SR VIII: Vander Got Run Over By A Reindeer!

1st listen to Shadow Circus' Whispers and Screams.  It begins with a 7-song 30+ minute interpretation of Stephen King's The Stand.  This is one of my absolute favorite books; one of the very few that I enjoyed enough to read twice.  The 6-hour mini-series wasn't too bad either, although as with any Hollywood interpretation of a novel, you have to take it with a grain of salt.  So far musically, I am enjoying this.  I will have to sit down with the lyrics book soon to see how well they tell the story.  Pretty difficuly breaking down a 1200 page book into 30 minutes. 

rushfan4 wrote: 1st listen to Shadow Circus' Whispers and Screams.  It begins with a 7-song 30+ minute interpretation of Stephen King's The Stand.  This is one of my absolute favorite books; one of the very few that I enjoyed enough to read twice.  The 6-hour mini-series wasn't too bad either, although as with any Hollywood interpretation of a novel, you have to take it with a grain of salt.  So far musically, I am enjoying this.  I will have to sit down with the lyrics book soon to see how well they tell the story.  Pretty difficuly breaking down a 1200 page book into 30 minutes.

If you want to read while listening to the track, you better learn to speed read like a champ.

I still haven't read the Stand yet, though it's been recommended to me several times.  I think my next reading venture will be one to read the Dune series the whole way through.  Last time I made it about 2/3 of the way through God Emperor and sort of just stopped out of nowhere. 

I read much of The Stand on a very long scenic train ride through the Appalachian Mountains.  

I read the first 3 books from the Dark Tower series a number of years ago, but I have not read the rest.  I was in a used book store in Ohio a couple of months ago, and they had the other 4 books, so I bought them all, but I haven't gotten around to reading them yet.  I just don't read for pleasure like I used to in my days before college and work.  I am afraid that I might have to re-read the first 3 books before I start on the other 4, since it was so long ago when I read the first three. 

MovingPictures07 wrote: Book talk? Boo.

Just because you're illiterate doesn't mean you have to boo us.

If the first one's not Dream Theater, I recommend it.  If I'm right it's a Rush album, correct?  

SaltyJon wrote: If the first one's not Dream Theater, I recommend it.  If I'm right it's a Rush album, correct?

Live Rush or Dream Theater.

All the World's A Stage, of course. 

Epignosis wrote: SaltyJon wrote: If the first one's not Dream Theater, I recommend it.  If I'm right it's a Rush album, correct?   Live Rush or Dream Theater.

Since I can't seem to get into Dream Theater at all I'm going to stick with my original Rush vote.