After I finished Salem's Lot, at about 3 a.m., I went into the kitchen to be sure there was garlic.
I'm sorry, dad. You know I would never have tried to save River's life if I had known there was a dinner party at risk.
Simon ,'Safe'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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."
Ginger - Jan 10, 2011 12:34:03 pm PST #13499 of 28282
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Liese S. - Jan 10, 2011 3:30:43 pm PST #13500 of 28282
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Oh, speaking of four stories, I just read our own Holli`s Four love stories and a robot and OMG love! So great and stuff that was unexpected but perfect and just very Holli! Yay!
Atropa - Jan 10, 2011 8:55:28 pm PST #13501 of 28282
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
(looking for distraction, yes I am.)
Salem's Lot is still my favorite King book of all time. It just hurtles along, and I don't think there's a dud scene anywhere in it.
I kind of want to reread It, but I have very vivid memories of how terrified I was by it.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Jan 10, 2011 9:01:29 pm PST #13502 of 28282
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
My favourite Stephen King is the lesser-celebrated Needful Things. It's creepy as anything.
Becky - Jan 10, 2011 9:16:49 pm PST #13503 of 28282
King definitely needs an editor, although the original Stand is my favorite book of all time. Maybe it helps that I was living in Boulder at the time I first read it and everything felt so much more real in a way. Scary for sure. Then again I do love me a good postApocalypse/dystopia.
zuisa - Jan 11, 2011 1:45:02 am PST #13504 of 28282
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
I've had Salem's Lot sitting on a shelf for years, and I'm not sure why I never read it. I really ought to!!
Firestarter holds a special place for me as it was the first King I read, and I caused quite a scene in the library because I was trying to check it out when I was 12 and the librarian was sure this was a terrible idea. My mother was all... "Why on earth shouldn't I let her read it?"
Fred Pete - Jan 11, 2011 5:27:51 am PST #13505 of 28282
Ann, that's a ferret.
I re-read It over the summer. I was struck with how King re-created not just one, but half a dozen children's worlds in the 1958 sections. It's also the one I'd most like to see the author's background materials for -- I suspect a lot about Pennywise never made it into the book.
And may I pimp "Richard Bachmann's" The Long Walk? Completely implausible premise at the time (though not so much in today's reality-TV mad world?) but utterly compelling.
Amy - Jan 11, 2011 5:35:23 am PST #13506 of 28282
Because books.
I loved It so much. The children's voices, their connection, their fear, everything. And then the end sucked so incredibly, I literally threw the book across the room. Only time King has ever really disappointed me.
§ ita § - Jan 11, 2011 6:11:54 am PST #13507 of 28282
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, so I"m looking at a wide choice of SK ebooks.
- Complete and uncut Stand Y/Y?
- The Dark Tower Y/N?
- The Colorado Kid Y/N
- Salem's Lost
- The Shining
- It
- Misery N/N
- Talisman Y/Y
- Cujo y/N
- Thinner y/N
- Insomnia Y/N
- Carrie y/y
- Night Shift Y/Y
- Skeleton Crew Y/Y
- Dead Zone y/n
- Firestarter Y/Y
- The Mist Y/N
Help me choose.
erin_obscure - Jan 11, 2011 6:16:27 am PST #13508 of 28282
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
stand - yes! dark tower - yes! it's a long series, and you have the benefit of not having to wait for the rest of the series. I enjoyed the earlier books of the series more, and the later books less for many reasons. colorado kid - meh. i wasn't enthused.