Wow. From brawlhouse to bawdyhouse, just like that.
The King of Cups expects a picnic. But this is not his birthday!
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
The Great Write Way
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Pix - Jan 15, 2005 5:04:14 pm PST #9481 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Strix - Jan 15, 2005 5:07:20 pm PST #9482 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
It's pretty much all the same, no?
Amy - Jan 15, 2005 5:14:36 pm PST #9483 of 10001
Because books.
The Stand is my very favorite King novel, but I didn't find it scary. Creepy sometimes (the tunnel!) but it was more a character piece to me than a frightener. I loves me some Stu and Franny.
And someone on another thread was asking what "Happy Crappy" was just the other day, I think. Heh.
Connie Neil - Jan 15, 2005 5:15:17 pm PST #9484 of 10001
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King's non-fiction rocks the house for me. He's a wonderful observer, and he's utterly honest. On Writing pulls no punches on how badly he fucked himself up on drugs and booze.
Amy - Jan 15, 2005 5:17:34 pm PST #9485 of 10001
Because books.
King's non-fiction rocks the house for me.
And Danse Macabre is awesome. One of the things I love about his nonfiction is that it feels like he's sitting right there talking to me.
Polter-Cow - Jan 15, 2005 5:17:38 pm PST #9486 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I loves me some Stu and Franny.
I loved Nick, and I identified a lot with Larry.
And someone on another thread was asking what "Happy Crappy" was just the other day, I think. Heh.
Hee hee. Look for a "happy crappy" in my next India installment.
One of the things I love about his nonfiction is that it feels like he's sitting right there talking to me.
I like his EW column.
Lilty Cash - Jan 15, 2005 5:22:15 pm PST #9487 of 10001
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
This (besides Red Sox fanaticism) is why I want to read Faithful. I love his non-fiction.
Overall, not much of his actually scares me. Odd ones have given me the shivers- Rose Madder resonated with me. Bag of Bones creeped me out.
Strix - Jan 15, 2005 5:26:16 pm PST #9488 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I just read BoB again and it's one of the better things he's done in the last 10 years. It creeped me out, too.
And he kills important people off. So vital a skill.
Lilty Cash - Jan 15, 2005 5:56:12 pm PST #9489 of 10001
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
Yep, he doesn't spare folk the awful bloody deaths. I'm not easily squicked by gore, but parts of The Dark Half almost made me wretch.
I think part of my King-love comes from him being a Mainer, too. I keep trying to get out some sort of further explanation for that, it's more than some sort of "Hometown boy, represent!" thing, more about how it makes me feel connected to his work. But that's for another day.
Now, I go for a beer down to the corner, then come back and keep reading FFoSM!
deborah grabien - Jan 15, 2005 9:45:31 pm PST #9490 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Actually, it occurs to me, we are all nattering. This stuff really belongs in Literary, since we've stopped talking about writing the stuff.
Lilty, sorry, I loathe and abominate The Stand. Had I been his editor, I'd have thrown up and then taken a meat cleaver to it.
P-C, someday I will tell you about the smackdown I gave Kubrick up in Hertfordshire at three in the morning, while he was filming that piece of shit movie.