Recent content by Nellisir

Finished John Crowley's The Deep. I really like Mr Crowley - Little, Big is one of my three "test cases" for how good a "Best Fantasy Books" list really is - and while I'm hard pressed to say what it's about - hope, or change, or big shifts occurring through little things without anyone...

I wasn't wild about the casual racism and etc, but otherwise a decent read.

I read the first one, and possibly the second, but the rest hadn't been released (or written) yet, AND I committed the commendable sin (for me) of Borrowing The First Book From The Library. Which means I have no visual prompt to remember or acquire the rest, and without that...lets just say I've...

5 years (82-87) between The Gunslinger and The Drawing of the Three; 4 years (1991) from that to The Waste Lands; 6 years (1997) between that Wizard and Glass; and then he had his accident in 1999 (he wrote The Little Sisters of Eluria in 1998, but it was a novella and not released as a...

It's...a certain kind of literature. From what little I know of his other work, it might be of a kind. And my reaction certainly said more about me than the book itself. I took a class in college (way, way, way back...) on Chinese Literature. The instructor was Chinese*. And it made me aware of...

I read it like 10-13 years ago. Literally hurled it across the room upon finishing it. Ranted about it. And it's been lodged in my brain ever since because...it's not wrong. If it was wrong it'd just be dumb, and it's not dumb.

The Postman was one of the very few books I reread several times as a teenager - generally I didn't ever reread a book (as I get older that's changed). The movie, obviously, was beyond disappointing.

I had a similar reaction to Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro.

Way to leave us hanging, dude. 🤣 😃

The Postman was like that, x 10. Fantastic book.

That's...certainly a take.

I don't know when I first read Kafka, but...it was WAY before you should read Kafka. But it was there, and they didn't care, and I was bored.... (if I had to guess, I'd say about 11. The first time.)

Not quite the same, but there's a nature documentary on...Prime (?) about Russia, and the guy narrating has some out-of-the-blue WILD pronunciations. My gf & I lost it at Valley of the Geezers. I looked him up later; quite a few people online wondering wtf.

Theodor Geisel has entered the chat....

I've read a bunch of his works, and they've all been excellent and fun.