Willow ,'Bring On The Night'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I've only read the original edit of The Stand, and IIRC, there was a Trashcan Man.
Life is too short for me to find time to read an even longer version of a novel that gave me weeks of quasi-PTSD every time I heard anyone cough...
I consider King to be valedictorian of the first graduating class of the "Too Popular to Edit" school of novelists. Other alum include Anne Rice and JK Rowling. I look with disfavor on this development: nobody is above editing.
Full Moon, No Stars
I didn't realize that that was a collection. I thought it was a novel.
Nope, it's four stories, sj.
Consuela, the editing thing is why I can't read Dave Eggars or (my boyfriend's favorite) William T Vollman. I just can't sog through pages and pages of meandering. Editors exist for a reason, dammit.
Trashcan Man was definitely in the original Stand.
It's been a long time since I read either version, but the main thing that sticks out is that Harold had a larger role in the longer version, so he comes across as more tragic than in the original.
What am I misremembering? I have no time to go read and compare both now, darn it.
java, I think it's Full Dark, No Stars.
I was ruminating on Stephen King last night and why i've loved so many of his books for so many years...and i think it's that his world building is amazing. So many books start right in our normal world, then gradually shift to an alternate reality so seamlessly that i don't notice the change until the story captivates my sleeping and waking thoughts.
Since reading Salems Lot more than 20 years ago I still am hesitant to walk down basement stairs, even with the lights on. Some things just stick with you.
Seagulls. The Talisman. Though that might have been the other guy.
Amy, yes. My memory is extremely poor these days.
The Talisman was written with Peter Straub.
After I finished Salem's Lot, at about 3 a.m., I went into the kitchen to be sure there was garlic.