I didn't enjoy the Tommyknockers or Gerald's Game. Found the first to be overly sprawlingboring and the second beyond my ick factor (and i have a pretty high ick factor.)
OOh : Cell. Stephen King's version of zombie fic, without "zombies"
I'm very sorry if she tipped off anyone about your cunningly concealed herd of cows.
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."
erin_obscure - Jan 11, 2011 7:02:00 am PST #13522 of 28282
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
Ginger - Jan 11, 2011 7:04:07 am PST #13523 of 28282
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
My favorite is still Salem's Lot, followed closely by the shorter version of The Stand. King has a remarkable imagination and is one of the best writing things that are unputdownable. I will argue that he needs an editor.
I loathed Cujo because I love dogs.
tiggy - Jan 11, 2011 7:05:54 am PST #13524 of 28282
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
your comments are definitely making me want to re-read Tommyknockers to see if i still like it.
can't deal with Cujo, the movie. so i don't think i could deal with the book.
Dana - Jan 11, 2011 7:08:50 am PST #13525 of 28282
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I am too much of a chicken to read King.
Polter-Cow - Jan 11, 2011 7:09:05 am PST #13526 of 28282
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
On Facebook, a friend was looking at the NYT bestsellers the week she was born, and she got a Stephen King book, as did many of us. I got Cujo. Another friend got The Butter Battle Book, so I mentioned that I'd been in a comic opera based on that book with Gilbert and Sullivan songs set to new lyrics. So a friend joked about wanting a G&S comic opera about Cujo. And then the original friend declared that it must star Miss Piggy.
And so I wrote this, which I felt like sharing.
I am the very model of a modern rabid killer dog.
I just ate up Miss Piggy; she was nothing but a filler hog.
My favorite meal is bacon but I'll also eat men on a jog.
For my dessert I think I'll go chomp on the legs of Kermit Frog.
I'm frothing at the mouth just like the writer of a gender blog
Who's glad I'm not a bitch because then King would get the fem'nist flog.
If humans coming near me would bow down, I do think that'd be great.
It really makes them easier to kill and then decapitate.
I'm very good at murdering, devouring, and causing gore.
My hunger is insatiable; you always leave me wanting more.
In short, you can't escape me without jumping right into a bog.
I am the very model of a modern rabid killer dog!
Amy - Jan 11, 2011 7:17:20 am PST #13527 of 28282
Because books.
I forgot about The Dead Zone and The Dark Half. I liked both. There's not a lot of King I don't like, honestly. I even read Rose Madder, way back.
the movie had such a magical negro in it, I was never tempted.
Yeah, I thought about that. I don't remember it being quite so smarmy in the book, though.
tiggy - Jan 11, 2011 7:20:39 am PST #13528 of 28282
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
hahaha!! that was fabulous, P-C!
sumi - Jan 11, 2011 7:29:07 am PST #13529 of 28282
Art Crawl!!!
I got Franny and Zooey and The Making of the President 1960
I are old.
Fred Pete - Jan 11, 2011 7:40:02 am PST #13530 of 28282
Ann, that's a ferret.
sumi, I also got Franny and Zooey. With Robert Frost, Barry Goldwater, and Richard Nixon on the non-fiction list.
No Stephen King.
§ ita § - Jan 11, 2011 8:29:06 am PST #13531 of 28282
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I got a Helen MacInnes and a John Le Carre, both of which my mother no doubt read.