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 Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 6:36 pm
I have read Hearts in Atlantis and I think it was an awesome book.
1. It taught me how to play hearts really well.
2. Thought the guy who pretends to be crippled and writes the lines every day was interesting and distrurbing.
3. Thought the first part with the guy who smokes the lucky strikes who moves away was very interesting and a lead into... (what does it lead into?)
comments on it?
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Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 9:58 pm
If you liked "Hearts In Atlantis", you should read "The Dark Tower" series, if you haven't already, I find that that series explains alot and helped me understand most of his other books I've read.
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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:31 am
Actually, the references to the Dark Tower stuff was what really turned me off to Hearts in Atlantis. However, the parts that WEREN'T about the Dark Tower were fantastic. smile
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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 9:14 pm
poplopo Actually, the references to the Dark Tower stuff was what really turned me off to Hearts in Atlantis. However, the parts that WEREN'T about the Dark Tower were fantastic. smile I don't consider it referencing the Dark Tower series, I think it's more of the Dark Tower series referencing the other books.
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 7:39 pm
Same, Lullaby. I actually liked Mr. Brautigan better than many of the other character's portrayed in that book.
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 9:03 pm
I just meant that it was referencing the Dark Tower universe. Pretty sure Hearts in Atlantis was written first.
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 9:33 pm
Actually, the Dark Tower Universe started at the hands of The Gunslinger, which appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1978.
While Hearts in Atlantis was written and copyrighted in 1999. So if anything, the Dark Tower is the nexus point for most, (not all, of course) of his books.
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Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:01 am
Ah, I guess you're probably right. I got the book Cell recently, and it has a list of nearly all of King's works, and a bunch of the names are in bold. The footnote says that all the bolded names are ones that relate to the Dark Tower series.. and there are a lot! Way more than I expected. 16 books (not counting the books in the Dark Tower series itself). It's like he was planting a bunch of seeds in his books (which is a bit creepy in itself smile )
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Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 8:27 pm
That is exactly how it is. I've just never really thought of that analogy before. (Planting seeds in his books, I mean.) That's a very accurate description of what he's actually doing. And you're right about it beign creepy, but you just have to love the fact that you can keep on seeing Roland and his ka-tet in most of the DT related books.
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:50 pm
Hemo-Lullaby poplopo Actually, the references to the Dark Tower stuff was what really turned me off to Hearts in Atlantis. However, the parts that WEREN'T about the Dark Tower were fantastic. smile I don't consider it referencing the Dark Tower series, I think it's more of the Dark Tower series referencing the other books.
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