Ugh, the one you're talking about is Tommyknockers. By far my least favourite King novel. Complete and utter garbage.S~V~S wrote:I never read Infinite Jest, but i will say that Anna Karenina is the most accessible Tolstoy. It is really the most accessible srs bsns Russian novel except perhaps the Brothers Karamazov. Anna K is a bit less harsh on women then Madame Bovary, with a somewhat similar plot. I would never in a zillion years call it "feminist" , but it is more balanced that way than many 19th century novels.
I just reread Larry Nivens Footfall ( I <3 Sci Fi) and am about to start Stephen Kings Dreamcatcher. I lost touch with King around the time he wrote that book about the giant alien ship buried in someones yard in Maine, but I was told I might like this. So i will try it.
I haven't had time to read much lately
I've been going through The Signal and the Noise for ages now, but I haven't picked it up in weeks, to busy with course readings.I did read a book called... Autobiography of Red for an existentialism course. The course itself is kind of blah (philosophy majors are the worst), but I enjoyed the book a lot more then I thought I would.
Done this semester in a few more weeks, so hopefully I'll have more time to read then. When I picked up The Last Policemen a while ago, the guy at the book store told me he had talked to the publishers, and that the 2nd and third books would be coming out around right now I believe, so I may get those if they're out (the 1st starts out pretty slowly, but I enjoyed it overall).
There are some Fringe books coming out (one for Walter/Belly set in the 70s or 80s, one for Olivia when she was a teenager, and one for Peter right before the show started) soon-ish. I'll pick up the first one at least to see if I like the author (I think those are the kind of books that will either be awesome or terrible).