David Raynes

I polished off another one today, though, I should admit that I had gotten two-thirds of the way through it before I started Dreamcatcher.

I could sit here and tell you how good it was, but I think the fact that it won the Hugo award in 1961 speaks for itself.

This book was an eerily appropriate read, given the events of the last few months. It deals with the long-term aftereffects of a nuclear war that brings humanity to the verge of anihilation, with a bit of a Catholic twist.

Definately worth a read.

It's been a long time since I read any Stephen King, but with the movie coming out, I figured I'd give this book a go. The last King book I read was Insomnia, which was a tad over my head at the time, but may be worth a reread now that I'm getting back into his novels.

I enjoyed the book, as I tend to with King novels. The writing is lightweight (for lack of a better term) and reads very quickly, despite the fact that King tends to be pretty wordy (certainly not a bad thing though). I recall hearing one of the actors from the movie remarking in an interview in the HBO: Making Of for Dreamcatcher that King writes male relationships well. For better or worse, I went into the book with that in mind, and I have to agree. Perhaps that's one of the reasons the book was such a quick read for me, the central relationship in the book between the four friends felt pretty natural to me.

Or I could just be talking out of my butt. :)

I finished Ensign Flandry last night, the first book in the three book hardback, The Imperial Stars, from the Science Fiction Book Club.

It was a pretty short book by today's standards, only 183 pages, but I definately enjoyed it. I look forward to reading the other two books contained in the hardback. I think I'll put it on the backburner though, start doing my old rotation again, and try not to read straight through a series. I think I may get back into The Two Towers or finish up Chapterhouse: Dune, if not going back into David Gemmel's Drenai series.