Yes, I agree, I very much liked DRRR more than Baccano...that one confused me at some points, and the pacing of DRRR was a little easier for me to follow. My best friend loved Baccano. so I'm trying to get her to watch DRRR which I figure she will love equally (I'm also praying they lisence the novels...I honestly would prefer the novels over the manga (I collect the Haruhi novels too) so I'm going to wait on it to see if it will happen).
I'm not sure how you knew I liked Stephen King...whether I mentioned it, or you looked around, but well played, very well played indeed. As far as short stories go, my favorite had to be "That Feeling, You Can Only Say What it it in French", which always comes to the front of my mind, and espeically after reading the desciption he put in the end, which made it even more chilling, which i loved. As for longer book, I am eternally torn between Firestarter and The Dead Zone (and I DO NOT forgive USA for taking the character and using him in their own show). Both had good points, and some slow parts that were hard to read through, but both had the same Stephen King "weirdness" as there's no other way to describe it, and while both had bittersweet endings, I was satisfied at the end.
My least favorite, hands down, is The Dark Tower 7 (The Dark Tower). I ALWAYS feel cheated when it ends just like it begins. I also have a feeling, from what Stephen King said, that had he not been in that accident that halted his writing, the story would've ended differently. I also am not a fan of self insertions, so that also turned me off in the 6th book (Song of Susanna). So it was like the major buildup to one enormous let down.
On an semi-related note, the book that got me interested in Stephen King was It- I saw my friend had the movie, and being the snob that I was, I wanted to read the book first (that was when I was 13) and that started me reading him, and the only novel of his that TRULY frightened me was Pet Sematary, which afterwards I was so freaked out I callewd my then boyfriend in the middle of the night because I couldn't sleep and had him talk me down til I was calmed down enough to sleep.
Wow, I just wrote a novel there (irony?) I have another question for you, since it's around this time of month: CURRENTLY, which are you finding more enjoyable, Soul Eater or SE Not!
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I'm not sure how you knew I liked Stephen King...whether I mentioned it, or you looked around, but well played, very well played indeed. As far as short stories go, my favorite had to be "That Feeling, You Can Only Say What it it in French", which always comes to the front of my mind, and espeically after reading the desciption he put in the end, which made it even more chilling, which i loved. As for longer book, I am eternally torn between Firestarter and The Dead Zone (and I DO NOT forgive USA for taking the character and using him in their own show). Both had good points, and some slow parts that were hard to read through, but both had the same Stephen King "weirdness" as there's no other way to describe it, and while both had bittersweet endings, I was satisfied at the end.
My least favorite, hands down, is The Dark Tower 7 (The Dark Tower). I ALWAYS feel cheated when it ends just like it begins. I also have a feeling, from what Stephen King said, that had he not been in that accident that halted his writing, the story would've ended differently. I also am not a fan of self insertions, so that also turned me off in the 6th book (Song of Susanna). So it was like the major buildup to one enormous let down.
On an semi-related note, the book that got me interested in Stephen King was It- I saw my friend had the movie, and being the snob that I was, I wanted to read the book first (that was when I was 13) and that started me reading him, and the only novel of his that TRULY frightened me was Pet Sematary, which afterwards I was so freaked out I callewd my then boyfriend in the middle of the night because I couldn't sleep and had him talk me down til I was calmed down enough to sleep.
Wow, I just wrote a novel there (irony?) I have another question for you, since it's around this time of month: CURRENTLY, which are you finding more enjoyable, Soul Eater or SE Not!