Tauer [M:150:160:][D3v:http://rpgmenagerie.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=cs&thread=540&page=1#18960][b]While the Light's away, the Shadows will play.[/b]
I recently finished reading Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and enjoyed it more than I thought I would. I'll never look at that President the same way again. Haha.
At the moment, i've got my head in two books:
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies started off making me chuckle because the thought of period-era women fighting zombies was rather a funny one, but after passing the mid-point of the book i'm finding it a struggle to carry on.
But Terry Brooks' The Voyage of Jerle Shannara trilogy has me hooked. I've read the previous two collections: Swords of... and Heritage of... and my feelings are always the same; the story starts off slow because of introducing a myriad of characters, but once the action kicks in I can't wait to turn the page. Plus Brooks tends to include some form of vague prophecy at the start of the story so throughout the book you're wondering who will be the betrayer? Who will die? Who will save the day? A lot of the characters come across as almost carbon copies of previous books' characters but i've learned to look past that for the sake of the story. And this trilogy has flying ships!!!
Nothing at the moment as I need new books to read and I've reread everything I have a bajillion times.
I have enjoyed the Johannes Cabal books and need to look if theres more than 2 now. Very cool and quirky funny.
Dark Tower multiple times but still need to get the newest book.
Song of Ice and Fire series more times than I can count and still the best set of books I've ever read.
I used to read Brooks and enjoyed the Voyage series mainly due to the return of Walker Boh. Unfortunatly I found it hard to get past the carbon copies and very similar story progression to continues past that series, tho I find myself now wanting to go back to it to see if it has gotten any better...
Silent as a shadow on padded feet...
Orp Boon [M:83:616:][D3v:http://www.rpgmenagerie.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=cs&thread=406&page=1#374]"Is that family heirloom for sale?"[0:Gone fishing.][1:The store is open!]
Lee Child - His Jack Reacher series. About an ex military cop and the hassles he gets into and out of. I highly recommend them to anyone even remotely interested in crime drama. Reacher is the man.
Jim Butcher - The Dresden Files. It's classified as Urban Fantasy, and quite frankly the best of the genre. Harry Dresden is flat out my favorite novel character replacing both Raistlin Majere and Drizzit Do'Urden and those my friends are some big shoes to fill.
Stephen King - It. What can I say. I've been in a hospital for a while and no one does atmospheric horror like Mr. King. I can close my eyes and see the world he writes in front of me any time I open his books; this one especially. I have always admired that with him.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Valley of Fear. I inherited a set of Sherlock Holmes novels from my grandfather. I read them as a teenager and then put them away. Mostly because I was afraid of them falling apart. The bindings are fragile and have only gotten moreso over the years. However, with the recent movies and new television programs I picked them back up again (in paperback). They are as enthralling as I remember.
Eternity
“Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-right-in-the-eyes-and-don't-even-blink wench.”
On the odd occasions I have a bit of time, I read one or two of Ray Bradbury's or H. P. Lovecraft's short stories. Both of them have a great way of painting vivid images with words and I love to just hear their nuanced writing flow in my mind.
Alec [M:118:6:][D3v:http://rpgmenagerie.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=cs&thread=412&page=1#1242]"I see," said the blind man to the deaf lady.[0:Wandering the stacks.][1:Present and accounted for.]
Working on A Feast for Crows, right now, but I just find it kind of hard to care at this point. Martin's spread the story too thin, in my opinion, and everything's racing in too many different directions to keep tabs on everything mentally and to remotely give a damn.
Also looking for Ghost Story, and it is proving impossible to find, which is tearing me to shreds because the ending of Changes blew my mind to the other side of the galaxy.
I have this to say to you Neko - Wind Through the Keyhole is pretty good if you're a diehard Dark Tower fan, but if not it's going to seem like useless fluff, which it pretty much is.
Come in under the shadow of this red rock, and I will show you something different from either your shadow at morning, striding behind you, or your shadow at evening, rising to meet you. I shall show you fear in a handful of dust.
I'm expecting it to be fluff, but I love the characters so any chance to see them for even a little bit is good to me lol.
Feast was the hardest one for me to get through due to it having very few of the characters I enjoy most in it. However it also has some of the stuff thats so well hidden that i had to find out about it on the internet afterwards and had to reread. Not that I mind rereading that series cause I always find something new...
Silent as a shadow on padded feet...
Alec [M:118:6:][D3v:http://rpgmenagerie.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=cs&thread=412&page=1#1242]"I see," said the blind man to the deaf lady.[0:Wandering the stacks.][1:Present and accounted for.]
It's basically Roland telling the Ka-Tet about this one time he told a story. Although it does shed some new light on Roland's mother, so that's nice.
Come in under the shadow of this red rock, and I will show you something different from either your shadow at morning, striding behind you, or your shadow at evening, rising to meet you. I shall show you fear in a handful of dust.
Yeah I'm ok with that. I had heard about when it takes place in the story so I knew it couldn't be anything too drastic or it would have effected the books that come after in the storyline.
Still hoping that they can get their act together and get some movies made. But then also worried theyll ruin them lol.
Silent as a shadow on padded feet...
Alec [M:118:6:][D3v:http://rpgmenagerie.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=cs&thread=412&page=1#1242]"I see," said the blind man to the deaf lady.[0:Wandering the stacks.][1:Present and accounted for.]
My prediction is that The Gunslinger is going to perfect. The best book-to-movie adaptation ever. But riding that wave of success, they'll rush The Drawing of the Three, and that one is going to be ruined, so the series sits dead in the proverbial waters.
I sure hope I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure I'm not.
Come in under the shadow of this red rock, and I will show you something different from either your shadow at morning, striding behind you, or your shadow at evening, rising to meet you. I shall show you fear in a handful of dust.
I finished Christopher Moore's Sacre Bleu a little while ago. If you're familiar with his stories then you know he's a complete riot, and this book is no different. It takes the death of Vicent van Gogh and turns it into a paranormal murder mystery complete with insanity of all kinds.
Also tried reading a bit of Lovecraft recently, but some of his earlier stories are difficult to go through. I swear the man can write an entire chapter depicting a simple setting.
Alec [M:118:6:][D3v:http://rpgmenagerie.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=cs&thread=412&page=1#1242]"I see," said the blind man to the deaf lady.[0:Wandering the stacks.][1:Present and accounted for.]
Reanimator is a personal favorite of mine by Lovecraft, but it's a tremendous slog the first time through.
Come in under the shadow of this red rock, and I will show you something different from either your shadow at morning, striding behind you, or your shadow at evening, rising to meet you. I shall show you fear in a handful of dust.