Rawr
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Baked beans all da way.
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Did you think so? In my opinion the Dark Tower series always felt like a second rate sci-fi series written by an author who never seemed fully comfortable with his material. They are great books no doubt but they lack that certain spark that i get from most of his other works. I file the series under 'Nice try, stick to the day job'.
Four Past Midnight was more a collection of short stories than novellas, in the same vein as Just After Sunset which was released in 2008. Perhaps you mean Different Seasons? This contained 4 novellas, 3 of which are celebrated as critically acllaimed movies (The Shawshawk Redemption, Stand by Me and Apt Pupil, based on the respective novellas Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, The Body and Apt Pupil; the less said about the fourth book in that series the better...).
I loved the Tower books! They were really unique and refreshing for King after reading a lot of his work, there was something alluring about joining Roland on his quest and dipping in and out of that world. There are places where it seems convoluted and a little too adventurous, but that is the point of writing, to explore, and I think King did that really well in those novels. The plot is ridiculously over arching and the adventure, sprawling, and that's what I love about it, he's carried that idea for well over the majority of his own life and he finished it, for better or worse, as he said. I really love the series
Four Past Midnight consists of four novellas, starting with The Langoliers and Secret Window, Secret Garden, which i've read, then The Library Policeman and The Sun Dog, which I am yet to read, so FD,NS seems similar to that. Everything's Eventual and Nightmares and Dreamscapes have a ton of shorts in.
I am yet to get onto Different Seasons, but am really looking forward to Shawshank and The Body as they are pretty highly regarded. I am not as excited as I could be about this new venture, the stories themselves don't sound too intriguing, but you can't really judge a book too much by a synopsis. I love the premise for a potential sequel to The Shining more, Doctor Sleep and would prefer a novel as I disliked 'Dome despite the work sai King put in.
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I hope Messi just laughs in their faces, I am sure he would rather play at Barca for free than mercenary city.
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I don't think he'd leave there but i'd reckon at least
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Did you see the first goal, the power he got in that tiny gap in the defense was awesome. Arsenal have no bite in the midfield and little spark without Cesc.
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Yep I had a chippy sue me.
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Messi > the world
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Read some more Poe poems
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That bit where he's like 'Hiya Wheezy, this is a little inconvenient... *springs shower floor up*' - that bit is trippy
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wow MASH
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Christopher Paolini
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Welcome!
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I read a couple of pages of The Book Thief.
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I'm gonna go shopping later so maybe i'll pick up some more crispy chicken to have with potatoes or i'll go chippy depending on how i'm feeling
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I'm eating frosties
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frosties
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Quick fact tonight. I learnt that Edgar Allan Poe enrolled in the army as he was struggling with money, as Edgar A Perry, lying that he was 22.
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Bought this toward the end of last year and is reasonably high on my TBR list, very much looking forward to it
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He has some ash from St Helens??? *jealous* That's such a cool story. I would totally borrow some ash from there
Man, I freaking love volcanoes, I could read about them for hours. I studied them a lot in my college course and always got sad when we had to move on. I love our planet, itself, so naturally I am fascinated by the processes and things that go on. I adore Lanzarote because of the bizarreness of it's appearance with all the lava fields and dormant volcanic peaks.
I also read a few pages of The Book Thief earlier (yeah yeah i'm kinda on topic
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We were talking about endings at my last Creative Writing meeting, and someone spoiled the end of The Dark Tower series for me *not amused*!
Dear god I would have destroyed the person who revealed that to me, but I toiled for half a year buying each book and reading it within six months and recently finished the series a second time, and it's a fantastic journey. I remember reading the last line and thinking jesus that is some insanity
King has a new collection of novellas coming out sometime, it's called 'Full Dark, No Stars'. If I remember it's the first time since Four Past Midnight that he's done it and the first two that i've read of that collection were brilliant, so I'm looking forward to this and hoping it wipes the 'Dome book out that I didn't like.
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I did some research on Mount St Helens from my own encyclopedia of the world and also some old college geography study notes on tectonics and volcanics and a little on orogenesis (mountains). Was really fun
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I think the poetry of Wilfred Owen introduces a far more realistic and poignant sense of war for people, it has a lot to say and some is quite simple in it's method. I know you are searching for more expansive tales, but it would be a fine place for some gentler reading.
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I watched The Shining a couple hours before.
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I read about 40 pages of The Book Thief yesterday.
Something I've Learned Today
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I learnt a little bit more about how the American taxpayer has been completely and utterly screwed over by Halliburton's role in the Iraqi war for the last seven years. It's absolutely horrific.