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inspired by Robert Brownings "childe Roland to the Dark Tower came"...
the poem
http://www.stephenking.com/darktower/childe_roland.html
The guns were empty and they boiled at him, transmogrified into an Eye and a Hand, and he stood, screaming and reloading, his mind far away and absent, letting his hands do their reloading trick. Could he hold up a hand, tell them he had spent a thousand years learning this trick and others, tell them of the guns and the blood that had blessed them? Not with his mouth. But his hands could speak their own tale.
I do not aim with my hand;
He who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I aim with my eye.
I do not shoot with my hand;
He who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I shoot with my mind.
I do not kill with my gun;
He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father.
I kill with my heart.
...the man in black fled across to desert and the gunslinger followed
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Never read the Dark Tower... But Stephen King is one of my fave authors, read many of his books!
Good poem!
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i have. and re-read the 'Drawing of the Three' several times. it's amazing that you can read a book more than once and still feel all the suspense the second and third readings.
'god pisses down your back every day, but he only drowns you once'
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Never read the Dark Tower... But Stephen King is one of my fave authors, read many of his books!
Good poem!
i recommend that u buy the first of this 7 part series...
Roland the protagonist shows up in quite a few of S.K. books (for example Insomnia) and Flagg the antagonist shows up in "The stand"
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i have. and re-read the 'Drawing of the Three' several times. it's amazing that you can read a book more than once and still feel all the suspense the second and third readings.
'god pisses down your back every day, but he only drowns you once'
i LOVE that book..i've read the first 4 books around 15 times each...have you moved on to the next one?
the wastelands ?
wait till you get to wizard and glass......it'll rip your insides out
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i thought that he copped out a bit at the end of the wastelands. like he got a block, and finished it fast when he didn't really have the vision. i got partway through 'suzannah' (?} when i got busy with other projects. it is a gripper, he got back on track with that one, but i havent had the time to finish.
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Yes, I enjoyed them.
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i thought that he copped out a bit at the end of the wastelands. like he got a block, and finished it fast when he didn't really have the vision. i got partway through 'suzannah' (?} when i got busy with other projects. it is a gripper, he got back on track with that one, but i havent had the time to finish.
how did u like wizard n glass?
and did you read the original gunslinger or the revised version?
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Yes, I enjoyed them.
what did you think about the ending...
without giving it away for the others
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what did you think about the ending...
without giving it away for the others
I was surprised... and slightly disappointed. Generally, I like surprise endings... but this one felt rushed and wrong.
Interestingly, King has said that he wants to write another Dark Tower book... but I don't see how unless it's a prequel.
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I was surprised... and slightly disappointed. Generally, I like surprise endings... but this one felt rushed and wrong.
Interestingly, King has said that he wants to write another Dark Tower book... but I don't see how unless it's a prequel.
i felt it ws wrong all the way....it felt rushed...it felt like he did it just cause he ws expected to..the whole last book had that feel...
hell he even RE WROTE book 1 and changed it...i think his accident screwed him up....
he's written a BUNCH of comics regarding the dark tower...well someone else has written em...i refuse to read them...i dont wanna mess up a good thing in my head
www.stephenking.com < check it out for yourself
i think clint eastwood would make the perfect roland....they ashould make a movie
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Ever read the Series of novels in which China divides The world up into different Kingdoms? It's like 9 books, starting from 1989 to like 1999. I forgot the name.
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Book suggestion for you folks... George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones. I normally don't like these sorts of fantasy books... but I was suggested this by a guy at Barnes and Nobles, took a chance, and ended up reading the whole series in a week (5000 pages). Great book. Next year HBO is making it into a series... Read the book first!
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Book suggestion for you folks... George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones. I normally don't like these sorts of fantasy books... but I was suggested this by a guy at Barnes and Nobles, took a chance, and ended up reading the whole series in a week (5000 pages). Great book. Next year HBO is making it into a series... Read the book first!
thats a deal breaker for me there pardner :-\
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Ever read the Series of novels in which China divides The world up into different Kingdoms? It's like 9 books, starting from 1989 to like 1999. I forgot the name.
sounds interesting....sorta reminds me of gullivers travels for some reason
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Book suggestion for you folks... George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones. I normally don't like these sorts of fantasy books... but I was suggested this by a guy at Barnes and Nobles, took a chance, and ended up reading the whole series in a week (5000 pages). Great book. Next year HBO is making it into a series... Read the book first!
hahaha
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hahaha
Is it's against GB rules to recommend books? lol...
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Is it's against GB rules norm to recommend books? lol...
yes
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Some of the Stephen King books I read:
Christine
Thinner
The Shinning
Skeleton Crew
Desperation (never finished it).
And of course seen a lot of the movies based on his other books!
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sounds interesting....sorta reminds me of gullivers travels for some reason
Had jury duty in MoGoCo (you know the county) and found the first book, it was interesting.
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I've read it over the course of a lifetime, I started at 15 and finished in my mid 20's... very dissapointing, that accident really did fuck him up.. the first 2 or 3 books were phenomenal, then towards the end it started to get really weird and the last book in my opinion was garbage... the sum of 6 tomes: Roland the gunslinger gets looped back through time to the beginning of book one (sorry for spoiler) I felt really crappy after waiting so many years for a resolution which King promised, I expected a grand huge finish...instead literally everyone was let down.
Crichton is a much better read, most of his books have been made into movies, I love the medical thriller field he was a master of (died last year) his track record is fucking impeccable
1972 The Terminal Man * not sure
1975 The Great Train Robbery * not sure
1976 Eaters of the Dead * not sure
1980 Congo * movie
1987 Sphere * movie
1990 Jurassic Park * movie
1992 Rising Sun * movie
1994 Disclosure * movie
1995 The Lost World * movie
1996 Airframe * movie
1999 Timeline * movie
2002 Prey
2004 State of Fear
2006 Next
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Never read the Dark Tower... But Stephen King is one of my fave authors, read many of his books!
Good poem!
Same here. Well, I did read the first Gunslinger book from 1982, but never got beyond that one. The Talisman had similar elements to it.
He has written some amazing books over the years and some of his short stories are epic like, but his Gunslinger series is not really my bag. A good author for horror fantasy is hands down Clive Barker: Weaveworld (1987)... A FUCKED up story about how a flying carpet can change the entire world as we know it.
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King has some alright works here and there, but overall for a more consistent author I much prefer Robin Cook or Michael Crichton (RIP) great, great writers, the guy who wrote DaVinci code (Dan Brown) is also showing a lot of promise!
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Never read the Dark Tower... But Stephen King is one of my fave authors, read many of his books!
Good poem!
All I say is - The Stand
By the most gripping book apart from the pillars of the earth I have ever read.
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All I say is - The Stand
By the most gripping book apart from the pillars of the earth I have ever read.
Great read, they made a tv movie/series out of it too..
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for a more consistent author I much prefer Robin Cook or Michael Crichton (RIP) great, great writers
I've read all of their works and really like them both. MC was great at Sci-fi and Sphere was a really good read. His non-fiction book Travels wasn't too shabby either.
Reading Robin Cook's novels makes you want to stay away from hospitals, lol.
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All of Stephen Kings books are rushed and sucking at the end. That is why I never read them any more. It is like he spent so much time and effort on the first 90% of the book and then a half hour writing the ending.
The ending of "IT" was the most atrocious bullshit ever to exist.
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THis is GB. I don't think over half the board knows what a book is! ;D
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Stephen King's always been a phenomenal writer who can't stick the ending. When I finished the "false" ending of Dark Tower VII, I felt pretty satisfied, but getting through the second one is kind of like riding downhill without brakes; I wanted to stop, but it just kept moving. Still, I'm planning to re-read the entire series in the next year; it was darn entertaining!
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I've read it over the course of a lifetime, I started at 15 and finished in my mid 20's... very dissapointing, that accident really did fuck him up.. the first 2 or 3 books were phenomenal, then towards the end it started to get really weird and the last book in my opinion was garbage... the sum of 6 tomes: Roland the gunslinger gets looped back through time to the beginning of book one (sorry for spoiler) I felt really crappy after waiting so many years for a resolution which King promised, I expected a grand huge finish...instead literally everyone was let down.
i agree and disagree....i ws his universe to ruin....and ruin he did
ka...like the wind...
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All I say is - The Stand
By the most gripping book apart from the pillars of the earth I have ever read.
if u have read the stand...read the dark tower series...
the dark tower is the linchpin for the stand
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if i may make a suggestion....
wuthering heights...the bronte sisters were masters at reeming u in
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a great read.....the chronicles of Thomas covenant - the unbeleiver, 3 part series........brilliant read many years ago....
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if u have read the stand...read the dark tower series...
the dark tower is the linchpin for the stand
Oh I have read part of the dark tower, what I like about the stand is the end time apocalypic feeling which I don;t get with the dark tower, they are sometimes too far
fetched and I loose interest.
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Oh I have read part of the dark tower, what I like about the stand is the end time apocalypic feeling which I don;t get with the dark tower, they are sometimes too far
fetched and I loose interest.
Stark, have you read World War Z?:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/World-War-Z-Max-Brooks/dp/0715637037/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276623420&sr=8-1 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/World-War-Z-Max-Brooks/dp/0715637037/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276623420&sr=8-1)
It's an account of the zombie Apocalypse as told by various survivors from around the world. Awesome book.
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Stark, have you read World War Z?:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/World-War-Z-Max-Brooks/dp/0715637037/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276623420&sr=8-1 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/World-War-Z-Max-Brooks/dp/0715637037/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276623420&sr=8-1)
It's an account of the zombie Apocalypse as told by various survivors from around the world. Awesome book.
Excellent book. Covers every single scenario you can think of. After a zombie movie comes out, I have to laugh at the comments by people stating how they would hole up in a basement or bunker, or on a cruise ship and survive.
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Stark, have you read World War Z?:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/World-War-Z-Max-Brooks/dp/0715637037/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276623420&sr=8-1 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/World-War-Z-Max-Brooks/dp/0715637037/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276623420&sr=8-1)
It's an account of the zombie Apocalypse as told by various survivors from around the world. Awesome book.
oh man thanks a lot that looks like a great book I just bought it
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Excellent book. Covers every single scenario you can think of. After a zombie movie comes out, I have to laugh at the comments by people stating how they would hole up in a basement or bunker, or on a cruise ship and survive.
For a man in his twenties, I spend a worrying amount of time thinking about my anti-zombie drills.
oh man thanks a lot that looks like a great book I just bought it
No problem.
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For a man in his twenties, I spend a worrying amount of time thinking about my anti-zombie drills.
No problem.
hahah me too and I am 35 :D - I mean it would be the perfect thing for me, I want to shoot somebody I want to bash somebodies brain in and I want to
put gasoline over somebody and set him alight but I don't want to kill anybody :D
So this would be perfect :D
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Oh I have read part of the dark tower, what I like about the stand is the end time apocalypic feeling which I don;t get with the dark tower, they are sometimes too far
fetched and I loose interest.
Flagg from the stand is who roland is chasing in the dark tower....flagg also makes an appearance in insomnia...so does roland..
SK said that the dark tower series is the linchpin that holds ALL of his other works together....
for the apocalypic feeling u have to get past the first book and read the drawing of the 3 and the wastelands
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i read the first 3 years ago.....haven't been into SK for awhile.
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(http://jccclib.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/under-the-dome-by-stephen-king-full-cover.jpg)
this ws my most recent read...it ws a great idea with a crappy/expected finish
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(http://jccclib.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/under-the-dome-by-stephen-king-full-cover.jpg)
this ws my most recent read...it ws a great idea with a crappy/expected finish
I've started to read that as well a short while ago but never got really into it.
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One word
Graham Masterton
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I've started to read that as well a short while ago but never got really into it.
once i start a book......i HAVE TO finish it....
exception : wuthering heights...i've never read after when heathcliff dies