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... (I mainly bought this because of the movie--even though I didn't really like it--and 2) it was super cheap!)
* The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass by Stephen King (I've only read the first one, but why pass up a nearly-pristine copy for 50 cents? :) LOL! Oops, just ... ... d' Alexandre Jardin .
41. Les petits secrets d'Emma de Sophie Kinsella
42. Terres perdues
43. Magie et Cristal tomes 3 et 4 de La Tour sombre, de Stephen King
44. Miss Charity de Marie-Aude Murail pour la jeunesse, ce roman a apparemment un tel ... ... Waters
6. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
7. Hero by Perry Moore
8. Tower of Glass by Robert Silverberg
9. The Vesuvius Club by Mark Gatiss
10. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (this is the one my co-worker insisted I ... Category 4 – Stephen King
1. The Drawing of the Three
2. The Waste Lands
3. Wizard and Glass
4. Wolves of the Calla
5. Song of Susannah
6. The Dark Tower
7. Danse Macabre
8. Roadwork
9. Rose Madder
10. Insomnia I just added two Stephen King books:
Wizard and Glass The Dark Tower IV which is mass market paperback edition
Bag of Bones Hardcover edition
http://www.bookmooch.com/m/inventory/drizzlegirl ... which I read in 2007 (?)
***BSG was on the Costa 2006 Shortlist - The Tenderness of Wolves won !
I'm now reading Wizard and Glass.
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I'm going on holiday on 7th-17th July and hoping to spend a lot of time reading in the park. However I also will be coming home on 13th July for ... I just finished the fourth book in Steven King's Dark Tower series, Wizard and Glass. This week I'm going to take a break from series to get through three classics that I've had on my shelf for a while: Frankenstein, Dracula, and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. 41. Wizard and Glass: THe Dark Tower IV by Stephen King
-I was excited to start this since I really enjoyed books II and III of this series, but I was disappointed to find the most of the book is backstory. It wasn't a bad backstory, I was just missing the other characters and couldn't wait ... BOOKS
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Dark Tower Series (Notably Wizard and Glass and The Drawing of the Three)
High Fidelity
The Stand
Watchmen
AUTHORS
Stephen King
Nick Hornby
Christopher Moore
George Orwell
Pat Conroy
Douglas Adams
MOVIES
The Big Lebowski
Back to ... Wizards and Glass is my favorite.
The Stand is my favorite non-Dark Tower novel of his.
Rita Hayworth and rhw Shawshank Redemption is my favorite of his novellas/short stories I stand corrected, RA is right, that is the second book!!! Can't believe I got that wrong. Wizard and Glass is a good one, prbably my second favorite of the series. And she's right. The first is a little different. Although, I found that when he re-wrote it in the last few years, it was a ... ... The third is The Wastelands. I, too, loved The Drawing of the Three but my personal favorite was the fourth book, Wizard and Glass. I loved the backstory in this book (The Drawing of the Three is a close second though!) I don't think anyone has mentioned Tower of Glass by Robert Silverberg (touchstones seem not to be working right). One human character carries on an ongoing sexual affair with an android, and there is an scene involving a pair of androids having sex. There is also the implication that the ... ... The Gunslinger
2. The Drawing of the Three
3. The Waste Lands
4. Wizard and Glass
5. Wolves of Calla
6. Song of Susannah
7. The Dark Tower
...which makes 11
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For my birthday (23rd April) I received
Darkly Drea ... Finally finished Wizard and Glass! Oh, my goodness, that took a lot longer than I wanted it to.
I wrote a review.
I am going to take a break from the Tower and go down another road for a while... I'll be reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy. @bardsfingertips: Did you finish Wizard and Glass? I'm having a hard time getting through it, although I know it's supposed to be a reader-favorite. Kind of boring to me, but what do you think? I started the series last month, but so far I've like the other three much much better. I love annotated books.
I am now starting Wizard and Glass.
If you wish to read them, I posted reviews on the previous books: The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three, and The Waste Lands.
I am really enjoying this series.
Onward! ... was superb, as was the general layout. The story was nothing new; a re-telling of the young Roland and his Ka-Tet from....Wizard and Glass, I think.
I had two problems with this, both super minor. First, I had hoped for something new; a spin on the old tale, or a different point of view. This ... beatles, Wizard and Glass was my favorite of all the Dark Tower Books, so I highly recommend not just finishing it,but starting over. It really gives you an insight to Roland and his past. This book makes him feel like a real human.
Okay, on with the what if. It had to be Jack, no question ... ... the end of the line having lost the Riddling Contest to Roland, Jake and the others. I don't think I ever got too far into The Dark Tower IV Wizard and Glass. I may even have to go back and start reading it again since I haven't even picked the book up to read in ages.
beatles1964 I didn't even know any of that happened since I am only on The Dark Tower IV Wizard and Glass so I guess it did spoil it a little bit for me. I still plan on finishing The Dark Tower Series. If you had said there were possible Spoilers ahead I wouldn't have read any further.
beatles1964 Wizard and Glass....guessing this because it's my favorite. I can't imagine anyone in the Dark Tower Series having nice fingernails, they kind of seemed like they were roughing it! sorry, posted twice. ... of it.
I also read most of the tie-in books before starting the series though, didn't pick them up until long after Wizard and Glass was out in paperback in the UK, so lots of things made more sense after I had started reading them. ... writes also Rose Madder, he does an excellent job writing from a womans perspective. However my ultimate favorite is Dark Tower 4 Wizard and Glass with Susan Delgado. It was nice seeing Roland have a heart! Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass Jodyreadseverything made me think Wizard and Glass... The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett
Wizard And Glass by Stephen King
Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
Witch Child by Celia Rees
Hex and the single girl by Valerie Frankel Actually, beckylynn got it. It's from Wizard and Glass. It's one of my favorites. It's describing Roland, aka Will Dearborn, as he, Alain and Cuthbert ride down the posse of men into the thinny, slaughtering them as they go. Man, it's a great passage. ... the back of some books can bring a tear to the eye :( However, the ones that really rip me to pieces are Angela's Ashes, Wizard and Glass and teariest of all, for me, is The Pillars of The Earth. I have certain parts of that one tear-stained to the extent that I can find the saddest parts ... ... very hard at Little Women and also A Wrinkle in Time.
Like many of you, I cried over The Time Traveler's Wife. Wizard and Glass made me sob, but I think the book that made me cry the most, so much so that I can get choked up just thinking about it, was Madeleine L'Engle's A Two-Part ... ... out if what he'd said about his father was the truth or a lie.
The Guesses:
The Shining, Firestarter, Misery, Wizard and Glass, The Talisman, The Dark Tower, Duma Key, Bag of Bones, Everything's Eventual, The Song of Susannah, The Stand
The Clues: It is not from ... ... short novels in Hearts in Atlantis also relates to these characters. I would suggest reading Salem's Lot in between Wizard and Glass and The Wolves of the Calla. Also, there is a short story in Legends about Roland, the Gunslinger, called "The Little Sisters of Eluria" which would ... Wizard and Glass? Roland talking as Will Dearborn to Rhea of the Coos? ... Potter
8. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides - loved it!
9. To Tame a Highland Warrior by Karen Marie Moning
10. Wizard and Glass by Stephen King
11. Highlander Untamed by Monica McCarty
12. When Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman
13. Kilgannon by Kathleen ... 12. Wizard and Glass by Stephen King (600 pp)
I'll start Wolves of the Calla tomorrow.
I am beginning to despair of meeting my goal. WaG took more than a month, and each of the rest of this series is longer than the last.
On the plus side, my page total is 4,072 so far. So 17 weeks into ... ... them. As with any other strong drug, true first love is really only interesting to those who have become its prisoners.
Wizard and Glass
I have more written down somewhere, I'll have to look for them. ... barely a shell of their former being. The gunslingers step up to help, gaining aid in their own quest as well.
After Wizard and Glass, which felt mighty slow to me this time around, Wolves of the Calla is fast-paced and exciting. Books 5, 6, and 7 were released within 18 months of each ... ... Gunslinger was my least favorite of them all, The Drawing of the Three is probably my favorite so far, I just finished Wizards and Glass which was good too - but it's definitely livelier with Eddie and Odetta/Susannah. 11. Wizard and Glass by Stephen King - Book four of the Dark Tower series. This was my favorite of the series for years, mostly because I was a teenager the first time I read it and could really connect to the characters. This time through, though, it felt much weaker, and knowing what happens ... 1. Middlesex - loved it!
2. Wizards and Glass - 4th book of the Dark Tower Series
3. Highlander Untamed - an unexpectedly good Highlander romance! ... books, but I don't think it's a bad thing. And both Desperation and The Regulators were published in the same year as Wizard and Glass, so I wouldn't be surprised if there were similarities.
Just rereading Wizard and Glass now, I was struck by the chapter where Depape rides Roland's ... #10 Wizard and Glass by Stephen King, book 4 of the Dark Tower books. I fly through these books, this one was Roland's story, and a good one! I'm fascinated with the people and life of Mid-World, trying to figure it all out and anticipate what will happen in the next book. I started reading ... I'm more than half way through Wizards and Glass, book 4 of the Tower series by Stephen King. I expect to finish it over the weekend. I'm enjoying it so far, but don't have a lot of time to read this week. I'm just starting Wizard and Glass by Stephen King, book 4 of The Dark Tower Series. I'm gradually making my way through the series. The first three books I recently re-read (I had read them when they first came out years ago) but this book is the first time for me, so it's all new from hereon ... ... interesting - I don't think that particular book as being particularly well-known. I also really liked Salem's Lot and Wizard and Glass. ... out tommorow! I'm excited, it got 4.5 stars in People magazine, not that that matters. My favorite King book has to be the Darktower series. A seven book long epic that keeps you going the whole way through. My favorite novel has to be Bag of Bones, it was different, but I still enjoyed it a ... It is impossible to beat Stephen King's Darktower series. A seven book epic and each one of them really had their own story line. My favorite out of all seven was Wizard and Glass the fourth one. ... for about a year, been a Stephen King fan for a lot longer than that (survived the 'wait' between The Wastelands and Wizard and Glass).
The Dark Tower series is my absolute favourite of King's work, but there are a few others I like to note:
Fav. short story: Dolan's Cadillac / ... ... Oxford English Dictionary.
On the floor behind my chair are four stacks:
In the first stack are two astrology books, Stephen Arroyo's Chart Interpretation Handbook and Astrology for the Soul by Jan Spiller.
In the second stack are four books I've been consulting for the article I' ... misery by (stephen king)
emma by (jane austen)
lolita by (vladimir Nobokov)
america by (franz kafka)
peeps by (scott westerfeld) ... a lot was WHISPERS, published by Stuart David Schiff. I still treasure my special Fritz Leiber, Manly Wade Wellman, and Stephen King issues!
I'm surprised Harry Potter hasn't been mentioned yet LOL!
There's also 1408 by Stephen King and, of course, Nancy Drew.
I realize all of these movies were released in July, but they continue to play in certain theatres around here, so I thought I'd include them. ;) ... a bit diversely. Peeking into Dream of a Summer Night by George Barker and also reading The Insistence of Beauty by Stephen Dunn. Prose has been interfering lately. ... LAckey and Valdemar, and Anne Rice and The Vampire Chronicles are perfect examples of this phemomenon. Not to mention Stephen King who was supposedly retiring after his car accident and has written at least 5 more books since then. ...
#7 I liked the Dark Tower series as well -- the last two books however just did not suspend my disbelief. I liked The Wizard and the Glass the best. So many of Stephen King's books give me the creeps. The top are The Shining and Pet Semetary. And Pennywise the clown in It! "We all float down here." EEEKKK!
Edited to add name of super scary clown.
... 'Romance' would come to have its present day connotation....
Surely Poe would be shocked to be placed alongside most of Stephen King or that hack Koontz (Ligotti would be a different matter altogether); Dickens or Doyle next to contemporary 'mystery' novels; Tolkien or even Ovid ... ... by Brennan Manning.
And, have started, Religious Literacy: what every American needs to know -- and doesn't, by Stephen Prothero. ... mes
En prévision: lire l'assassin royal de Robin Hobb
et finir Harry Potter et se remettre à la Tour Sombre de Stephen King afin de relire les 3 premiers et finir la série ... uth
Author: Jodi Picoult
Book #13
Title: The Giver
Author: Lois Lowry
Book # 14
Title: Rage
Author: Stephen King
Book #15
Title: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Author: Ishmael Beah ... - A fairly new discovery. I just finished his Bartimaeus Trilogy and loved it. Superior to Harry Potter in every aspect.
Stephen King - While Stepen King can write some pretty medeocre stuff, his Gunslinger series was pure storytelling. I don't consider King to be a literary master but he can ... #14 That's funny, my best friend read Wizard and Glass first and loved it, then she went back and read the first ones. She said if she had started with The Gunslinger she would never have kept reading. I read the first three and never got around to finishing the series (of course that was ... ... yesterday, and now I'm reading Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn, The Giver by Lois Lowry, and Rage by Stephen King. An interesting combination. ;) Right. Nothing to stop an author signing up 15 accounts, writing themselves up up as Stephen King and then voting it to the top. ...
Is it just me or are some of the worst reality shows beginning to come increasingly closer to those described by Stephen King in the Running Man
*ouhh that just sent a shiver through my spine ... fact that someone in my house is reading Eldest by Christopher Paolini. Other relatives are currently reading books by Stephen King, Nora Roberts, and Philip K. Dick. I'm currently reading Dead Zone by Stephen King (like anyone doesn't know that) and I'll probably finish in a couple of days. I'm split between Running with Scissors and Angels and Demons for my next book. I'm reading The Stand by Stephen King Great teleportation short story!
Read Stephen King's The Jaunt in Skeleton Crew! You'll never look at teleportation the same again!!! ... out.
Then, I wasn't REALLY sure that I wanted to see the film at all, disturbed as I was by the book!
The second was Stephen King's Gerald's Game. Boy, I thought I knew King, but during one particular scene, reading it in broad daylight in the middle of a bustling NYC public park on one ... ... actually a novella in a horror anthology called Dark Forces compiled by Kirby McCauley. Its called The Mist and it by Stephen King. Totally freaked me out. I was reading it in a bus station and there were only 2 people in the place with me. And it was foggy! So my imagination was working ...
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