Recent content by Nellisir

Theodor Geisel has entered the chat....

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

But...what about tpb vs mmpb vs hc??? Are we just going to let them MINGLE???

Michael Chabon get shelved in literature because he won a Pulitzer. For a <checks notes> alt-history murder mystery. Also, he gets a nod for being readable.

I'll definitely look for it; I tend to really enjoy his work. I haven't made a thorough list of his stuff to track down, but I really should. I've got a bunch of it.

Currently reading The Chinese Lake Murders, by Robert Van Gulik, and courtesy of @Eyes of Nine. I've read a bunch of other books too, but everything is (literally) a jumble right now so I can't tell you what they were (visual-keyed memory). I've migrated back to my summer dwelling (my "real"...

I have King and Kipling in the same pocket in my mind. Both extremely popular authors; both snubbed by the literati for being essentially too "popular"; both very easy to read. (Edit: Both have strong/significant New England connections, although those obviously aren't prominent in most of...

Dude. He's going to hate us. I would pay money to get that out of my head. Mrs. Todd's Shortcut, though, is just amazing. And inspirational. :)

I've read very little "modern" King, but I know the pagecount on the later books of the Dark Tower series ballooned tremendously, and not (IMO) for the better. At the time I felt it was probably a reaction to his accident - he was more indolent of his writing, and his editor was more lenient. I...

Yeah, many King adaptations to the screen have been meh at best. I think there's a few reasons: He's a prolific and popular writer who has had a LOT of adaptations The horror movie genre wasn't a high-end, high-quality genre for a long time (but see below for early films that were well done and...

King also experimented with a serial novel, releasing a section every month for 6 months. I worked part time in a bookstore then, and it was fun/cool, but not a really big selling point for most people. I bought comics too so the monthly thing wasn't a big adjustment. (The book was a little...

I have others. So many others. <sigh>

I love Arkady Renko, and I love that every few years Martin writes another book about him. Time passes, but Arkady reluctantly, inevitably, compulsively slumps on to investigate another awful, career-ending, absolutely waste of everyone's time, event or disappearance that he absolutely agrees he...

You can borrow some of mine!! :)

The tavern scene was what really grabbed my interest, because suddenly Here There Be Consequences. It raised the stakes in a way I'm not certain I'd encountered before (I'm pretty sure I read it at 12 years old. Possibly 11). I read The Sleeping Dragon right around the time I borrowed the...