KRW Wrote:I was thinking that as I read your original post. Very similar. But I had forgotten to add that when I had loaned it to my aunt she had set it down on a table and someone knocked a glass of red kool-aid over. Basically, my book is half pink also. Since it has been signed it has taken a top spot on my shelves, never to be touched again. At least not until I become nostalgic.
My condolences on your book. But good luck with having "Night World" signed!
Thanks KRW!
Aprilis Wrote:Well, the positive side of that is that you got to read all his works closer together .... I've been reading them for 25 years and now i cant remember what happened in some of his books ... (Although I do re-read the Keep ever so often)
...23 years, and I have the same problem. Sometimes I have to go back and re-read something in The Adversary Cycle or Repairman Jack books whenever a specific reference is being made.
Srem Wrote:...23 years, and I have the same problem. Sometimes I have to go back and re-read something in The Adversary Cycle or Repairman Jack books whenever a specific reference is being made.Yet another instance where the FPW Compendium would be helpful.
-Wapitikev
Axioms Jack seems to live by (inadvertantly or not):
Why he does what he does: "I chose this life. I know what I'm doing. And on any given day, I could stop doing it. Today, however, isn't that day. And tomorrow won't be either." Bruce Wayne, Identity Crisis
On Rasalom: "Water's wet, the sky is blue...and good old Satan Claus, Jimmy...he's out there...and he's just gettin' stronger." Joe Hallenbeck, The Last Boyscout
I still think the best time for the compendium to come out is in two years. Just so it'll have the last RJ novel included in it.
In the meantime, I'm holding off on starting my rereads until after the next RJ. After I get the one (and read it) next year I'm going to read everything in the order presented in The Secret History of the World. I'll have to stop after Secret Circles to wait for Secret Vengeance.
I'm still wondering where Recalled fits in the timeline and if DAVID/COPPE/RFIEL is going to be included. Hell, I'm even adding Matheson's The Distributor just because.
In the meantime, I'm holding off on starting my rereads until after the next RJ. After I get the one (and read it) next year I'm going to read everything in the order presented in The Secret History of the World. I'll have to stop after Secret Circles to wait for Secret Vengeance.
I'm still wondering where Recalled fits in the timeline and if DAVID/COPPE/RFIEL is going to be included. Hell, I'm even adding Matheson's The Distributor just because.
Wapitikev Wrote:Yet another instance where the FPW Compendium would be helpful.
-Wapitikev
I agree about the FPW Compendium.
There's a book that cross-references all of the places, names/people, creatures, etc. that have been present at one time or another in Stephen King's literary multiverse.
Wapitikev Wrote:Yet another instance where the FPW Compendium would be helpful.So, what's it gonna take? I'll help... again.
-Wapitikev
I was introduced to the Adversary universe in an unusual way. In my late teens, I was in college and perusing their library. I saw a novel called "The Keep" and decided to read it.
I checked the book out of the library, and let it sit in my locker. A couple of days later, I had some time and decided to read it in the lobby where our classes gathered.
Another student saw the novel, and asked me if I "had gotten to the part where the face appears out of the darkness, and then a hand grabs the heroine"?
I stated "No, I really haven't started reading it yet."
She went on to tell me that she had read this novel and it scared the living daylights out of her.
That got my interest.
Finished the novel within the week, reading it whenever I got the chance.
I just was captured by this novel, and would re-read it many times over. Even saw the movie of it. (Poor, poor, F. Paul Wilson.) What a travesty that was.
Anyway, quite a few years later, I was in a used bookstore with my wife. I was looking for copies of any books by Clive Cussler (My then favourite author), and I came upon another book by F.P. Wilson. The novel was a paperback of "Nightworld".
Read the back of the book, and thought it sounded intriguing. What was the author of "The Keep" writing about know.
Imagine my complete surprise as I discovered that this was the final episode in the Adversary Cycle. This novel would go on to haunt me figuratively and literally (I hate milli- and centipedes).
I only really got into the Adversary Cycle and RJ series a couple years ago, and couldn't put them down.
I am not a full fledged fan of both series, having purchased all the RJ books to date, and acquired the Borderlands Press editions of the Adversary Cycle.
As well, I've dipped my collective mind into other works of F. Paul Wilson and really appreciate his scope of collective fiction.
I think this will do for my first post. Glad I finally came onto this board. :cheers:
I checked the book out of the library, and let it sit in my locker. A couple of days later, I had some time and decided to read it in the lobby where our classes gathered.
Another student saw the novel, and asked me if I "had gotten to the part where the face appears out of the darkness, and then a hand grabs the heroine"?
I stated "No, I really haven't started reading it yet."
She went on to tell me that she had read this novel and it scared the living daylights out of her.
That got my interest.
Finished the novel within the week, reading it whenever I got the chance.
I just was captured by this novel, and would re-read it many times over. Even saw the movie of it. (Poor, poor, F. Paul Wilson.) What a travesty that was.
Anyway, quite a few years later, I was in a used bookstore with my wife. I was looking for copies of any books by Clive Cussler (My then favourite author), and I came upon another book by F.P. Wilson. The novel was a paperback of "Nightworld".
Read the back of the book, and thought it sounded intriguing. What was the author of "The Keep" writing about know.
Imagine my complete surprise as I discovered that this was the final episode in the Adversary Cycle. This novel would go on to haunt me figuratively and literally (I hate milli- and centipedes).
I only really got into the Adversary Cycle and RJ series a couple years ago, and couldn't put them down.
I am not a full fledged fan of both series, having purchased all the RJ books to date, and acquired the Borderlands Press editions of the Adversary Cycle.
As well, I've dipped my collective mind into other works of F. Paul Wilson and really appreciate his scope of collective fiction.
I think this will do for my first post. Glad I finally came onto this board. :cheers:
cobalt79 Wrote:Welcome 3rdDeacon.
I'll let another board member have his standard greeting to you...this time.
Thanks for the welcome. Hope it's always out there...
I remember coming upon both "The Keep" and "The Tomb" in paperback around the same time in 1985.......both my (then)wife and I were avid readers who consumed a huge amount of material while taking care of our multiply handicapped daughter.......constant trips to the hospital and the waiting involved require a fully stocked bag o' books for sanity maintenance.........and although they were not completely to her tastes I spent a couple of Saturday nights both reading,and then re-reading them............LOVED Jack right off the bat and years later,with a copy of "Hosts" snagging my attention from the new releases rack....my interest evolved into the addiction it is now with a fevered bout of "find any F.Paul Wilson available and devour it" as its' main symptom...........ahem(uurp!)........most tasty....:arf: