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Kandice's Reading Progress
Okay, you're favorite is the Drawing of the Three:)Guess what's in my hot little hands, right now?!!!!!
Kandice wrote: "Okay, you're favorite is the Drawing of the Three:)Guess what's in my hot little hands, right now?!!!!!"
Dunno... what? Wolves of the Calla??? *Crosses fingers and hops around excitedly*
And Wolves AND Drawing are tied for my favorite!!!
Started...maybe I shouldn't update my page #'s to keep you in suspense:) No, I wouldn't do that. I plan on staying awake late tonight, so I should get a lot of reading done;) Promise!
I am tickled pink that Wolves has the same flavor as W&G. I really enjoy it. I am beginning to realize, more and more, how much I like fantasy. King always does such a good job at relaying that sense of menace and evil, even when the evil figure has yet to be seen. His build up is perfect.
I just finished a Dostoevsky that was AWFUL! I hated the characters and couldn't care less what happened to them, other than hoping they would be punished in some way for their horrid personalities! Blech! I was hoping I was easing my way into actually finishing one of his larger works, but all I really did was discourage myself further.
Poor Folk, but I think you already know since you commented;)I really do want to try another. Have you read anything of his other than C&P?
From what I read, it was his very first novel and a huge contributor to his being imprisoned. It was supposed to show how bad the Russian people had it and the government frowned on that. Imagine!
I would be willing to try one of those with you, but...I wouldn't want you to get mad if I was super slow or even gave up:)
I can be a really speedy reader, but I feel the same way about classics. I tend to read them slower.My favorite author's new books, I usually zip through, at breakneck speed, and then re-read them later much slower. Since I haven't been doing a lot of re-reading since GR, I wonder what I'll do when King's new one comes out? It's supposed to be 1,500 pages, so looooong.
Okay, I need to read a secret book, Naked in Death, and then...Song of Susannah! I will worry about her until then.
Kandice wrote: "Okay, I need to read a secret book, Naked in Death, and then...Song of Susannah! I will worry about her until then. "But... but!
I just read the next two Gunslinger graphic novels. They aren't retellings like The Gunslinger Born was, but they fill in the blanks between the time Roland's Ka-tet left Mejis, got home, and then had to leave Gilead again. In the forword the author says how nervewracking it was to add to a world he loved so much, feeling he could never live up to what King had created. He goes on to say that King approved every word, and King was the only reader he was trying to please.
Becky wrote: "*drool* I want. "mmmm I have the second one...I need Treachery. You can get em easy at Borders. Only graphic novel its easy to get at Borders.
I got the second two from the library, but if I can find the HBs to match the first, I would realy like to own them. I am such a sucker for this medium. Becky knows, I study every single illustration in the DT series. They don't even matter, not like with a graphic novel, but I just suck them up. W&G was one of my favorites, but I was very, very disapointed in the artwork. Gunslinger Born MORE than made up for that.:)
Finished Fight Club, which I really, really liked!Reading Speak, which is fairly disturbing, as I have two teenage sons and a girl who WILL be a teenager.
Reading I Am Legend. I realized I have read it before (wasn't sure), but it's so good. Pretty strange comparison, since I just finished a Sookie Stackhouse!
I picked up a YA book someone had left behind about Anne Boleyn and loved it. I read it out loud to my sister in law, and am now reading The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn, and have The Other Boleyn Girl and The Boleyn Inheritance. I may just be on a Boleyn kick!
Kandice wrote: "I picked up a YA book someone had left behind about Anne Boleyn and loved it. I read it out loud to my sister in law, and am now reading The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn, and have [book..."Hoping the end changes? :)
Kandice wrote: "I picked up a YA book someone had left behind about Anne Boleyn and loved it. I read it out loud to my sister in law, and am now reading The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn, and have [book..."Did you read The queen's fool?
Rachel wrote: "Kandice wrote: "I picked up a YA book someone had left behind about Anne Boleyn and loved it. I read it out loud to my sister in law, and am now reading The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn..."No, stayed the same, but no detail was given. No details about "promiscuity" either, which made her story a bit duller (LOL) but it was still interesting.
Jeane wrote: "Kandice wrote: "I picked up a YA book someone had left behind about Anne Boleyn and loved it. I read it out loud to my sister in law, and am now reading The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn..."No, but I have it. I also sent a copy to Jackie, because I had somehow aquired two:)
Kandice, it was my first book by this author and really enjoyed the story. Actually I thought it was more than really good, the story for me was very strong. And I see it on his own, so not connected to the others she wrote.
Rachel and Becky will be happy to know...ta da dum dum dum...I started DT 7! A major death in the very beginning? I know King is going to break my heart and then wring me dry, isn't he? What have you set me up for?
Kandice wrote: "Rachel and Becky will be happy to know...ta da dum dum dum...I started DT 7! A major death in the very beginning? I know King is going to break my heart and then wring me dry, isn't he? What have y..."It is a roller-coaster, and if you don't hate the end, and I don't think you will, then you will love it.
In my humble opinion, it's a perfect and appropriate ending.
Well, I about a third of the way, and I am beginning to think the end will be...well, not the end. Ka, circle of lefe, wheel of time, whatever you call it. I'm okay with that, but as hard as I've tried to stay away from threads and reviews that would spoil me, I am tempted now to look! I do need to say, I am falling more in love with Roland every page he appears. I know Eddie Dean is your man, but when Roland held Jake...I cried. I really love that man. And the impatient twirling he does with his fingers? I can see that so perfectly in my mind's eye. He feels very, very real to me.
I know. I love Roland IMMENSELY in book 7. Eddie is just... Eddie! I have loved him since we met him on the plane. :D
I know! I saw that, but since I bought it, I figured I'd read it anyway.:)
I just hope it's not super-emotional. Like I said, the last DT just left me a wreck! That's a good thing for a book, but, still...A WRECK!
I think I may be in the minority, but I didn't feel the actual ending was sad. The events leading up to it? Absolute tragedy! But, the ending itself was actually full of hope. The fact that it really was the end to all those books, that long journey and the fact that I would never read about their adventures for the first time again was super sad. I know I'll read it again over the years, but there's never a time like the first. *sigh*
Kandice that message is exactly how I felt finishing up the series. The end is perfect because most fans do read those books again. I think I almost wanted to cry reading your message!
It's so true. This has come up a few times in the last few days, and I've never felt it more than now. I am so sad I will never read this for the first time again. I didn't grasp the significance of Becky's excitement for me to read them straight through for the first time, but I know, If anyone, with an opinion I care about, does in the future, I will be so thrilled.
HMPH. And see... You should have read them straight through. Can you imagine how engrossed and absorbed in the story you'd have been if you didn't interrupt it with other stuff?
No way! I would have been wrecked the whole time with no respite! I'm too old for that;)Next time I read them, I will probably do that, but I'm glad that I didn't this time. I really needed the small recovery periods. I was very, very emotionally vested.
HMPH away sweet Becky!♥
Really? HMPH. Come on Henry Cavill, I'm ready now. :P
Becky wrote: "Really? HMPH. Come on Henry Cavill, I'm ready now. :P"Hahaha, Becky you make me laugh so much!
Yeah, Becky is quite the entertainer!;)
What? I was just being honest. I mean... I WAS (and still am) ready anytime he wants. :PI just thought it was hilarious that you both said the exact same thing at the exact same time.
I know. Me because I meant it, and Fi because she believes Henry is saving himself for her! ROLF
Well... I just want him to know his options. :)
Yes, a man should always have options. Choosing to exercise them...that's another matter;)
Fiona wrote: "ha ha ha!But he is... isn't he? >.>
Hahahaha, oooh..I heard that in my head with such a simple, honest, pure voice...
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