1. Having it hit you two days later that
2. This one really does suffer ending fatigue.
journey back could have been covered in about 30 fewer pages than were devoted to it.
3. That said, I realized today that I'm having a hard time moving on. I'm trying to read The Long Walk now but still living in The Stand's world.
4. Sai King, There Are Other Worlds than These.
5. Damn but this book is long! I honestly don't know if I've read a longer book than this. I don't feel like I read a book, I feel like I read a series. I'd think of something that happened and realize that it felt like it happened in a previous volume. Nope; one book.
6. Somehow, I remembered characters like the Rat Man and Barry Dorgan being pretty major from the first couple of times I read it. This time it struck me that they aren't even mentioned until well into the last fourth of the book.
Larry, Glen and Ralph really are dead. Deaths like Nick and Mother Abigail you had time while reading to absorb and deal with. But I still get sad realizing that Larry, Glen and Ralph are really gone.
2. This one really does suffer ending fatigue.
Stu and Tom's
3. That said, I realized today that I'm having a hard time moving on. I'm trying to read The Long Walk now but still living in The Stand's world.
4. Sai King, There Are Other Worlds than These.
Bring. Back. Nick. In another world. And Larry, Glen and Ralph.
5. Damn but this book is long! I honestly don't know if I've read a longer book than this. I don't feel like I read a book, I feel like I read a series. I'd think of something that happened and realize that it felt like it happened in a previous volume. Nope; one book.
6. Somehow, I remembered characters like the Rat Man and Barry Dorgan being pretty major from the first couple of times I read it. This time it struck me that they aren't even mentioned until well into the last fourth of the book.
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