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The Thoughtful Ape is a primate who is honestly interested in understanding the world he lives in. He is particularly interested in cognitive biases and the limits of intuition. Like most of his species he is both vain and opinionated but is interested in understanding what is true despite these faults. The Thoughtfuls Ape's opinions change and evolve with time. What is posted here reflects his opinion at the date at which it was written.

Friday, July 01, 2005

What I am reading

I have started reading The Gunslinger, the first volume of Stephen Kings mammoth Dark Tower series...

The best way to describe it is as Lord of the Rings meets The Good The Bad and The Ugly. Steve Kings big magnum opus, he has spent longer writing this thing than I have been alive. I believe the first installment was published when I was around three years old and the last one came out last year. I have been meaning to read this book for ten years now but I have deliberately held off until King got the damn thing finished.


Stephen King stories have notoriously weak endings. The last time I plowed through a King book with a four figure page count was the The Stand. Incredibly gripping right up to the second to last chapter... then it just fizzled. In this King has a LOT in common with his beloved Red Sox.
But since they won a championship last year maybe King can also break his weak ending jinx..

The Dark Tower epic is orders of magnitude longer than the stand and if he cant deliver after several thousand pages, and almost 30 years I will never read another King book.

posted by thoughtfulape | 10:13 PM

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