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I've been reading, after my bout' of Dances With Wolves; some of the neglected novels in my rag-tag Stephen Kingo collection of books.
I finished The Dark Half late last night, or early this morning as is my custom and habit.
I was suprised at how pleasant the un-pleasant book was to read, it is certainly up there in my favorites of King's as Rose Madder and Misery.
not his best but certainly in that midline range that it doesn't blow a whole a**. xp
Upon finishing up the last few chapters I found two passages I liked enough to note.
*scurries off to get novel*
*shuffles back* Alrightsky...for all copyright purposes I'm putting all this info down before qouting the actual snippet I liked 3nodding
The Dark Half, Stephen King, copyright 1989 Viking Publishing
cool
anyhow ^^
this was a quote at the begining of the *checks, tilting her head* III'rd part of the book I believe? o.O But its a quote from the story within the story that the character had written.
'"The poets talk about love.' Machine said, running the straight-razor back and forth in a steady, hypnotic rhythm, "and that's okay. There is love. The politicans talk about duty, and that's okay too. There is duty. Eric Hoffer talks about post-modernism, Hugh Hefner talks about sex, Hunter Thompson talks about drugs, and Jimmy Swagart talks about God the Father Almighty maker of heaven and earth. Those things all exist and they are all okay. Do you know what I mean, Jack?"
"Yeah, I guess so," Jack Rangely said. He really didn't know, didn't have the slightest idea, but when Machine was in this sort of mood, only a lunatic would argue with him.
Machine turned the straight-razor's edge down and sudden slashed the strop in two. A long section fell to the pool-hall floor like a severed tongue. "But what I talk about is doom," he said. "Because, in the end, doom is all that counts."'
now that I think about it, the snippet might not hold any relevancy outside of the novel itself but I suppose it summed the character so well...
also Alexis Machine *Waves hand at her quote* was from another author's story I believe that King made a "hommage" too.
*flips for the other one*
oh oh! this is the one I really liked. 3nodding
The Sheriff in this story, supporting character and backwoods Maine-er, its King so of course the guy can't write about anywhere but Maine. rolleyes ^^
"-But writers invite ghosts, maybe; along with actors and artists, they are the only totally accepted mediums of our society. They make worlds that never were, populate them with people who never existed, and then invite us to join them in their fantasies. And we do it, don't we? Yes. We pay to do it."
I rather liked that...the perspective that I hadn't thought of maybe...
*wanders off for now*
 ~Insomnia_Forever~ · Wed May 03, 2006 @ 10:02pm · 3 Comments |
