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from the Never too Late to Read Classics group.
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Lesle wrote: "1912 - Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey (I think we read this one recently actually)"Yeah, we read it in 2022. We could read the sequel, The Rainbow Trail.
I read Carrie in high school but it's all coming back to me. This isn't his best story but definitely a great start to his career.Steven wrote: "I was wondering how others feel about the structure of the book. Would it be better if the story flowed along without the inserts by the commission. Often, I found these distracting me from the story rather than adding to it."
Yeah, it is pretty distracting. I think it's mostly to show things that happened in the past.
Pam wrote: "I just put a hold on it. I used to read King in the late '80s and '90s but haven't read too much in the 2000s. I saw the movie in 1976 and then again in 1977, dubbed in Spanish (which was weird). It should be interesting to see how his writing style has changed over the decades, this being his first published novel. I noticed a big difference, in his writing (dialogue in particular), between The Dead Zone (1979) and his later works. I hope my copy comes in soon!"
Yeah, his writing has changed a lot over fifty years. Especially in the last decade it's changed for the worse IMO but pre2000 I thought he could do no wrong.
I really hope this stays up this time!!!!!
Enoch Wallace is an ageless hermit, striding across his untended farm as he has done for over a century, still carrying the gun with which he had served in the Civil War. But what his neighbors must never know is that, inside his unchanging house, he meets with a host of unimaginable friends from the farthest stars.More than a hundred years before, an alien named Ulysses had recruited Enoch as the keeper of Earth's only galactic transfer station. Now, as Enoch studies the progress of Earth and tends the tanks where the aliens appear, the charts he made indicate his world is doomed to destruction. His alien friends can only offer help that seems worse than the dreaded disaster. Then he discovers the horror that lies across the galaxy...
Jen wrote: "Oh yay. I hope to get to this later in the month. I definitely want to read the edition that has an introduction by Margaret Atwood- I’m curious what she has to say about it."Interesting. I just read The Handmaid's Tale and loved it. I don't have that edition so let me know.
Kathy wrote: "This will be the first Stephen King book I’ve ever read."
Awesome. I've read most of his books.
A modern classic, Carrie introduced a distinctive new voice in American fiction -- Stephen King. The story of misunderstood high school girl Carrie White, her extraordinary telekinetic powers, and her violent rampage of revenge, remains one of the most barrier-breaking and shocking novels of all time.
Yeah it is impressive. He knew a lot about language.
Welcome Theresa and Basil.
That's a separate story. They printed them together in a weird way.
Sep 04, 2024 02:37AM
Lesle wrote: "Actually sounds very interesting. I found the link for PG:https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1210"
Cool, thanks.
I've read a lot of Japanese folktales but I just didn't think these were told especially well.
But my favorite was The Dream of Akinosuke.
The whole recruiting a crew thing is pretty out there but stick with it.I like all the stuff about how different languages work.
I just started this. It's really weird.
Sep 01, 2024 12:31AM
A blind musician with amazing talent is called upon to perform for the dead. Faceless creatures haunt an unwary traveler. A beautiful woman — the personification of winter at its cruelest — ruthlessly kills unsuspecting mortals. These and 17 other chilling supernatural tales — based on legends, myths, and beliefs of ancient Japan — represent the very best of Lafcadio Hearn's literary style. They are also a culmination of his lifelong interest in the endlessly fascinating customs and tales of the country where he spent the last fourteen years of his life, translating into English the atmospheric stories he so avidly collected.Teeming with undead samurais, man-eating goblins, and other terrifying demons, these 20 classic ghost stories inspired the Oscar®-nominated 1964 film of the same name.
Humanity, which has spread throughout the universe, is involved in a war with the Invaders, who have been covertly assassinating officials and sabotaging spaceships. The only clues humanity has to go on are strange alien messages that have been intercepted in space. Poet and linguist Rydra Wong is determined to understand the language and stop the alien threat.
