[quote]bpick86 wrote:
My wife gave me the entire Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. I just started the first book. Anyone read it and how do they feel about it? My dad just gave me his copy of The Racketeer by John Grisham and said it was excellent.[/quote]
Dark Tower series is probably Kings greatest IMO
I read the first one when it came out in the 80’s and only took 20 years to finish.[/quote]
That will probably be me. I do not read fiction very much at all. I read a lot just things like strength journals and nutrition books. Maybe I will have to devote a little more time to this and knock it out.[/quote]
Lol, no it took that long cause it took King that long to finish it[/quote]
I have wanted to read this series for a while. Aren’t the books ridiculously long? [/quote]
Maybe. I read fast so I am not a good judge of that.[/quote]
I meant as far as page count, like 1000+ pages per book.[/quote]
No, the first one is about 250 pages give or take. The rest are in the 600-800 range.
It’s not exactly brain busting material lol, but if you like fantasy books the Inheritance series (4 books) was surprisingly good. I used it as light bedtime reading. It’s one of those series I hope my kids will be enthralled in.
You guys ever read/heard of Scott Lynch and his Gentlemen Bastard series, Lies of Locke Lamora, and Red Seas under Red Skies?
I enjoyed those. The third installment is out later this year.
[quote]bpick86 wrote:
My wife gave me the entire Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. I just started the first book. Anyone read it and how do they feel about it? My dad just gave me his copy of The Racketeer by John Grisham and said it was excellent.[/quote]
Dark Tower series is probably Kings greatest IMO
I read the first one when it came out in the 80’s and only took 20 years to finish.[/quote]
That will probably be me. I do not read fiction very much at all. I read a lot just things like strength journals and nutrition books. Maybe I will have to devote a little more time to this and knock it out.[/quote]
Lol, no it took that long cause it took King that long to finish it[/quote]
Dark Tower books were great, up until Book 5( around the time Stephen had his accident). He hasn’t been the same since :(. On a related note, has anyone read the books Stephen wrote as Richard Bachman? Running Man, The Long Walk, Blaze. They’re pretty awesome I think.
And just if someone else has not read Fahrenheit 451, there is also !984 and Animal Farm, which are, gasp, Science Fiction.
You really, really need to have read those.
Ya, seriously.
Well maybe Animal Farm is not sci-fi, but there is a funny thing happening if a sci-fi novel becomes to popular or cuts too deep, then, suddenly, it is not sci-fi anymore, but serious literature .
Fuck that, science fiction is about “what if” scenarios and some serve as a warning if current trends are projected into the future.
Labeling it as serious literature and making kids to read it in school just makes sure that as few people as possible read those books and thats bad, because they should.