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TechnoHippy 17,309 posts
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Mola_Ram 23,696 posts
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Registered 8 years agoTechnoHippy wrote:
I agree that his endings usually aren't worth the time spent getting to them.
Tonka wrote:
Yeah - he really doesn't do endings well. I think that's partly why some of his books are so long - he just doesn't know how to stop it. Although the journey is usually worthwhile, for most of his earlier stuff.
TechnoHippy wrote:
FTFY
The last King book I read had one of the worst endings known to man.
I think my taste in King books is a bit off since I enjoyed both The Regulators and Insomnia.
Really weak endings though.
Though I seem to be among the few that really liked the Dark Tower ending. I can definitely see how it would make people mad, but I thought it was really appropriate.
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TechnoHippy 17,309 posts
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Registered 17 years ago@Mola_Ram I gave up on Dark Tower at book 5 (I think) - it started strong then lost its way. -
Mola_Ram 23,696 posts
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Registered 8 years agoThe latter books are definitely weaker, but I was invested enough in the characters to push through to the end. It's worth doing imo. -
wuntyate 14,659 posts
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Registered 7 years agoThe gunslinger was brilliant as well. Then all I can remember from the next two books was incredible racism and talking trains. I fucked them off not long after.
Actually, although I've not read The Talisman, I really enjoyed Black House he co-wrote with Peter Straub.
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Registered 17 years agoFor post apocalyptic gunslingers I always enjoy the Jerusalem Man books by David Gemmel. -
Mola_Ram 23,696 posts
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Registered 8 years agoKing has historically had problems with writing black people. It's never really been malicious or mean-spirited (aside from a couple of infamous scenes in The Stand), but it's often been pretty cringey. He's gotten a lot better, though - Susannah does improve in later Dark Tower books. -
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Registered 17 years agoThe story within the story in Wizard and Glass makes it one of my favourite King books.
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TechnoHippy 17,309 posts
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Registered 17 years agoTrowel wrote:
I think it was the train that did it for me.
The story within the story in Wizard and Glass makes it one of my favourite King books.
But having to get past Blaine the riddling train is a pisser. -
Mola_Ram 23,696 posts
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Registered 8 years agoEven if I hated Blaine (I don't), he's in the books for such a short time that I can't imagine him ruining the experience. But hey, opinions! -
Murbs 24,811 posts
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Registered 15 years agoTechnoHippy wrote:
I felt ready to go straight into the sequels after reading it, so I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Murbs wrote:
Looks interesting - and for free it would be rude not too
Embers of War by Gareth Powell. Fun Sci-Fi with some strong characters (including the sentient warship - she’s great); currently available for free on Prime Reading..gif)
(Aside: I haven’t read the sequels though because I have far too much else to read in the meantime) -
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Registered 17 years agoI think that the mistake I made with The Dark Tower was that I tried to read them all back to back. I gave up on the one where it starts with the same chapter that finished the previous book. That talking train thing. I did skip the chapter but only after reading a bit too much of it to make sure it wasn't some clever deception and then everything felt samey.
I do really like King though. He has a way of writing that makes me see things vividly.
I did not particularly like Black House due to how it was written. Like a first hand eye witness recounting of things in realtime. Really annoying. Thought The Talisman was excellent. -
robc84 14,417 posts
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Registered 8 years agoThanks for the tips all.
I mainly read on the commute and before bed. I may start the king stuff on the former and find something else for the latter! -
prettyvacant 371 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI know this is the book thread but if you're interested in King try and dig up the Salem's Lot tv mini series , I haven't seen it in years but remember it being really good , not only do you get David Soul you also get a creaky James Mason .
The Talisman is also very good but more of a fantasy angle than his other stuff .
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wuntyate 14,659 posts
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Registered 7 years ago@robc84 Above all, I really recommend you start with The Shining. One of my most favourite books of all time and imo the best thing King has ever written. -
prettyvacant 371 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI liked The Tommy Knockers which is famously the book he doesn't remember writing and is generally considered to not be his best , so what do I know =) -
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Registered 17 years agoHa, is that right? It was a bit weird, now it all makes sense.
Read a lot of Stephen King in my teens although had missed The Stand, which I read last year. Really enjoyed it. He does create great worlds and characters, even if he sometimes struggles to finish books. -
prettyvacant 371 posts
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Registered 18 years agoTo be fair to King , if any of us had the means motive and opportunity to do the drink and drugs he did we'd be lying in a pool of vomit , not knocking out second rate novels . -
simpleexplodingmaybe 13,538 posts
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Registered 5 years agoprettyvacant wrote:
Although its title was classic playground slang for boobs
I liked The Tommy Knockers which is famously the book he doesn't remember writing and is generally considered to not be his best , so what do I know =) -
prettyvacant 371 posts
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Registered 18 years agoTommy's Knockers , worst case of gynecomastia I've ever seen . -
Tonka 30,818 posts
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Registered 17 years agoAww shiiiet...
I made a classic mistake I thought I was well past. I felt like reading a Fantasy book so I ordered A Memory Called Empire that I've seen mentioned.
Then I looked it up and saw that
a) It's Sci-Fi
b) it's the first in a series where the other books aren't published yet.
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PazJohnMitch 15,795 posts
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Registered 13 years agoOathbringer by Brandon Sanderson.
Part 3 of a potential 10 part series (split into two 5 book time periods).
Thoroughly enjoyable read throughout but it is so big (each book is about 1200 pages) that I have forgotten almost everything that happened in the 1st two books.
Also Oathbringer suffers from being the middle part of the first period. So although plenty of things happened none seemed as impactful as they perhaps could have been.
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Graxlar_v3 10,033 posts
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Registered 3 years agoI felt that Oathbringer was a step down over the first two, maybe it is the nothing impactful happening stuff but the quality of story telling dropped a bit.
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PazJohnMitch 15,795 posts
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Registered 13 years agoYeah Shallan is annoying.
I don’t mind Kaladin always messing up. His sulking afterwards does annoy me though.
Currently Adolin is the character I am most interested in. He seems to have followed the same basic origin story as Shallan but has not bonded a spren. And his Sword was acting out of character. Dislike his obsession with fashion though.
And Szeth. He was always the most interesting character despite only being in the Interludes of the 1st 2 books.
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TechnoHippy 17,309 posts
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Registered 17 years agoThe Wasp Factory
I always enjoy re-reading this, even knowing the ending. A pleasantly twisted story.
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prettyvacant 371 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI started off only reading horror and sci fi and I picked up Consider Phlebas because I liked the look of the picture on the cover , after reading a few of Bank's sci fi I picked up the Wasp Factory thinking it was something in the same vein , was it hell , but I enjoyed it and bought a few more of his serious fiction .
Long story short , Wasp Factory was the book that got me reading more broadly and I have Mr. Banks to thank for it . -
TechnoHippy 17,309 posts
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Registered 17 years agoHe was an incredible author - sadly missed. -
prettyvacant 371 posts
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Registered 18 years agoThe brother in Wasp Factory is some very dark humour and some very fucked up story telling .
Somehow I ended up with a signed copy of Wasp Factory and Walking on Glass , the shop owner must have just stuck them back on the shelf , unless Banks went around doing guerilla autographing .
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If anyone hasn't read Blood, Sweat & Pixels by Jason Schreier, I'd recommend it to anyone that's interested in games.
Fascinating insights into the making of some of the biggest games of recent (and in some cases not-so-recent) years, gave me a whole new appreciation for the process and the many people involved. And also made me want to go back and play some of them again with that knowledge.
Very well-written and enjoyable to read, to boot - as anyone that's familiar with Jason would expect, from Kotaku or from the Splitscreen podcast.
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