While out and about on Thursday at Garden City, I found - and bought - Stephen King's new book at QBD. How could I resist a Dark Tower Series book to add to my collection?
I tweaked it to make it look really good. I love the special effects of edifices they have there.. especially the brick wall I've used here - very effective! :D
Writer, poet, artist and prolific reader.... that's me.
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@andycoleborn funny thing was that I wasn't looking for it... I walked past the shelf and there it was! I had the same thought as you: Oooh! A new one! And I paid $10 less than the marked price! How good is that ? :D
@andycoleborn I've yet to hunt down the other Dark Tower series books to begin reading them... from start to finish. May begin doing that in the next year as I find them one by one. :D
@andycoleborn I had to read that tome of a book over 3 years during my lunch hour.... and with a very good MacQuarie Dicationary next to me for all the different meanings for the words he used: like the 3 different meaning for the word 'fern'... jeez!
@andycoleborn I watched them - even went to the premier of one of them! - and bought them on dvd! I love them. I also have a massive JRR Tolkien book collection and the official JRR Tolkien goblet collection (where they are hand made by a man in Melbourne).
So, yeah, I'm a bit of a fan of Tolkien. But I'm also a big fan of SK. I sent him a get well card - via snail mail - to his house with a story idea inside it to keep his mind going when he was hit by that car. I know he used it... or at least filed it away. :)
@mozette my brother is editor of the british fantasy society and writes/edits/reviews these type of stories for a living... he probably would disown me if he knew my views... I love intelligent space sci-fi but just cannot get into the witchy/middle earthy ghost and goblins stories..
@wilbo43 I've been reading Stephen King since I was 16 - when I read 'Christine' and scared myself from sleeping with the light off for a good few weeks! :) Since then, I have been reading his work... and loving it. No, I'm not a commercial artist. However, I do paint and do artistic endeavours as well as work voluntarily at the Logan Art Gallery.
@digitalrn Yeah... I think 'Under the Dome' and '11/22/63' weren't his best works.
@andycoleborn@wilbo43@digitalrn thank you all for your lovely comments. I do love Stephen King - and who doesn't enjoy a story from his great writer? - and when I do find a good series I hope to read it and enjoy it to its full extent! :D
June 11th, 2012
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So, yeah, I'm a bit of a fan of Tolkien. But I'm also a big fan of SK. I sent him a get well card - via snail mail - to his house with a story idea inside it to keep his mind going when he was hit by that car. I know he used it... or at least filed it away. :)
http://continuousreader.blogspot.com.au/
@digitalrn Yeah... I think 'Under the Dome' and '11/22/63' weren't his best works.