Glad to hear it! I've been strongly considering picking up 11/22/63, even though I'm not really a King reader.
Shag On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Patrick Pence <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. 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