, even?
Both books that will make you think about and be grateful for every second of your life. No matter how insignificant they may actually be.
Finished reading (finally!) Under The Dome by Stephen King. I'm LOVING his newer books more and more. Of course he still throws in some wierdness for his twist. People always refer to King as the master of horror. I don't think his books are necessarily horror material. If anything the real horror is the thing staring back at you in the mirror, he's just the one holding it up for you. The thing that makes his charactors so good, is the care he takes in crafting them, they really become REAL to him, and all the better/scarier for it. The only horror I see in his books is the horror that we as human beings are capable of creating for ourselves. King touches the dark parts that lie in everyone's minds, THAT'S why he's is such an effective storyteller.
Anyway, Under The Dome contained more sadness, than I was prepared for, but ended with more beauty and grace than I hoped for. Thumbs way up from me.
Then I picked up Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. I read it in two days, finished it this morning. I think it's a book that will stay with me a long time. The main charactor Kathy, is the narrator, and I don't want to give anything away but it REALLY makes you ask ethical questions about when is enough, enough? That would be in regards to medical science. At what point do we turn people into slaughter animals? Since when is it any better to do THAT, even?
Both books that will make you think about and be grateful for every second of your life. No matter how insignificant they may actually be.