I went through a phase of reading everything Dean Koontz ever wrote - apart from the 'bodice rippers' that he did under an assumed name during his early period - but the only one I can read repeatedly is 'By the light of the Moon.' It doesn't take itself too seriously, but is still an exciting read. It's never been televised and probably won't be, now Heroes is on, which is a shame. The odd thing is, it doesn't rate that highly among comitted Koontz fans which probably explains why I stopped writing in to the DK forum and came here instead.

I often dip into his on line 'Trixie Koontz' doggy diaries too.

Re: what can you re-read repeatedly? new
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (58.163.131.---)
Date: August 12, 2008 12:29AM
Kitten wrote:
Sorry. I keep doing that. In real life too- I keep waving books in faces and saying "Read it! Read it!"




That is a known fact! Remember our first topic of conversation? And I had already read most of his books.

LOL.

To be fair, you have been lending me FAR more books than I have you, lately!

Good grief... intrigue! Conspiracy! I sense camaraderie.

Mwhaha...

BTW, Bibs, you know about the exhibition on tuesday evening?

Next week? I'm not sure if I'll be able to come. Please remind me!

ok. I'll txt you tuesday during the day.

I recently found three Courts of Chaos/Amber novels by Roger Zelazny that I knew not of. This will probably cause me to dig out all the old stories and re read them to put everything in context.

It's a good excuse.

I've read 'Lord of Light' about a dozen times (even did an essay in a Uni English unit by writing that LOL stood up against LOTR favourably. Lecturer later told me he had to reread them both to see if my arguments were sound. I passed.

I can reread 'The Great Slow Kings ' any number of times.

Ever read "Warriors of the Dragon Gold"?

'The Great Slow Kings'? 'Warriors of the Dragon Gold'? Those haven't cropped up before! What are they about? Are they both Zelazny?

'the gReat Slow Kings' is a Zelazny short story. Which collection i cannot say as my books are packed away.

"Warriors of the Dragon Gold' I do not know, but will go looking instead of doing job applications, and/or other useful things.

no, WoTDG is another author who for some reason reminded me of Zelany- although to be honest, they aren't that similar.

BK


that comment brought on an attack of the Marty Feldman Show in the skit that begins 'Well, the nude vicar of Ponders End has pulled it off again...........'


[[There are some who aspire to greatness, some who are born to be great, and some who can appreciate greatness in others. I am an appreciator.]]

'There are some who are born to greatness and some who have greatness thrust upon them. I had it both ways.' - Hawkeye Pierce.

Zelazny....

I must reread Lord of Light. Hopefully the reading I am doing around various Indian philosophies will help a bit. Well, that reading is religion in general at the moment, if for nothing else than that it is as far from coursework as I can get. And people's beliefs are interesting.

Has anyone read any of the Very Short Introductions from OUP?

__________________________________
'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

I haven't but many years ago I read a book of 'Forewords'


<mind switches to shortest communication on record:

Victor Hugo: Telegram to publisher: '?'

Response from publisher: '!'

E M Delafield's The Diary of a Provincial Lady, Winifred Watson's Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, anything by Dorothy Whipple and, a newcomer, The Suspicions of Mr Whitcher.

'Yes Man' by Danny Wallace is quite re-readable. It has a subtle escalation in depth that you don't notice until the end hits you like a strangely friendly big hammer. 'Join Me' was good too.

'escalation in depth'


very surreal



a going up in downwardsness.


chocolate time