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Post by The future Mrs. Schlapowitz on Jan 6, 2008 19:57:48 GMT -5
I don't understand people specifying King's earlier stuff. Some of his best has come in the last decade..IMO. To me it's not like his new books are bad. It's just I kinda got sick of the style... Character X says/hears something [but the voice in his head begs to differ!]Besides that and the feeling at times his books are kinda phoned in, King's a solid writer I still enjoy. Don't get me wrong I love Stephen king. I just think that his really good stories are coming fewer and farther between now. I just have a prefrence for The Stand and It over say Cell.
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Post by CM Dazz on Jan 6, 2008 19:59:01 GMT -5
-Almost everything by Grisham. -Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia: A True Story by FBI Agent Joseph D. Pistone -Gangster by Lorenzo Carcaterra -Left Behind Series by Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins -Have A Nice Day : A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks by Mick Foley -Sex, Lies, and Headlocks : The Real Story of Vince McMahon and World Wrestling Entertainment by Shaun Assael, Mike Mooneyham -In the Pit with Piper by Roddy Rowdy Roddy Piper, Robert Picarello -Payton by Connie Payton, Jarrett Payton, Brittney Payton -What Bears They Were : Chicago Bears Greats Talk about Their Teams, Their Coaches, and the Times of Their Lives by Richard Whittingham
Plus I know I'm missing a bunch more.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Jan 6, 2008 19:59:31 GMT -5
Green Eggs and Ham.
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Post by The future Mrs. Schlapowitz on Jan 6, 2008 20:01:18 GMT -5
Damn it Bob! I told you to stay out of my books!!!!
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Post by Nick Loves Dr. Pepper on Jan 6, 2008 20:02:56 GMT -5
- -Sex, Lies, and Headlocks : The Real Story of Vince McMahon and World Wrestling Entertainment by Shaun Assael, Mike Mooneyham . I got that book ^^^^ as well, interesting to know that Stephanie and Shane had to entertain each other and had Andre the Giant visit their home. + I got A Lion's Tale by Chris Jericho
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Jan 6, 2008 20:03:23 GMT -5
Damn it Bob! I told you to stay out of my books!!!! Hey they're going to be my books too soon!
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Post by Citizen Snips on Jan 6, 2008 20:15:47 GMT -5
Anything by Jorge Luis Borges (poetry, I know, but still) A page or two of Borges is worth the entire career of dozens of writers. Have you read any of his short fictions like "Labyrinths" or the excellent biography "Borges: A Life" by Edwin Williamson? Here's a list from moi, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love my BA in Comparative Literature... The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov ANYTHING by Haruki Murakami, especially Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Machado de Asis The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr Monster of God by David Quammen Underworld by Don DeLillo We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight and Scribbling the Cat by Alexandra Fuller Summer of '49 by David Halberstram King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hothschild The Divine Comedy by Dante Killing Pablo by Mark Bowden Post Office by Charles Bukowski If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, Difficult Love and The Baron in the Tress by Italo Calvino
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Post by Loki on Jan 6, 2008 20:24:10 GMT -5
The Divine Comedy by Dante Wow... Quite an odd choice? How so?
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Post by Citizen Snips on Jan 6, 2008 20:34:54 GMT -5
The Divine Comedy by Dante Wow... Quite an odd choice? How so? Dante labored over literally every word in the poem. The imagery in the Inferno and the Purgatorio are striking, so heart-wrenching in their depiction of what it means to sin and the price for it. Paradisio is almost incomprehensible, as it should be. The choice of words, the structure of the whole work is probably as close to actual perfection as any piece of writing anyone's ever done.
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Post by chibidiablo on Jan 6, 2008 20:49:17 GMT -5
I will never be like any of you
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Post by biafra on Jan 6, 2008 21:07:14 GMT -5
I don't understand people specifying King's earlier stuff. Some of his best has come in the last decade..IMO. To me it's not like his new books are bad. It's just I kinda got sick of the style... Character X says/hears something [but the voice in his head begs to differ!]Besides that and the feeling at times his books are kinda phoned in, King's a solid writer I still enjoy. I don't get that at all. I just think his style has changed a bit..from a meat and potato's "this is what happened" man to a more literary author.
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Post by The Raven on Jan 6, 2008 21:28:02 GMT -5
Jurassic Park is cool* *and "Denis Nedry", the computer nerd, He's NEWMAN!!!!!! Oh yeah, I forgot to add the two Jurassic Park books to my list. Anyone who has ever read The Lost World and seen the movie knows why people will always say the book version of something is better than the movie version. Good God.
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Post by Citizen Snips on Jan 6, 2008 21:44:02 GMT -5
Jurassic Park is cool* *and "Denis Nedry", the computer nerd, He's NEWMAN!!!!!! Oh yeah, I forgot to add the two Jurassic Park books to my list. Anyone who has ever read The Lost World and seen the movie knows why people will always say the book version of something is better than the movie version. Good God. Chuck Pahlunik said the movie of Fight Club was better than the book. And he would know best, I'd imagine.
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