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For those who don't know it, it is based loosely on a poem by Robert Browning (i think) called 'childe roland, to the dark tower come'. SK melds post apocoliptic nightmares, the old west, and countless other themes into one asskicking good tale. The series is now up to 5 books, and I heard from a friend, that he (SK) has pledged to finish the story in the next 2 or 3 books, within the next 4 years. |
I read this series anxiously. I keep hoping it will catch my imagination in an unexpected way. It doesn't. I am impressed that King is trying, and like it on a conceptual level, but think he does his best work in illuminating the fears and horrors we all carry in our souls. My fave thing he has written alone, bar nothing, is the Green Mile. Second fave is his recent "Bag of Bones," I guess third would be a toss up, but favour both Gerald's Game and the Shining. But his best work ever, part of the Dark Tower series sort of in my mind, is co-written with Peter Straub, the Talisman. For SF I'm a Stephenson/Gibson/Sean Stewart kinda gal. Fantasy I like Pamela Dean, Robin McKinley, Patricia McKillip. |
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By the way my name is Thomas Coalman |
I must tell you that one time at a big meeting when the speaker asked the room for help, my coworker was able to recite a UPC he happened to remember ("I liked the order of the digits; it had a rhythm"), but still, I think it's telling he was able to recall the last part of joan didion's introduction: "My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so tempermentally unobstrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out." she's given her permission! |