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KK - as usual you have a good point
But our subject irk's me on occasion |
irks , Vick?
He pisses me right off! In fact overall he pisses me off more than confucy. At least confucy has an excuse , she's a nutter. Maybe grogan is too though.... |
I'm certain grogan is unbalanced and suffers from/with a few mental illness syndromes
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Vick, I used to be quite the reader. I enjoy King as well. Always the books more than any movie. But I read a book in high school that has remained my favorite book ever since. Its not a novel by any stretch, but I have re-read it at least a dozen times, and each time I get something different out of it. I would love to find out what someone lik you think of it. It is called
Illusions by Richard Bach same author who wrote Jonathon Livingston Seagull, and not to be confused with the Bachman Books. I love this book so much that every member of my family has read it, and I have purchased it several times, as each one becomes to worn to be of any good. spaz |
spaz - much thanks, I'll have to put that on my to read list
What's ironic is I had guests over for dinner, drinks and conversation Tuesday and one of them recommended the same book |
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Ilusions is a great book... and in fact, the first of a trilogy... Illusions, The Bridge Across Forever, and One I actually liked One the best... Spaz... I've done the same thing, with buying several copies for others... Do as I did, and special order a hardcover copy. :okthumb: Last edited by nlphoto at Nov 6 2003, 12:58 PM |
i just finished a good book last night. it was called:
18 and Eager by Neil Foret I'm only able to read a chapter a night now, but when I was younger I could have probably read 3 or 4 chapters a night :D |
You have beautiful kids, Nick.
I wish you the best of luck on your new arrival. |
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It's going to be a total of 7 books. The sixth and seventh books are scheduled to come out next year. After that Stephen King may stop or at least take a break from activity publishing any more work. The books are excellent, they easily envelope you in the world of Roland the Gunslinger (for me the mark of good fiction is the ability to suspend disbelief and to make you feel and think). Great character development. Excellent characters that you can believe in and care about (one way or the other). Some of King's best writing The only thing I've read by Crichton was "Jurassic Park". Didn't enjoy it that much as I couldn't buy into DNA being reconstituted from a mosquito that was trapped in amber for tens of thousands of years I'd like to read "The Andromeda Strain" and "The Great Train Robbery" at some point[/b][/quote] I'll look into reading the Dark Tower series. "Andromeda Strain" was an excellent book. Have not read "Great Train Robbery" yet. "Airframe" and "The Sphere" are really good books. One of his books that I never got into was "Rising Sun". Just didn't get me like the others did. |
Ive been catching up on the idiot called grogun and it just reminded me of what a grogan really is...
Ive taken the liberty of grabbing the key defining charechteristics of a grogan from http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=grogan 1. A partially-ejected clump of feces. Half a loaf. 2. An ejected clump of feces that is not heavy enough to drop off your dingleberry forest Its probably alreaddy been posted but what the heck everytime it is posted it has to be appropriate:) |
Apparently it takes a high IQ to name oneself after a piece of shit! :moon:
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For lighter fare you might try Piers Anthony's Xanth series starting with "A Spell for Chameleon"... Tommyknockers was indeed a bit bloated in verbage, but in other instances (uncut version of The Stand or It for example) those 800-1000 pages are worth every word King pours into them... Reading the Dark Tower series is like watching "The Wall" for the very first time... you never know what you are going to encounter next... but you are jonesing for the mindfuck you hope is coming... :okthumb: |
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For lighter fare you might try Piers Anthony's Xanth series starting with "A Spell for Chameleon"... Tommyknockers was indeed a bit bloated in verbage, but in other instances (uncut version of The Stand or It for example) those 800-1000 pages are worth every word King pours into them... Reading the Dark Tower series is like watching "The Wall" for the very first time... you never know what you are going to encounter next... but you are jonesing for the mindfuck you hope is coming... :okthumb:[/b][/quote] Swan Song is another excellent book, remeniscent of the Stand. It's by Robert R. McCammon. If you like King, you will enjoy McCammon. Also, if you like Piers Anthony, the Incarnations of Immortality series is a very entertaining read. |
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Oh indeed!! On A Pale Horse is wonderful ... :okthumb: That is one of the great things about PA... He doesn't write just ONE book but keeps the story going! |
Not to get off the great book topic, but where's Confucy? This type of situation (Groggy being a bullshitter) is right up her alley. I really thought she'd be all over him by now, but we haven't heard a peep.
Weird, eh? |
I concur, Swan Song is a great read
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Oh indeed!! On A Pale Horse is wonderful ... :okthumb: That is one of the great things about PA... He doesn't write just ONE book but keeps the story going![/b][/quote] For Love Of Evil. Made me misty eyed. I used to own all the Incarnation series. Hell, most of his stuff, he was my favorite author for a long time. Wish I kept all those books. |
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Made me misty eyed. I used to own all the Incarnation series. Hell, most of his stuff, he was my favorite author for a long time. Wish I kept all those books.[/b][/quote] Ant, Had all the Xanth's, all Incarnations, all of that Juxposition series, the Dragon's Gold series he did... Gave them all away few Christmas's ago to a teen who wrote newspaper asking for books... thought he deserved a big load of them being how he wasn't asking for toys... PA is one of the best childrens authors out there IMO because his stories contain mental riddles and such ironic play on both language and how people view the world around them (Incarnations is wonderful example of this)... Anyone besides me have an unhealthy affinity for Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land? Talking about the unabriged version his widow had published after his death... |
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Ilusions is a great book... and in fact, the first of a trilogy... Illusions, The Bridge Across Forever, and One I actually liked One the best... Spaz... I've done the same thing, with buying several copies for others... Do as I did, and special order a hardcover copy. :okthumb:[/b][/quote] nlphoto, Thank You very much for clueing me in to the fact that it is part of a trilogy, I am going to be buying the other two right now (I honestly didnt know) and when I get situated down in Florida see if I can buy all three in hardcover. I know I will be enjoying them all for years to come. spaz |
No problem Spaz, I'm sure you will enjoy them... when you do get a chance
to read them feel free to drop me an email with your number if you want to... BTW, someone you know (or at least know of) has talked with Richard on several occasions, (though I don't think they've met)... Khan... used to correspond with him from his days working with Compuserve... :rokk: |
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IS SO COOL, I wanna be Khan LOL I must confess that I love King, Dean R Koontz and Clive Barker...........want a true mind fuck? Read Imajika(sp but close) or weave world. They blew my mind BUT, for sheer number of times I have gone back and re-read a book, Bach wins hands down. Khan, I wanna be you LOL spaz Last edited by spazlabz at Nov 7 2003, 07:03 AM |
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spaz[/b][/quote] I didnt know they had books on tape in Hardback! |
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