Stephen King - The Waste Lands
Part the third of the Dark Tower goes on without pausing, with Roland of Gilead slowly going insane as he finds out the hard way that time paradoxes are not something you want. And the only way to make it all better is to get the final member of their ka=tet, little old should-be-dead Jake Chambers from '70s New York. Interacting with the mechanical monstrosities that roam the path to the Tower, they end up at the home of Blaine the Mono, but his enigmatic personality is something to be revealed in the next volume, Wizard and Glass,
Douglas Adams - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
And at the other end of the line was this small trifle. Arthur is still sarcastic, Zaphod hyperactive, Ford hedonistic, Trillian sceptical and Marvin knows it really does not matter. Business as usual with an escape from Vogons, dinner at the end of time and things that will come back to haunt them in the next three volumes.
Then again, less than two hundred pages is not that much space to get a full scale narrative going.
Tomorrow it will be time to kick it old school style, with my buddy Holmes, provided the sneak preview at the movie theater is not interesting enough.
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