finished the dark tower and the ending wasnt as bad as i thought it would be but i cant help feeling roland had a much better story than the one we got. roland is one of my all time favorite characters and his story was no where near as epic or great as what it should have been.
The man who would be king & other stories - Kipling
How I choose to feel is how I am...I will not lose my faith, It's an inside job today.
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finished the dark tower and the ending wasnt as bad as i thought it would be but i cant help feeling roland had a much better story than the one we got. roland is one of my all time favorite characters and his story was no where near as epic or great as what it should have been.
I just recently finished The Dark Tower too... I agree, it could have been better, but I do think the ending was pretty appropriate. Altogether, I think this story meant so much to Stephen King, personally, that he sort of forgot about his audience and wrote it just for himself - which I can actually appreciate on an artistic level...
Now I'm reading The Great Shark Hunt, a collection of articles and essays by Hunter S. Thompson. It is dedicated "To Richard Milhous Nixon, who never let me down." :twisted: Fuckin love HST.
I just finished the Tammy Wynette biography and it was good, really sad - I didn't know much about her except she sang "Stand By Your Man."
A hair-dresser from Alabama.....prior to the singing correct??
I'm currently reading "1491"....it's a description of what the Americas were like prior to Chris landing in the area.
All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
Basically, it's one story told from two perspectives and you have to read 8 pages going from front to back, then flip the book over, turn it upside down and read 8 pages going from back to front in order to make sense of the first 8 pages. To understand either version of the book, you need to read them both in parallel in 8-page segments.There is some text written right side up and some written upside down on each page, so they eventually meet in the middle and then overlap from cover to cover.
The book has two front covers, two title pages, etc., making it entirely circular. When you get to the "end", it pretty much invites you to start over, reading it in the opposite direction from which you read it the first time. There's also a running list along the margins of historical events and obscure references to things that happened on particular dates along a timeline going back about 150 years and reaching 50 years into the future.
It's an extremely avant-garde typographic experiment and I'm loving every page of it, even though I'm certain I could never fully understand it.
2003: Toronto
2005: Kitchener/Hamilton/Toronto
2006: Toronto 1 & 2
2008: Hartford/EV Toronto 1 & 2
2009: Toronto/Philadelphia 3 & 4
2010: Buffalo
2011: Montreal/Toronto 1 & 2/Hamilton
2013: London/Buffalo/Vancouver/Seattle 2016: Toronto 1 & 2 2022: Hamilton/Toronto 2023: EV Seattle 1&2
Post Office - Charles Bukowski
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Gonna start;
A Storm Of Swords - George R.R. Martin
I bought "A Game of Thrones" over the weekend because I have heard such good things about this series. I am going to start it when I finish "The Girl Who Played With Fire".
I started this but didn't finish it. It's not an easy read. I still wanna finish it at some point though.
I finished the other and I am only reading this now. Took a little while to follow but once I was in a ways things became clearer. Probably helps that I live in the area the book is set.
There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
just finished The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein.
It was pretty depressing throughout but when I finished it, it was satisfying.
If I had known then what I know now...
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St. Paul 14, Denver 14
Just finished 'one flew over the cuckoo's nest' ken kesey
amazon yesterday delivered Where men win glory - jon krakauer. Glad it is so thick, means it will last a bit longer than other books:)
How I choose to feel is how I am...I will not lose my faith, It's an inside job today.
Manchester Aug 17th 2009
Hyde Park June 25th 2010
Manchester June 20th & 21st 2012
Leeds July 14th 2014
Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson - about the history and variations on the English language (and language in general).
And a Horror anthology that starts with H.P. Lovecraft's essay about "weirdly horrible" literature, and filled with the likes of Ambrose Bierce, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allen Poe, Rudyard Kipling and even Charles Dickens..
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reading the 5th harry potter book now.
Manchester Aug 17th 2009
Hyde Park June 25th 2010
Manchester June 20th & 21st 2012
Leeds July 14th 2014
I just recently finished The Dark Tower too... I agree, it could have been better, but I do think the ending was pretty appropriate. Altogether, I think this story meant so much to Stephen King, personally, that he sort of forgot about his audience and wrote it just for himself - which I can actually appreciate on an artistic level...
Now I'm reading The Great Shark Hunt, a collection of articles and essays by Hunter S. Thompson. It is dedicated "To Richard Milhous Nixon, who never let me down." :twisted: Fuckin love HST.
I'm currently reading "1491"....it's a description of what the Americas were like prior to Chris landing in the area.
Yep, she was a hairdresser. I'm listening to D-I-V-O-R-C-E right now. It's so weird.
1491 sounds great.
Sometimes a Great Notion - Ken Kesey
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 - HST
dohhhhhhme.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
Basically, it's one story told from two perspectives and you have to read 8 pages going from front to back, then flip the book over, turn it upside down and read 8 pages going from back to front in order to make sense of the first 8 pages. To understand either version of the book, you need to read them both in parallel in 8-page segments.There is some text written right side up and some written upside down on each page, so they eventually meet in the middle and then overlap from cover to cover.
The book has two front covers, two title pages, etc., making it entirely circular. When you get to the "end", it pretty much invites you to start over, reading it in the opposite direction from which you read it the first time. There's also a running list along the margins of historical events and obscure references to things that happened on particular dates along a timeline going back about 150 years and reaching 50 years into the future.
It's an extremely avant-garde typographic experiment and I'm loving every page of it, even though I'm certain I could never fully understand it.
2005: Kitchener/Hamilton/Toronto
2006: Toronto 1 & 2
2008: Hartford/EV Toronto 1 & 2
2009: Toronto/Philadelphia 3 & 4
2010: Buffalo
2011: Montreal/Toronto 1 & 2/Hamilton
2013: London/Buffalo/Vancouver/Seattle
2016: Toronto 1 & 2
2022: Hamilton/Toronto
2023: EV Seattle 1&2
Post Office - Charles Bukowski
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Gonna start;
A Storm Of Swords - George R.R. Martin
am now reading steppenwolf - hermann hesse.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
'It began as a mistake'. :P
Ian Johnson
I started this but didn't finish it. It's not an easy read. I still wanna finish it at some point though.
otherwise :
Atmospheric Sciences
and
The Five Senses by Michel Serres
Or you can come to terms and realize
You're the only one who can't forgive yourself
I bought "A Game of Thrones" over the weekend because I have heard such good things about this series. I am going to start it when I finish "The Girl Who Played With Fire".
Ephraim Katz - Film Encyclopedia: The Complete Guide to Film and the Film Industry
love it..
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
And as for prose, I am currently reading 'The Road To Nab End' by William Woodruff
It was pretty depressing throughout but when I finished it, it was satisfying.
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VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
I LOVED that book! Definitely something different.
An additional note: I'm a sucker for depressing stuff, haha.
2005: Kitchener/Hamilton/Toronto
2006: Toronto 1 & 2
2008: Hartford/EV Toronto 1 & 2
2009: Toronto/Philadelphia 3 & 4
2010: Buffalo
2011: Montreal/Toronto 1 & 2/Hamilton
2013: London/Buffalo/Vancouver/Seattle
2016: Toronto 1 & 2
2022: Hamilton/Toronto
2023: EV Seattle 1&2
amazon yesterday delivered Where men win glory - jon krakauer. Glad it is so thick, means it will last a bit longer than other books:)
Manchester Aug 17th 2009
Hyde Park June 25th 2010
Manchester June 20th & 21st 2012
Leeds July 14th 2014
And a Horror anthology that starts with H.P. Lovecraft's essay about "weirdly horrible" literature, and filled with the likes of Ambrose Bierce, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allen Poe, Rudyard Kipling and even Charles Dickens..