Yes, gentle readers, I’m reading that book.
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Hell yea. Did you happen to see my recent review? I’ve always loved this book.
Is this your first time?
Bill: I saw it, but an hour is too long for me to spare these days…that’s an hour of writing time!
Ty: Totally. I spent much of my youth reading David Eddings, Dave Duncan, Terry Brooks, etc. I don’t think of it as a waste, but these guys wrote popular fiction, and not what the genre would consider classics. I’m going through all the classics now in an attempt to play catch up.
An hour? You must be thinking of the interview I just posted. My review of Gunslinger shouldn’t take a smart guy like you more than five minutes to read.
You should post your list of the classics you plan to go through — I’ve noticed no matter how many I read, I still feel like I’m playing catch up as well.
Bill, yeah, I thought it was the Stephen King interview. When I quit writing in February, I unsubscribed from all my writing blogs. I’ve begun resubscribing to them recently, but it’s a slow process.
Without giving anything away, I think King’s DK series is going to have far-reaching affects upon the speculative fiction genres (not that King as a writer hasn’t already). I don’t think it’s happened yet, but I think we’ll see it in another 10 years or so. I think it’s going to take a little time for writers, readers and publishers to digest this big tale and to come to grips with it to some extent.
I love the overall story, but I have some nitpicks (who doesn’t?). I’ll say this, though … the fourth book, “Wizard and Glass,” was by far my favorite.
Ty,
Obviously, I’ll have the read the whole thing. The first book was just a great setting and delicious prose. Of course, the only other King book I’ve read has been Eyes of the Dragon, so it’s possible I’m missing out tons of references, etc…
The references don’t really start to crop up until the later books,Wizard & Glass I think was the first.