/lit/ - Literature

Interesting?

I've crossed a lot of paths, and interesting people are everywhere: Some are interesting in a science project way, never forget.

If you mean personable, then that's entirely possible.

1: Canada
2: Primarily English, but I've tried to get through books in French without a lot of success.

Something Wicked This Way Comes
Don't remember... most of them
Switch to another book that I can get into quickly, come back after it's done.

>>2631915
Movie was great. It was VERY close to the book.

> implying the bedrock of anything religious zealots would recognize as morality was anything more than social imperative with a different name.

>>2570808
I liked:
- A Farewell to Arms
- In Cold Blood
- Brave New World/Fahrenheit 451

And, of course, the trilogy in 5 parts that is without a doubt the most influential of my life:
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- Life, the Universe and Everything
- So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
- Mostly Harmless

>>2571532
In many cases, they didn't know a cultural identity even when in their native land. Many African tribes had slaves as well that they traded.

Most people, independent of race, tend to emulate the mores of the majority of the area they inhabit.

Most black people that want to be respected act accordingly. Same thing with whites. You don't see ghetto gang bangers, trailer park trash cast-offs or otaku doing things that require someone to trust you to do your job without abandoning the worst traits of those sub-cultures.

I think that
>>2571475
>>2571500
>>2571504
Have the same idea, and I just didn't know how to articulate it in fewer words.

>>2570975
> It's axiomatic.
LOL

I can't help but think that when I see Benny Hinn. He's about as smarmy as ol' Sunlight Gardener.

That being said, I suspect Straub understood how some characters echo into other works, and likely was okay with it, Parkus was like a gunslinger in the Territories, and the idea of flipping was echoed in The Drawing of the Three and even The Gunslinger (Jake 'flipped' when Walter brought him to the Way station through the doors, and later in the Wastelands and I think the Wolves of the Callah?).

I don't know about the Black House... I haven't read any of Straub's other works other than Ghost Story.

>>2570435
It's an on again/off again kind of thing. LOTR was like that as well until Peter Jackson got behind it and made it a truly great series.

>>2570660
I sort of thought that too, but to me the tie-in with the Dark Tower was tenuous... Speedy/Snowball/Parkus as a Gunslinger was too forced, in Talisman, he was a sergeant or whatever in a royal court, but in Black House he was an old-west gunslinger... I couldn't suss it.

THAT might have legs, and based on that, you might see more, but DT has WAY too many tie-ins. It's like a fantasy Avengers, too many individuals that you have to do homework for.

>>2570438
I'd say it was either read to them via audiobook/JAWS type reader, or they're speed-readers.

If I have nothing else to do during the day but read, I can usually kill a full audio book (4-5 hours) in about 3 and still keep comprehension/retention high.

>>2570730
Yes. There is.

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>>2570736
There's nothing wrong with his style. There's something wrong with your comprehension. It makes perfect sense.

>>2570749
The movie was linear, the book was not.

>>2570459
They're not worth downloading, if that's what you're asking.

They use Rand as a negative influence.

Cheer up.

>>2570460
THREE WHITE KIDS KILLED BIZARRE?!?!?!

>>2570481
If you don't mind cycling out about 3-400 books at a time, I'd go for the Nook only because it's cheaper.

I use an iPad and Calibre/Stanza though... apparently I'm an idiot.

Neuromancer/Sprawl trilogy was great.

I'm reading Flow My Tears, The Police Man Said next, I hope its good :)

>>2570372
I approached it from the other angle, I purposely left Dark Tower as the end-product of all the rest of the stories. I'm not going to say I was thrilled by the ending, because it was sort of a let down but for the fact that it was different than the beginning, which meant this could go on for a long while more. I knew I'd meet other characters again, so I wanted to get to know them before they were sucked into the other story line.

I like King's writing, but the last 2 books seemed a bit rushed or even truncated. That being said, I follow that from his perspective he wanted to do it right, and not lose the thread even though he ultimately did anyway. He sort of made up for it, but I don't think it'll cycle as well if he does another book progression like he did with Wizard & Glass and Wolves.

I could be wrong, but what the hell.. I'm still looking forward to Wind through the Keyhole.

I remember Roland as being driven, but dog-tired after midway through Drawing of the Three.

I liked the first 4, and Wolves of the Callah, but The Dark Tower was disappointing.

>>2567702
Wasn't copyright originally 40 years?

The other thing, I thought the US didn't observe British copyright until 1997 or something. I'm not okay with perpetual copyright (agreed, it hurts creativity), but printing and profiting from someone else's work without paying for it is plain thievery...

>>2567695
Apparently you don't either:
> judging the car instead of the destination
> implying the method of delivery matters

I didn't make the distinction between tablets because the words and ideas are the same from unit to unit.

When there's a decent Kindle, Android or Windows mobile tablet that integrates with my car, has GPS and a decent web-browser I'll consider buying it. I'm no fan of Apple, but the iPads aren't a bad option once you get past the fact that its more a phone than a laptop. The whole point of going to an e-reader is to condense the number of devices to 1, having a laptop and an e-reader doesn't make sense if a tablet does the same thing.

>>2567681
I read 4-5 pages except if I have KFC or some other slum-food, then I'm on there for way too long.

>>2567684
Posted as Anonymous.

>>2567665
Posted as Anonymous.

>>2567651
Posted as Anonymous.

Holy shit... there's more than one person that uses the name Anonymous, get the fuck out, really? I'm supposed to keep you all in line?

>>2567665
> implying the method of delivery matters
People used to think scrolls and quartos were better than spine-bound books too.