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im going to start stephen kings 11/22/63 ... some twists on the kennedy asasination .. how time travel might have changed things , I wish we all could change things like that and the 9/11 issue too if you could time travel you could change history would you ?
Well, I was in NYC on 9/11. If I weren't thinking the whole time-travel thing through, I would definitely change history so that the terrorists were caught in Boston. Yet who knows if something else, something worse might have happened later? I guess I just wish I could spare everyone who lost someone that day the pain. And yet, it's not the only tragedy that ever happened in history, nor the worst. As an amateur student of time-travel (I write books about time-travel...no plug here, I promise!) I do, honestly believe that nothing in history should be changed. It's a great question you ask, phonelady61. I always like to ask people: if you could time travel to any time and place, where would you go?
Speaking of King's books I read his new short story A Face in the Crowd yesterday on the Kindle. It's short.....well, of course it is because it is a "short" story.
It's the old Stephen King and I enjoyed it. The only thing I missed was his mentioning songs. But he did mention baseball over and over. I liked that. He and I are the same age and my memories are the same as his when it comes to the culture of the 60s.
I've always thought he was a cool guy. Neato and rad. ahahahahahaha
Book I am still reading on and off since June: The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. I HATE this book, but I am inching closer to the end. I hope they ALL die at the end. I bet they don't though. Ok, at least kill the Earl of Shiring! If all of Ken's books are anything like this type of writing, I am tossing them all out!(donating or selling) I inherited several of his books, I am glad I did not pay for them.
I finished "The Other Boleyn Girl" and "The Boleyn Inheritance" by Philippa Gregory. I feel let down that I am done with them. I am going to save them, collect the entire series, and re-read it all later on. They are a very good read, I really got into them.
Now reading "Fat Land" by Greg Critser. And "If you really loved me" by Ann Rule, a true crime story.
Book I am still reading on and off since June: The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. I HATE this book, but I am inching closer to the end. I hope they ALL die at the end.
I read a book once and have since forgotten both the title and the author, but as I read it, I realized that all the characters were characters in another author's work and they were trying to figure out what is happening to them because they seem to be being controlled by an outside force.
After reading it, I had a dream that whenever I put a book down, the characters were left indefinitely in that situation until I picked it up again. Call me evil, but in some cases, it was rather nice to think of just leaving them there -- like Prometheus on the rock with the eagle.
I hate the stephen king book 11/22/63 it certainly is not anything like his former books ....
I actually enjoying this book very much. I love the thought of time travel and I loved what SK did with this concept.
It's not typical SK. I'm one who believes his writing was more 'horror' before his accident. Since then his books have been a mix of genres.
I have been a SK addict since I was a teen (a long time ago) and have a lot of his books. There are some I just did not like at all and will probably never buy.
I've read good reviews on here about Under the Dome and I hated the book and will not be adding it to my collection. (I actually had the same thought when I was 15 years old and wrote a song called "The Toys The Spacemen Made". However, I never had the 'spacemen' killing humans 'just because they could'.) I was so turned off by the senseless killings that if there was a message in the story it was lost on me.
The joy of reading should be just that - a JOY. Enjoying what we read makes us want to read more. We are fortunate with the vast selections of books available to us.
It's always nice to know that a book you hate is loved by someone else. The author has done his/her job if any audience is captured at all.
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