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Wizard & Glass was actually going pretty good, and when they got to Topeka, I suspected they got transferred into the world of The Stand, and my suspicions were confirmed when a newspaper was talking about Captain Trips. I was really getting into the direction of the book.

However, got to part II with the Susan story and it's been a grinding halt for about 60 pages now...

Carrie is but a wee book

DancesWithWerewolves wrote:

Tiggnutz wrote:Some shit went down in Live and Let Die that caught me off guard because its something that happened in the movie License to Kill.

What did License to Kill pull? Not that I'd complain, because if they didn't properly adapt the first go around, I have no issue of certain ideas getting used for later.

SPOILER!!!!!!!!!!!! Felix Leiter getting fed to a shark

Almost at the end of Live and Let Die and this is better than Casino Royale imo

DancesWithWerewolves wrote:Wizard & Glass was actually going pretty good, and when they got to Topeka, I suspected they got transferred into the world of The Stand, and my suspicions were confirmed when a newspaper was talking about Captain Trips. I was really getting into the direction of the book.

However, got to part II with the Susan story and it's been a grinding halt for about 60 pages now...

The backstory bit is slow going, but I enjoyed it. I liked getting to know a bit more about Cuthbert and Alain, and a bit more on Roland's history. It takes up about 90% of the book, so be prepared to slog through it if you don't enjoy it. This is also the book where the dialogue takes a weird turn, which I didn't care for. It probably wouldn't have bothered me if it was like that from the beginning, but introducing new language four books in just doesn't work.

Tiggnutz wrote:

DancesWithWerewolves wrote:

Tiggnutz wrote:Some shit went down in Live and Let Die that caught me off guard because its something that happened in the movie License to Kill.

What did License to Kill pull? Not that I'd complain, because if they didn't properly adapt the first go around, I have no issue of certain ideas getting used for later.

SPOILER!!!!!!!!!!!! Felix Leiter getting fed to a shark

For Your Eyes Only stole from this book too.

Finished Live and Let Die and bought Moonraker. Its read by Bill Nighy so that's super fuckin cool

Alternating between the Thrawn trilogy and Friday the 13th books.

Moonraker is so good I didn't want to get out of my car today because Bond is in the middle of a game of Bridge with Hugo Drax. I dont even know how to play Bridge but it's so well written it doesn't even matter.

Moonraker is probably the best of what I've read so far. That and Casino Royale were the high marks. I'll get to more, but I wasn't that impressed with Goldfinger. The beginning's great, but the second half is just eh. Same with Man with The Golden Gun.

I may or may not continue Thunderball. Bond getting actual rapey was pretty offputting. Like, beyond just aggressively flirty.

Wizard & Glass has slooooooooowly picked up, but I've still got a bit of "get on with it!" as I read. A good 100 pages worth of words could've probably been edited out. It's been a while I really felt King drag his feet.

Headhunter wrote:Powering my way through the LA Quartet.

Finished this and now two books through Ellroy’s Underworld USA trilogy. Amazing stuff.

After I finish, my queue consists of:

LaBrava - Elmore Leonard
Shock Value - Jason Zinoman
Tinseltown - William Mann

Tiggnutz wrote:Moonraker is so good I didn't want to get out of my car today because Bond is in the middle of a game of Bridge with Hugo Drax. I dont even know how to play Bridge but it's so well written it doesn't even matter.

So far this is very different from the movie

Moonraker is in the greatest books I've ever read category not just Bond

Next up Diamonds Are Forever

Finally finished reading Wizard & Glass last night.

Did not expect it to literally have all that Wizard of Oz shit at the end. Overall it could've had about 100 pages worth of words cut out, that whole Susan story was the definition of *padding* just for the sake of bloating. It was tough to get through, but at least it went somewhere.

Breaking in between Dark Tower books to squeeze something else in, so I'm jumping on the next SD Perry Resident Evil book, Caliban Cove, which apparently is an original story and not based on one of the games.

DancesWithWerewolves wrote:Finally finished reading Wizard & Glass last night.

Did not expect it to literally have all that Wizard of Oz shit at the end. Overall it could've had about 100 pages worth of words cut out, that whole Susan story was the definition of *padding* just for the sake of bloating. It was tough to get through, but at least it went somewhere.

Breaking in between Dark Tower books to squeeze something else in, so I'm jumping on the next SD Perry Resident Evil book, Caliban Cove, which apparently is an original story and not based on one of the games.

I liked the backstory of Wizard & Glass, even though it was slow-going. It probably would have been better received if it had been its own prequel book, rather than put in the middle of a book. Also, if you thought the Oz stuff was weird, just you wait. The rest of the books were written in haste after King was hit by that car and he got all rattled about his mortality and shit. All three were released in less than a year. Should tell you something of the quality.

I know he got off his ass to finish'em after the accident, but I do keep hearing good things (particularly with Wolves of Calah) so I'm still looking forward.

Just got issues 3 and 4 of immortal Hulk I was blown away by the first 2 issues can't wait to read

Only 75 more pages left of Carrie. It's short but I think its excellent. Than on to The Stand. That looks like it will be the longest book I've ever tackled.