The Dark Tower is very, very good. I've been a loyal fan of the whole series; and it's in my top 4 favorites list. His imagination is just... it's amazing. Even today I can't look at a beach without imagining a free-standing door on the sand.
My favorite of the books are probably 3 and 5, though I haven't finished the 7th/final one yet, so I can't say definitively. I have a tiny bit of hero-worship for Stephen King, as a writer.
I've kind of neutral about the His Dark Materials series. I went a long time between Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife, and I got Amber Spyglass about a week after finishing The Subtle Knife. It's an interesting world he's created, and his writing is fairly decent, so I'm interested in the final outcome. I am holding off judging it until the end, though, where I can look at it in its entirety.
Nigh watch - Oh man, I thought that was the first book! Damn. Oh well, I'm only about 20 pages into it. I can stop and read the others first. I always need to read books in order.
I would probably have made it thorugh Dune without class, but I don't think I'd have understood and appreciated all the layers-- the political complexities, the symbolism, the messaiah story tradition. Breaking it down helped considerably in my overall appreciation of it.
I disliked Jane Eyre. I'm told there are people out there who loved it. ::shrug:: Maybe I'll read it in ten years and my opinion will have changed, but as it was I found the characterizations of the men and women to be somewhat insulting. Not as insulting and offensive as Tess of the D'Urbervilles, but still very annoying.
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Date: 2006-09-27 08:41 pm (UTC)My favorite of the books are probably 3 and 5, though I haven't finished the 7th/final one yet, so I can't say definitively. I have a tiny bit of hero-worship for Stephen King, as a writer.
I've kind of neutral about the His Dark Materials series. I went a long time between Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife, and I got Amber Spyglass about a week after finishing The Subtle Knife. It's an interesting world he's created, and his writing is fairly decent, so I'm interested in the final outcome. I am holding off judging it until the end, though, where I can look at it in its entirety.
Nigh watch - Oh man, I thought that was the first book! Damn. Oh well, I'm only about 20 pages into it. I can stop and read the others first. I always need to read books in order.
I would probably have made it thorugh Dune without class, but I don't think I'd have understood and appreciated all the layers-- the political complexities, the symbolism, the messaiah story tradition. Breaking it down helped considerably in my overall appreciation of it.
I disliked Jane Eyre. I'm told there are people out there who loved it. ::shrug:: Maybe I'll read it in ten years and my opinion will have changed, but as it was I found the characterizations of the men and women to be somewhat insulting. Not as insulting and offensive as Tess of the D'Urbervilles, but still very annoying.