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E.J. Wells said:
Cop out ending? You can't be serious... In a million years, did you see that coming?

“Ka is a wheel; its one purpose is to turn. The spin of ka always brings us back to the same place, to face and reface our mistakes and defeats until we can learn from them. When we learn from the past, the wheel continues to move forward, towards growth and evolution. When we don’t, the wheel spins backward, and we are given another chance. If once more we squander the opportunity, the wheel continues its rotation towards devolution, or destruction.”

It is pounded into your subconscious for several books; far cry from a cop out.
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Yeah I get the whole ka thing. To me the cop out was in the crimson king. Here is a dude that can orchestrate vast highly complex and mystical plots, in multiple dimensions and realms at once, all with the aim of destroying the very fabric of reality on all levels, and very nearly succeed in doing just that, yet he really is just a blubbering idiot with a plot device stolen from Harry Potter, of all people. King had the chance to make this the most ueber-powerful dark-lord bad guy of all time and we got an inbred nutjob. He definitely finagled a few woogets there. Then, we just erase him. It's just that easy!

Even with the eternal loop, I really felt like he had reached a point where he didn't know how to proceed further, so he just cut it off the easiest way possible, ala Dallas and "Bobby really wasn't dead, it was all a dream". Yeah it made sense in the context of ka but it was anything but a great and complete ending. Could have been far better. Warranted another book, imo.
 
I see what you're saying, but again, it all kind of makes sense if you ask me. If you read his other works, the Red King has been going mad for some time, so it's not like it was out of the blue. The Artist is also in other books and his part in the story is bad *** if you know where/how he came into being.

I'm just saying, I thought it was one of the greatest endings of a story ever written.
 
I'm in the middle of Duma Key by King. Pretty freaking weird so far. I'm pretty sure I've caught references to Rose Madder, the Red King, and a few others that I can't think of off the top of my head. As soon as I'm done, I'm reading The Shining pt 2, or Dr. Sleep or whatever it's called.
 
E.J. Wells said:
The Artist is also in other books and his part in the story is bad *** if you know where/how he came into being.
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I still was unhappy with the ending but i loved how he brought in the kid from insomnia to have a big part in the end
 
E.J. Wells said:
I'm in the middle of Duma Key by King. Pretty freaking weird so far. I'm pretty sure I've caught references to Rose Madder, the Red King, and a few others that I can't think of off the top of my head. As soon as I'm done, I'm reading The Shining pt 2, or Dr. Sleep or whatever it's called.
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I liked duma key ok.

I have heard that dr sleep is not very good but i did buy it on my kindle and will read it after i finish a couple other books
 
Archie Moses said:
How have I missed this thread?

Anyone wanna to read a steampunk book?
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It has taken me a while to realize that nobody wants to watch/listen to Rammstein in the "Best Song" thread, just like nobody will ever want to read "steampunk".

The sooner you let it go, the better off you'll be.
 
Just finished Under the Dome! It's really thick, but an easy read. Doesn't take long at all to get through it. Pretty good book, I certainly enjoyed reading it.

Now I got about 150 pages left in Invisible Man. Completely different type of novel, and it'll take about as much time to read the last 150 pages as reading about 300 pages of Under the Dome.

Not sure where I'm gonna go after this, but I think I might hang up the recreational reading while I immerse myself in textbooks and pursue learning an additional language.
 
LazyD said:
Just finished Under the Dome! It's really thick, but an easy read. Doesn't take long at all to get through it. Pretty good book, I certainly enjoyed reading it.

Now I got about 150 pages left in Invisible Man. Completely different type of novel, and it'll take about as much time to read the last 150 pages as reading about 300 pages of Under the Dome.

Not sure where I'm gonna go after this, but I think I might hang up the recreational reading while I immerse myself in textbooks and pursue learning an additional language.
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Hmmm, I thought the "Leather Head" **** was annoying and cliche. Enjoyed it right up until that part -- just like Dreamcatcher.
 
E.J. Wells said:
Hmmm, I thought the "Leather Head" **** was annoying and cliche. Enjoyed it right up until that part -- just like Dreamcatcher.
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iawtp

The whole story itself was a very enjoyable read. But yes, the ending was kinda annoying. Not that unique of a concept tbh. Probably pretty hard to come up with something that lives up to the rest of the story though, but he is a professional writer.
 
heyhey said:
Insomnia never failed to put me to sleep. I never did finish it.
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Ya it wasnt his best work..... but the tie in to dark tower was pretty cool
 
E.J. Wells said:
Hmmm, I thought the "Leather Head" **** was annoying and cliche. Enjoyed it right up until that part -- just like Dreamcatcher.
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Dreamcatcher lost me at **** weasels, just way too cheesy and silly, imo. Also, I thought the whole duddits thing was very over-wrought. I like that he can be so colloquial, it can really bring the reader into the story, but it can be very overblown, and I think it all too often sounds better in his head than it does on paper.

Wasn't a fan of Dome. Felt too much like he was just reworking characters from other stories and throwing them together in a new, but not really that new, setting. And the TV show adaptation has been horrendous. I suffered through the first season but cannot bring myself to watch any more. I kept hoping it would get better and it just got suckier and suckier.
 
E.J. Wells said:
It has taken me a while to realize that nobody wants to watch/listen to Rammstein in the "Best Song" thread, just like nobody will ever want to read "steampunk".

The sooner you let it go, the better off you'll be.
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I do, on both accounts.
 
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