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11-13-2011, 09:47 AM
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Okay go ahead and call me a satanist, but I'm a Stephen King fan. Listening to his interview on NPR this morning about his new book makes me SO want to read it.
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11-13-2011, 11:20 AM
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If you are, so am I. I'm really looking forward to reading it.
Some people get cool hallucinations that tell them to kill people. Mine just try to get me into trouble. Paul Southworth |
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11-17-2011, 01:46 PM
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I heard that interview, too. I missed the first bit where they introduced the author, and didn't know it was SK until later. I just liked the premise of the book.
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11-17-2011, 03:29 PM
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I've never read anything of his.
Anybody have a recommendation on a good place to start if I ever do? "It doesn't help to wear a hat on your head if your posterior is exposed." ~ PW "Don't make crazy your normal and then wonder why nobody agrees with you." ~ EC |
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11-17-2011, 03:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-17-2011 04:09 PM by myotch.)
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His short stories are a good place to start. You'll find a lot of little gems PLUS a GREAT dude story: [Rita Hayworth and] The Shawshank Redemption.
Then, start at the beginning: Carrie, Salem's Lot, the Shining***, The Dead Zone...work your way through his catalog. Before you hit Gerald's Game/Delores Claiborn, stop. Jump a few to the Green Mile. After that, stop. Then read his pseudonym Richard Bachman - he's the dark side of Stephen King. The Long Walk is, I think, his best short story that could be made into a TRULY GREAT low-budget movie. Most of his books are loosely connected by an uber-secret organization called "the Shop", and, separately, his personification of evil in the form of Randall Flagg (aka, the Walking Dude, or any passer-by with the initials R.F.). He's the anti-christ figure in The Stand. Trivia: Lawnmower man, the movie, says it is based on Stephen King's work The Lawnmower Man. They are not even close in story line. The movie deals with a retarded man. The short story deals with a satyr. The Ark was built by a lone amateur, and the Titanic was built by an impressive group of professionals. |
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11-17-2011, 04:28 PM
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His short novel (in Skeleton Crew, I think) The Mist is one of my favorite EVER reads.
"(1) Paul, Wikipedia expert, 06.10.2011" - Shoes Paul 4 Prez |
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11-17-2011, 06:07 PM
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Yeah, I saw him talking about the book on the Today Show, and before the interview was even over, I had my copy order from Amazon. But seriously, y'all, I don't EVER buy new books. EVER. I don't really ever just drop $20 on anything without a lot of thought. Between it being Stephen King, the time portal, and the JFK thing, I was all over it. I'm 275 pages in and it is riveting.
Not an exFundie; I've just known my share.  I've got a blog. And an Etsy shop. |
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11-19-2011, 03:37 PM
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11-19-2011, 04:08 PM
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I read a lot of his work when I was younger, but Christine scared me so badly I had to take a break from his books--like, a 20-year break. I think I'm a little more able to handle the scary stuff. I read The Stand this summer, and found it excellent. (The Stand isn't horror per se; it's more of a dark urban fantasy/science fiction.)
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