DoTT is MUCH less confusing than book 1
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It’s also more of what that particular paragraph contains that can lead to a bit of a headache at times.
For me, I have to read a lot of SK books pretty damn slow - especially like with the gunslinger, but it’s something that I personally have found to be enjoyable and it’s sometimes going to be a must with King in order to take everything in and not miss something surprisingly important. I cannot speed read a lot of his books.
His style also changes a lot depending on the subject of the book and the time that he wrote it. I went from the gunslinger, which was an acid trip to joyland which reads like a kids book.
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Rereading Musashi for the first time in many years. I’ve heard a few people expressing interest in this book after having read/watched Shogun.
I will say that while it’s a favorite of mine and a classic Japanese novel, it’s a very different type of story than Shogun and re-reading it now, my opinion is that you’d have to be a pretty hardcore fan of things Japan and Japanese to really enjoy this novel.
If you aren’t, you may end up a tad disappointed.
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I read it over and over as a teenager. I was very pleased to see my library has a hardcover copy.
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Yeah, a lot of me enjoys being completely lost, piecing together the story + reading enigmatic text on top of it.
When I read the gunslinger, I would literally lite a few mainstays dragons blood incense sticks while opening up ps3 oblivion on my tv so i could listen to the soundtrack for ambience while reading the book at a slow pace
It’s cheezy as hell but its been a lot of fun and that’s really what its all about,
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WANT.
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Reading The Fund, about Ray Dalio and Bridgewater.
Utterly fascinating and horrifying. Truth stranger than fiction.
Picked it up for free on Kindle Unlimited. Highly recommend.
The Long Walk
Who’d have thought that a group of people walking down a road and talking for 350 pages could hook me like it did, finished it in 2 days. Kind of a quick, rushed ending but that seems pretty normal for a King book.
Might do Pet Sematary next.
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Oh hell yeah. The Long Walk is currently my favorite King novel. Really looking forward to the film adaptation, which was supposed to finish filming as of yesterday.
Did you see there’s a Salem’s Lot movie coming out in a few weeks on HBO? Could be decent, looks like they kept it in the 60s/70s time period.
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I didn’t know about this. Looks good.
I admit my only familiarity with the story is Father Callahan showing up in the Dark Tower. I never read Salem’s Lot or watched any of the prior adaptations.
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I just read the book it’s quite good. It actually made my skin kind of crawl at points which isn’t something I really ever experience with printed material.
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Nice
if they include that fucking beetle from the movie I’m going to burn it
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Might want to spoiler that second sentence, since there is at least one person in here on their first trip round the wheel
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This was recommended a few times in this thread, terrific book. Thanks to all that recommended it.
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Crossed one of the classics off. 900 pages of Dumas “The Count of Monte Christo”. If I wasnt on vacation it would have taken me ages to finish that. Wasnt an easy read sometimes. If I want to watch a movie which would be the best adaptation?
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Watch the one from 2002 with Jim Caviezel, Guy Pierce, and a baby Henry Cavill. It makes some changes but all for the good of a great movie.
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Hyperion is on sale
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