Oh hell. You're right. I read it on my bus trip back home from college. It was The Dead Zone I read on that first trip. My bad.

As long as you read it. Sorry if I sounded like a jerk, it certainly wasn't my intent. It's just that The Keep was my first and I knew that the dates didn't jibe.

As long as you read it. Sorry if I sounded like a jerk, it certainly wasn't my intent. It's just that The Keep was my first and I knew that the dates didn't jibe.

No worries and no jerkiness. :cheers:

[SPOILER]The jerks are all over on the Political forum calling Obama horrible names.[/SPOILER]

No worries and no jerkiness. :cheers:

Cool.

A woodchuck would chuck nunchucks if a woodchuck could Chuck Norris.

A woodchuck would chuck nunchucks if a woodchuck could Chuck Norris.

Finally an answer to a question that has been plaguing me.

A woodchuck would chuck nunchucks if a woodchuck could Chuck Norris.

Now, that's funny right there.

I won a copy of the tomb in a contest (paperback). My first thought was, "where has this guy been my entire life"

I immediately went out and scrounged bookstores for the rest of the series. Caught up and bought by the sword in a regular book store and bloodline in paperback the next year, and just purchased ground zero.

I've also picked up a few other books along the way; black wind, the LaNague chronicles, and a doctor one that I can't remember the title to.

My free book so far has cost me over $100. Well worth the money.

The Keep.

The Keep.

I haven't read any yet. I'm bluffing.
But they sound pretty good.

Talk about starting out with the best of the best: "The Keep" was my first jump into F. Paul Wilson's world. "Keep" and its three successors is one of the top five reading experiences I'd most like being stranded on a desert island with (Tolkein's "Rings" trilogy, and some of H. P. Lovecraft's works are right up there, too).

Rasalom makes one hell of an antagonist. A person can't help but loathe and despise him.

Talk about the ultimate three-way between antagonists - - a free-for-all between Sauron, Great Cthulhu, and Rasalom. We'd still be in deep doo-doo regardless of WHO won

"Keep" is one of those rare reading experiences that stands alone. In my mind, it is the benchmark against which the rest of Mr. Wilson's fine writings are compared. I've read "Keep" four times now, and it is still as unnerving as the first time, despite knowing what is coming.

Later in the "Keep" series with the novel "Reprisal", Mr. Wilson wrote one of the creepiest horror scenes ever conceived, involving his characters Mr. Lom and Danny. Won't say more: you'll have to read it. Hats off for leaving me with a nasty, queasy feeling in the pit of my stomach; it's what horror-lovers live for.

And now, this from the "Have You Ever" Dept: Have you ever had a passion for a song, book, or anything else, but due to any of a number of life's reasons, put off purchasing it only to find that you no longer remember its name?

I managed to do that with the last book in the "Keep" series, "Dark World". Only last week did I read it for the first time (we're talkin' Sept 2009, here). I was utterly shocked to see that "Dark" had been out since the '90's. I had a lot going on back then, including savoring Clive Barker's "Books of Blood", etc. But it's ironic that after reading "Reprisal" and itching for more, I somehow not only missed the boat but the friggin' dock!

Yea, verily. T'was worth the wait.

If you have not read "The Keep", do it. Mr. Wilson definitely had his "groove on".