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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    catch22 wrote:
    i have heard this from a lot of people. it's made me a bit leery of investing myself in it, especially since i've recently kicked off a couple of other series'

    Yeah just wanted to warn you before you invested your time. I like King a lot, but I think he ripped off readers, some who followed the series for close to thirty years.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    TrixieCat wrote:
    I think Jamie just read that.

    I have just been inspired to pick it up again, I left it a while back, but I went through a few pages again earlier.

    :)




    p.s....yellow polka dot :p
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • nuffingman
    nuffingman Posts: 3,014
    Just finished "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. It was quite a depressing read.
  • illegal pants
    illegal pants Posts: 13,471
    My Diary by Kylie Mole
    wah
  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    nuffingman wrote:
    Just finished "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. It was quite a depressing read.

    I agree. Good story but really sad.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • eyedclaar
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  • catch22
    catch22 Posts: 1,081
    nuffingman wrote:
    Just finished "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. It was quite a depressing read.

    i think im the only person who didn't care for the road. i have the same problem with almost all apocalytpic fiction... it's all just a fancy survival story. it could be a guy lost in the maine woods for all i care, but somehow making it post-apocalyptic makes it a Serious Literary Statement. what i always want is the interesting story... how did things get to that point? they always dodge that... 1984, handmaid's tale, the road.
    and like that... he's gone.
  • nuffingman
    nuffingman Posts: 3,014
    catch22 wrote:
    i think im the only person who didn't care for the road. i have the same problem with almost all apocalytpic fiction... it's all just a fancy survival story. it could be a guy lost in the maine woods for all i care, but somehow making it post-apocalyptic makes it a Serious Literary Statement. what i always want is the interesting story... how did things get to that point? they always dodge that... 1984, handmaid's tale, the road.
    Yep, the jury is out for me on this one. The reviews on the back were unanimous in their approval, but it left me feeling quite depressed, as if the father and sons attempts at survival were just a lost cause. Apparently a movie is out soon. That should be a laugh fest.
  • catch22
    catch22 Posts: 1,081
    nuffingman wrote:
    Yep, the jury is out for me on this one. The reviews on the back were unanimous in their approval, but it left me feeling quite depressed, as if the father and sons attempts at survival were just a lost cause. Apparently a movie is out soon. That should be a laugh fest.

    i could handle the depressing end if there was anything interesting happening before that.
    and like that... he's gone.
  • mole1985
    mole1985 Posts: 1,119
    nuffingman wrote:
    Just finished "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. It was quite a depressing read.

    An amazing read that one.
    Dublin 2006
    Katowice 2007
    London 2007
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    catch22 wrote:
    i think im the only person who didn't care for the road. i have the same problem with almost all apocalytpic fiction... it's all just a fancy survival story. it could be a guy lost in the maine woods for all i care, but somehow making it post-apocalyptic makes it a Serious Literary Statement. what i always want is the interesting story... how did things get to that point? they always dodge that... 1984, handmaid's tale, the road.

    I liked it, but I can see your point about not telling us how things got to that point. I think that would have been really interesting, and it is a bit of a cop-out for the writer.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • KosmicJelli
    KosmicJelli Posts: 1,855
    Okay its not Leibniz but close to symbolic thought ... " A Practical Guide For Developing your Natural Clairvoaynt Abilties"
  • Cocaine_Nosejob
    Cocaine_Nosejob Posts: 1,744
    Dandy In The Underworld by Sebastian Horsley
    "The customer...is always...an ASSHOLE"

    "The world fascinates me."

    "Doesn't mean that much to me, to mean that much to you"

  • elmer
    elmer Posts: 1,683
    Cocaine_Nosejob wrote:
    Dandy In The Underworld by Sebastian Horsley
    whassat, a biog of Marc Bolan?
  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way In The New Century by Paul Krugman
    1998 ~ Barrie
    2003 ~ Toronto
    2005 ~ London, Toronto
    2006 ~ Toronto
    2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
    2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
    2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
    2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
    2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
    2014 - Detroit
    2019 - Chicago X 2
  • Whizbang
    Whizbang Posts: 1,314
    A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn

    and an insurance book for my next designation *yawn*
    believe it or not, we don't "need" anything. that is only the spoiled brat in us trying to fill some temporary solution to an emptyness that does not exist.

    I have eaten so much gold I crapped excellence - drtyfrnk29

    Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all!
  • Soujiro_Seta
    Soujiro_Seta Posts: 100
    House of Leaves
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Soujiro_Seta wrote:
    House of Leaves

    How is that?
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • DonJon
    DonJon Posts: 5,089
    CPA 105 - Taxation
    I have a permanent erection :rolleyes:
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me.

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