After I finished Salem's Lot, at about 3 a.m., I went into the kitchen to be sure there was garlic.
Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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 28344
"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 28344
"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 28344
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 28344
"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 28344
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 28344
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 28344
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 28344
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 28344
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 28344
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.