Oh.. well there are a lot of people who only want happy endings in books, but you know I am not like that. I loved The Dark Tower, and it did not have a happy ending. Someday, when you are bored, see if you can find The Gunslinger.
orald wrote:Oh, kidnapped "him"=Jake. It could be understood either way.
And either way, I'm not reading Stephen King. And that's it, my neighboor already tried to make me read it.
If you are into dark and/or urban fantasy mixed with SF, then the first three of the Dark Tower books really are right up your alley, orald. The first one is amazing. Two and three are not as strong, but worth the effort to read. Here is a review I did of the first one that you may want to take a look at.
Nice review Omphalos, I had not read any SK for more than 15 years until I recently picked up a second-hand copy of the Green Mile, which was also published episodically. I found it a nice read, it felt like one of his early books. As you say in your review, he really went off the rails, stylistically and otherwise for a good few years.
At my high school in BFE Ohio they offered French as the second/foreign language for the college preparatory course. A few years after I graduated, they switched to Spanish...which makes more sense in practical terms, considering the changes in US demographics. (If not historically or culturally.) I studied Latin on my own, though...and lots of others....
"Let the dead give water to the dead. As for me, it's NO MORE FUCKING TEARS!"
I never had the polyglot bug. I was forced into Latin and took it through college, where they also had a four year foreign language requirement (no matter what your experience or undergrad achievements with them). I can barely master English and its my fucking mother tongue.
I've discussed it with Mandy on chat, seems I'm out of touch with the languages students choose to learn when they have to, mainly because I don't get to talk to many young people.
Or as Mandy put it, 30 years ago it was truer about French(and probably Latin, but that's a half-dead language). Mandy is old, so are the rest of you.
In memory of Perach, who suffered and died needlessly.
I wish I could have been with you that one last time.