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[hunvagy]

Would Stephen Kings's the Dark Tower count? If yes, then it is a VERY recommended read

[rabadi]

I'd say The Dark Tower series are more on the parallel universe area. That being said, I do not recall whether Blaine the Mono is steam-powered or not


EDIT: Oh wait... forget what I said about Blaine the Mono above... I was replying to a thread in another forum, talking about steampunk, and somehow I got these two threads --one talking about post apocalyptic and the other about steampunk-- mixed in my mind...

[Fubb]

i dislike Stephen king, i dunno, his horror books arnt scary IMO but great suggestions, i really liek how Swan Song sounds, but keep the suggestions coming!

[red_avatar]

Originally Posted by rabadi

Stephen King's The Stand (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stand)

Like most King books, The Stand is great during the first three quarters of the book, and then it goes WAY down. If only there was someone with a huge baseball bat standing behind Stephen King while he was writing so he could knock him out in time before he turned the story into drivel.

[esgmaster]

Originally Posted by red_avatar

Like most King books, The Stand is great during the first three quarters of the book, and then it goes WAY down. If only there was someone with a huge baseball bat standing behind Stephen King while he was writing so he could knock him out in time before he turned the story into drivel.

Same thing with The Running Man.

While it's not a book, The Age of Apocolypse is great.

[rabadi]

Well, The Stand is one of the only two post apocalyptic books I know, so I could not suggest otherwise

[Kugerfang]

Why read a post-apocalyptic book when you can play a post-apocalyptic videogame?

[Blood-Pigggy]

Originally Posted by red_avatar

Like most King books, The Stand is great during the first three quarters of the book, and then it goes WAY down. If only there was someone with a huge baseball bat standing behind Stephen King while he was writing so he could knock him out in time before he turned the story into drivel.

He doesn't plan his novels, he suffers from the same affliction most writers have, a great idea, they can pound out the words without an outline but once they get to the ending they can't satisfactorily wrap it up.

Most people would say you need to have an idea of the ending of your novel when you first conceive an idea, but he doesn't seem to follow that. Also writing without planning and properly tying together all the ends at the climax is extraordinarily difficult because typically endings incorporate nearly all the important events and plot developments established erst-while in the novel.
So Stephen King is a free form writer who's too lazy to think out his endings before he writes them.

[hunvagy]

Originally Posted by red_avatar

Like most King books, The Stand is great during the first three quarters of the book, and then it goes WAY down. If only there was someone with a huge baseball bat standing behind Stephen King while he was writing so he could knock him out in time before he turned the story into drivel.

The Exception being Tommyknockers.. that is probably the only book that put me to sleep.. how the hell can he write 400+ pages about a woman digging??

[Fubb]

LOL seriously?