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Radagast · **Posted:** Wed Jan 03, 2007 7:32 pm

I like King's style of diverging for a couple of pages to let you get some insight into a minor character. It can get slightly annoying when it keeps happening (all that stuff from the POV of the rich woman in the last Dark Tower book is pretty irritating) but anyone who can't put up with two pages on a character's background shoulnd't be reading a book in the first place.

Caligula_K · **Joined:** Mon Nov 22, 2004 8:56 pm **Posts:** 3561

Radagast wrote:

Zad wrote:

Finished final Dark Tower. I should have stopped where it said.

Fucking right.

ZOMG SPOILERS

I had no problem with it just ending with roland entering the Tower and us never finding out what happened. Just about anything else would have been an anticlimax, especially since Steve had basically forgot about the Tower for the previous few books (and replaced it with all that shite about the Tet Corporation :rolleyes:

). The epilogue with Roland getting sent back to the start was annoying, but the "Suzannah in New York" section was just horrific.

I enjoyed the whole back to the start thing for Roland. However, you are right in saying that Susannah in New York made me want to puke.

Cú Chulainn · **Posted:** Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:51 pm

I've never read king, but I'm sure he ain't as good as Lovecraft.

Caligula_K · **Joined:** Mon Nov 22, 2004 8:56 pm **Posts:** 3561

FrigidSymphony wrote:

I've never read king, but I'm sure he ain't as good as Lovecraft.

Thats kind of like saying: I've never read Tom Clancy, but I'm sure he isn't as good as Tolstoy. Completely different ballpark.

Nope, King is no Lovecraft (really, who is?) but he can write very enjoyable books indeed. Oh, and Tom Clancy sucks.

leee · **Posted:** Thu Jan 04, 2007 1:10 am

FrigidSymphony wrote:

I've never read king, but I'm sure he ain't as good as Lovecraft.

Lovecraft is all right but he is hardly the be all/end all to horror writers.

I don't know how many of you read Richard Matheson (Legend of Hell House, I am Legend, Deul, Stir of Echos, etc..) but he is pretty excellant.

Douglas Clegg might be the best Horror writer in the business these days.

Goat · **Posted:** Thu Jan 04, 2007 1:28 am

King is an excellent writer. One of the few times I've been really caught up in a book was in Misery, the tension is amazing.

I didn't mind Susannah's ending, but the back to the start thing was a cop-out. He should have ended it as Roland enters the Tower.

Did anyone else feel that Mordred and the Crimson King's endings were slightly... crap?

NR - Labyrinth by Kate Mosse. No, not that one.

So far not bad. Dan Brown if he was a good writer....

Radagast · **Posted:** Thu Jan 04, 2007 4:46 pm

Mordred was pretty crap overall. What happened to all his nifty mindcontrol shiz at the end?

I sort of liked the way he was crapped out and King had Roland as a sort of pathetic figure by the end, though. I can even sort of see the sense in the shitty write-off the man in black got. It seemed to sort of work, I liked the sense of melancholy and futility about the ending, but too much emphasis was placed on King's other works. I haven't read Insomnia - who the fuck is Patrick Danville to me?

Fingon · **Joined:** Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:11 pm **Posts:** 3207

Zad wrote:

King is an excellent writer. One of the few times I've been really caught up in a book was in Misery, the tension is amazing.

I didn't mind Susannah's ending, but the back to the start thing was a cop-out. He should have ended it as Roland enters the Tower.

Did anyone else feel that Mordred and the Crimson King's endings were slightly... crap?

NR - Labyrinth by Kate Mosse. No, not that one.

So far not bad. Dan Brown if he was a good writer....

Mordred's end was really shite indeed, but i kinda liked the part with the little boy(lost his name) drawing the Crimson King.

Tlaloc · **Posted:** Thu Jan 04, 2007 5:08 pm

The Book of World Archaeology.

Goat · **Posted:** Fri Jan 05, 2007 2:45 am

Radagast wrote:

Mordred was pretty crap overall. What happened to all his nifty mindcontrol shiz at the end?

I sort of liked the way he was crapped out and King had Roland as a sort of pathetic figure by the end, though. I can even sort of see the sense in the shitty write-off the man in black got. It seemed to sort of work, I liked the sense of melancholy and futility about the ending, but too much emphasis was placed on King's other works. I haven't read Insomnia - who the fuck is Patrick Danville to me?

Exactly. I got the Pere Callahan references, but not the Danville - wasn't he from a Bachmann one? Can't remember now...

And the magic artist thing was good, but I'm sure I've seen it used before...

Caligula_K · **Joined:** Mon Nov 22, 2004 8:56 pm **Posts:** 3561

Nah, Danville is from Insomnia, a book which I really reccomend as one of King's best. Unfortunately, he was used pretty shittily in The Dark Tower.

Oh yes, and Mordred sucks. King should have just stuck with Flagg.

Goat · **Posted:** Thu Jan 11, 2007 12:29 pm

Carrie, Steven King.

Caligula_K · **Joined:** Mon Nov 22, 2004 8:56 pm **Posts:** 3561

heatseeker · **Posted:** Sat Jan 13, 2007 2:17 am

Just finished Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan (great book) and will be starting on A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin.

Eyesore · **Posted:** Sat Jan 13, 2007 2:53 am

Radagast wrote:

I like King's style of diverging for a couple of pages to let you get some insight into a minor character. It can get slightly annoying when it keeps happening (all that stuff from the POV of the rich woman in the last Dark Tower book is pretty irritating) but anyone who can't put up with two pages on a character's background shoulnd't be reading a book in the first place.

King is hit or miss with me big time. More miss, though. His meandering bugs the shit out of me! The only book I've been able to read from him recently was Dreamcatcher, which I thought was excellent! Then I saw the movie. :lame:

Right now I'm reading Terry Brooks' Word & Void trilogy:

I finished Running With The Demon the other day, now I'm onto Knight Of The Word. Running With The Demon was excellent. I totally disliked it when I first tried to read it a long time ago. I got about halfway through and quit then. Funny that it got really good right after where I quit reading the last time. Haha.

Tlaloc · **Posted:** Sat Jan 13, 2007 5:04 pm

Tlaloc · **Posted:** Sat Jan 13, 2007 5:06 pm

Why the fuck does it keep double posting?!

Antonakis · **Posted:** Sat Jan 13, 2007 9:16 pm

heatseeker wrote:

Just finished Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan (great book) and will be starting on A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin.

Game of Thrones is an awesome book if you don't mind the continuous change of characters & perspective. It's one of the few books that had me like "ok finish this chapter and sleep... hhmm ok maybe next chapter too....". I haven't read the whole trilogy yet because I had to stop somewhere after the middle of the second book but the whole trilogy is definitely a good read!

Anonymous · **Posted:** Sat Jan 13, 2007 9:41 pm

I'm almost done the last His Dark Materials book -- amazing trilogy!

Caligula_K · **Joined:** Mon Nov 22, 2004 8:56 pm **Posts:** 3561

Antonakis wrote:

heatseeker wrote:

Just finished Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan (great book) and will be starting on A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin.

Game of Thrones is an awesome book if you don't mind the continuous change of characters & perspective. It's one of the few books that had me like "ok finish this chapter and sleep... hhmm ok maybe next chapter too....". I haven't read the whole trilogy yet because I had to stop somewhere after the middle of the second book but the whole trilogy is definitely a good read!

Not a trilogy. Book 5 will probably be released sometime in 2007; whole thing is going to be 7 books long.

Heatseeker: You're approaching the end of the greatness of Wheel of Time. The next one, Crown of Swords, is good but nothing special, and then... and then...

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