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grindmonkehDear Kiko,
Congratulations. You walked Pedro Martinez.
Dear Jeff,
Meet Jose Oquendo. He tells you when to run! Isn't that NEATO!?!?
Dear Cardinals Bullpen Catcher,
Boston may need to borrow that broom.
Dear MLB players,
Does the team with the number of individuals who point up at God the most win? (Just curious.)
Congratulations. You walked Pedro Martinez.
Dear Jeff,
Meet Jose Oquendo. He tells you when to run! Isn't that NEATO!?!?
Dear Cardinals Bullpen Catcher,
Boston may need to borrow that broom.
Dear MLB players,
Does the team with the number of individuals who point up at God the most win? (Just curious.)
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Date: 2004-10-27 07:03 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2004-11-01 09:26 pm (UTC)Did you read it?
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Date: 2004-11-02 01:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-02 02:53 pm (UTC)"I did and was massively disappointed, especially with the manner in which the Crimson King was dispatched. All these books with him as the villian and the fucker was killed with an eraser. Heh"
Exactly.
My only bitch about the book is the treatment of the antagonists. Flagg...eaten by Mordred. Which might make you believe that Mordred had a fate that was of consequence to the Tower and existence. Nope...he was shot during amateur hour in an oh so intense battle with a billy-bumbler. And yes...the much hyped Crimson King...of whom Stephen King lead us over the course of a couple of decades to believe was an extremely powerful entity, gave us a scope of any sinister situation by name-dropping him in any novel at a whim, and then killed him with an igmo while he said, "EEEEEEEE!" a lot and threw sneetches. Did I mention that he said, "EEEEEEEEEEEEE!" a lot? ...and threw...sneetches.
*scratch scratch*
yeah.
But as far as the protagonists went...I found the ending suiting for Roland, and as far as Eddie, Jake, and Susannah it was the sentimental cop-out. Which worked somewhat....except that I thought since Jake died in the keystone world that he was done like last night's dinner? I guess not.
King's writing style changed a lot in the final piece. Some of his asides were kind of annoying as he told us what we should be thinking of feeling about a certain part of the story instead of writing it into us.
And as Charlie Kaufman said, "don't ever write yourself into your own story." (That's not an exact quote.) I thought it was a bad idea when they began talking about the book Salem's Lot in the Calla, and then it only got worse. Sometimes embarrassing. The kind of embarrassing where you want to martyr yourself with plastic cutlery to make it stop. Yeah.
In general the series is great. At/Near the top of my list of literary faves. I'll read it again. I've a queue of older Stephen King novels to reread now to refresh some connections to the Tower and remember some old friends along the way.
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Date: 2004-10-27 08:07 am (UTC)(no subject)
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