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5.21pm
7 August 2010
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I've seen and read Misery and the book is so good. I have also seen Cujo, not as good as Misery.
10.51pm
14 December 2009
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Hm, I read everything he ever wrote & published between 1973 and 1987 (except for "It") and nothing at all since.
10.58pm
4 April 2010
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Read "Cell".
ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzz. Boring. Stephen King has gotten really weak over the years.
2.51am
1 May 2010
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Dead Zone. It was good. I haven't read any of the rest of his work..
3.09am
27 February 2010
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I only read "four seasons' the body", just because I love "stand by me" movie. Good nouvelle.
3.15am
1 May 2010
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I've always thought that Stephen King was a bit overrated, just like James Patterson, but he has written some incredible novels, most notably the Shining and Duma Key.
4.15pm
14 April 2010
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I used to read him a lot but for some reason just fell out of it. My favorite was The Shining. I read it twice and was totally creeped out both times – even after seeing the movie first! What a great book.
To the fountain of perpetual mirth, Let it roll for all its worth.
12.38am
7 August 2010
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Zig said:
I used to read him a lot but for some reason just fell out of it. My favorite was The Shining. I read it twice and was totally creeped out both times – even after seeing the movie first! What a great book.
How is it, like how good?
3.27pm
14 April 2010
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Dear Prudence said:
How is it, like how good?
This good – first I saw the movie and thought it was great.
Then I read the book and was so blown away by it that I was mad at the people who made the movie because they changed so much from the book.
Even the second time I read it, I was so engrossed in one part that when my mother called me to dinner (I was 19) it startled me so much, I yelled out.
It is very good.
To the fountain of perpetual mirth, Let it roll for all its worth.
1.36am
7 August 2010
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I'm reading Cujo and its a little (WTF factor) innapropriet. Is all of it really nessarry? I feel like Sandra Dee.
2.18am
13 September 2010
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I haven't read Stephen King, yet. But tomorrow I plan on going to the library and possibly checking out one of his books. The older I've gotten the more intrigued I've become about his writing.
12.05pm
12 March 2010
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MotherNaturesDaughter said:
I haven't read Stephen King, yet. But tomorrow I plan on going to the library and possibly checking out one of his books. The older I've gotten the more intrigued I've become about his writing.
His best work could be either "The stand" (check out the long anniversary edition) or as a whole "The Dark Tower" series! Stephen King himself considers the latter to be the most important of his life, and you find many reminiscences to his other books in it.
It had me in it's grip for a LONG time! That was a few years ago, so I'm not able to tell the plot properly, although I did read it in English…
Just trying a little bit: It's the story of Roland, the last gun man, and his quest for The Dark Tower. He's living in some kind of parallel universe, but it's possible to enter "our" dimension as well, and both are strongly connected. He fights against dark powers trying to unravel the world by breaking the four "beams" that hold everything together.
Roland gets help by three friends, drug addict Eddie, schizophrenic Susanna and young boy Jack, all of whom he "draws" out of our dimension into his own.
The whole tale is told in 7 books:
The gunslinger (shortest book, works like an "intro")
The drawing of the three
The waste lands
Wizard and glass (incredible Western style story about Roland's love Susan Delgado, too brilliant to describe!!)
Wolves of the Calla
Song of Susanna
The dark tower
Especially books 1-4 are a MUST have for any lover of gripping stories!!
5 and 6 are partly a bit of a letdown, and the way King connects Roland's world with our own more and more gets a bit annoying. The friends even visit King himself, trying to save him from being murdered (the evil powers don't want him to finish Roland's story!!!).
The last book is not without disappointment, but also with lots of satisfying moments and a fitting ending.
So, if you don't have plans for the next year, get involved with Roland and his ka-tet! (means the group of him and his friends)
10.03pm
16 February 2011
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Yes, I'm a King fan! So far, "The dark half" has been my favorite. Shining is so different from the movie; the woman is the main heroine in it. I actually prefer the movie.
I have one part of the tower series (unfortunately it's not the first one since my grandma gave it to me). I can't remember which one; it has that gross -i'm pregnant with two people and an alien-kind of thing.
I like his books because they are not simply about horror, they tell more about human nature. Misery doesn't have any supernatural elements, but it's still-or because of that- engrossing.
11.22pm
4 March 2011
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I've read The Shining and It and they're both really good, I think. I prefer them to the movies too, especially The Shining becuase I read the book first and then when I saw the movie it was waaaaaay different and so then I said dinny fink sae!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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