You got served... by the Beam!
Nov. 29th, 2005 10:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
uberreinigerJust finished reading Stephen King's Wizard and Glass and boy, what a ride. It took me long enough, too. It was by far the slowest of the Dark Tower novels, but not for the reasons its detractors told me it would be. I was mostly putting off the ugliness I knew awaited, not so much lagging behind due to boredom. Now I need to find a copy of Wolves of the Calla. Although first I plan to read The Church of Dead Girls lent to me by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cherith.
Coincidentally, at this same time I have discovered the album Touched By The Crimson King by the band Demons & Wizards. I bought the album because it's a side project involving the lead singer from Blind Guardian, but was then pleasantly surprised to discover it to be a heavily Dark Tower-themed album. Guess the title should have given it away, huh? Heyksracxe, guess what? Blaine even gets a musical tribute in the form of the song "Terror Train" and if you slip off the cardboard cover you can find him immortalized on the back of the jewel case in all his pink glory...
I've got a big post in me wanting to get out about writing. Namely what I am writing, why I am writing it, what it means to me, and what's made it the way is. Partly, the words ellude me when I actually sit down to try and type it. Partly I can't decide if it's more appropriate for here or for my other journal, the one that actually contains my fiction. (Which, for those keeping track, will be updated again soon.) Maybe I'll write said post maybe I won't. Ka*. Like the wind.
*If you are rabidly against the idea of predestination or unchangeable fate as I am, you will find King's incessant blabbering about ka supremely annoying. Even if I didn't, I'd like him to stop mentioning it five times on every page. I'm starting to feel the same way about it as I did about Marion Zimmer-Bradley and her neverending "what of the old stag when the young stag is grown?" bullshit. Stagshit. Whatever.
cherith.Coincidentally, at this same time I have discovered the album Touched By The Crimson King by the band Demons & Wizards. I bought the album because it's a side project involving the lead singer from Blind Guardian, but was then pleasantly surprised to discover it to be a heavily Dark Tower-themed album. Guess the title should have given it away, huh? Hey
ksracxe, guess what? Blaine even gets a musical tribute in the form of the song "Terror Train" and if you slip off the cardboard cover you can find him immortalized on the back of the jewel case in all his pink glory...I've got a big post in me wanting to get out about writing. Namely what I am writing, why I am writing it, what it means to me, and what's made it the way is. Partly, the words ellude me when I actually sit down to try and type it. Partly I can't decide if it's more appropriate for here or for my other journal, the one that actually contains my fiction. (Which, for those keeping track, will be updated again soon.) Maybe I'll write said post maybe I won't. Ka*. Like the wind.
*If you are rabidly against the idea of predestination or unchangeable fate as I am, you will find King's incessant blabbering about ka supremely annoying. Even if I didn't, I'd like him to stop mentioning it five times on every page. I'm starting to feel the same way about it as I did about Marion Zimmer-Bradley and her neverending "what of the old stag when the young stag is grown?" bullshit. Stagshit. Whatever.
