The Tommyknockers is my favourite - it just got heavier and heavier. When i finished it was like waking up from a nightmare...cool.
It starts out like most of his other books. A group of people are brought together through this sinister, evil sheriff and other evil forces and they are having to figure a way to survive. It's kinda of a good against evil similar to The Stand. The sheriff is evil and a kid is the good force, supposedly being led by God. There is this one part where some of the people are walking through a trailer park and see this sign that says something along the lines of.... I'm a beer drinking woman chasing gun toting bible thumping Clinton bashing Snapple drinking SOB, never mind the dogs, BEWARE of the OWNER. I never laughed so hard in my life.
Wow, you know the answers to all my questions....lol(you posted in my The-N thread) Thanks for telling me what it's about, I'll have to check it out next time I'm in the bookstore.
Has anyone read Danse Macabre? It's not a novel, more a documentary, but I think it's really good I'm not a fan of horror, but I really did enjoy that one, written about the horror genre. Stephen King just really seems like a "down to earth" kind of guy, and hearing his take on horror is pretty kewl. It was in this book, I think, that he explains a few things about his own life- for instance, when he was a young child, a friend of his was run over by a train while they were playing. He has no memory of it, and is pretty sure that he had wandered away and didn't actually see it. Deadheads tend to notice that in nearly every book, King inserts at least one reference to the Grateful Dead. In one book, a character finds a town totally abandoned and comments that the Dead must be playing nearby. In another, a character is reading a book entitled "Buck Dancer's Choice." In another, a character is described as "the Jerry Garcia of the literary world" or something like that. He even addresses people like me, who don't like horror, but just read it every time he writes another great horror classic. What I REALLY want to read is his book "On Writing," which someone told me is quite good. She said that he actually "gives writing assignments" in the book, and then helps the reader critique their own work. A sort of writer's workshop, if I understand correctly. The lady who told me this works in a hospital in Maine, and says that King had donated substantial money to that hospital, she'd seen him tour the place, and had a tremendous amount of respect for him. By far the most irritating thing in any King book I've read was in Pet Semetary, where the kid is run over by the truck. Then, after painful descriptions of the hell the parents go through, it explains that the tragedy never really happened, that he grew up and had a great life, and goes into detail about it... I will stop now before I drop a spoiler, but King really seriously abuses the reader. Brutally.
i'v read many SK books, and i love most of them !! my most fav. had to be hands down Salems Lot. the shining comes in second. ( the movie wasn't very good, they changed too much) i read the Tommyknockers and coudn't get into it at all. it's my least fav Sk Book. And the Green Mile was amazing too ! I believe he is the best writer around these days. Stu
hmm let's see...i've read firestarter, desperation, dolores claiborne, the stand, insomnia, bag of bones, hearts in atlantis, the dark tower series, salem's lot, and i bunch more that i can't recall at the moment. my favorites by far are hearts in atlantis, insomnia, and the dark tower series.
Ya Steven king is the man. Im also reading four past midnight. The best book of his that i have read so far Has to be Salem's Lot . But it was REALLY hard to choose a best one.
I think Stephen King is an awesome author indeed. I have only read 'It' and perhaps a short story or 2 but i have however seen most of the movies based on his books. I know they don't do the books justice, but that is a very difficult medium to bridge. Everyone imagines different Now, my wife on the other hand... We have been beyond happily married for a bit over 3 years and in that time i have purchsed most all of his books for her. Granted she got a few for herself but i think i have gotten a good 90% of them. Not sure how close the collection is to 'complete' exactly. I know there are alot and well she has alot. Let me count quick, just need to turn and count ^_^ Looks like she has 34 King books up there. Dunno how close that is but still, that's a large number of books for one author to put out. Espicially considering length, detail and genre - that's alot of books. So i say not exactly my area of reading choice but still an incredible author, with much well earned respect for his works.
I love Steve. He is the only "Celebrity" whose house I have visited. We went to Maine last year, and like a DORK, I had my picture taken outside his house. :H <cough>nerd <cough> I have read almost everything he has written and have a lot of first issues. I, however, CANNOT get into the Dark Tower stuff. I don't know why. I should try again, this summer. As for Pet Semetary, who SunLion hated so much. King himself has said he wished he hadn't written it, as it is a "book which left NO hope." He was heavily cocaine addicted and a terrible alcoholic at the time he wrote it and just poured out his angst in the book. He has since thrown away the desk on which he wrote this and Cujo, as they remind him too much of these very sad days. King said he doens't even remember writting Cujo. Except for the part where the little boy dies. "He wasn't supposed to die, he was supposed to live, but he died and there wasn't anythning I could do about it." King says. On Writing is FANTASTIC!!!! Makes you want to write NOW!!!! This book, along with The Elements of Style by Strunk and White, should be read by anyone who writes, or feels the urge. King has one book he has taken OUT of publication. Rage, penned named Richard Bachman. It is about a teenage High School student who brings a gun to school and starts killing people. He wrote it in the 1960s, but after Colombine and other similar events, King says it was not worth continued publication. (And not to mention one of the kids at one of the school shootings had Rage in their backpack.....) I can't pick my fav King book. Probaby IT or The Body or some of his short stories. I really liked Bag of Bones (great old fashioned ghost story) and Hearts in Atlantis. I wish he would put out his new Summer book. I always buy them hardcover the DAY they come out. I hope Song of Susannah wasn't his only summer book, because I haven't read the series yet.
god i can't even remember the titles but i loved ALLLLLL of his short stories collections. rose madder was ok. pet cemetery. i hated gunslinger. cant remember!!!!
I thought 'Insomnia' and 'Bag Of Bones' were by far his best works. Richard Bachman is a pseudonym he writes under. Just an alternate name.
the shining and carrie are my favourites but i've liked everything i've ever read by stephen king. he's in my top three of fave writers. trouble is the movies are a huuuuge disappointment if you read the books before watching them. i though carrie was the best film ever, and then i read the book and realised they could have made it sooooo much better... but sissy spacek was great, so they were forgiven. i liked misery, it just took me a while to get into it. it made me feel a bit sick at some points, but i liked it. i would've got my photo taken too! let me into the nerd gang. anyone else seen the film dreamcatcher? now that was baaaad.
Nah, I like some of his books but not alot. Carrie is good, and The Shining too. But I think that his best book was Rage, I've already read it three times!
