My father has all of Stephen King's books and he is a huge Stephen King fan. I got into the Horror genre due to Stephen King when I stumbled into one of my father's copies of his novel and that novel is IT. I learned to read in my High School years and the first Stephen King book I read is Carrie and now I am reading IT and will read Gerald's Game and Cell next. Stephen King is one of my favorite Horror authors next to Jack Ketchum and J.F. Gonzalez along with Clive Barker
Idk what I personally think of his work but his shotgun approach to cranking out story after story and how they seem to be hit after hit with so many kinds of people with all ranges of intellects to me makes me think he knows what he's doing in the same way Dickens and Dumas did in the 1800s. To use another medium, John Ford and Steven Spielberg are also artists who seem to be the real deal who care about the common problems inside all of us.
Zack Romero I agree but then the skeptic in me also wonders if maybe in a sense he's in society's comfort zone. This being said I haven't read much of his post millennial work. But it seems like his name has become a brand at this point and people can go into a novel with a preconceived notion that the work will be good regardless. Being won over initially... also in consideration, most his work has been adapted to film. So I think people also assume anything he does to be great. But even though there's been some really praised addaptions, there's been some mid par attempts. This is just an observation. Almost in a propaganda sense. We're told he's a mastermind so I think we're driven to believe so. I'm a huge king fan and don't discredit his talent but do I dare say he may be accidentally over rated?
You really should. In most of King's works, horror is quite secondary. What King does best is get to the core of people, and his stories revolve around how a normal person reacts to an extraordinary event in their life. He also describes places, such as houses, like they are living breathing things, and you can't help but slip into the setting as if it is completely natural. I would suggest The Girl who Love Tom Gordon, Full Dark No Stars, Misery, Bag or Bones, or The Body (Stand By Me).
I like the quote on the first few pages of 'Cell' "Can you hear me now?" Verizon Hah good book. Just about finished under the dome and dunno what else im gunna read.
@PianoXfan1 I like duma key more than any of the tower books, BUT the dark tower series is an engaging, highly imaginative read. Plus Roland is 1 of my favorite King characters. So u can't go wrong either way.
I have always read the classics, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Emerson, Shakespeare, Proust, Goethe. I never read Steven King because I didn't think there would be any depth. Maybe I will.
@AsTimeDilates I have duma key but never got around to reading it... Finished under the dome 3 weeks ago and just finished cell last week... I may get into duma key... But i wanna start the dark tower books
Depth is why some of his stories are so long. Pick one up and give it a try. Since your comment was posted a year ago you've probably already done so but I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by what you find sandwiched between the covers.
Next time you go to a bookstore, buy his new book joyland. It his cheap, and after you've read it, you'll cry at the end, or at least feel a joy in your heart.
SK doesn't write about gore. Or at least he doesn't concentrate his work on that. He focuses on the people, on their personal demons and dreams, their aspirations and their emotions. The gore is just a device to make the character go to a dificult situation. His books are all about the connections of human beings, the existance of evil and the persistance of good. Yes, there's a lot more to his novels and short stories then gore. I've never read a novel of him that had acute descriptions ofgore
I don't disagree with what you're saying but: "I've never read a novel of him that had acute descriptions ofgore (sic)" You haven't read Cell then. It's pretty gory and quite detailed in that. For the better, in my opinion.
I will promise to read one Stehpen King novel in the next year. I told my girlfiend that I would also read one Jackie Collins book, also. Guess I am getting into the strictly commercial stuff. I suppose The Shining is the obvious choice for King.
What I think is amazing is how quickly James Fray was forgotten and then been allowed to continue his harmful practices. His I Am Number Four and his fiction factory are terrible things that people should not support it. But people still continue to be uninformed, or at least turn a blind eye to it. If we support people like James Fray, other businesses will follow suit, and we'll lose people like Stephen King.
Please, please, please do yourself a favor and read his work. If horror isn't your thing, I recommend Different Seasons, which contains Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption and The Body (which was adapted into Stand By Me) Also, The Long Walk (written under the pseudonym Richard Bachman) is such a wonderful book. Even his straight horror is written so much better than most of the films which have been adapted would lead you to believe.
Joyce is often opaque. I still have no idea what Joyce was writing in the Oxen and the Sun, episode 13 in "Ulysses," and I read the book twice. Still, the voice inside King just is not compatible with me. In other words, I am just not into fright and gore. I know; King wrote, "Shawshank Redemption." I might read that one day. I read two great books recently that are not classics, "The Man Who Quit Money" and "Desert Solitaire." Edward Abbey is very underrated as a writer. DS is virtuoso
what when, that that is so sad man, im gettin all teary to the fact that i didnt know that they were making a film about the dark tower series but im sadder that there not making the movie man fuck this shit.....ill read on
@theabominationuknow dude, i just wanted to say that that is GREAT for you!! I'm an aspiring writer, and simple publication is a current dream of mine!
+Captain Freedom 'Bachman' wrote Rage, The Long Walk, Roadwork, The Running Man, The Regulators, part of Misery, and Blaze. Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption was released in the collection of novellas Different Seasons and published under King's name.
I understand your comment. To me, King is like a glorified Hemingway who writes one declaritive sentence after another to convey gore. Still, I will read this suggestion you make, eventually. Right now, I am reading the Koran. It is a real trip.
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cell is Kings gategory of shit, along with the desperation and some other pieces of shit, but mostly his work /70 booka????) are gems instead of shit that cell is.
The Heart of a small boy? Old joke. The old lady in the supermarket? He used that story for twenty years. In a 1989 interview, he showed a book called, "The Island." He said the book will never see the light of day, it's horrible. He must have dozens of books squirreled away.
Kiki Lang I mean it’s literally his business and not ours. All of it. What he chooses to say is his business as are the tons of books that he’s not planning to publish
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