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First came the days of the plague, then came the dreams. Dark dreams that warned of the coming of the dark man. The apostate of death, his worn-down boot heels tramping the night roads. The warlord of the charnel house and Prince of Evil. His time is at hand. His empire grows in the west and the Apocalypse looms.
Forlag Hodder & Stoughton
Utgivelsesår 2011
Format Heftet
ISBN13 9781444720730
EAN 9781444720730
Språk Engelsk
Utgave 1
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Leste en "directors cut", dvs versjonen som ble sendt til forlaget før redigering. Og det merkes, for tempoet i historien varierer, spesielt mot slutten av de 1300 sidene virker det som om Stephen King går litt lei og setter opp farten. Det er første boken av han jeg leser, det er bedre enn forventet. Gode karakterer og selv er jeg svak for katastrofehistorier. Stephen får en Godt + som snuser på en Meget - for denne godsaken.
If you knew that past was out of reach, maybe you could forgive.
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance ... or change. Once such incantatory phrases as “we see now through a glass darkly” and “mysterious are the ways He chooses His wonders to perform” are mastered, logic can be happily tossed out the window. Religious mania is one of the few infallible ways of responding to the world’s vagaries, because it totally eliminates pure accident. To the true religious maniac, it’s all on purpose.
No one can tell what goes om in between the person you werw and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.
Or you don't.
Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.
Show me a man or woman alone and I’ll show you a saint. Give me two and they’ll fall in love. Give me three and they’ll invent the charming thing we call “society.” Give me four and they’ll build a pyramid. Give me five and they’ll make one an outcast. Give me six and they’ll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they’ll reinvent warfare.
Eirik la ut lista over redaktørenes valg - her er tilsvarende liste over lesernes preferanser. Noe er likt, men ulikhetene er spektakulære. Rimeligvis er det engelskspråklige lesere som har gitt sine stemmer her - noen av de mest populære forfatterne har jeg aldri hørt om! Jeg har lest 37 av disse og har ingen ambisjoner om å lese hele lista!
Bøker (ikke inkludert fagbøker/pensum) jeg leser i 2011 :-)