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Have read both Misery and all 8 Dark Towers. Good stuff. Have read around half of King's stuff. Started going back and reading ones I've missed.


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I assume you've read The Stand, but both It and Insomina are great books, especially if you've read The Tower

[artcinco]

Read The Stand (both versions) and Insomnia (and many DT tie ins). The ones I have not read do not tie in to DT.


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[artcinco]

Watched the TV 11/22/63. Interesting but modified from the book which was great.


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Watched the TV 11/22/63. Interesting but modified from the book which was great.


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Yea, i liked it, but the book was so damn good, I read it twice.  I loved when he met Richie and Bev right after they battled Pennywise in 57. The Mr Mercedes trilogy was good, interested to see how that tv convserion turns out.  I have incredibly low expectations for the Dark Tower movie, especially since they cut out Eddie and Susanah and are having it take place in Lud.

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The adaptations are not as good when go too far afield from the source material.


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The adaptations are not as good when go too far afield from the source material.


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I thought the best adaptation yet was The Stand miniseries they did in the early 90s with Gary Sinise and Molly Ringwold.  

[freedom78]

I liked the Stand mini...it's still on every once in a while.

[artcinco]

That one was decent.

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Publishers are hiring 'sensitivity readers' to flag potentially offensive content

[Its Cousin]

Found a copy of "The Fifty Year Wound: How America's Cold War Victory Has Shaped Our World"(Derek Leebaert) at the used book store. Going by the title and some blurbs, I thought that it might have a bit of a morally absolutist and globalist perspective... we'll see.

[freedom78]

Just began Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS, which will be the second ISIS book I've read in prep for a terrorism class I'm planning for fall 2018.  The first book, ISIS Apocalypse, was good but too focused on the religious aspects to be as useful as I'd like in a poli sci class.

[Its Cousin]

That sounds like an interesting class. Is it intended for upperclassmen/grad students? What kind of preqs do you require?

[freedom78]

It'll be a 300 level undergrad class.  No prerequisites...university requires 40 hours of 300+ level coursework, and you usually only get half of that from your major, so I should get some students just for general interest.

[Its Cousin]

Finished Caleb Carr's "The Lessons of Terror: A History of Warfare Against Civilians". It was a pretty good read, but his conservative bias was obvious, and I thought that he tended to contradict his thesis at times, though, he did make a pretty good argument that the Crusades were, if not justified, a response/counter response to Muslim aggression.

 

Found a first edition/first printing of John Dean's "Blind Ambition: The White House Years" which he published after being released from prison. It tells of his time as Nixon's White House counsel. Somehow, it's the first book I've read of his???

[freedom78]

Finished Caleb Carr's "The Lessons of Terror: A History of Warfare Against Civilians". It was a pretty good read, but his conservative bias was obvious, and I thought that he tended to contradict his thesis at times, though, he did make a pretty good argument that the Crusades were, if not justified, a response/counter response to Muslim aggression.

 

Interesting.  Have you read Karen Armstrong's Holy War?  It's been a while, but if I recall one central thesis was that the anti-Jewish sentiments found in 20th Century Europe (and thus the roots of today's Mid East conflicts) were rooted in the Crusades.