Neither did I, but when I went to Barnes & Noble, they had it on the same shelf as Stephen King, so I bought that instead of one of his books. Basically, it has everything that happened in the movie, plus more. More characters introduced, more plotlines (With flashbacks), and a ton more. It also has tons of homoerotica in it, just to warn you. Normally, it doesn’t really bother me, but…wow…Lindqvist isn’t afraid to hold back in this book. The book is still a masterpiece though.
By Allen Ginsberg, The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems, 1937-1952.
A wonderful read so far. Well, no, haha, I need to stop describing things as wonderful and fantastic and awesome.
Parts of it remind me of my own journal that I kept at a younger age, but those parts come and go in waves – he changes his writing style and focus as he grows up from age 11 to 16 to 19 to 22. I’m only on page 35, FYI, but I feel sort of connected to Mr. Ginsberg already. I also feel as thought I was more “connected” to his 14 year-old self more so than his ~16 year-old self. What that says about me I don’t know, but yeah, I’m enjoying my introduction to his thoughts.
also reading (with less focus) Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
Since my last post seems to have been deleted … (i think …)
Finished The Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson 10/10
Reading
Priestess Of the White By Trudi Canavan =Five stars and getting better : * * * * *
Count Zero By William Gibson = Unsure
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick = We will seeee…
Starting with The Magicians Apprentice By Trudi Canavan today
Doing a research for scholarship on secret societies, as part of my preliminary work towards my graduation thesis (“The Devil in International Relations”). Figured I’d read the actual corpus of secret and occult stuff during holidays. Through with Lesser and Greater keys of Solomon, as well as most commentary on the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn along with its subsequent twists (the AA and Crowley’s OTO). Now reading:
Liber Null, by Pete Carroll;
Oven-Ready Chaos, by Phil Hine;
Aspescts of Evocation, ditto;
Ritual Magic Workbook, by Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki;
The Voudon Gnostic Workbook, by Michael Bertiaux.
Also, because I have a sense of humour, I’m taking the opportunity to reread Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
That’s alright; takes a daft mind to appreciate my sense of humour it would seem (Bruno winks at Moogle). But really. When you read books like “The Voudon Gnostic Workbook” and, bloody hell!, “Aspects of Evocation”… Gives an edge of authenticity to Harry Potter, if you see what I mean, if anything in a humorous way. (Although I’m learning to prove how Harry Potter doesn’t work in theory in the process of learning about schools of mysteries).
Simply because I’ve reached a point in my life where I can read these textbooks there, teaching me the theory and practise of magic(k) (and don’t get me started on the k), and honestly say I’m doing academic research. Haha. I feel like a genuine Slytherin, playing around with my mock voudon fetishes, trying to make sense of the workbook.