2. Also, finished Dark Tower 5: Wolves of the Calla on Monday. On the whole, very enjoyable, and in the afterward SK acknowledges the obvious debts to Sergio Leone and Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" (which I'm even more grateful to have finally seen, now). Of course, in the very last pages of the book, he throws in a plot twist so mind-boggling that I have absolutely no idea how he will reconcile. The only thing I can compare it to is one particular path from my absolute favorite Choose Your Own Adventure book, "Hyperspace", where the author (Edward Packard, I believe) enters the story and tells you that you're just a character in the book, but that he also has become a character in the book.
2. Also, finished Dark Tower 5: Wolves of the Calla on Monday. On the whole, very enjoyable, and in the afterward SK acknowledges the obvious debts to Sergio Leone and Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" (which I'm even more grateful to have finally seen, now). Of course, in the very last pages of the book, he throws in a plot twist so mind-boggling that I have absolutely no idea how he will reconcile. The only thing I can compare it to is one particular path from my absolute favorite Choose Your Own Adventure book, "Hyperspace", where the author (Edward Packard, I believe) enters the story and tells you that you're just a character in the book, but that he also has become a character in the book.
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Farewell, LJ
So I guess I'm retiring this blog. Part of me feels like I need to make some sort of eulogy or something; part of me just wants to move on already.…
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Catching up
The first sentence of this post was "Finally, some breathing room," and then as I was in the middle of the second sentence I got handed…
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Kinda hard to imagine Thomas Pynchon (and not, say, Tom Robbins) writing this paragraph, but there it is on p. 99 of "Inherent Vice":…
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