I liked Duma also.
Just finished Sunset and getting ready to read Duma again.
I think I may have to read Duma Key too!
Not sure if anyone has posted these pic's of Steven King's home before by Tony Urban. These are fantastic high-res photos.
Enjoy!
His gate.
Just creepy...lol
I heard that his house was pretty cool!
Florida shows up a good bit in Just After Sunset both in the stories and authors notes. I have been trying to figure out where he lives here, all the roads and landmarks. are near my place. It is somewhere close to me.
Strange to have the books shift from mostly Maine after all those years to somewhere else.
After not being able to read a book in the last two and a half years, I was given "Bag of Bones" by a friend. I was shocked how some of the circumstances in the book mirrored what had happened to me. Has anyone read this book? And what did you think? I love his writing and his observations about human nature and relationships.
Am I the only pervert that notices the giant boobs in his gate?
LOL, I certainly didn't hahahaha
LongGone...just read your post, and even thinking about Bag of Bones made me tear up. I loved that book-terrified, sobbing, and laughing. I read it all in a day. I cannot imagine what you may have gone through to identify with it, but I wish you the absolute best. I love his writing, and think his observations on human nature and relationships are fascinating. I cannot imagine the boogeymen in his head, and I suspect there may be waaayy more to his childhood that we know.
He has certain phrases that stick in my head, even though I can't necessarily remember from which book, "slow, dreamy, horror", "I'll feed you your lunch!"
It's almost as though he wants to warn you that something terrifying/horrifying is coming, but....don't worry, he'll be there to hold your hand on the way.....
Loved all the early stuff, most of the recent, rereading is great, especially The Stand. Liked Duma Key more than I thought I would, agree The Cell was kind of crap, felt a little like certain elements of The Mist and The Stand woven in, so a cheat.
I loved all of Stephan Kings older books when I was younger. Would love to read them again, but it is really hard to find them here in English.
I'm a huge SK fan, and have everything he's ever written, all the movies, etc. My fav is "Geralds Game", but I really like "It" and "Lisey's Story".
So true, Maxy! I loved all of his early stuff, too. He just pulls you in and then lets you go a little bit, then pulls you in a little more.
I loved this passage from "Bag of Bones:"
"This is how we go on: one day at a time, one meal at a time, one breath at a time. Dentists go on one root-canal at a time; boat-builders go on one hull at a time. If you write books, you go on one page at a time. We turn from all we know and all we fear. We study catalogues, watch football games, choose Sprint over AT&T. We count the birds in the sky and will not turn from the window when we hear footsteps behind us as something comes up the hall; we say yes, I agree that clouds often look like other things - fish and unicorns and men on horseback - but they are really only clouds. Even when the lightening flashes inside them we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, the next pain, the next breath, the next page. This is how we go on."
..."and I'm gettin' older, too.." Lost my reading glasses, ate too much for Easter, and muscles I didn't even know I have are hurting 'cause I wrestled with a damn rototiller.
I think it was sentimental, too. But I'm a big old sap. His relationship with his wife, the loss of her and their unborn child, and the single mother that he tried to save from a monster and the judges, lawyers, and police that were so easily bought in helping that monster destroy that mother.
He and his wife seem to have such a wonderful relationship in real life.
It was actually the little girl who annoyed me. The whole thing with her was very cloying and she kept repeating something I can't remember but it bugged me.
Tabitha King seems like a pretty tough cookie and without her he'd probably be a drunken loser working the mangler on midnight shifts. She's n absolute shit writer though no matter what they say.
That was the weakest in dialogue: the little girl's. I knew Tabitha wrote but have never read anything by her. And yup, me thinks she runs a tight ship.
By Tabitha King:
- 1981 Small World
- 1983 Caretakers *
- 1985 The Trap (also published as Wolves at the Door) *
- 1988 Pearl *
- 1993 One on One *
- 1994 The Book of Reuben *
- 1994 Playing Like a Girl; Cindy Blodgett and the Lawrence Bulldogs Season of 93-94
- 1997 Survivor
- 2006 Candles Burning
Thanks, Gonzo.
Just watching the noon news...The story about swine flu makes me very uneasy. Don't know if I would feel that way if The Stand weren't my fave, and if I couldn't remember all the stories of what people were doing as the Superflu hit.
Maybe that's why I bought a lot of extra pet food and water today.....
Aha! So I'm not the only one who thought of that.
See folks? We're not crazy. It's Stephen King's fault!
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[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] SHHHHHHHHHHH, I am listening to the Best of the 70's
Looks like Stephen King is going to sequel The Shining.
http://insidemovies.moviefone.com/20...n-king-news%2F
[quote=atlantis;37305]Oh my gosh, Stephen King is my fave author. No one else even comes close. The Shining is a fantastic book. The movie was okay. But I really don't think his books translate to the large or small screen very well. Sometimes his words only make sense as they run through your head, not someone else's head (screenplay). The Stand is a real piece of work. The mini-series was pretty good (Corin Nemec was great not to mention Rob Lowe).
"It" the movie AND the book will freak me out til the end of time. God knows I hate clowns and Pennywise is a fuckin' nightmare on wheels, man.
You know, it's odd, but his horror books don't turn out well (although i did like Jsck Nicholson's Shining), but his regular stories can turn out very good. For example, Stand by Me (based on "The Body"), The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile. I really love the way he did the Green Mile by putting out a few chapters each month and you'd have to wait and look forward to it. He should do that again.
Oh, and "It" is still my favorite book by him. It still scares me.
When I read Pet Semetary I couldn't sleep without the lights on for a week!
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I liked his early work and then he just got too violent and didn't let you imagine your own horrors enough. I like it when the author leads me right up to the brink and then lets me imagine what I would see if I looked in the chasm.
I thnk my favorite was a short story in Night Shift about a couple of guys working in an old New England Mill building that are ordered to go into the subbasement to get rid of the rats.
They end up getting attacked by the rats of course and the only thing holding them at bay is the firehose they were cleaning with and slowly the water pressure drops as the rats eat through the canvas in the darkness behind them.
He just really builds they anticipation. Salem's Lot is my favorite novel by him. I saw him on the View recently and he looked good. That accident came very close to killing him or at least ending his writing career.
I am glad to see him doing well even if he is a Red Sox fan.
Regards,
Mary
My all time favorite horror writer. From reading his early works up to now, I think the earlier stuff was better. However, I won't pass up a new book by him, and will be shopping for the new one soon. I didn't expect to like Bag of Bones, but I did, so I'll never say never. Lisey's Story, though, I didn't get.
That story you refer to Mary was 'Graveyard Shift,' another instance where the film version (same title) was just awful--seems it's very difficult to literalize King onscreen.
"Salem's Lot" was by far my favorite King novel too...I've read it several times and it gets me going every single reading. I wish they'd make a theatrical version (a GOOD one though) of that novel--the TV movie was OK (especially the Mr. Barlow character--ghoulish and scary!), but how great would it be to see a rip-roaring adaptation that's every bit as good (and terrifying) as the book?