mental miscellanea

[skellorg]

i am: sitting here when i should be in the kitchen cooking
listening to: an ambitious neighbor mowing his lawn
drinking: green tea, hot

• son returned from his "underway" last weekend for a brief visit to dryland. very brief. he'll be leaving on friday for a two-month jaunt this time. at least i got one good meal in him before he's submerged beneath

Comments

[wildebeth]

Your son did his taxes last night?! LOL

I used to read Stephen King, too, though I lost interest after his stories all started running together--kind of like with Dean Koontz. That comparison lacks something, though...like layers and layers of talent discrepancy. Still.

[wildebeth]

That icon looks fabulous with your layout. (On my monitor, at least. :)

[wildebeth]

That one does not.

Sorry for spamming you. It has been a long day. >.>

[skellorg]

That's okay - I like your spam. I'm probably going to change my layout later today. I can't promise to take that blue icon into account though. ;)

[goingofthings]

are you enjoying Girl in Hyacinth Blue?

[skellorg]

I finished it last night, and yes I did enjoy it very much. Thanks so much for sending it. I can foresee needing to read it again sometime in the future because when I reached the last chapter I realized I'd read it so fast I couldn't remember all of the hands the painting had gone through.

[goingofthings]

Oh good! You didn't say much about it so for a minute there I had fears you didn't like it, but I'm glad you did; I had that problem, too. There were one or two stories I didn't remember, but I will always remember the boy in Nazi Germany and the woman the finds the baby and the painting in a boat. For some reason I thought the latter was the most powerful. Anywho, glad you enjoyed and that I owned an extra copy I could send :)

[skellorg]

Yes, I remember those too, and the woman who had the pearls painted on because she thought it would look nice. And of course, the first and last. I amused myself by thinking, as I finished each one, "That was the best one yet." (Other than the haughty Frenchwoman, though it had its moments too.)

Stephen King books it's worth reading

[pocket_saviour]

I love King, but yeah, he did fall off a bit. Here's a round-up

Re: Stephen King books it's worth reading

[skellorg]

Thanks for all that, Kaz; I appreciate it. :)

I have read Rose Madder, and almost hate to say that's where he started to lose me. I thought it was brilliant, up until the fantasy twist with the painting near the end. I thought it was wholly unnecessary to throw that twist in - the real horror of the woman's life was bad enough. Though I did only read it once, so I may be misremembering. Perhaps the painting twist was her way of coping mentally and didn't really happen. I just remember that I was disappointed in the ending. :/

I've also read The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. I was at the library and faced with a wall of Stephen King books that I'd never read. Thought I'd give one a try. It was, as you say, okay. Not great, but okay. It didn't encourage me to read any others, though Bag of Bones sounds very familiar. I may have checked it out too and either read it and since forgotten everything I read, or attempted to read it and abandoned it.

I will definitely add Lisey's Story to my mental "to be read" list. Thanks again. :)