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Shrini
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| | Monday, March 22, 2004 - 9:58 pm: | 
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Stephen King che 'different seasons' vaachale. apratim pustak aahe (except the second story, IMHO). definitely a must read...
tyaachich 'The Dark Tower series' vaachat aahe sadhyaa. pahilaa volume 'The Gunslinger' kaahi khaas naahi vaatalaa... tyaalaa faar tar 'kumar vangmay' mhanataa yeil. pan dusaraa volume, 'The Drawing of Three'... there's no other description that fits it except 'butt kicking'...
I got so hooked on the series, ki library madhe 3rd volume available navhataa tar mi to vikat aanalaa B&N madhoon, aani aataa vaachatoy.
this too, strongly recommended!
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Shrini
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| | Tuesday, March 23, 2004 - 6:52 pm: |
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back to Stephen King...
a few weeks back, I read his 'from a buick 8' and was utterly disappointed. It was nothing like what he writes. Complete trash! Once someone had said that King could even publish his laundry list if he wanted to. That's exactly what he did when he published this book. It is a forgery, and after reading 15 or so of his books, I humbly believe I can tell one...
Then I read Dark Tower 2 and got so impressed that the next day I bought the third volume (The Waste Lands) and began reading. Now, even this volume is divded in parts, and reading the first part gave me the same sensation that I had while reading 'buick', that it is not King... I was begining to wonder if I'd been hasty in buying that book.
But the second part started, and I could immediately tell the difference. It was King through and through, and that too, at his scintillating best...
I was completely awed while reading it... how can somebody be so good, so piercing, so psychic with words... the sheer quality, the sheer brilliance... it's almost superhuman...
I have yet to finish that part, that volume, and the remaining volumes (there're 4 more) but I don't care about how the story ends anymore. It's not what's being told but how it's being told. It's as if you're reading a story told in pictures... and you find the picutures to be of such superlative quality, each complete and uniuqe in its own, that you forget about what the story is, how it will develop further, how it will end, and simply get lost in those pictures...
Stephen King draws word-pictures, but that's a hilarious understatement. It's not just being detailed, effective, or specific... it's about the kind of feelings you experience while reading it... I've never been so impressed with, or have so much liked a book. To me, this is not just craftsmanship or talent... this is pure genius...
I'm aware that his other volumes may not recreate this magic (and that's why I'm a little afraid of reading further, even this book), and I'm also aware that not all who read this would be awed or overjoyed with what he has created... but I sincerely urge you to give it a try, because if you happen to experience what I did, it would repay your reading beyond your expectations...
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