Books to read while high.

[yoda]

the harry potter series!

dan brown's da vinci code(reading angels and demons now)

[MyMARYJANE]

fear and loathing in las vegas :hippy:

[onequestion]

How could dark tower change the way you think? ISnt it supposed to be like lord of the rings meets good the bad and the ugly?

[pixel]

none, i cant read books high... but sober Vonnegut is mind boggling and so is Isaac Asimov, both are great writers... or as suggested the new stuff its more mild and good to read buzzed like harry potter, angels and demons and davinci code

btw dan brown is making a new book called The Solomon Key about The Freemasons... I can't wait to read it

[suhl]

^ I have to disagree, The Stand has to be my fave King book

we have a winnah! stand beats dark tower any day of the week, even sundays. i love dark tower, but the post accident dt books just werent up to snuff. although i can see lliking dark tower better. storywise they were about on par i think, but i loved just about every character in the stand and hated all but the main character in dark tower.

kings best piece of pure writing is the gunslinger, his best book is the stand, and my favorite book he has written is eyes of the dragon.

dark tower and stand fans check out eyes of the dragon. it is a really easy read to be finished in a few days and it has flagg, probably the best character king every made.

and guy who said how could the dark tower change the way you think, if you hadnt read it, dont ask, because even though it didnt change how i think, you have no frame of reference and people arent going to be able to explain that to you.

[Quinn The Eskimo]

^ I have to disagree, The Stand has to be my fave King book

The stand is great, but the Dark Tower was esentially what all of his books were leading up to. He incorporated a lot of characters from his other books and used them to create his "lord of the rings", a series to rule them all lol. I haven't finished the stand yet, but I really like it so far.

[Quinn The Eskimo]

How could dark tower change the way you think? ISnt it supposed to be like lord of the rings meets good the bad and the ugly?

Well one of the ways it can change how you think is on the subject of reaching your goals and its consequences. One of the things the Dark Tower series taught me was that when you give up what you love to reach your goals, reaching your goals isn't as great as what you sacrificed. It made me realize that I would never sell out my humanity to reach my goals. :thumbsup:

[Jizzle Blizzle420]

^ I have to disagree, The Stand has to be my fave King book

The stand was a great book. Have you read the Dark Tower series?

[suhl]

dark tower was good, but if y ou have read man yother epics you might not have such a fond opinion of it. lets get several things straight. also, if you havent read the books stop reading this post now. either i dont want to spoil it for you or if you dont want to read the books you are wasting your time. first of all, the last three(post getting hit by car) books were where the flaws really began. although i will say i liked five quite a lot and seven up until the cop out bad ending. 1. the callah speak thing got really old. it was fine in five, but carrying it through another 1500 pages was overkill. this leads me to the broader problem with the last three. he wrote them all three as one big book then split them up. consequently if y ou ask me he only really wrote 2 last books split them into three. book 6 was nothing more than a bridge, an awful book if read by itself(and believe me i wouldnt say that about any of the other books). really i just didnt like how obvious it was that all three of the last books were written at the same time. in most epics this wouldnt be a complaint of mine as of course it is one long story, but the thing about all the other dark tower books was they had an avg of something like 7-8 years between them, so the writing was different in all but the story remained in line and strong. writing the last three all at once killed that. 2. king should not have written himself into the book. spin it how you want, it was a stupid mistake. 3. there was way too much build up to the crimson king for how anticlimactic and stupid the final battle was. he was a lunatic sitting on a balcony with harry potter quidditch weapons? king i expect better from you. 4. if you were going to make the second ending so bad and pointless, you shouldnt have made it at all. im sorry but having it be a cycle was utter crap. i personally didnt see a big problem with the just ending it with him walking up to the tower. at least there i could interpret what i wanted for an ending rather than just not get one at all..

however, the series was great overall, although personally as epics go i think song of ice and fire by george rr martin kills it, though the first not so good book of that series has finally happened.

the thing i love about the dark tower is how it connects to all his other books. my other problem with the newer ones is these connections began to get WAY too deliberate and that made them less special to me.

here is the order of best to worst dark tower books

1
3
4
7
5
2
6

[rebgirl420]

The stand is great, but the Dark Tower was esentially what all of his books were leading up to. He incorporated a lot of characters from his other books and used them to create his "lord of the rings", a series to rule them all lol. I haven't finished the stand yet, but I really like it so far.

Ive never read them but my Dad has them. When I was younger he got me into King. But now that you explain it it sounds awsome.