Favorite SK novel
Joyce Vanderpoorten
mistake of starting it the friday before finals many many years back.
I was up for at least 15 hours absorbing this book - what a great book.
My second best has to be Talisman - I really enjoyed the webbing
of to novelist writing.
I read both books once a year now and still enjoy them as much as
I did the first time.
Calzetti Paolo
i am currently reading " Foour Past Midnight" and I must say it's really one of the best books I have ever read!!! The story of the Langoliers is amazing. SK manages to make something so absurd as a warp to some dead earth because it's in the past look so real and so possible. The story right after, the one about a
writer accused of plagiarizing (sorry, little memory gap) is great too. What
always dissapointed me though are movie adaptation of SK books. I mean, anyone
who's seen Needful Things can judge how much was kept out or re-shaped..
What about Maximum Overdrive????
Books still beat movies as long as SK is concerned...
--Paolo
ar...@oregon.uoregon.edu
> i am currently reading " Foour Past Midnight" and I must say it's really one
of the best books I have ever read!!! The story of the Langoliers is amazing. SK manages to make something so absurd as a warp to some dead earth because it's in the past look so real and so possible. The story right after, the one about a
"The Langoliers" is average Stephen King, neither great nor bad. I read about
six pages of the second tale and instantly knew exactly what the rest of the
story was going to be. "The Sun Dog" belongs on the list of the stupidest ten
things SK has ever written.
But "The Library Policeman" scared me more than any other King book. And I'm
not even familiar with 12-step programs and the like. Part of the impact, I
think, comes from the impression you get from the title that it's going to be
campy. "the library policeman. Shyeah, right. Ooooooh." Evokes the old comic
strips where the ancient crypt keeper cackles feindishly by way of
introduction. Then BAM! I think a "Library Policeman" movie would have the
greatest effect if it starred someone like Tom Hanks or Albert Brooks, someone
the public associates with mild, usually funny entertainment.
Another story I would love to see on film is "The Ballad of the Flexible
Bullet" from SKELETON CREW. If you've read it, you'll know why I wish it could
be done such that the audience didn't know till afterwards that it was written
by Stephen King...
SPOILER follows...
...if done right, there shouldn't be the slightest hint, until about 2/3 of the
way through, that the Fornits are REAL. It should be billed as a study in
insanity and alcoholism, preferably in drab, realistic style. Picture the scene
with the editor, whose problems with the bottle mirror the writer's
"delusions." Their lives fall apart in parallel. Finally the editor takes one
last look around the almost-empty apartment before leaving. He has one hand on
the doorknob.
...and then he hears: "tap. tap. tap." from behind him. Unmistakably a
typewriter keyboard.
I get chills just thinking about it. A surprise to rival THE CRYING GAME.
Piglet.
Brian Kraus
Has anyone heard of when the next in the DT series might be
coming out. I believe it is called 'Wizard and Glass'.
I am curious because I would like to try and get the
limited signed edition, if he releases one.
I have signed copies of the first three, so I am looking to
keep a complete set going.
latr-
-brian
Barbara E. Walton
IT.
I'm re-reading this book right now, and it seems almost seamless, in a
way that none of his others, even THE STAND, quite measure up to. The
writing is fantastic, I feel like I actually know the characters, it's
so focused on what it's doing, yet never gets tunnel vision... There's
also a really neat trick he can pull off of being able to wrench out a
really strong emotion in the middle of an action scene (the scene where
the are getting out of the sewers and Richie shouts back at It, calling
it a bitch... for some reason, that never fails to get me...)
Well, that's my two cents (when did they stop putting the cents sign
on keyboards?).
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--Ender
"You cannot present an idea clearly if you spend all your time
discussing whether it's true."
--Orson Scott Card