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Feb. 28th, 2005 07:29 pmI'm almost ready to start Book 5 of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series!
It took me *forever* to get through Book 4. Not because it was boring, or because I'm a slow reader, but because I just *knew* that something reallyreally bad was going to happen and I couldn't bear to read it, because as long as I hadn't read it, it hadn't *actually* happened and maybe the text would magically change or something. So I'd set it down and then not pick it back up again for days. lol
And something bad did happen. I will not reveal what, for people who haven't read the books yet (read them!) and it made me mutter dire, evil, nasty things about King. But then I got to this line-- "Oh Christ," Eddie said. "I left the world I knew to watch a kid try to put booties on a f*cked up weasel. Shoot me, Roland, before I breed."-- which will make no sense to anyone who hasn't read the books (read them!) but it made me giggle and I decided not to mutter dire, evil, nasty things anymore. Until something else bad happens.
Meanwhile, I have 2,000,000 books gathered on my floor waiting for me to read them. You think I'm kidding. I have a very small path cleared from my door to my computer chair. One of these days I'll type out a list of some of them, in case anyone's curious, and/or wants a further window into my bizarroid brain.
And I just got a new VHS from amazon.com, Naveen Andrews and Marisa Tomei in My Own Country. I will probably watch that tomorrow, or Wednesday.
Or I'll be bad and stay up late watching it tonight, even though I have work in the morning.
I just hope it isn't sad. I *loved* Drowning on Dry Land and didn't regret staying up to watch it, but if I watch this and it depresses me, then I'll have to find something cheerful to read/watch to take my mind off it, and I will never get to bed.
Decisions.
It took me *forever* to get through Book 4. Not because it was boring, or because I'm a slow reader, but because I just *knew* that something reallyreally bad was going to happen and I couldn't bear to read it, because as long as I hadn't read it, it hadn't *actually* happened and maybe the text would magically change or something. So I'd set it down and then not pick it back up again for days. lol
And something bad did happen. I will not reveal what, for people who haven't read the books yet (read them!) and it made me mutter dire, evil, nasty things about King. But then I got to this line-- "Oh Christ," Eddie said. "I left the world I knew to watch a kid try to put booties on a f*cked up weasel. Shoot me, Roland, before I breed."-- which will make no sense to anyone who hasn't read the books (read them!) but it made me giggle and I decided not to mutter dire, evil, nasty things anymore. Until something else bad happens.
Meanwhile, I have 2,000,000 books gathered on my floor waiting for me to read them. You think I'm kidding. I have a very small path cleared from my door to my computer chair. One of these days I'll type out a list of some of them, in case anyone's curious, and/or wants a further window into my bizarroid brain.
And I just got a new VHS from amazon.com, Naveen Andrews and Marisa Tomei in My Own Country. I will probably watch that tomorrow, or Wednesday.
Or I'll be bad and stay up late watching it tonight, even though I have work in the morning.
I just hope it isn't sad. I *loved* Drowning on Dry Land and didn't regret staying up to watch it, but if I watch this and it depresses me, then I'll have to find something cheerful to read/watch to take my mind off it, and I will never get to bed.
Decisions.
