Ed- I'm in the middle of 11/22/63 right now. Can't. Put. It. Down. I haven't been this voracious of a reader for any book in a long time. King has an exceptional talent for Time Travel lore. He really nailed this one. I await the counter-arguments from the 'King is a Hack' crowd. :-P P
______________________________ [email protected] "You can be the captain, and I will draw the chart..." Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 11:03:08 -0400 Subject: Re: [The Unique Geek] Re: What Are You Reading - 2012 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Finished Stephen King's 11/22/63. AMAZING book. Very exciting and intriguing. I highly recommend. Basically, it's about a man who discovers a bubble/portal to 1958 and uses it to make some changes in history including the assassination of JFK. King writes some interesting twist to the resulting timeline after some of the historical changes. Anyone who is a fan of time travel would find this book a good read, even if you are not a fan of King. And, just finished King's Insomnia. Another good book by King. I'm a huge fan of King's The Dark Tower series (probably my all time favorite) and some of the crossover in Insomnia from The Dark Tower was pretty cool. Also, it was very fitting to reading Insomnia since I have been suffering the illness lately due to my recent surgery. Needless to say, I've done a lot of reading lately due to the lack of sleep. Just started reading Song of Susannah from The Dark Tower series again. I had been listening to the audio books of the series and had just finished listening to Wolves of the Calla before my surgery. Since I haven't been able to drive, and probably will not be driving for a while, I decided to pick up the book to start reading because I couldn't wait until I started driving again to resume listening. ---------------------------------------- Have a Better One, Edward Crosby http://about.me/edwardcrosby On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Luke Jaconetti <[email protected]> wrote: Just finished Star Wars: Tales From Jabba's Palace, as editted by Kevin J. Anderson. All in all I liked this book because the majority of the short stories were well-written. A few of them were subpar, but not enough to bring the whole book down. The fact that the stars of the stories are the wild and weird aliens from my favorite Star Wars movies helps in this regard. Some standouts include Anderson's tale of the Rancor Keeper; Deborah Wheeler writes about Ree Yees; Kenneth C. Flint has a hard boiled tale starring Ephant Mon; and Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens score with a tale about EV-9D9. The story of the Max Rebo Band also had me grinning pretty much the entire way. An interesting aspect is that most of the stories take place at the same time, so they all have some sort of connective tissue to other stories. So when we see a character run into another in one story, that meeting will at least be mentioned in the other character's story. This can get a little redundant but the different POVs help. Main complaint is the inclusion of a story with Dannik Jeriko, who as far as I can remember doesn't actually appear in Jabba's Palace but instead is from the Cantina in Mos Eisley. Similarly, Timothy Zahn writes a story with Mara Jade (big shock), but she is never seen on screen in Jabba's Palace. Why couldn't we have gotten a story about Yak Face or one of the Nikto instead of these two? Overall I enjoyed the book. But it's a book about Jabba's Palace so this is not really a surprise. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/theuniquegeek/-/i573b5ioXyUJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.
