My mom gave me all three books in this trilogy. I started reading the first one and I couldn’t put it down. I finished it in less than a day and got through half of book #2 as well. It’s a very smooth read. Feels like a flowery version of Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. WIth many more vampires and some goddess intervention. The characters are almost 3d, especially the women. I give them 4 out of 5 stars for an enjoyable smooth read, only subtracting a star for the flowery-ness.

Here’s an interview with Stephen King about the new comic series based on his Dark Tower books. I’d love to read them!

I just finished reading Peter S. Beagle’s The Immortal Unicorn collection of short stories. They were all great stories, but my favorite was by far, Dame a la Licorne by Judith Tarr. Then, The Tenth Worthy by Susan Shwartz and The Devil on Myrtle Ave. by Eric Lustbader. I had already read Professor Gottesman and the Indian Rhinoceros by Peter S. Beagle in another anthology, (The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche and Other Odd Acquaintances by Peter S. Beagle) but it was still good to read again.

NEWSARAMA - [Updated] STEPHEN KING WRITING HIS DARK TOWER FOR MARVEL

Stephen King and Marvel Comics seems now to be a corroborated collaboration.

On Thursday, Publishers Weekly’s Calvin Reid reported that King has agreed to write a new installment of his own Dark Tower series as a graphic novel to be published in 2006, and drawn by Jae Lee and colorist Richard Isanove.

First Sentence:

Against the stars a turtle passes, carrying four elephants on its shell.

Currently reading this next (and last of Rincewind I hear) installment of the Discworld Series. I’m looking forward to reading it after reading a reveiw that said:

There is something gravely amiss with the time-space continuum of the Discworld. Rincewind, our faithful anti-hero who has unknowingly rescued the multiverse from several terminal and quite annoying endings, is stuck in a desolate desert somewhere in a country called EcksEcksEcksEcks. Just a few moments ago he was still hanging around the Island of Agatea, but due to some last minute luck was teleported to his current torment. At least he now has no need to run away from sharp objects and his only concern is to find the next waterhole. No worries. Only, when was the last time you he had a decent conversation with a Kangaroo? But help is on the way: the elite corps of the Unseen University, lead by Archchancellor Ridcully, is on a mission to rescue their lost son. And they are very close. Only one slight detail went wrong: they missed their target by about 300000 years.

In The Last Continent Terry Pratchett has a go at Australia and its strange peculiarities. The result is, as can be expected, a very humorous view on kangaroos, aborigines and corks on strings. But the book offers more than a never-ending flow of Crocodile Dundee puns, it also gives a quite interesting view on time travel and the potential danger of treading on ants that might influence your future in the past. The introduction of the university’s housekeeper, Mrs. Whitlow, leads to an avalanche of in between sheets jokes. But the absolute hilarious episodes of the book start when Rincewind meets the Discworld version of Priscilla Queen of the Desert. I never expected that leather and high heels were that popular in the Discworld.

First Sentence:

This is where the gods play games with the lives of men, on a board which is at one and the same time a simple playing area and the whole world.

I just finished reading this book. I liked it the best out of the series so far. Ken has me reading them in a specific order, so I don’t know which one is next until he gets home tonight. The legend on the books cover lists the order they were written in.