The Tradëscan Codex

Oh yeah, totally agree about the usual Heinlein cihnviuasm. I probably should have added that as a caveat, as that really kind of amazed me. Even this guy who was so set in sexist roles could see his way to some form of social truth. Yeah it's starting to sound like we have a lot in common! I kind of got that vibe reading your entries and your list of books. The end of Fear and Loathing completely slipped my mind until you mentioned it, so I'm guessing that speaks volumes about how I feel on the subject Total ohhhhh yeah moment. I mean, in a separate work it might have been good, but it was really out of place. I could see the point he was going for, though. Oh man. Black House. I just mmm. Okay first off, it has nothing to do with the Talisman, which was a huge disappointment. It's basically an annex to the Dark Tower series, which was a fantastic idea at the time, and I looked forward to how it all fit together, but King handwaving away all the connections at the last minute (don't get me started on that) made Black Tower completely irrelevant. So unless you're looking to get a little more of a peek behind the curtain of the Crimson King, which admittedly was kind of cool, I'd say skip it. I was so disappointed when I realized it wasn't a true sequel. Apparently he and Straub are still batting around the idea of a third book so not all hope is lost.Hah, I don't know, I find rewrites to be pretty much just as common, I just know a lot more about the character going in and can kind of anticipate where they might zig or zag and have something waiting at the other end rather than suffering from that whole well, what now?? thing. It's probably an individual taste thing, I imagine. I'm doing so much discovery of the plot that if I was still discovering a lot of the character it might be too much for me to handle.