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Lou wrote: "Anyone started reading any of the two books for May?"I have started reading both books. I had forgotten how much I really enjoyed reading the books the first time.
I'm going to skim back over Boy's Life, because I just reread it a few months back.
I'm about to start my journey with Boy's Life and really looking forward to it
I started reading Something Wicked on an airplane and I hate flying so it probably wasn't the smartest choice to be feeling creepy already when we started to land. LOL.
I've read it before so I know I'll enjoy it -- it's like visiting with an old friend ... :)
It is, Joanne, isn't it? I'm looking forward to meeting Lucifer again. I remember laughing my butt off when he made an appearance.
uh oh -- I don't even remember that Charlene -- that's what I mean about rereading a book being like reading it for first time for me :)
I'm sooo glad Boy's Life was picked for this month. I was already planning to read it so that worked out awesome. I'm going to start after I finish The Providence Rider.
I have read the prologue (twice) and I am through chapter three. I had never even heard of this book until I received the invite to join the group. Thank you! Love it....
Charlene - I met up with Lucifer last night ...definitely one of my favorite characters ..has anyone else had the pleasure ??
HA Joanne! I laughed so hard when I read that part.
Lou wrote: "Anyone started reading any of the two books for May?"I've just started reading "Boys Life" and I don't think I've read any of his work before, but I'm really enjoying this book.
I have met Lucifer and even though I was warned I was still surprised! Oh and yes I laughed out.
I finished Boy's Life last night and even though I've read it before I still enjoyed it as much as if it was the first time. No spoilers, but there was a scene I loved with Cory and the Mayor - you'll know it when you get to it -- and I was surprised to see my current hometown, Allentown,PA, mentioned along with a couple others. I can't help but wonder if Mr McCammon just threw a dart at a map or if he's actually familiar with this area -- though I will say that it does make sense in the context of the story
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"This was to be my first experiment with it, and like any first experience, the feeling stays with you forever. What this was exactly I can't say, but it drove into my soul and made a home there. Everyone was watching me; everyone was listening to me. The words coming out of my mouth-the words I'd conceived and give birth to- were making time null and void; they were bringing together a roomful of people into a journey of common sights, sounds, and thoughts; they were leaving me and travelling into the minds and memories of people who had never been at Saxons Lake that chill, early morning in March. I could tell when I looked at them that those people were following me. And the greatest thing- the very greatest thing-is that they wanted to go where I led them."
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"I had seen her naked. In all my life I had seen no female naked but my mother. I had been in the presence of Chile Willow only a short time, but what is time when a heart speaks? My heart was speaking to Chile Willow in that moment, as she bathed my cuts and gave me a smile. My heart was saying if you were my girlfriend I would give you a hundred lighting bugs in a green glass jar, so you could always see your way. I would give you a meadow full of wildflowers, where no two blooms would ever be alike. I would give you mu bicycle, with it's golden eye to protect you. I would write a story for you, and make you a princes who lived in a white marble castle. If you would only like me, I would give you magic. If you would only like me.
If you would only-"
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"This was early summer in Zephyr: an awakening to hazy morning heat, the sun gradually burning the haze off and the air getting so humid your shirt stuck to your skin by the time you'd walked to the mailbox and back. At noon the world seemed to pause on its axis, and not a bird dared to wing through the steaming blue. As afternoon rambled on, a few clouds rimmed with rule might build up from the northwest. You could sit on the porch, a glass of lemonade at your side and the radio tuned to a baseball game, and watch the clouds slowly roll toward you. After a while you might hear a distant thunder, and a zigzag of lighting would make the radio crackle. It might shower for thirty minutes or so, but most times the clouds just marched past with a rumble and grunt and not a drop of rain. As evening cooled the earth, the cicadas droned in their hundreds from the woods and lighting bugs rose from the grass. They got up in the trees and blinked, and they lit up the branches like Christmas decorations here on the edge of July. The stars came out, and some phase of the moon. If I played my cards right, I could talk my folks into letting me stay up late, like until eleven or so, and I would sit in front yard watching the lights of Zephyr go out. When enough lights were extinguished, the stars became much brighter. You could look up into the heart of the universe, and see the swirls of glowing stars. A soft breeze blew, bringing with it the sweet perfume of earth, and the trees rustled quietly in its passage. It was very hard, at times like this, not to think that the world was as well-ordered and precise as the Cartwright ranch on "Bonanza," or that in every house lived a "My Three Sons" family. I wished it were so, but I had seen pictures of a spreading dark, a burning man, and a bomb-wrecked church, and I was beginning to know the truth."
(Wish i/you was here?)
This is my 3rd time reading it but is has been a good 15 years since the last time I have read it. I am right now on page 305 and I just can't believe how much is in this book. Every chapter is almost like a novel inside a novel. Extraordinary.
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Yes it is a very deep story that it seems requires a few re-reads to grasp its magic.
I finished Something Wicked This Way Comes. I think if you removed all the descriptive passages, the metaphors, etc, the book would probably be only about 20 pages long.
However - the description was so very well done, I gave it 4 stars. Great read :)
Now to find time for Boy's Life.
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I think if you removed all the descriptive passages, the metaphors, etc, the book would probably be only about 20 pages long.
However - the description..."
Just finished it today there's a lot great stuff in this novel dark and weird, loving and bonding Stuff too.
How are you getting on?
No Spoilers any specific questions that may ruin the rest of the story direct to the specific spoilers topic thread.