Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
"About 100 pages in to Dune right now. Awesome book, but slow going."
They get slower on down the series. I stopped the originals at Children of Dune (I think.) I've read the prequels (House Harkonnen/Atreides/Corrino) and liked them. Now I'm in the middle of the pre-prequels, and they are very cool.
"Also picked up The Dead Zone by Stephen King. I've always liked his adapted (ie:TV) stories, so now I'm actually going to read his books."
Start with the early ones. His elephantitist of the tongue gets worse and worse. It took forever to get through Tommyknockers. I think IT was my favorite overall. Misery would make me physically ill at times, so I'd have to lay it down for awhile.
"About 100 pages in to Dune right now. Awesome book, but slow going."
They get slower on down the series. I stopped the originals at Children of Dune (I think.) I've read the prequels (House Harkonnen/Atreides/Corrino) and liked them. Now I'm in the middle of the pre-prequels, and they are very cool.
"Also picked up The Dead Zone by Stephen King. I've always liked his adapted (ie:TV) stories, so now I'm actually going to read his books."
Start with the early ones. His elephantitist of the tongue gets worse and worse. It took forever to get through Tommyknockers. I think IT was my favorite overall. Misery would make me physically ill at times, so I'd have to lay it down for awhile.
Wow. I'm surprised to hear you like the prequels. Seems like they were none too popular w/Dune fans, but I eventually will give them a try.
King: Yes, pretty much everyone says the same thing about sticking with his earlier stuff. My dad is a huge King fan and can barely tolerate any of his current/newer stuff. He's always enjoyed the Bachman Books more than almost any of King's work. Although, I can't imagine anyone being worse than Anne Rice at running at the mouth...3 pages to describe a blade of grass, please oh please...
