Roland's reading log

RolandIRL

thought it's about time i keep a record of what i've read. i tend to buy books and then forget which ones i've read or bought before

Stephen King
Carrie
The Stand
The Dead Zone
Firestarter
Cujo
Pet Sematary
The Eyes of the Dragon
Insomnia
Hearts in Atlantis
Dreamcatcher
Everything's Eventual
Cell
Duma Key
Under the Dome
Dark Tower I - VII

Stephen King books bought but haven't read
The Talisman
Lisey's Story
Blaze
The Bachman Books
Black House
It
Four Past Midnight
Desperation
Salem's Lot
From A Buick 8
Christine
The Dark Half
Bag of Bones
Misery
The Shining
Different Seasons

Charlaine Harris
Sookie Stackhouse series:
Dead unitl Dark
Living Dead in Dallas
Club Dead
Dead to the World
Dead as a Doornail
Definitely Dead
All Together Dead
From Dead to Worse

Halo Series
The Fall of Reach
The Flood
First Strike
Ghosts of Onyx
Contact Harvest
The Cole Protocol

Larry Niven
Ringworld
Ringworld Engineers

Numerous Star Wars books as well but too many to list. i read a load of them when i was younger.

Comments
Love Stephen King books, especially the Dark Tower series, and all connected to them. worth checking out. The Stand is an excellent post-apocalyptic thriller.
the true blood series is a good read. very easy to get through. not deep like SK's books. TV show is based on them.


Currently reading the Talisman - SK and Peter Straub

anyone have any recommendations for me? i'm mainly interested in fantasy and sci-fi books, though i might read some ordinary fiction if it's good.

Paddy Samurai

anyone have any recommendations for me? i'm mainly interested in fantasy and sci-fi books, though i might read some ordinary fiction if it's good.

Swan Song by Robert McCammon
IMO better than King's The Stand , and i love The Stand.
http://www.amazon.com/Swan-Song-Robert-McCammon/dp/0671741039

On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers
They plan to use part of this for the plot in the next "Pirates of the Carribean" ,but don't let that put you off.
This would have made a great 18's film in its own right instead of a family film.If you like fantasy get yourself a copy of this book.
http://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Tides-Tim-Powers/dp/1930235321/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276613103&sr=1-4

The Drawing Of the Dark by Tim Powers
Love this Book....great fantasy.
http://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Dark-Del-Rey-Impact/dp/0345430816/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276613103&sr=1-8

Also anything by David Gemmell, RR Martin,Joe Abercrombie,Scott Lynch,Peter V Brett,Frank Herbert, and most of Raymond E Fiest.
Also don't forget Patrick Rothfuss.More will come to me ,but these should keep you busy for a year or two.

RolandIRL

A good book overall. took me a while to get through (over 2 months :eek:) though that's down to me being very busy, and not having much time to read.

While it was a good read, i found it to suffer from some plot holes -

What is the Talisman, exactly? only for the fact that i've read the Dark Tower series, i probably wouldn't have known.

I also felt that it was concentrating too much on the journey. the end becomes resolved in no length -

His mother is healed by the Talisman, the journey back to her was a doodle etc..

it felt just like it was tying up a loose end but it doesn't really take away from the book's main story - Jack's journey towards the Talisman. The way it was written was excellent though a couple of times, i had to go back and reread a page or two to understand what was going on. any event that had a build-up to it seemed to happen very fast and was over with very quickly.

3.5/5