The cover for the 11th and final book of The Sword of Truth series has been released. I’m excited, but not in a dirty way. I don’t think it’ll be out until next year. Right now that seems like a long time to wait.
Update, 3/8/2007
Confessor will be going on sale on November 13, 2007.
My reading list is growing. Right now I’m reading Black House by Stephen King. Here are a list of books and stories that I plan on reading soon. I’m not sure what order I’m going to read them in. I think I need to take a break from Stephen King for a while, so Dreamcatchers may be one of the last ones.
Word came out last week that HBO has acquired the TV and film rights to George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. It’s currently my favorite ongoing series. It even inspired the name of this website.
Turning a series like this to film presents some problems. Do they make a miniseries or movie based on one book or do they combine several books? The books are so long and jam-packed that a lot would be lost in either case. I think they have come up with a great solution. They are making it a TV show and each season of the show will cover one book in the series. Why has no one tried this before? I’m sure it’s a long way off, but I’m excited.
I’m back in Starkville after a short trip to Jackson. My friends and family were good to me again this year. For my birthday and Christmas I got:
Recently I bought Bully for the PS2. It’s mission-style gameplay reminds me a lot of GTA. That’s not surprising since they come from the same company. Bully is rated T for Teen, so I guess it won’t be quite as bad as GTA. I wonder if I can finish the game before I go back to work.
I started reading The Talisman
Please don’t waste your time watching The Wicker Man like I did. It was terrible.
The first season of Coupling was really good. I’m looking forward to watching the rest.
I discovered the option on the DirecTV menu that allows you to watch programs in Spanish when available. I never realized how much fun that could be. It really improves the quality of some programs.
I’ll be going back to work a week from Wednesday. I’m going to enjoy this time off as much as I can.
The name of the last book in the Harry Potter series has been announced. It’ll be called Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Let the speculation on the title begin.
I left for Jackson Thursday morning. I’m usually not traveling on holidays, so it was weird to see an empty Dogwood Festival as I was driving by. It was great to spend time with family but I was feeling tired most of the day.
On Friday afternoon Dogwood Festival was packed. Yes I went out there on Black Friday even though I didn’t think I would. I bought of couple of Christmas gifts and a strategy guide for myself. I went to see Casino Royale late in the afternoon. It’s a very good movie for the first two hours or so, but after that I was wishing it would hurry up and end.
Today I went to the Northpark area and didn’t buy anything. I have gotten some ideas for Christmas presents over the past couple of days. Tonight I finally got to the end of The Dark Tower book, which is the seventh and final book of The Dark Tower series. I really liked the book, but there were times when I was wishing that he would hurry and get to the end. Am I getting more impatient in my old age? I guess I can understand why a lot of readers were disappointed and felt like they needed more answers. I’m just glad that I finally made it to the end.
It’s seems like it’s been a month since I left Starkville. I’ll be glad to be back home tomorrow.
Last night I finished reading Song of Susannah, book 6 of The Dark Tower. It was short compared to the last few in the series, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I didn’t mind the story so much as I did the last one. I can’t wait to get started on the last one. Hopefully, it’ll be here by the weekend.
Those Intel Core 2 Duo commercials bother me for some reason.
I saw Saw III over the weekend. It was ok up until the ending.
I think I want to get a Wii instead of an Xbox 360 or a PS3.
George R.R. Martin is upset because PayPal locked his account after his name showed up on a Treasury Department list. It’s an interesting story.
Update (Nov. 9):
Looks like George R.R. Martin’s PayPal dispute was settled after he wrote his blog entry. I doubt that he asked for any special treatment, but I’m sure that fact that he’s a celebrity didn’t hurt.
I got a copy of Tales of the Abyss for the PS2 yesterday. I only got to play it about an hour, but it looks like it’s going to be another highly addictive game. More on this another time.
I’m almost finished reading Wolves of the Calla, the 5th book in The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. If I have to read the way of speaking that these people use much longer I might go crazy. I’ll get to move on to the next one soon, and I’ll say thankya. The story of the book is good, but it seems like it’s just a lot of filler material. To me it doesn’t seem like this book and that last one advanced the story of their quest to the tower that much.
I have to figure out something to cook and bring to work tomorrow. It’ll probably be a dessert. It’s been a long time since I’ve cooked anything major.
I finally bought a copy of Terry Goodkind’s lastest book: Phantom. It’s book 10 of The Sword of Truth series and book 2 of The Chainfire Trilogy that will bring an end to The Sword of Truth series. Does that make any sense? Even though many elements of The Sword of Truth are similar to Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series, this series hasn’t become as boring and as full of fluff as The Wheel of Time. There hasn’t been a bad book in the series…except for book 7…book 7 was just annoying.
The only thing that bothered me about this book was all the technical jargon that wizards, witches, and sorceresses used when speaking of their craft. I never knew that spell casting was so math-oriented.
I did notice a trend that I liked. It seemed like whenever I was expected something tragic to happen, the good people usually turned out on top. It may have been an unrealistic string of good luck, but I can live with that. I’m tired of all the good guys falling on hard times in the books that I read. Of course, the good guys do have some bad luck, just not all the time. It wouldn’t be interesting if everything went their way.
I won’t give away the plot, but Phantom has a lot of the attributes that made me a fan of The Sword of Truth in the first place. Many incidents from the previous 9 books in the series tie directly into the plot of this one. Once I started I had trouble putting it down. After reading Phantom I’m really looking forward to reading the final book in the series. Currently, it’s expected to be released in 2008.
A while back I wrote that one of my favorite authors was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder. Another of my favorite authors, Terry Goodkind, was recently found to have “a potentially fatal defect in the major artery that supplies blood to my heart”. He says on his website that he had surgery and that everything was repaired. His doctor told him that he had the heart of 20-year old. The penultimate book in his Sword of Truth series is called Phantom and it will be released on July 18.
I told myself a long time ago that I shouldn’t start reading any series that the authors haven’t already completed and so far I’ve stuck to that. Something could happen and it would be a shame not to be able to see the end of a series I put so many hours into. I hope everything will be ok with these two authors and they will get to write all the books that they want to write. I can’t wait to read Phantom in a few weeks.
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