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It took Mr King many years to write The Dark Tower-series and it looks like it'll take me a few years to read all of it, mostly because I try to read other books inbetween (for no apparent reason, really).

I'm roughly twenty chapters into The Waste Lands and it's been pretty good so far. Seems the books get better and better with each instalment, which is nice. Gives me something to look forward to.

I like the way King writes, so when I'm done with The Dark Tower I'll look into getting some of his other works. I've been hearing good and bad about Salem's Lot, for instance. ;-)

The top shelf of my bookcase is the only shelf harboring books and they are all yet to be read. There is currently 31 books on the shelf, some of which have been up there for years...

...I don't read nearly as much as I would like to...

A week or so ago I added 6 titles:

The Painted Man by Peter V. Brett

Farlander by Col Buchanan

The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks

Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky

Stormrage by Richard A. Knaak

And lastly The Name of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, which I'm currently reading. Best damn book I've read in a good long time.

A few months back I started reading The Gunslinger. I found it pretty slow all the way through to the end. I mean, it wasn't really bad at all, it just never really "kicked off"; I never got that "Wow!" feeling.

After I finished The Gunslinger I decided to take a break before embarking on The Drawing of the Three, reading a few other books inbetween.

And now, some three months later and a bunch of books read, I've decided the time is right to continue my journey alongside Roland. I picked it up the other day and so far I can say it's not as slow as The Gunslinger; Roland's gruesome experience on the beach sure kept me reading. ...Here's hoping... :-)

Edit February 4: Sleepy people don't read very fast... I've passed the halfway mark (ie, flipped past the images stuffed in the center of the book) and so far it's been a good journey. A really good one, at that. :-)

The other day I noticed that the last book in Stephen King's The Dark Tower series had been released as paperback in Sweden.

I haven't read anything by King before so, even though my "yet-to-read" shelf is overflowing already, I decided to order all seven books in the series just to have a go at him. I figured it would be a good start.

I am unaware of King's writing style, but I'm pretty sure I'll like the books from what [little] I've read about him / them. And since everyone seems to hold King in high regard, and with The Dark Tower being his magnum opus, it has to be at least "good", right? We'll see. :-)

Edit 29/9: The books arrived today. :-) I've stashed them on the shelf for the time being (I'm in the middle of a book at the moment) but will pick up The Gunslinger next. Also, that's only about half the shelf showing.. I need to pick up on my reading.. .__.

I'm currently trying to find books and/or movies with stories that revolves around travels either by train or by sea. I own a few books about seafaring (such as the Liveship Traders Trilogy) but I'm wanting more. In my search I stumbled upon a list of 101 Crackerjack Sea Books which will more than likely satisfy the thirst for seafaring stories. Woop. :)

Stories about trains seems to be sparse, however. I'm sure there's an equal list of 101 stories about trains but I haven't found it. People have suggested Agatha Christies 'Murder on the Orient Express' and my brother mentioned The Lady Vanishes by Alfred Hitchcock which I'll look into. Apart from those I haven't really found anything. Well, so far..

If you want to be picky the original title is Ruins.

I bought this book the other week. I picked it up mostly because the cover looked interresting -- seriously, it's fricken awesome -- and when I read how it made Stephen King "scream in horror" I figured it couldn't be a bad buy.

I've read a little over 90 pages so far and what I've read has been pretty good. The characters are pretty interesting and the setting in Mexico believably hot.

I can't say I'm ready to start screaming anytime soon, though. I'm not very easily frightened, especially not by books, but I'll be sure to note if I so much as whimper... ;-]

...or 'Let the right one in' / 'Let me in', if you'd prefer the English title. It's written by Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist. My brother's girlfriend spoke highly of this book a while back and my [other] brother bought it for me for christmas.

Synopsis: The story revolves around Oskar, a 12-year-old-boy who is being bullied and beaten at school. He dreams about the day when he'll be strong enough to fight back against his aggressors. He befriends a girl, Eli, who moves in next door with an older man, Håkan. Eli is mysterious and special, unlike other children Oskar know of. They only meet during the nights, and these meetings turns into an oasis for Oskar, in his otherwise rather horrible life. When Eli helps Oskar fight back their relationship go beyond that of just being friends.

I fell in love at page one and could hardly put it down. It's written in a way that reaches out, grabs on to you and embraces you in a warm, familiar hug. I read some 299 pages (of about 410) in one day, reading the last bit the next day -- I would have read it all in one go, but I had to go sleep. Stupid, stupid work, how I loathe you..

The only thing I found to complain about is that there's just. not. enough. scenes. with. Oskar. and. Eli!!!! When I had read the last page I was left with a big empty void; I wanted to read moar. MOAR!!!

They're such a cute couple. :'-]