any STEPHEN KING fans out there?

[asterisk]

Serious critics have been snubbing Stephen King for a long time and they have valid points, but King can also be superbly crafty and very good in literary terms.

Unite Constant Readers.

Tell me what you like about Stephen King, his books, his philosophy about horror, his prose, etc.

What is you favorite Stephen King book?

Etc. etc.

[Ira]

I don't much like his recent books, I prefer the older ones like Tommyknockers, Misery, and It. His recent ones just seem to be duplicates of tried-and-tested plots; while the scenarios are different, there isn't anything really that will make them stand out the way his older books did. The only surprise he's written recently was Bag of Bones, inspired by du Maurier's Rebecca, in that it strayed off his usual trite plots by adding more satire and reality. Has he sold out to Hollywood and big moolah? Probably. I prefer reading Clive Barker for horror stuff at this point, and better-written books than the pop-fiction King offers.

[asterisk]

Ira, you are right about his old works, when he still like struggling. His first book "Carrie" is really absorbing. His short story collection "Night Shift" is really mind-blowing.

I am half-way through "Bag of Bones." Then comes "The Girl Who loves Tom Gordon" and then "Hearts in Atlantis." Have to read those pa. Has anyone read the latter two?

I think he is getting to top form with his most recent books.

[???§ÎNNëÐ???]

sorry asterisk, i am not a stephen king fan. although i read the green mile recently because of the film which is going to be shown here soon.

[Ada]

I’ve read more than half of King’s books but somehow, he hasn’t made it to my list of favorite authors. I like the way he pays a lot of attention to detail, the way he takes his time to develop the story and his characters. However, none of his books has really scared me. For someone who’s supposed to be the master of horror, he fails me big time.

I think he should seriously consider writing more non-horror fiction for a change. His short stories are really good. I liked Apt Pupil and The Body. As for his novels, I liked The Stand and Thinner the most. It was almost okay but the ending really sucked. Same with Needful Things. Why do I feel that King almost always resorts to aliens when he can’t think of a suitable ending?

[asterisk]

Ada, King has veered away from the common notion of horror first with his four-novella collection "Different Seasons" which includes "The Body" "Apt Pupil" and "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" all have been made into critically acclaimed films.

Lately, his kind of horror is sublimated delving into the dark recesses of the human mind, as well as the darkness of common relationships and everyday events. Consider "Dolores Claiborne" and "Rose Madder" which tackle the horrors of sexism and domestic abuse. "The Green Mile" explores the horror putting to death the wrong man. Afterwards he returned to the supernatural with the double offing of "Desperation" and "The Regulators" (under pseudonym Richard Bachman)

[Kamatayan]

Yep most of Kings novels have real good build ups but the endings are just plain anti climactic (especially The Stand and It). His non-horror works though are something else, Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me (siya nga ba to). It's like he's got a split personality...

[ross]

i haven't read any stephen king novels kse i have the impression that i wont be able to sleep. pero i like anne rice and shakespeare. hahaha

[asterisk]

Anne Rice's prose is too unwieldy and, well, syrupy.

Shakespeare is another matter. A literary god.

[Moiraine]

I used to read Stephen King's books a lot, but ever since Rose Madder (which I never got around to reading) the only book of his I've read is Bag of Bones.

Ada have you read The Shining or Pet Semetary? I think that they're the scariest of his books, especially Shining. I kept looking behind my shoulder while I was reading that. He also has some great short stories, some of them quite creepy, like Jerusalem's Lot and Grandma (if I got the title right).

[jepoy]

I've heard that King's wife is actually responsible for writing some (if not most) of his works.. is this true?

[asterisk]

That's mostly likely not true. Although Tabitha King is also a novelist and Stephen admits she helps a lot by being his first reader and making suggestions. She even edits his works.

Having a ghostwriter is one of the most prevalent accusations among writers, especially prolific ones.

But, jeez, he writes so fast and so heavily, there must be not one of him.

[Ada]

Moiraine: Yep, I've read both The Shining and Pet Sematary. Somehow, the idea of a haunted hotel didn't scare me enough, and dead animals brought back to life are, errr... not that frightening.

But don't mind me. It usually takes a lot to make me hide under the covers. :)

[jepoy]

Ada: what if i send you a pic of myself? That will surely put the fright in you. ;)

[Ada]

Jepoy: Go right ahead. Let's see just how frightening you are. <;g>;

[Ira]

I have a couple of Tabitha King's books, and knowing the way she writes, I seriously doubt if she ghost-wrote Stephen King's books. Their styles and topics are too different.

I agree with Ada, while I have read most of his books, he isn't in my list of favorite authors. I read his stuff because his imagination amazes me, but otherwise, his horror stories don't scare me one bit.

I saw an interview on Dateline recently of Stephen King after his accident, and apparently, he's having a MAJOR writer's block. The Girl who Loves Tom Gordon was written and in the process of publication prior to the accident, while Hearts in Atlantis was in his storage na. He hasn't written anything for the past 6 months or so (probably more), and looks like his block is going to stay on for a long while.

[This message has been edited by Ira (edited 12-22-1999).]

[she]

So far, I liked every Stephen King book I've read. My list includes: Eyes of the Dragon, Carrie, Misery, Needful Things, Dolores Claiborne...

My favorite: Eyes of the Dragon... It's a lot different from his usual works coz of it's fairy tale-like story. Parang fairy tale lang but I really loved the plot and the way the story was narrated.

Needful Things: This book scared me knowing that people can be so easily manipulated because of their worldly desires and needs...

[asterisk]

Really, Ira? Hmmm....That's very similar to what happened to his main character in "Bag of Bones." This novelist-character Mike Noonan is having this writer's block so he puts out previously written books and books in storage. The only difference is that King had an accident and Noonan's wife dies in an accident.

[jepoy]

Ada: Be careful what you ask for.. mwa-ha-ha-ha

[Ada]

Jepoy: Dare? What if your pic doesn’t frighten me? Can I post it on the PEx homepage for everyone to see? ;)

she: I think I’ve read Eyes of the Dragon. Is it about this prince who was imprisoned in a tower who escaped by making a rope out of threads from his napkins?

[jepoy]

Ada: hahahaha! Gusto mo bang i-shutdown na ang PEx for good?!?! And besides, i'm wanted in 7 States, posting my pic on the net wouldn't be to my benefit. ;) hehehe

[she]

Ada: Yep! That's the one.

[asterisk]

Anyone who've read "The Girl Who Loves Tom Gordon" and/or "Hearts in Atlantis"? Tell me something about it nga.

May bagong pakulo daw si Stephen, the very first e-book!

[Zen]

asterisk, The Girl Who Loves Tom Gordon is mostly about this kid who gets lost in the woods with only her walkman company, listening to her crush playing baseball. Eventually she freaks herself out with her imagination. Yun, more or less.

Oo nga, that e-book sold a couple of million books in a week diba? Pretty cheap kse.

[bing2x]

the e-book is 'riding the bullet'.
check it out on amazon.com. i think they're
offering it for free. i didn't read the details. am not really a king fan.

[asterisk]

Halfway tnrough Bag of Bones. Haay, King can be unwieldy sometimes at masyadong masculine pati. May love story, may ghost phenomenon at may custody battle. Can't connect them yet.

[kuluping]

i have a copy of tommyknockers... it's a long novel... nevertheless i finished it!!!

[This message has been edited by kuluping (edited 06-01-2000).]

[nadesico]

i've only read a few of stephen king's books. salem's lot, green mile, misery.
i think he's good. can't put the book down

[dagny]

I never really liked Stephen King's novels. I thought it was funny though in Misery how he put himself in the mock cover of the "Misery" novel being talked about in the book (did that make sense?).

Although I know he's not really well known for them, I think King writes great short stories. They are definitely better than most of the mundane and redundant novels he keeps on churning out.

[dagny]

His horror novels don't really translate well to screen, do they? I think the only horror novel of his that was made into a good movie was The Shining (he did write that didn't he?).

[flyderman]

I'm currently reading my first ever Stephen King book: Bag of Bones. It's still too early to tell where it leads to, because I just finished chapter 4.

[FarOutFreak]

Sorry, rip off ito. Hopefully used in a copyrighted manner. But it's dang funny.

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[acridmouth]

Bummer, I feel like I'm missing something here, having not read any Stephen King book! Actually, I borrowed one of his books, Christine, from the library last March, but due to my very hectic schedule, keeping up with my academics, and stuffs, I totally forgot all about it, and the next thing I knew, I had to return the book as the class was already closing. Well, I think I'll go, grab a Stephen King book soon.

[acridmouth]

Yup,dagny he wrote The Shining. Saw the movie lately at Channel 5 :) As expected, movie translations of the books aren't that spectacular. I haven't read any Stephen King book, but that's always the case eh :)

[uptowngirl]

Has anyone here read Insomnia?

[asterisk]

Actually, there are works that were translated into good films other than The Shining. All that are needed is an excellent director and production outfit. The Shining was directed by the late great Stanley Kubrick. King-derived movies which are very good are:

Carrie directed by Brian de Palma
Misery directed by Rob Reiner
The Shawshank Redemption directed by Frank Darabont
The Green Mile also by Darabont

The latter two are Academy-nominated movies, Kathy Bates won an Oscar for Misery. And Sissy Spacek got noticed as well as de Palma in Carrie.

uptowngirl, I've read Insomnia and it is pretty okay.

[This message has been edited by asterisk (edited 06-05-2000).]

[g]

i like stephen king's books.I just finished misery and it was actually a bit of a comedy besides being gory(sheesh!i wasn't able to eat after reading that one, i could remember paul sheldon with his fingers cut off). Thinner was great too but i don't think the movie gave justice to the book.But what i really loved was the short story "the running man" which he wrote under the pseudonym richard bachman.talk about good! I didn't like "eyes of the dragon" that much but i loved "pet sematery". Oh and yeah, "night shift" was nice but there was a couple of stories i wasn't able to read yet.I never read any of his newer works, parang its not as interesting as the older ones.

[Zen]

uptowngirl, I've read it too. Wanna borrow the book? :)

[dagny]

I was referring to his horror novels turned movies ... I know that Green Mile and Shawshank were very good (as was Stand By Me). His horror novels (most of em anyway) are just a little anti-climactic when translated to the silver screen.

[asterisk]

All King works fall under the "horror" category, except for Different Seasons, which he expressedly said that he deviated from his own genre. The horror genre as King writes it and in recent years have widened and diversified. Common notion about horror is about ghouls and monsters. Stating it matter-of-factly, horror now comes to be known as a genre that inspires, well, as its name says, horror, whatever the instrument to foment fear, disgust, or mortification be, like monsters, madmen, sexual abuse, or the condemnation of an innocent man.

[juve_grrrl10]

I'm a big SK fan, have most of his books! Pero hindi naman horror talaga genre niya eh, na-categorize lang yata siya doon kasi yung mga unang libro niya eh nakakatakot. Somebody here already said it's more about the horrors or fears humans have. Atsaka SK also writes great sci-fi/fantasy like Eyes of the Dragon! Hindi ito horror, para ngang dungeons & dragon story. Another thing I like about SK is that some of his characters/stories are connected with others, di ba ilang nobela niya ang setting eh sa Castle Rock?

I think his best work which he also considers his "holy grail" is the Dark Tower series!!! Oh man, in love yata ako kay Roland the Gunslinger!!! I think sa 2002 pa lalabas yung Dark Tower V. The thing with this story is you have to read it sequentially otherwise you won't understand it at all...

Atsaka never naman naja-justify ng movie version yung book, eh. I think lahat yata ng SK books na ginawang pelikula walang dating, mas maigi pang basahin mo na lang yung nobela, aandar pa utak mo. :)

A CONSTANT READER!!!

[Juno]

I was very dissapointed with The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon because the concept was a little too similar to Gerald's Game. (Gerald's Game was really good, though)

[This message has been edited by Juno (edited 07-18-2000).]

[flyderman]

asterisk: I just ordered Different Seasons in Amazon! So how was it? Worth reading? I realized that the movies I loved most were based on Stphen King works (eg. Stand By Me, Shawshank, The Thing, The Stand)

Anyone finished Bag of Bones?

[Juno]

Has anybody read his documentary-type of book, Dans Macabre? I bought it a few years ago but never had the time to read it. Now I can't find it! Is it any good? Should I buy it again?

[chez-o]

flyderman: good buy, indded.....not the typical stephen king......ganda.....you might want to try the green mile series too....

[asterisk]

Just finished Bag of Bones yesterday.
Whew, that was a long trek. Took me about four months, on and off. Really a ghost story with all the corny flashiness. He can get unwieldy in this book it is tiring, and I don't really dig his take on writing, too superficial and too narrowed.

[flyderman]

chez-o: that's good to hear because i spent around 8 dollars for it. :)

asterisk: did you like how the whole story unfolds toward the end of the book? i think that was the best part of all (although i could see you didn't like the book in its entirety).

[asterisk]

Well, I give it to King that he kept me guessing until the latter chapters. But the epilogue is offputtingly expository, so un-subtle. Not that I can say that it's unncessary. Howvever, it is told unimaginatively. Have you finished reading Bag of Bones, fly?

[flyderman]

asterisk: Yes I have. Finished it in a month's time, which is to say, quite slow.

But I did like how the story all came together on the final chapters. As for the epilogue, It was ok, but SK could've made better of it.

What I notice about SK's storytelling in this novels is that it's like he narrates it like it was being shown as a motion picture. Not that it's a bad thing. It actually gives off a clear picture of what's happening, it's like I can see how it would go if it became a movie. The trade-off in that is that it leaves little for your own imagination. Does he write like this all the time?

All in all, I would say this is a good book. And this is the first Stephen King I have ever read.

[juve_grrrl10]

Originally posted by Juno:
Has anybody read his documentary-type of book, Dans Macabre?

I've read it but it's not a SK fiction/story. Para siyang "history of the horror genre" in books, media and film, something like that. SK also lists his favorite horror films/books so it's a subjective book, what SK likes and all.

[juve_grrrl10]

Originally posted by flyderman:
The trade-off in that is that it leaves little for your own imagination. Does he write like this all the time?

I don't think absolutely true pero oo, in a way, kasi ginagamit mo pa rin utak mo. And the way SK describes or narrates his stories...it really gets to you and you're hooked. Like they all say, he's a master of storytelling that's why as a reader you're drawn into the stories. If you want proof of his mastery, read Eyes of the Dragon!!! The story deviates from all the rest of his books, medieval kasi setting niya at hindi siya "horror". Basta galing nito. If you do read it, let us know what you think. :)



[This message has been edited by juve_grrrl10 (edited 07-25-2000).]

[juve_grrrl10]

BTW, anybody know that SK is offering for download at his site http://www.stephenking.com "The Plant"? Sa site niya lang ito available and you have to pay $1 for every download. tara let's! :)

[jimi hendrix]

stephen king never fails to amaze me. he's got that x-factor goin on that redefines the meaning of fiction!!

[flyderman]

juve_grrl: Eyes of the Dragon is definitely next in my "to read" books! I'll tell you all about it when I get a copy and finish it! Thanks! :)

[asterisk]

Define the meaning of fiction. How does SK redefine it?

SK is good but I won't go that far. I would reserve that to, say, James Joyce or his ilk.

[juve_grrrl10]

I've read the first installment of The Plant! 20 pages lang siya so obviously bitin, ang gimik nila dito parang Green Mile na monthly installments, ito lang nga eh sa internet lang available. I like the style SK used, letters and inter-office memos/correspondence! I dunno what you call this style but I've read other stories written like this and it's interesting. It's still rather premature to generate an opinion on the story, pero ganun nga si SK, di ba, he'll entrap you in his stories...can't wait for next month :)

[frenzy]

I like Stephen King's...

Bag of Bones
Firestarter

[Acid Burn]

Originally posted by juve_grrrl10:

I think his best work which he also considers his "holy grail" is the Dark Tower series!!! Oh man, in love yata ako kay Roland the Gunslinger!!! I think sa 2002 pa lalabas yung Dark Tower V. The thing with this story is you have to read it sequentially otherwise you won't understand it at all...

A CONSTANT READER!!![/B]


DARK TOWER!!

ganda talaga! gusto ko rin yung THE SHINING tsaka yung IT.

ciao! http://www.pinoyexchange.com/goon.gif

[juve_grrrl10]

I've read the second installment of The Plant, I have to admit nabibitin ako!!! A la Green Mile kasi...

[asterisk]

Have you paid na ba for the story? Ito ba yung story ni Stephen King na puwede mong idownload muna and then just send the money to him all the way to Bangor? It is also meant to test people's honesty.

[NinaAusten]

you can also pay by credit card (they have an arrangement with amazon) para sure ang dating ng payment mo.

it's a relief na reach ang target ni sk. he was targeting 75% will pay, and mga 76.something ang nagbayad. else, he wouldn't have continued the novel. kinda restores your faith sa human nature, doesn't it?

ang ayaw ko lang is medyo hassle such na you have to print it and bind it pa. storywise, medyo funny siya and i'm hoping ok yung overall. i was disappointed with gerald's game kasi. i kept waiting for the punch line and then, "yon na yon?"

[juve_grrrl10]

Originally posted by asterisk:
Have you paid na ba for the story? Ito ba yung story ni Stephen King na puwede mong idownload muna and then just send the money to him all the way to Bangor? It is also meant to test people's honesty.

Siempre naman! 'wawa naman si SK kung magda-download lang ako...Yes, he said in his site mga 75% ang nagbayad so it's really cool! :) Nakaka-tempt ngang huwag nang magbayad, pero he IS my favorite author and I liked what I read, at siempre if I want to read the entire thing I have to pay, di ba? Buti na lang pwede sa card... Pati $1 is cheap na, considering na noong binili ko yung Green Mile series, P70 each yata noon, eh ngayon nakakakita ako sa BookSale mga P10 na lang!

I think you can also pay by sending your checks/money orders to Amazon.com.

Actually for me it's kinda "neat" that I printed it out, parang ang dating kasi SK made the story just for me! http://www.pinoyexchange.com/lol.gif Pati mas madali ring basahin, aayusin mo pa kasi sa computer, atsaka hindi mo na kailangang buksan ang computer! :)

[quisty13]

it's true...his earlier buks are better...
Salem's Lot made me watch the window constantly... Bag of Bones bored me, Hearts in Atlantis is just plain odd, and his short stories are fantastic.

oh, and anybody read his Bachman books like the Long Walk and Rage? Ang ganda...lalo na Long Walk... i don't think masu-survive ko iyon!

[neth_row]

i borrowed 2 SK books from my friend (eyes of the dragon and salem's lot)...i'm currently reading the eyes of the dragon, and it's a little bit dragging....

[sadirmata]

i like "the shining" and "misery". napanood ko ang mga movie ng dalawang ito, ok rin pero mas magandang basahin sa libro ang "the shining" while mas maganda yung movie ng "misery" kaysa libro kasi feel mo talaga ang suspense...

i have yet to buy/read more of stephen king's books...

nakabili ako sa booksale ng "a different seasons" pero di ko pa sinimulang basahin...

na-download nyo ba (when it's still free) yung e-book na "riding the bullet"? this is classic stephen king creepy thriller. maikli lang pero matindi ito!

yung "the plant" daw ay itinigil na ni king ang serialization nito sa web at gagawin nang printed na book talaga imbes na e-book, totoo ba?

[joe_cool]

i have to say the earlier works of SK is much much better than his latter works!!! aside from carrie, i've completed collecting his works, but i haven't read them all!!!
it's true, lahat ng books ni SK na ginawang movies ay dud!!! syempre, with an imagination like SK, ang hirap i-visualize ang novel nya into a movie di ba?
still, ang maganda ngaka SK, connected and mga characters nya. mayroon syang "caslte rock stories." ang setting ng it, insomnia and bag of bones(the earlier part) ay derry,maine, in which some characters interacted with one another(in bag of bones, mike noonan spoke with mike hanley, the black librarian in it and raplh robertson of insomnia who suggested to him to take a vacation in the first place!!!).then there's his masterpiece, the dark tower saga. galing nya talaga!

[Pwe Pwe Pwe]

I just want to share something I made a few years back...

· Background on the author

Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947. He won a scholarship award to the University of Maine, where he taught English for a time. He lives in Bangor, Maine with his wife, the writer Tabitha King, and their 3 children, Naomi, Joe and Owen Philip. He is the author of over 30 books, all of which are worldwide bestsellers. His first novel, Carrie, and its film adaptation gave him the present position as perhaps the bestselling author in the world. He is a recepient of the O. Henry Award for short fiction.

Stephen King sees his wife, Tabitha, as his ideal reader because she is also a writer and that she knows him the best. This combination enables her to criticize his works effectively, for she knows when he is cutting edges or writing too much. So when she says that what he did is good, it most likely is.

· Why he writes

Contrary to what tabloids and his critics say, Stephen King does not write for the money, but because he loves it and that he cares for his readers. In the introduction of Nightmares and Dreamscapes, his 5th collection of short stories, he writes:

"The job is getting to you, Constant Reader, getting you by the short hairs and, hopefully, scaring you so badly you won't be able to go to sleep without leaving your bathroom light on. It is still about first seeing the impossible... and then saying it. It's still about making you believe what I believe, at least for a little while."


He sees stories as a great thing which enhances our lives and save it as well. He believes that good writing/stories are the imagination's firing pin, that it's purpose is to offer solace and shelter from situations and lifepassages which would otherwise prove unendurable. Such is also the reason sleep is important, for when we sleep, we usually dream, and this keeps us sane and intact to face another day. And this is his main reason for making horror stories. In the introduction of his 5th collection of short stories, Nightmares and Dreamscapes, he writes:

"The imagination which so often kept me awake in terror as a child has seen me through some terrible bouts of stark raving reality as an adult."


· What he writes about

Stephen King writes fiction with a bit of truth. He is sometimes inspired by what he hears in music or reads in poems. For example, he based The Dark Tower series on the poem Childe Roland to the Dark Tower by Robert Browning, which is also in debt to King Lear. The Tommyknockers came from a Mother Goose rhyme. They are the ghosts of miners who died of starvation but who are still knocking for food and rescue. Stephen King also includes excerpts of songs, poems, speeches or sayings at the beginning of each novel.

Stephen King can take something which is based on actual happenings and create a story explaining it. He can also take any eerie and thought-provoking cases or ideas which circulate among us, and make up a story about it. He then adds a little bit of his imagination and presents it to us in the way he thinks it is supposed to be. He writes about the things he knows, things which bother or fascinate him, things he knows. But even if he wants to scare the readers out of their wits, he doesn't leave them all alone in the dark. He tries to explain things clearly and guides them to reach the end of every story he makes. For example, in the foreword of his first collection of short stories, Night Shift, he writes:

"Grab onto my arm now. Hold tight. We are going into a number of dark places, but I think I know the way. Just don't let go of my arm."


· Works as Richard Bachman

Stephen King used to write by his pseudonym, Richard Bachman as a relief from being himself. He believed that novelists are role-players themselves, and it was fun to be someone else for a while. He developed a personality and a history to go along with a author photo on the back of Thinner and his "wife," Claudia Inez Bachman, to whom he dedicated the book. Bachman was a fairly unpleasant fellow who was born in New York and spent about 10 years in the merchant marine after four years in the Coast Guard. He then settled in New Hampshire, where he wrote at night because he suffered from chronic insomnia, and tended to his medium-sized dairy farm during the day. The Bachmans had one child, a boy who died in an accident at the age of 6, falling through a well cover and drowning. A brain tumor at the base of Bachman's brain was discovered in 1983, but was removed through tricky surgery.

When Stephen King wrote straight fiction as Richard Bachman, no one asked any questions. Thinner, his 5th novel as Richard Bachman, sold 28,000 in hardcover before a Washington bookstore clerk got suspicious and went to the Library of Congress to uncover Stephen King's name on one of the Bachman copyrights. Hardly anyone read his books as Richard Bachman, and he was fine with that. But then Richard Bachman "died" in Feburary 1985, when Bangor Daily News published a story that Stephen King was Bachman, to which he confirmed. Thinner then sold 280,000 as Stephen King.

[b]· Comparing his written works with those made into movies[/i]

Most of the Stephen King stories that have been made into movies lack the detail which the book clearly portrays. You not know the thoughts of the characters, unless it is said out loud or if it is seen well enough in the faces of the characters. This would need good actors, but most of these are B-movies, so facial emotions are most likely to be unseen. If you don't believe me, read the book then watch the movie, and you'll see what I mean. But if you really want to appreciate Stephen King's works, I would suggest that you stick with the original material.

:)

[Edited by *happy*phantom* on 04-24-2001 at 07:52 AM]

[Cerberus]

It. Stephen King in his Nostalgic Best.

[jackryan]

Nothing can beat King's (almost) new novel: "Bag of Bones"! It's either you can't put the book down 'cause ur too engrossed reading or you have to put the book down 'cause ur already too darn scared! creepy book, possibly one of King's finest.

[*happy*phantom*]

bump! :up:

[Hot Pants]

Originally posted by jackryan
Nothing can beat King's (almost) new novel: "Bag of Bones"! It's either you can't put the book down 'cause ur too engrossed reading or you have to put the book down 'cause ur already too darn scared! creepy book, possibly one of King's finest.

i'll definitely buy that one! next on my list is Dreamcatcher . i can't wait to read Dreamcatcher because i'm a UFO junkie.

:goon:

[DLX]

i've already read The Dreamcatcher. it's a great read. u should definitely have a copy of that soon.

TRIVIA: Its title was supposed to be "Cancer" but his wife Tabitha King recommended to change it. :D

[This is God]

I didn't like Dreamcatcher at all .... it started out great and ended like a bad sci-fi flick. I bought it in hardcover too :mad: ..... guess i was expecting it to be like hearts in atlantis or bag of bones (both of which i enjoyed very very much).

Have any of you read 'On Writing', King's new book on...well...writing? :)

my all-time favorites are It, The Shining, (the?)Long Walk, Different Seasons, Desperation and Hearts in Atlantis.

i couldn't get into the stand, tommyknockers, or the dark tower series...and those are all supposed to be really good...it isn't that they were written badly or anything like that. ..guess i'll just get to those when i have more free time :)

[Ashley_Riot]

I've been reading SK novels since my highschool days. I remember watching the langoliers on studio 23 and was intrigued by the story so I decided to buy Four past midnight, it was good and i've been hooked on it ever since. My favorites would be The Shining, Needful Things and Night Shift. Especially Night Shift, even though its only a collection of short stories and not a novel, its still very good.

Another thing, saan kayo nakabili ng Eyes of the Dragon?

[juve_grrrl10]

Originally posted by Ashley_Riot
Another thing, saan kayo nakabili ng Eyes of the Dragon?

I bought mine ages ago at Booksale! pero minsan may lumalabas na kopya nito doon kaya magtiyaga ka rin. Napansin ko lang ngayon ang dalang na lumabas ng mga SK, noon kasi parating meron kaya nakumpleto ko collection ko : ) Oi, nakakaita rin ako ng EOTD sa National ah!

This is God, you're the first person I know who doesn't like the Dark Tower series!!! :confused3: You really should give it another go... come on, even SK himself considers this as his "Holy Grail"! (Siempre ito kasi favorite ko, 2nd ang EOTD.) Atsaka maraming "connect" ang DT sa maraming stories ni SK, like similar ito sa story ng The Talisman, may connection din sa The Stand at Insomnia. Basta, basahin mo na lang uli, hopefully ma-appreciate mo rin!

BTW, there's a poignant story SK wrote in this month's issue of Reader's Digest. basically about how his life was when he finally got Carrie published. Very touching.

[This is God]

juve_grrrl10: It's not that I didn't like it, I just couldn't get into it! :) Maybe it's because I only have Wizard and Glass...I've been looking for the first three in the series but I haven't been able to find them :( All they seem to carry regularly in national nowadays is hearts in atlantis, bag of bones, the skeleton crew, cujo and dolores claiborne...Hmph. I know i know, look somewhere else :p
..There are some Dark Tower references in Hearts in Atlantis too, right? I remember Roland being mentioned. I think.
I haven't read Eye of the Dragon either.! What's it about? I always see that too, but have never bothered to pick it up.

............

Have you guys all read the Stand + Tommyknockers? They seem really interesting but I haven't been able to bring myself to finish them. I've read up to around page 300 in The Stand. Thrice.

............

As opposed to the ones that seemed good but I couldn't get into, here are a couple that seemed good......but were not :
Gerald's Game
Dreamcatcher

[Hobbes2001]

I do share the opinion of many King followers that his most recent works have become too predictable - none of the usual macabre suspense that marked his early works. Proof of this the fact that I do rush out to buy the new King books as I dused to before (maybe also because of the rising costs of buying books, paperbacks even). I did buy Bag of Bones but this was after months of debating whether to buy or not (after the disappointment of Desperation, Insomnia, Rose Madder.... uugh!... don't blame me for being this uncertain)

Personally, I believe King was at his best with the short story format... different seasons, night shift, skeleton cre, four past midnight... these stories are really creepy. The Shining, Salem's Lot, The Dead Zone (personal favorite), now these were great books. Please!! no more of Gerard's Game, Tommyknockers, The Dark Half....:rolleyes:

[Freakworks]

The first Stephen King book I ever read was CARRIE. I thought the plot was really good, but the ending left me hanging. The next thing I did was a mistake--I bought li8ke, 5 of his other books and, well, we all know that buying lots of books at the same time is bad because you don't know which one to read first. So I ended up reading a few pages of each book and never really finished it. My bad. I do have the short stories collection, NIGHTMARES AND DREAMSCAPES..."The Moving Finger" was way cool.
I think the way Stephen King writes is beyond all the fictional crap out there. There was a time when I grew tired of his work, thinking it was kind of corny and not well-written. After reading his book, "STEPHEN KING ON WRITING", I now have this new respect for the genius, and I realized that he's so much like me when it comes to writing---not holding anything back, straight-to-the-point, flat out in front of you.
Stephen King's a geniius.

[Freakworks]

Another thing, saan kayo nakabili ng Eyes of the Dragon?

I bought mine 2 years ago (or somewhat like that) in National Bookstore in Megamall.

[Hobbes2001]

i've read the new semi-autobiography King book and i have to say that he definitly not what his critics take him to be. i especially liked the way he blasted away at some books (which i gleefully recall as having hated as well.... like bridges... uhg! :naughty: ) and recommended some. His tips on writing are very down to earth with none of the usual bull___t you get from so-called experts.

The stories behind the stories were also interesting. Who could have imagined he wrote such greats stories (Misery, for instance) while caught in the grip of substance abuse!!!

but what i appreciate the most was I got to see the humanity behind the man. Here was a ordinary guy who just wanted to write, who had his share of limitations and moments of depair and who clearly loved his wife (so much!! the helicopter scene was just right out of melodramatic soap opera!)

[juve_grrrl10]

This is God, no wonder!!! Dapat talaga chronological ang pagbasa mo sa DT...kaya nga series eh :D may kaibigan din ako ang una niyang binasa yung DT 4 kaya siempre hindi niya rin nagustuhan, hindi niya daw maintindihan. Like the song goes, you have to start at the very beginning. Ako nga eh, ang nauna kong nakuha yung DT3. then it was YEARS later that i got DT2. eh wala na akong makitang DT books sa booksale, kaya binili ko na lang sa Goodwill na sale yung DT1. Siempre nagtiyaga ako, ayokong ma-disappoint kasi!

Try looking at Goodwill and Powerbooks, too. Yun nga bad trip sa NBS, puro na lang later titles ang nilalabas nila.

Eyes of the Dragon is a total departure from the usual SK themes! More of fantasy siya, ala D&D. Another must-read. This is the book that for me truly established SK as a master storyteller! I've read EOTD over & over again...never get tired of it.

The Stand is also good...ba't hindi mo natatapos? d'ya get bored by then? I couldn't put it down! I even have 2 copies, one is edited, the other is the complete edition. Compared to Tommyknockers...bleech, found that one boring.

[This is God]

I'd buy the first three books in the series if I could find them :( ... I actually spotted 2 and 3 in Page One a few weeks ago, but ended up buying nothing because they didn't have 1 :mad: .

Re: The Stand..I didn't find it boring at all the first few times I read it..I don't know, there were just so many characters with interesting individual stories, and since it jumps from story to story and doesn't go back to each character after a couple chapters. Not that it's a bad thing - I would just get a little overwhelmed and put off reading it....

I'm finally getting into it now that I'm on sembreak though. I'm already past page 300, and plan to finish it by Sunday.
GO ME!

[juve_grrrl10]

GO YOU talaga! hehehe (BTW, cool avatar!)

I found a new bookstore in Robinson's Ermita...hindi ko maalala yung pangalan, Drymocks? Drysmocks? Something like that, basta malapit sa P. Faura entrance. I noticed they have a LOT of SK titles, but didn't see if they have all of the DT series...

Speaking of which, I had a bad incident about DT1 recently! i was browsing at Booksale, when surprise! I saw a Plume edition of DT1 among the softbound/hardcover bins. And it was only P55!!! Kaya siempre binili ko na. Noong babayaran ko na, aba, ang sama ba naman ng tingin ng clerk sa akin, tapos parang inaayos niya yung price tag sa book. Ang sabi niya, hindi daw yun ang presyo nun, mali daw yung price tag. Sabi ko, eh doon ko yun kinuha sa mga bins, paano magiging mali tag niyan? Sabi niya, eh pinatong lang daw kasi eh! :mad: The gall!!! Pinagbibintangan niya pa ako?!? Sabi niya pa, balikan ko na lang daw. Siempre hindi ako pumayag, kasi pagbalik ko siempre mas mataas na presyo nun, more likely doble na, madaya sila. (Pati may nalaman kasi ako sa consumer report na kung ano yung lower price sa merchandise pag sale, yun lang ang babayarin mo. Pwede nang isumbong sa DTI pag nilalabag ito... does it apply to my case? medyo, kasi alam kong P55 lang noong una kong nakita eh!). Pero ayun din, na-punch din niya sa register kaya nabili ko na, hehehe.

What really irks me the most, I've been patronizing the Booksale for over 4 years now, and that was the first time I've ever seen those clerks handle that branch... tapos pagbibintangan nila agad ako!!! Ba't ako ang sisihin nila kung hindi nila titingnan maigi ang mga presyo ng mga libro ng mga best-selling authors?

Anyway, the book is mine now. Karma na lang nila. This is the edition where there are paintings/illustrations aside from the B&W sketches. Now I have to look out for the rest of this edition... hahaha!

[bluemoon80]

I've read Dolores Claiborne, its "twin" Gerald's Game, Different Seasons (that one about the Breathing Method was just so creepy), Firestarter (but didn't get to finish it), Running Man, Misery, The Green Mile...yup I guess that's it.

There was this compilation of short stories which I read when I was in high school...I've forgotten the title of the book (Nightmares and Dreamscapes?)...Basta there's a story in it about a guy who invented some formula which was supposed to cause people to be non-violent (I think) but they (including the "author" of the story) ended up dumb in the end...Anyway, I was not able to sleep for a night after finishing the book! (Ganun kagrabe ang imagination ko)

[chip14]

:rolleyes: Ummm.... I read Misery, Christine, Gerald's Game, Cujo, Firestarter, Dark Half, and It.

I've also read some of his short story books...

SKELETON CREW, DIFFERENT SEASONS, and NIGHT SHIFT.

I definitely like SKELETON CREW, MISERY, NIGHT SHIFT, AND IT.

I'm still having nightmares of the BOOGEYMAN from NIGHT SHIFT. Superb! You should read it!

Misery is blood-chilling, for it may happen in real life. Anne(?) Wilkes is an evil psychopath. I watched the screen adaptation of the book, and Ms. Kathy Bates was perfect for the psycho's role! :D

That's all I have to say!

[darby]

I am reading IT right now...and its fine.....

[SoliduS_AlphA]

Ako hindi fan ni Stephen King pero ngayon nasa page 2++ na yata ako nung Darkhalf nya.. well its so mysterious and it reminds me of Jason (Friday the 13th movies) and Hannibal kasi napakabrutal nya pumatay,
imagine cutting of your victim's pen*s and puting it in his mouth.

what the f*ck you want?!
*okay*

[joe_cool]

finally! complete ko na rin works nya, from carrie up to balck house ... pati mga ebooks nya, kuha ko na rin from morpheus... but i have to admit, the dark tower series is his best! esp how he interconnects the story with other of his novels... galing! :cool:

[teri1977]

"But the past was the past. He had survived his brush with death, and nothing was dying here this morning but a deer (a buck, he hoped) who had strolled in the wrong direction."

- The Dreamcatcher (Stephen King)

[nico_Goco]

i bought different seasons in book sale. it was worth all the money i had left in my wallet for that day. a hundred bucks. Apt Pupil and Shawshank redemption in my opinion are his best novellas.

[chezmaria]

I have almost all of his old books, none of the new ones..I dunno maybe I just got tired of King's verbosity, which is especially apparent in some of his new works, I'm told.

I've bought and read all three of his short story collections (Night Shift, Skeleton Crew and Nightmares and Dreamscapes) as well as his 'novella' collections (Bachman Books, Four Past Midnight and Different Seasons).

As for the novels, I got Carrie, Salem's Lot, The Shining, The Stand (complete), The Dead Zone, Firestarter, Cujo, Christine, Pet Sematary, It, Eyes of the Dragon, Misery, Tommyknockers, The Gunslinger and The Drawing of the Three, Needful Things, Insomnia, Desperation, regulators and The Green Mile. (whew!)

I remember when I first read Pet Sematary -- hindi ko talaga hinintuan yung book until I finished it and by then it was 3 a.m. and I was SO scared $hitless that I couldn't sleep until the sun came up.

The Stand naman is a big, sprawling epic na sarap basahin kapag on the road ka palagi. I remember almost applauding when I got to the scene where some of the survivors see the sign made by one of the characters to meet at a designated point. those who read it know what i'm talking about, di ko na maalala yung mga names..

Cujo naman, super disturbing ending. Really felt bad about the kid's death parang gusto kong patayin si Stephen King. Also, this is one of the few King novels that does not have a supernatural element, making it a fairly believable (and by it, even more horrific) read.

Dead Zone was also quite good. Para siyang Greek tragedy with the lead character's Cassandra complex and political angles included.

Misery, I believe, is one of King's most claustrophobic books. Two characters, one scene throughout makes for one powerful book. Great writing, great ending, great movie.

Downers: I didn't really like IT, Regulators, Tommyknockers, Needful Things, Insomnia and Christine. Four of the books - IT, Needful Things,Tommyknockers and Insomnia had really lame a$s endings.

In IT, all the guys gangbang the lead girl (what's up with that?). Also some of the characters were not very well developed and ended up as cannon fodder.

In Tommyknockers, the hero dies in a drunken stupor after beating the aliens...duh. The book did have an unforgettable female character Cissy, who must have been King's pattern for the Anne Wilkes' in Misery.

Insomnia, meanwhile, had a promising concept (The Greek Fates as three bald doctors) that soured because of a connection to The Dark Tower series. This would have been okay except the reason for the death of a major character is not explained thoroughly unless you read the Dark Tower. Even Stephen King said he was a little unhappy about this book.

Needful Things - same great concept, poor ending. By the time those paper snakes turned real, I had lost interest. The movie ending was better though, thank God.

As for the other two, The Regulators was such a complete departure from the Bachman style that I had to wonder why King even bothered to write this. Obviously, sales had something to do with this. Threadbare plot, throwaway characters, sappy ending complete a very substandard work - DESPERATION was so much better than this. As for Christine, the concept of a haunted car just doesn't work for me.

Still, there's hope. Everytime I read Different Seasons (which is arguably the best King book ever written), I know I'm in the hands of a master.

All hail the king.

[chezmaria]

joe_cool galing mo naman at nakuha mo lahat ng King novels through Morpheus. I only got Dreamcatcher, Hearts In Atlantis, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon and Black House. Wala bang The Talisman with Peter Straub and Cycle of the Werewolf? those books are kinda hard to find.

Has anyone downloaded The Stephen King Collective? There's this site that offers free pdf downloads of all of Stephen King's uncollected shorter works (some good, some very, very bad). To access it, go to google.com and type in "Stephen King The Collective". the URL is similar to what is posted below
digilander.iol.it/greyfoxtex/Biblioteca/Stephen%20King%20-%20The%20Collective.pdf

Note: some of the stories in The Collective will appear in Everything's Eventual, the new Stephen King short story collection coming this March. You should definitely check out "That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French" initially published in The New Yorker. Great story!

[MoRRiGaN]

wow. someone fianlly noticed my idol, stephen king. i love his books cause he is the only author who totally creeps me out. i love cujo, carrie, firestarter, needful things, it, four past midnight, the tommyknockers, skeleton crew, the dark half, 'salems lot , gerald's game, insomnia, bag of bones and dreamcatcher. i especially love needful things where Mr. Leland Gaunt twists everything to a distorted macabre.

he's so wicked
:weg:

stephen king rules
:glitter:
:insane:

[nico_Goco]

my collection of stephen king books is sorely incomplete, i really wanted to get the 4th in the dark tower series (Wizard and Glass) which i had noticed a long time ago in national but never really got around to buying it as I had no idea then who the gunslinger was. Needless to say i regret the chance of haing bought that book as i have only read the first three. :mad:

Oh yeah i got bag of bones to compensate for the lacking collection but i really wasn't too happy with the story.:(
Oh and has anyone heard that they're making a movie of Hearts in (what is it again):)

[joe_cool]

Originally posted by chezmaria
joe_cool galing mo naman at nakuha mo lahat ng King novels through Morpheus. I only got Dreamcatcher, Hearts In Atlantis, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon and Black House. Wala bang The Talisman with Peter Straub and Cycle of the Werewolf? those books are kinda hard to find.

Has anyone downloaded The Stephen King Collective? There's this site that offers free pdf downloads of all of Stephen King's uncollected shorter works (some good, some very, very bad). To access it, go to google.com and type in "Stephen King The Collective". the URL is similar to what is posted below
digilander.iol.it/greyfoxtex/Biblioteca/Stephen%20King%20-%20The%20Collective.pdf

Note: some of the stories in The Collective will appear in Everything's Eventual, the new Stephen King short story collection coming this March. You should definitely check out "That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French" initially published in The New Yorker. Great story!

tyambahan lang din... nagkataon na *** mga naka-online, meron lahat nun!

*** cycle of the warewolf ko, sa tate ko pa nabili, which costed me $16(?), ang hirap kasing hanapin dito coc its an illustrated book... gs2 kong makuha *** creepshow, kaso, mukhang mahirap hanapin din un...

*** talisman ko, sa booksale ko lang nakuha, but it was reprinted with a new cover, sabayan ata ng black house... check it out sa natio o powerbooks... u cant miss it....

:cool:

[redwitch]

Books I've read:
Insomia
The Shining
Firestarter
Four Past Midnight

Books made into movies or tv series:
Hearts in Atlantis
Needful Things
Langoliers

When I read a book, I always have pen and a slip of paper in handy 'cause I might pick up a line or two. Hearts in Atlantis seems to me as not the usual Stephen King novel though. Laid back compared to his other works. Saw it last night. Instant favorite lalo na nung narinig ko yung soundtrack. Music from the doowop days. Kaya ba gusto kong magkaroon ng jukebox e...

Yung Insomia gusto ko kasi it's a story about our elders, what they're thinking. Sometimes I wonder what I'd be doing when I reach the stage they have.

I want to read the one w/c is sort of a fairytale thing I think and Talisman too. Di ba may second book yun that he co-wrote w/ the guy who wrote Floating Dragon. Hindi ko pa natatapos ang librong ito

I have more Dean Koontz than Stephen King though.

[chip14]

I've finished Needful Things and I loved it. The ending was kinda crappy though...

I can't help but compare Koontz and King...both are superb. King's got a tendency to be a pervert most of the time...

:redsmile:

[guineapig448]

I've read in the papers awhile ago that King writes well when he dwells on human demons rather than creating monsters.

Anyone comment about Hearts in Atlantis? Liked the movie and am thinking of getting the book.

[joe_cool]

i recently watched a segment on the fox news channel... it said that stepehn king would retire from writing after finishing all his commitments... said that we was recycling his materials recently... is it true? :cool:

[chip14]

i recently watched a segment on the fox news channel... it said that stepehn king would retire from writing after finishing all his commitments... said that we was recycling his materials recently... is it true? :cool:

'Wag naman sana. I still read his current novels. He's my favorite author...

:redsmile:

[foxxxy]

I read & have some of his unpublished writings.
"Man who loved Flowers" is quite a unique short story.
Nice but its really freaky.

[nico_Goco]

hearts in atlantis is great! though it still is connected to the dt series. alot of his newer works have been connected to the dt's. anyway i haven't seen the movie yet, heard it didn't do the book justice.:) :) :)

[chezmaria]

I also came across that piece of news about Stephen King retiring from writing, which is (for me) actually a good thing. I didn't quite enjoy some of his later works although some of his stuff still blows me away (The Green Mile, parts of Hearts in Atlantis). Medyo wordy nga lang, which Mr. King calls "verbal diarrhea." Stephen King will be publishing From the Buick 8 - described as another variant of the haunted car theme he popularized with his novel Christine . he will be finishing the last few books of the Dark Tower series and then retire.

[joe_cool]

where did you came across with the story... i just heard a brief summary on the topic.. it's really too bad if he retires... :cool:

[kelboinks]

are you a stephen king fan?
what novels or short stories have you read that he wrote?
whats ur favorite?

im reading "The Dreamcatchers"

[c_ostrea]

i think his best book is "Eyes of the Dragon". its not a horror novel, rather a fantasy/adventure one, and written in a style not unlike a storyteller telling a fairytale.

[the_querent]

it has been years since i read a stephen king novel. i've forgetten na some of the stories. in fact, lahat ng books niya gusto ko. meron siyang book na puro short stories na i like...i forgot the title..ang cover niya ay 'yung clapping monkey na may cymbals. "Eyes of the Dragon" maganda rin. sa mga movie tie-in ng books niya, minsan nag-eextra siya bilang priest or grave digger or some nondescript person.

[chip14]

I'm a BIG Stephen King fan.

My favorite novel's Misery....it was about an :insane: lady.
Short story....."The Boogey Man" :freak:

[NeoTemplar]

S.K. fan here! Latest book I read was The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.

Great writer, one of the best if you ask me! Fave works are The Mist and The Jaunt from Skeleton Crew, The Langoliers from Four Past Midnight, Desperation and The Regulators(King writing as Richard Bachman).

Heck! I love every book of his that I've read!

[chip14]

Originally posted by NeoTemplar
S.K. fan here! Latest book I read was The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.

Great writer, one of the best if you ask me! Fave works are The Mist and The Jaunt from Skeleton Crew, The Langoliers from Four Past Midnight, Desperation and The Regulators(King writing as Richard Bachman).

Heck! I love every book of his that I've read!

Read the same book....(SKELETON CREW)
I liked THE RAFT,SURVIVOR TYPE and GRAMMA.

Medyo long yung THE MIST eh.....'di ko tinapos.

**** ko rin yung PARANOID: A Chant

[chip14]

Originally posted by the_querent
meron siyang book na puro short stories na i like...i forgot the title..ang cover niya ay 'yung clapping monkey na may cymbals.

Actyally, that's SKELETON CREW.

[chip14]

Originally posted by the_querent
meron siyang book na puro short stories na i like...i forgot the title..ang cover niya ay 'yung clapping monkey na may cymbals.

Actually, that's SKELETON CREW.

[the_cat676]

yay, Stephen King is the best! Grabe, pano kaya nya naiisip yung mga plots ng story niya? Some say it's be'coz he's mentally imbalanced but I don't believe that.

1. The Dead Zone
2. Rose Madder
3. Pet Cemetery
4. The Tommyknockers

* Ewan ko ba, pero pag naisip ko si Stephen King kasunod na si Dean Koontz! heh. :rolleyes:

[kidcharlemagne]

AKO RIN, AKO RIN, AKO RIN!!!! :D

[^^ambiguous^^]

me rin!!! juz finished reading "Bag of bones"... mejo mahaba pero its worth it!

but i think "hearts in atlantis" is the best!

gud pm.

[kelboinks]

Originally posted by NeoTemplar
S.K. fan here! Latest book I read was The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.

Great writer, one of the best if you ask me! Fave works are The Mist and The Jaunt from Skeleton Crew, The Langoliers from Four Past Midnight, Desperation and The Regulators(King writing as Richard Bachman).

Heck! I love every book of his that I've read!

hey i love all the books you said. I read them
The Mist - 2X sana may movie nito
The Jaunt - i think it was adopted for a twilight zone episode
Langoliers- 3X the concept freaked me out
Desperation 2X - i hope they can do a movie of this as well

[fly_earthengirl]

count me in, count me in!:D i've been a big fan eversince i read carrie when i was, i think 10 years old. im presently reading dreamcatchers.:D

[monsterboy]

IT was storytelling at its finest. *okay* i also enjoyed skeleton crew (which was obviously better than his other short story collection, nightmares and dreamscapes). :)

[an]

:wave:

i love Stephen King's works!
my fave books are Tommyknockers and Salem's Lot :crazy:




:bluefish:

[severin_severin]

different seasons! the shining. and it.

[Mickey2000]

http://www.mousescripts.com/clipart/images725/Characters/Mickey_Mouse/mickey08a.gif It is my ex who influence me about Stephen King,he bought me The Dreamcatchers,and he let me read some of his collection too(Carrie,Heart in Atlantis,etc.etc.),and since then I became an avid fan of SK.

[daydream]

:wave: hello all!
another sk reader here!

i saw his work first before i read him. i was first introduced to him when we saw the firestarter (staring supercutie girl drew barrymore) elementary pako nun :teehee:

my faves are salem's lot, the dark half, the shining, and the green mile. hehe dami, its hard to choose eh.
his works as richard bachman are great too, the long walk is crazy.:evil_lol: from his collections, different seasons is the best for me, included dun ang shawshank redemption.

has anyone read gerald's game? i cant get myself to finish that book. it was much more crazier than i thought.:whatthe: heck, knowing sk, i shouldn't have been surprised.

:rocker:

[reiji08]

read gerald's game- disturbing!!!!
loved insomnia:) and dreamcatchers;)

[daydream]

read gerald's game- disturbing!!!!
grabs talaga! first couple of chapters i put it down na. i bought it siguro 3 or 4 years ago pa. :bonkself: ill try to read it again and finish it this time. :D

[juve_grrrl10]

die-hard SK fan here! have most of his books already... and i got most of them from booksale! ang kulang ko na lang eh yung mga latest books niya, from The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon onwards...

my fave SK book is also Eyes of the Dragon. like the blurb on the cover says, it proves that SK is a master storyteller.

short story? he's written too many, and i like a lot of them! but the 1st that comes to mind is The Mist. really REALLY creepy.

and The Dark Tower series!!!! OMG, this has got to be the best serialized (?) story I've ever read -- no kidding, i personally think it's better than LOTR or Harry Potter or even another all-time favorite of mine, The Chronicles of Narnia. Can't wait for the next installment though...

I also heard some news some time ago, that SK will be retiring soon! He said he'll only finish the DT series and several other novels and that's it. Says he's running out of ideas (?). Actually one of his new stories will be about another haunted car, a la Christine! Ngwek. Well, if it's true he'll be retiring... I just hope he'll finish DT first!

[chip14]

GERALD'S GAME ---- WEIRD! And yup! first few chapters pa lang, you'll probably put it down na....eerie...

[ralph00]

I think his best is "IT". Very scary.

[VersionTwo]

i agree! IT is the reason why i am now deathly afraid of clowns! my fave SK book is Eyes of the Dragon. very different from what he usually writes diba? i loved The Langoliers but didn't really like the movie very much. Insomnia is a pretty good read too. ^_^

[Hot Pants]

Just finished The Stand the other night. So far, it's the best Stephen King book I've ever read(and the longest).

:goon:

[chip14]

Ako, I've watched The Firestarter, IT, The Dark-Half, Tommyknockers, The Shining, and Misery......

I liked IT!

and Misery......nanalo pa nga si Kathy Bates ng Academy Award eh!

:bounce:

[badasschick]

Yep, I am a Stephen King fan. I've read almost every novel he published, even under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. My favorites are Carrie, Firestarter (I like the movie too), The Dead Zone, Christine, Bag of Bones, It, and Cycle of the Werewolf. I love his short story collection, Skeleton Crew. My favorite stories in there are Word Processor of the Gods and Survivor Type.

Grabe, Stephen King's imagination is beyond endless and so amazing. :)

[Freakworks]

Hay naku, I've started doing it again--not finishing Stephen King books I read! Wala pa ako sa kalahati ng DREAMCATCHER, sawa na ako! I'm so bad with King books...

But I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVEEEEEED "Nightmares and Dreamscapes" !!!

[vertud21]

i was first introduced to sk novels when i tried to get some info about my all time fave movie "stand by me" i found out that it was based to his novella "the body" and when i bought the book diffrent seasons where the body is included i got hooked and eventually i bought some of his novels and short stories. night shifts is one of my favorite compilation of his short stories. i think sk is the only writer where all of his novels were turned into movies.


question: What is your favorite movie that is based on a SK novel?

[juve_grrrl10]

Originally posted by vertud21
What is your favorite movie that is based on a SK novel?

Shawshank Redemption, based on that Rita Hayworth short story.

[chip14]

Originally posted by vertud21

i think sk is the only writer where all of his novels were turned into movies.


All:?::?::?: :wow2:

I don't think so...:nope:

[pagan]

i love Misery! the movie sucks, though...

i also have The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. i didn't like it very much...

hey, i read somewhere that SK is like suffering from some illness or something, or was he involved in an accident... i'm not sure...

[daydream]

question: What is your favorite movie that is based on a SK novel? the shining and misery *okay* but the shawshank redemption is probably the best. ;)

[fallen]

Toss up between Hearts In Atlantis and Shawshank Redemption. :)

BTW, On Writing is also a good read if you're into.. well.. writing.

[VersionTwo]

my favorite movie based on a story by SK? most probably Stand By Me and Shawshank Redemption. actually, The green mile rocks as well. it's kind of hard to collect now kasi ginawang parang series diba? there was this story by SK available only online before. forgot the title though.
ay, another good story is yung werewolf story niya. I think the move Silver Bullet was based on it.
yep, Sk got into an accident before. napilayan or paralyzed yung legs niya kasi na sideswipe ata siya ng car or something while walking down the street. but he's okay na ata now.

[BillieFrank]

uhm... me

[juve_grrrl10]

Originally posted by pagan
hey, i read somewhere that SK is like suffering from some illness or something, or was he involved in an accident... i'm not sure...

He was hit by a truck some time ago while he was out walking. Don't know the exact details but he was seriously hurt. Anyway, the important thing is he's okay now.

I think that guy that hit him initially wasn't aware who he was, then we learned he was SK...siempre guilty. But the oddest thing is, that guy is now deceased. (ha?!?) I'm not sure, but I think he was also hit in a car accident. Weird 'no?!?

[juve_grrrl10]

Originally posted by VersionTwo
... actually, The green mile rocks as well. it's kind of hard to collect now kasi ginawang parang series diba? there was this story by SK available only online before. forgot the title though.


No... The Green Mile actually came out in serialized form first before they combined it into one book. SK explained that was how stories were done before, yung pa-cliffhanger, and he/they wanted to try out the format.

Oh man, kinda bad trip nga yun eh! Kasi monthly nilabas, tapos ang isang libro manipis lang, matatapos mo sa isang araw, kaya cliffhanger talaga, gusto mo na malaman anong mangyayari kaso mag-aantay ka pa para sa susunod na libro. Binili ko yung books ko sa Nat'l kaya inaabangan ko rin doon yung bagong books. Noong bandang huli na yata, na-delay siguro delivery sa kanila kasi ang tagal na, wala pa rin yung latest series. Anyway, natapos ko din yung story kaya oks naman. But to have to wait for month/s to get to the end of the story, really excruciating.

Hinahanap mo ba yung series of books? Magsadya ka sa Book Sale, kasi nakakakita ako doon ng libro. Minsan nga lahat ng libro nandun kaya naiisip ko, swerte naman kung sinong bibili nito, hindi na kailangan mag-antay!

The online story was called The Plant. I should know... I subscribed to it! :D Bad trip nga lang din kasi hindi na tinapos ni SK, nalugi na sa bandang huli kasi maraming hindi na nagbayad sa download, tsk tsk tsk. (FYI, hindi ako isa doon ha!) Yan tuloy, ang ganda pa naman ng story, pinatay tuloy, kung kelan pa naman nagiging exciting na... Cross yer fingers SK finishes it... I'd really like to know how it turns out.

[severin_severin]

Originally posted by juve_grrrl10
The online story was called The Plant. I should know... I subscribed to it! Bad trip nga lang din kasi hindi na tinapos ni SK, nalugi na sa bandang huli kasi maraming hindi na nagbayad sa download, tsk tsk tsk. (FYI, hindi ako isa doon ha!) Yan tuloy, ang ganda pa naman ng story, pinatay tuloy, kung kelan pa naman nagiging exciting na... Cross yer fingers SK finishes it... I'd really like to know how it turns out.

Now I feel all guilty.
I was going to pay, I really really was! :(

[badasschick]

Firestarter the movie is my favorite SK-novel-based movie. Ang cute ni Drew Barrymore doon, and Vicky (Drew's mom, Mrs. McGee) is played by Heather Locklear! O di ba. But I really like how Andy was portrayed. Awang-awa ako kay Andy sa bookati sa movie. Grabe.

[vertud21]

yup nabalitaan ko nga rin yung aksidente nya and there's so many fuss nga about it nung kasagsagan nung news, in one late night show nga yung kay jay leno yata yun ang pagkakasabi ang reason daw ng pagkabanga niya ay dahil sa nagwawala ang aso nung driver sa loob nung sasakyan at alam nyo ba kung ano name nung aso .................................................................................................... ............................................... CUJO!!!! but off course it was a joke.

[Freakworks]

This is going to sound like a really stupid question, but...Stephen King wrote "Stand by Me?"

I'm having a friend get me the new Stephen King short story collection, "Everything's Eventual". Can't wait!!!

Oh yeah, and check out "On Writing". Super ganda.

[vertud21]

yup, the movie stand by me was based on his novella the body which is included in diffrent seasons book, the three of the four novellas in different seasons we're made into well crafted movies
namely: "rita hayworth and the shawshank redemption" into frank darabonts the shawshank redemption; "the body" into rob reiners stand by me; "apt pupil" into apt pupil starring brad renfro.

[antonlavey]

The Shining was a great movie

[juve_grrrl10]

Originally posted by severin_severin


Now I feel all guilty.
I was going to pay, I really really was! :(

aha!!! :belat:

[Manang_M]

count me in... another SK fan here.

Fave novels: 'The Green Mile', 'Rose Madder' and 'Eyes of the Dragon'

Least liked book : ' The Tommyknockers' even SK, in an interview said that he FORGOT that he wrote that book! :D or maybe he was just kidding

[severin_severin]

Originally posted by Freakworks
Hay naku, I've started doing it again--not finishing Stephen King books I read! Wala pa ako sa kalahati ng DREAMCATCHER, sawa na ako! I'm so bad with King books...

But I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVEEEEEED "Nightmares and Dreamscapes" !!!
That's because Dreamcatcher sucks. Read Different Seasons! Or....It. Or something. Just not Dreamcatcher :p or Gerald's Game, or Tommyknockers, for that matter.

[Mickey2000]

http://www.mousescripts.com/clipart/images725/Characters/Mickey_Mouse/mickey08a.gif My hubby gets me a copy of SK Everything's Eventual as a post b-day gift,grabe,kakainis,malapit ko na matapos....:(

[Shofixti]

Present!!! SK fan here. :D

[severin_severin]

i want everything's eventual.

..................
and a new copy of different seasons. it's gotta be my favorite king of all time. somebody borrowed it and never gave it back, and now i can't find a copy anywhere.

[Shofixti]

Originally posted by severin_severin
i want everything's eventual.

..................
and a new copy of different seasons. it's gotta be my favorite king of all time. somebody borrowed it and never gave it back, and now i can't find a copy anywhere.

I got a copy of Different Seasons at a garage sale....get this...it was worth P30...hard bound pa.

Is it possible that this is your copy severin??? :lol:

[severin_severin]

Originally posted by Shofixti


I got a copy of Different Seasons at a garage sale....get this...it was worth P30...hard bound pa.

Is it possible that this is your copy severin??? :lol:
i wish :(
it saddens me to know that somewhere out there, some jerkface probably has my different seasons junked in the corner of his/her room.

people who are reading/have read everything's eventual: how is it?

[juve_grrrl10]

one of the latest project of SK: Pre-production of Kingdom Hospital, Stephen's new television series for ABC (adapted from the Danish miniseries The Kingdom by Lars Van Trier) about a haunted hospital is underway in British Columbia. The series is scheduled to air in January 2004.

also, check out the redesigned SK site (http://www.stephenking.com)! Dark Tower (http://www.stephenking.com/darktower) na ang layout niya, v. cool.

[who?me?]

:wave:

SK fan as well!

pet sematary (movie version is very porno)
it (bad ending)
gerald's game (freaky!)
dolores clairborne (my fave)

[elijah8380]

ako! got Gerald's Game, Cujo, Different Seasons and Everything's Eventual in my bookshelf...

hmmmn...

i wonder...



Miss Ashley F. ng St. Scho nandito ka rin ba sa thread na 'to? :D

[CoolCucumber]

i've read insomnia and the green mile. i didn't finish christine. didn't like it, really. but i love the green mile :)

[pagan]

almost done with Pet Sematary... not as scary as i expected. pero ang ganda ng pagkakasulat. mahirap hindi tapusin. :)

mahanap nga yang Gerald's Game na yan. it sounds interesting.

[juve_grrrl10]

sana i-release na yung DT5:Wolves of Calla dito. gusto ko nang malaman kung anong mangyayari kina Roland, etc.

BTW, there's a Dark Tower thread here (http://www.pinoyexchange.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=23287)

[Econ_major]

i like his newer books such as bag of bones and rose madder. like ko rin *** dreamcathcer pero di ko gaano gusto *** from a buck v8. i'm searching for a copy of everything's eventual but ala naman akong mahanap

[juve_grrrl10]

i saw copies of Everything's Eventual being sold at National..but that was before. haven't checked lately. baka naman sa Powerbooks or Goodwill meron.

[pagan]

tried reading Gerald's Game. i quit after 40 or so pages. di ko type!

i'm 1/3s into Hearts in Atlantis. mukhang matatapos ko. maganda pagkakasulat eh. tsaka ayos yung story. :)

[kuyaberts]

Stephen King is okay for me but I don't like all of his books. Those I like the best are The Shining, The Dead Zone and Cujo. And maybe even Tommyknockers. :D

[rors]

i have stephen king books for sale. you can text me at 09175415294 or email me :)

[joe_cool]

Originally posted by juve_grrrl10
sana i-release na yung DT5:Wolves of Calla dito. gusto ko nang malaman kung anong mangyayari kina Roland, etc.

BTW, there's a Dark Tower thread here (http://www.pinoyexchange.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=23287)

i saw DT5 sa natio glorietta the other day... hardbound and as expected, expensive sya... na te2mpt kong bilhin kaso naka2-walang gana *** artcover! parang pang shake rattle and roll!

:cool:

[juve_grrrl10]

wow may DT5 na? naku hardcover pa pala,mahal nga yun. baka ito yung cover art na nakita ko na binago na nila. hindi ko rin nga gusto ko, mas gusto ko yung dati. matingnan nga sa NBS dito kung meron na... pero kung unappealing talaga yung cover, parang petty reason naman ano? wala na siguro tayong magagawa at ang importante naman yung story!!! oh wow, i can't wait to meet roland and the gang again!!! :D

ito pala yung DT thread dito: Has anyone read The Dark Tower by Stephen King? (http://www.pinoyexchange.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=23287)

[juve_grrrl10]

December 22, 2003

Stephen King Home from Hospital

Horror novelist Stephen King has left hospital and is now recovering at home after a battle with pneumonia. The Salem's Lot scribe underwent surgery at the Eastern Maine Medical Center in America to remove fluid and scar tissue from one of his lungs, and spent a total of 25 days in medical care. King's spokesperson says, "He's home and on the mend. He's happy to be home for the holidays." King was diagnosed with the illness in November and further complications arose from injuries he sustained in a dramatic car accident four years ago, which left him with a punctured lung among other injuries.

[joe_cool]

Originally posted by juve_grrrl10
wow may DT5 na? naku hardcover pa pala,mahal nga yun. baka ito yung cover art na nakita ko na binago na nila. hindi ko rin nga gusto ko, mas gusto ko yung dati. matingnan nga sa NBS dito kung meron na... pero kung unappealing talaga yung cover, parang petty reason naman ano? wala na siguro tayong magagawa at ang importante naman yung story!!! oh wow, i can't wait to meet roland and the gang again!!! :D

ito pala yung DT thread dito: Has anyone read The Dark Tower by Stephen King? (http://www.pinoyexchange.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=23287)

"do not judge a book by its cover" ika nga... :D

pero syempre, anticipated na maganda na *** story, kaya dapat gandahan nila *** cover kahit papano! hehehe...

hihintayin ko nalang *** release ng paperback (at medyo matagal2 rin un), and while im at it, ire3ad ko *** DT1-4 dahil peste itong short term memory ko!!!!

well, i hope you find the book!

:cool:

[juve_grrrl10]

a friend already got the DT5 hardcover. i'll prolly just borrow it from her in the meantime :D

[SoliduS_AlphA]

di pa ako nakakabasa kahit isa sa DT,but I recall the story of this
tak policeman,I mean the book Desperation,its got horrible
scenes and gruesome murders,when I was reading the part where they came into the station I almost vomit,sobrang lakas ng imagination ko about that scenario.

[juve_grrrl10]

the latest on SK:

STEWART O’NAN AND STEPHEN KING TO COLLABORATE ON CHRONICLE OF BOSTON RED SOX ’04 SEASON
Writers to Create A Fan’s Notes for the Ages, in Book from Scribner, Due in Late ‘04

The 2004 season is the most hotly anticipated in recent baseball history. No team has a more central place in the story than the Red Sox--boys of summer with still new ownership, a new wunderkind General Manager, a new field manager, post-season trades for high-priced talent, the memory of their heartbreaking ’03 finish, and their on-going and legendary rivalry with the New York Yankees.

Stewart O’Nan and Stephen King, lifelong Red Sox addicts, will chronicle the season from spring training and Opening Day through to the highly anticipated events of the fall, in a hardcover book that Scribner will publish in late ‘04. They’ll go to some games together and each will keep a diary. They’ll argue or agree about plays and trades, and the result will be a fan’s notes for the ages.

[DeadPoet062783]

i have been a stephen king fan since i was in grade school...

ang unang sk book na nabasa ko ay salem's lot..


ngayon, malapit ko nang makumpleto ang lahat ng books nya...

mahal ko si stephen king...

fave book ko ay hearts in atlantis...

[ooooooooooooooo]

:)

[ooooooooooooooo]

Also a Stephen King fan here!
My favorites include: The Jaunt, Survivor Type (both from the Skeleton Crew), Desperation and the one I'm reading right now -> The Talisman, ang haba nga lang sobrang liit pa ng font pero ok lang sobrang sulit naman e

[baby_07]

Isa lang nabasa kong novel niya e. Christine. :)

[kylie_minogue]

i have a lot of stephen king books pero d ko pa nababasa *** lahat. makapal kasi eh! :glee:

[juve_grrrl10]

nagrereklamo kasi ako dito na walang magawa sa bahay, tapos atat akong magbasa ng libro kaso wala pa akong nabibiling bago. tapos na-realize ko pagkakita ko sa thread na ito... i could just reread my SK!!! and i could do it now in chronological order since i've finally completed collecting his earlier works :bounce:

[dairycreamer]

i have a lot of stephne king books, nag-umpisa akong ibili ng mom ko nung elementary. i remember people would go, "wow, stephen king" if they wud see me read.

i recently had rose madder. it was creepy!

[my_SeBaSTiaNnE]

I have a couple of Stephen King's books... I remember the first novel I bought, IT... My friend was raving about it... I was scared when I was reading it. Parang ayaw ko nang tapusin sa takot.. :)

I also have Needful Things and other... I'm eyeing the collection of short stories Everything's Eventual but when I tried to look back in PB, ala na... :( sana magka-stock ulit sila....

[«FickleMinded»]

http://www.miamihost.net/ims/u/SweetPea_no8/Dolls/lightoflife2.gif
:imu:I have three Stephen King's Book (Everything's Eventual , The Buick ),the second one really scared the hell out of me, as in napapanaginipan ko pa, kaya I need to stop reading from time to time,meron din ako yung Kingdom Hospital,hindi ko pa nababasa kasi natatakot ako eh, :belat:
gusto ko rin bilhin itong isa na ito, pero naduduwag pa rin ako magbasa (duwag talaga! :bonkself: )
http://www.mysteryguild.com/doc/mys/GlobalData/GlobalImages/BookJacketsLarge/658864_lg.jpg
ito ang pinaka-latest nya eh.

[juve_grrrl10]

um, what do you mean "latest"? latest mong nabiling SK book, o latest SK book out? kung yung huli eh ang alam kong pinaka-recently published SK book ay DT5: The Wolves of the Calla. Di ba this year na huling maglalabas ng mga SK books, tatapusin na lang ang Dark Tower series. DT6 will be out mid-2004 and DT7 before the year ends. Four Past Midnight was published in 1990 :)

[«FickleMinded»]

http://www.miamihost.net/ims/u/SweetPea_no8/Dolls/lightoflife2.gif
:imu:ah,ok,sorry,i'm not updated, I only got the info from my bookclub. :)

[SoliduS_AlphA]

I wonder why SK books are so good when you read but when they turn into movies some of them sucked.

[kuyaberts]

yeah, but there are some exceptions.

i like stanley kubrick's adaptation of The Shining

and The Shawshank Redemption is also good

[McMah0n]

i used to be a huge stephen king fan. pero nung binasa ko yung mga current books niya, la lang, parang yung iba boring....and weak yung plot. his weirdest book will prolly be the dreamcatcher.

my fave sk works will be the shining and misery

[juve_grrrl10]

that's a big reason why he says he's retiring: kasi nagiging paulit-ulit na daw ang mga kwento niya ngayon. parang sa From a Buick 8 daw nag-full circle na siya, kasi may Christine na noon di ba? haven't read Dreamcatcher so i can't have an opinion on that, but From a Buick 8 was pretty good, esp since it's somewhat related to the Dark Tower series

[observer]

I like the Dark Tower Series, IT, and The Last Stand.

Yung IT is so scary.

The Last Stand is a great adventure.

The Dark Tower Series is engrossing.

I hope SK gets a second wind in writing...

[ridges]

Read almost half of his books (one of the constant reader). I consider him a good writer because he really deals with the details e.g. gives the right atmosphere all the time besides, his stories are varied. I think I like his short stories the most. The Shining is a page turner. Different Season is another genre. Like most authors there are hits and there are misses. Can't complain, he's still the master storyteller for me.

[juve_grrrl10]

Kingdom Hospital will be aired by AXN!!! creepy nung commercials nila...

[pukits]

Originally posted by SoliduS_AlphA
I wonder why SK books are so good when you read but when they turn into movies some of them sucked.


This is true but like what was also posted above, some of them turned out really good, including "Stand By Me".

It's ironic, though, that those movies' screenplays were not written by King himself.

[hot_x]

THE STAND lang po. hindi The LAST Stand.

anyhow, my favorite books would still be:

MISERY (best villain: Annie Wilkes)
THE STAND (longest book, 2nd BEST Villain)
IT (best cast of kids in a book)
DIFFERENT SEASONS (hindi 'to horror, except for the last quarter)
ON WRITING (best piece of non-fiction for starting writers...)

[hot_x]

the Secret Window movie was dry, unlike the novella it was based on...

[hot_x]

ba't parang wala nang fans sa message board?
ako na lang natira,,

[Hot Pants]

me!

i've been a Constant Reader since I was in high school . last Stephen King book i've read was The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass. reading the first three DT books is not really necessary to enjoy this one(there's a summary anyway). believe it or not, stephen king wrote a love story. :D and it was good! definitely a tearjerker(i did not cry though... honest!).

by the way, Constant Readers should have known by now that his stories are weaved into the same universe. there was an article in Dreamcatcher about what happened to the main character in Dark Half after a few months starting from the ending of that story.

i'm also very interested about Flagg. it seems like he's the main evilbringer throughout the generations in King's world. he was in The Eyes of the Dragon, The Stand and Dark Tower Series. he also comes in different names. will you guys tell me the other books that he appeared in?

... and yeah, King is also a Red Sox fan like me. :D

[Hot Pants]

Originally posted by SoliduS_AlphA
I wonder why SK books are so good when you read but when they turn into movies some of them sucked.

soli mo na Desperation ko saka iyung Dark Half! :D

[mastercat]

i prefer the "classic" king books to his newer ones. i've re-read IT and TALISMAN (written with Peter Straub) quite a few times.

freak that i am, i'm re-reading THE STAND for the nth time, but the complete and uncut version this time around.

PS- no amount of money will get me to read SALEM'S LOT once more. i do not want to sleep with the blanket wrapped around my neck again! :D

[Hot Pants]

i got the hots for Frannie Goldsmith. :D

[juve_grrrl10]

mastercat, Salem's Lot is definitely among King's scariest books! Kahit yung short story na Jerusalem's Lot, takot din ako dun... :eek: Pet Sematary is also another v. scary book.:

[mastercat]

maybe there should be a poll as to which king book is the scariest!

[juve_grrrl10]

i learned from the SK site newsletter that SK made two TV appearances to promote his NEW BOOK "Faithful" co-authored with Stewart O’Nan.

hmmm...akala ko ba nag-retire na siya? not that i'm complaining, just wondering. o baka co-authoring doesn't count?

[DeadPoet062783]

hearts in atlantis is my favorite sk novel.

i just finished rereading the dead zone.

[cyberpunk]

i love the shining...

saka yung mga novellas at short stories nya, magaganda... particularly The Raft...

[Hot Pants]

Stephen King's acceptance speech in receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award from The National Book Awards 2003:

Thank you very much. Thank you all. Thank you for the applause and thank you for coming. I'm delighted to be here but, as I've said before in the last five years, I'm delighted to be anywhere.

This isn't in my speech so don't take it out of my allotted time. There are some people who have spoken out passionately about giving me this medal. There are some people who think it's an extraordinarily bad idea. There have been some people who have spoken out who think it's an extraordinarily good idea. You know who you are and where you stand and most of you who are here tonight are on my side. I'm glad for that. But I want to say it doesn't matter in a sense which side you were on. The people who speak out, speak out because they are passionate about the book, about the word, about the page and, in that sense, we're all brothers and sisters. Give yourself a hand.

Now as for my remarks. The only person who understands how much this award means to me is my wife, Tabitha. I was a writer when I met her in 1967 but my only venue was the campus newspaper where I published a rude weekly column. It turned me into a bit of a celebrity but I was a poor one, scraping through college thanks to a jury-rigged package of loans and scholarships.

A friend of Tabitha Spruce pointed me out to her one winter day as I crossed the mall in my jeans and cut-down green rubber boots. I had a bushy black beard. I hadn't had my hair cut in two years and I looked like Charlie Manson. My wife-to-be clasped her hands between her breasts and said, "I think I'm in love" in a tone dripping with sarcasm.

Tabby Spruce had no more money than I did but with sarcasm she was loaded. When we married in 1971, we already had one child. By the middle of 1972, we had a pair. I taught school and worked in a laundry during the summer. Tabby worked for Dunkin' Donuts. When she was working, I took care of the kids. When I was working, it was vice versa. And writing was always an undisputed part of that work. Tabby finished the first book of our marriage, a slim but wonderful book of poetry called Grimoire.

This is a very atypical audience, one passionately dedicated to books and to the word. Most of the world, however, sees writing as a fairly useless occupation. I've even heard it called mental masturbation, once or twice by people in my family. I never heard that from my wife. She'd read my stuff and felt certain I'd some day support us by writing full time, instead of standing in front of a blackboard and spouting on about Jack London and Ogden Nash. She never made a big deal of this. It was just a fact of our lives. We lived in a trailer and she made a writing space for me in the tiny laundry room with a desk and her Olivetti portable between the washer and dryer. She still tells people I married her for that typewriter but that's only partly true. I married her because I loved her and because we got on as well out of bed as in it. The typewriter was a factor, though.

When I gave up on Carrie, it was Tabby who rescued the first few pages of single spaced manuscript from the wastebasket, told me it was good, said I ought to go on. When I told her I didn't know how to go on, she helped me out with the girls' locker room stuff. There were no inspiring speeches. Tabby does sarcasm, Tabby doesn't do inspiration, never has. It was just "this is pretty good, you ought to keep it going." That was all I needed and she knew it.

There were some hard, dark years before Carrie. We had two kids and no money. We rotated the bills, paying on different ones each month. I kept our car, an old Buick, going with duct tape and bailing wire. It was a time when my wife might have been expected to say, "Why don't you quit spending three hours a night in the laundry room, Steve, smoking cigarettes and drinking beer we can't afford? Why don't you get an actual job?"

Okay, this is the real stuff. If she'd asked, I almost certainly would have done it. And then am I standing up here tonight, making a speech, accepting the award, wearing a radar dish around my neck? Maybe. More likely not. In fact, the subject of moonlighting did come up once. The head of the English department where I taught told me that the debate club was going to need a new faculty advisor and he put me up for the job if I wanted. It would pay $300 per school year which doesn't sound like much but my yearly take in 1973 was only $6,600 and $300 equaled ten weeks worth of groceries.

The English department head told me he'd need my decision by the end of the week. When I told Tabby about the opening, she asked if I'd still have time to write. I told her not as much. Her response to that was unequivocal, "Well then, you can't take it."

One of the few times during the early years of our marriage I saw my wife cry really hard was when I told her that a paperback publisher, New American Library, had paid a ton of money for the book she'd rescued from the trash. I could quit teaching, she could quit pushing crullers at Dunkin' Donuts. She looked almost unbelieving for five seconds and then she put her hands over her face and she wept. When she finally stopped, we went into the living room and sat on our old couch, which Tabby had rescued from a yard sale, and talked into the early hours of the morning about what we were going to do with the money. I've never had a more pleasant conversation. I have never had one that felt more surreal.

My point is that Tabby always knew what I was supposed to be doing and she believed that I would succeed at it. There is a time in the lives of most writers when they are vulnerable, when the vivid dreams and ambitions of childhood seem to pale in the harsh sunlight of what we call the real world. In short, there's a time when things can go either way.
That vulnerable time for me came during 1971 to 1973. If my wife had suggested to me even with love and kindness and gentleness rather than her more common wit and good natured sarcasm that the time had come to put my dreams away and support my family, I would have done that with no complaint. I believe that on some level of thought I was expecting to have that conversation. If she had suggested that you can't buy a loaf of bread or a tube of toothpaste with rejection slips, I would have gone out and found a part time job.

Tabby has told me since that it never crossed her mind to have such a conversation. You had a second job, she said, in the laundry room with my typewriter. I hope you know, Tabby, that they are clapping for you and not for me. Stand up so they can see you, please. Thank you. Thank you. I did not let her see this speech, and I will hear about this later.

Now, there are lots of people who will tell you that anyone who writes genre fiction or any kind of fiction that tells a story is in it for the money and nothing else. It's a lie. The idea that all storytellers are in it for the money is untrue but it is still hurtful, it's infuriating and it's demeaning. I never in my life wrote a single word for money. As badly as we needed money, I never wrote for money. From those early days to this gala black tie night, I never once sat down at my desk thinking today I'm going to make a hundred grand. Or this story will make a great movie. If I had tried to write with those things in mind, I believe I would have sold my birthright for a plot of message, as the old pun has it. Either way, Tabby and I would still be living in a trailer or an equivalent, a boat. My wife knows the importance of this award isn't the recognition of being a great writer or even a good writer but the recognition of being an honest writer.

Frank Norris, the author of McTeague, said something like this: "What should I care if they, i.e., the critics, single me out for sneers and laughter? I never truckled, I never lied. I told the truth." And that's always been the bottom line for me. The story and the people in it may be make believe but I need to ask myself over and over if I've told the truth about the way real people would behave in a similar situation.

Of course, I only have my own senses, experiences and reading to draw on but that usually - not always but usually - usually it's enough. It gets the job done. For instance, if an elevator full of people, one of the ones in this very building - I want you to think about this later, I want you to think about it - if it starts to vibrate and you hear those clanks - this probably won't happen but we all know it has happened, it could happen. It could happen to me or it could happen to you. Someone always wins the lottery. Just put it away for now until you go up to your rooms later. Anyway, if an elevator full of people starts free-falling from the 35th floor of the skyscraper all the way to the bottom, one of those view elevators, perhaps, where you can watch it happening, in my opinion, no one is going to say, "Goodbye, Neil, I will see you in heaven." In my book or my short story, they're far more apt to bellow, "Oh ****" at the top of their lungs because what I've read and heard tends to confirm the "Oh ****" choice. If that makes me a cynic, so be it.

I remember a story on the nightly news about an airliner that crashed killing all aboard. The so-called black box was recovered and we have the pilot's immortal last four words: "Son of a *****". Of course, there was another plane that crashed and the black box recorder said, "Goodbye, Mother," which is a nicer way to go out, I think.

Folks are far more apt to go out with a surprised ejaculation, however, then an expiring abjuration like, "Marry her, Jake. Bible says it ain't good for a man to be alone." If I happen to be the writer of such a death bed scene, I'd choose "Son of a *****" over "Marry her, Jake" every time. We understand that fiction is a lie to begin with. To ignore the truth inside the lie is to sin against the craft, in general, and one's own work in particular.

I'm sure I've made the wrong choices from time to time. Doesn't the Bible say something like, "for all have sinned and come short of the glory of Chaucer?" But every time I did it, I was sorry. Sorry is cheap, though. I have revised the lie out if I could and that's far more important. When readers are deeply entranced by a story, they forget the storyteller completely. The tale is all they care about.

But the storyteller cannot afford to forget and must always be ready to hold himself or herself to account. He or she needs to remember that the truth lends verisimilitude to the lies that surround it. If you tell your reader, "Sometimes chickens will pick out the weakest one in the flock and peck it to death," the truth, the reader is much more likely to go along with you than if you then add something like, "Such chickens often meld into the earth after their deaths."

How stringently the writer holds to the truth inside the lie is one of the ways that he can judge how seriously he takes his craft. My wife, who doesn't seem to know how to a lie even in a social context where people routinely say things like, "You look wonderful, have you lost weight?" has always understood these things without needing to have them spelled out. She's what the Bible calls a pearl beyond price. She also understands why I was in those early days so often bitterly angry at writers who were considered "literary." I knew I didn't have quite enough talent or polish to be one of them so there was an element of jealousy, but I was also infuriated by how these writers always seemed to have the inside track in my view at that time.

Even a note in the acknowledgments page of a novel thanking the this or that foundation for its generous assistance was enough to set me off. I knew what it meant, I told my wife. It was the Old Boy Network at work. It was this, it was that, on and on and blah, blah, blah. It is only in retrospect that I realize how much I sounded like my least favorite uncle who believed there really was an international Jewish cabal running everything from the Ford Motor Company to the Federal Reserve.

Tabitha listened to a fair amount of this pissing and moaning and finally told me to stop with the breast beating. She said to save my self-pity and turn my energy to the typewriter. She paused and then added, my typewriter. I did because she was right and my anger played much better when channeled into about a dozen stories which I wrote in 1973 and early 1974. Not all of them were good but most of them were honest and I realized an amazing thing: Readers of the men's magazines where I was published were remembering my name and starting to look for it. I could hardly believe it but it appeared that people wanted to read what I was writing. There's never been a thrill in my life to equal that one. With Tabby's help, I was able to put aside my useless jealousy and get writing again. I sold more of my short stories. I sold Carrie and the rest, as they say, is history.

There's been a certain amount of grumbling about the decision to give the award to me and since so much of this speech has been about my wife, I wanted to give you her opinion on the subject. She's read everything I've written, making her something of an expert, and her view of my work is loving but unsentimental. Tabby says I deserve the medal not just because some good movies were made from my stories or because I've provided high motivational reading material for slow learners, she says I deserve the medal because I am a, quote, "Damn good writer".

I've tried to improve myself with every book and find the truth inside the lie. Sometimes I have succeeded. I salute the National Book Foundation Board, who took a huge risk in giving this award to a man many people see as a rich hack. For far too long the so-called popular writers of this country and the so-called literary writers have stared at each other with animosity and a willful lack of understanding. This is the way it has always been. Witness my childish resentment of anyone who ever got a Guggenheim.

But giving an award like this to a guy like me suggests that in the future things don't have to be the way they've always been. Bridges can be built between the so-called popular fiction and the so-called literary fiction. The first gainers in such a widening of interest would be the readers, of course, which is us because writers are almost always readers and listeners first. You have been very good and patient listeners and I'm going to let you go soon but I'd like to say one more thing before I do.

Tokenism is not allowed. You can't sit back, give a self satisfied sigh and say, "Ah, that takes care of the troublesome pop lit question. In another twenty years or perhaps thirty, we'll give this award to another writer who sells enough books to make the best seller lists." It's not good enough. Nor do I have any patience with or use for those who make a point of pride in saying they've never read anything by John Grisham, Tom Clancy, Mary Higgins Clark or any other popular writer.

What do you think? You get social or academic brownie points for deliberately staying out of touch with your own culture? Never in life, as Capt. Lucky Jack Aubrey would say. And if your only point of reference for Jack Aubrey is the Australian actor, Russell Crowe, shame on you.
There's a writer here tonight, my old friend and some time collaborator, Peter Straub. He's just published what may be the best book of his career. Lost Boy Lost Girl surely deserves your consideration for the NBA short list next year, if not the award itself. Have you read it? Have any of the judges read it?

There's another writer here tonight who writes under the name of Jack Ketchum and he has also written what may be the best book of his career, a long novella called The Crossings. Have you read it? Have any of the judges read it? And yet Jack Ketchum's first novel, Off Season published in 1980, set off a furor in my supposed field, that of horror, that was unequaled until the advent of Clive Barker. It is not too much to say that these two gentlemen remade the face of American popular fiction and yet very few people here will have an idea of who I'm talking about or have read the work.

This is not criticism, it's just me pointing out a blind spot in the winnowing process and in the very act of reading the fiction of one's own culture. Honoring me is a step in a different direction, a fruitful one, I think. I'm asking you, almost begging you, not to go back to the old way of doing things. There's a great deal of good stuff out there and not all of it is being done by writers whose work is regularly reviewed in the Sunday New York Times Book Review. I believe the time comes when you must be inclusive rather than exclusive.
That said, I accept this award on behalf of such disparate writers as Elmore Leonard, Peter Straub, Nora Lofts, Jack Ketchum, whose real name is Dallas Mayr, Jodi Picoult, Greg Iles, John Grisham, Dennis Lehane, Michael Connolly, Pete Hamill and a dozen more. I hope that the National Book Award judges, past, present and future, will read these writers and that the books will open their eyes to a whole new realm of American literature. You don't have to vote for them, just read them.

Okay, thanks for bearing with me. This is the last page? This is it. Parting is such sweet sorrow. My message is simple enough. We can build bridges between the popular and the literary if we keep our minds and hearts open. With my wife's help, I have tried to do that. Now I'm going to turn the actual medal over to her because she will make sure in all the excitement that it doesn't get lost.

In closing, I want to say that I hope you all find something good to read tonight or tomorrow. I want to salute all the nominees in the four categories that are up for consideration and I do, I hope you'll find something to read that will fill you up as this evening as filled me up. Thank you.

[Hot Pants]

i can't find wolves of the calla anywhere!!

[angelbloodzero]

im reading his non-fiction book "On Writing" now...

[meru-chan]

I got curious on Salem's Lot(when it was referred by darren shan as one of his fav books) so i read it and i agree it's scary..O_o; and i didn't think i'd be.

[DeadPoet062783]

may nakita akong hardbound ng wolves of calla sa NBS sm north pero ngayong wala na e. siguro try mo nalang bumili nun online :D

tapos ko na basahin yung on writing :D

idol ko talaga si sk :D

[mastercat]

If you're a true King fan, you know who Flagg is. For those of you wondering what he is, there's a nice entry on R.F. (aka The Walking Dude) in Wikipedia.

Check it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Flagg

[juve_grrrl10]

got this from the SK mailing list. akala ko ba nag-"retire" na si SK? or maybe it doesn't count since he's writing for a company/series? anyhow, still cool that King did this :bookworm2:


New Book by Stephen King To Kick Off Hard Case Crime’s Second Year

2005-2006 Lineup Also Includes Lawrence Block, Donald Hamilton, Ed McBain and Donald E. Westlake

New York (February 28, 2005) – Winterfall LLC, creator of the celebrated Hard Case Crime line of pulp-style paperback crime novels, today announced that a new book by Stephen King will be the lead title of the line’s second year. The Colorado Kid tells the story of two veteran newspapermen and their investigation into the mysterious death of a man on an island off the coast of Maine. The book was written specifically for Hard Case Crime and has never previously been published. One of the most beloved storytellers of all time, Stephen King is the world’s best-selling novelist, with more than 300,000,000 books in print.

Launched in September 2004 by novelists and pulp mavens Charles Ardai and Max Phillips (and recently nominated for two Edgar Allan Poe Awards by the Mystery Writers of America), Hard Case Crime revives the storytelling and visual style of the great pulp paperbacks of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. The line features an exciting mix of lost pulp masterpieces from some of the most acclaimed crime writers of all time and gripping new novels from the next generation of great hardboiled authors, all with new painted covers in the grand pulp style. Authors range from current best-sellers such as Lawrence Block, Max Allan Collins, Ed McBain, and Donald E. Westlake to Golden Age stars like Erle Stanley Gardner (creator of “Perry Mason”), Donald Hamilton (creator of “Matt Helm”), Wade Miller (author of Touch of Evil), and David Dodge (author of To Catch a Thief).

Cover artists include the legendary Robert McGinnis, creator of the posters for the original Sean Connery James Bond movies, as well as other award-winning painters chosen for their ability to work in the vivid and dramatic style that made pulp paperbacks so memorable. After seeing samples of Hard Case Crime’s books, Mickey Spillane – creator of Mike Hammer and one of the best-selling paperback writers of all time – wrote, “Those covers brought me right back to the good old days.”

The Colorado Kid will be published in October 2005 in the classic pocket-sized mass-market paperback format in which hundreds of millions of books were sold during the heyday of pulp fiction. The book will be published through Winterfall’s ongoing collaboration with Dorchester Publishing, the oldest independent mass-market publisher in the United States. The book will also be available in audiobook and e-book editions from Simon & Schuster, publisher of Stephen King’s work since 1998.

“Steve is an extraordinary writer, and as much a fan of classic paperback crime fiction as we are,” said Charles Ardai, Hard Case Crime’s editor. “We originally contacted him to see if he’d be willing to write a blurb for our line, and he decided that what he really wanted to do was write a book for us instead. We’re thrilled that he wanted to be part of Hard Case Crime and we’re very excited to get to introduce the world to the baffling mystery of The Colorado Kid.”

“This is an exciting line of books,” Stephen King commented, “and I'm delighted to be a part of it. Hard Case Crime presents good, clean, bare-knuckled storytelling, and even though The Colorado Kid is probably more bleu than outright noir, I think it has some of those old-fashioned kick-*** story-telling virtues. It ought to; this is where I started out, and I'm pleased to be back.”

Since its debut in 2004, Hard Case Crime has been the subject of enthusiastic coverage by a wide range of publications including The New York Times, USA Today, Vanity Fair, Playboy, U.S. News & World Report, BusinessWeek, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Houston Chronicle, New York magazine, the New York Post and Daily News, Salon, Publishers Weekly and USA Weekend, as well as numerous other magazines, newspapers, and online media outlets. The Chicago Sun-Times wrote, “Hard Case Crime is doing a wonderful job publishing both classic and contemporary ‘pulp’ novels in a crisp new format with beautiful, period-style covers. These modern ‘penny dreadfuls’ are worth every dime.” Playboy praised Hard Case Crime’s “lost masterpieces,” writing “They put to shame the work of modern mystery writers whose plots rely on cell phones and terrorists.” And the Philadelphia City Paper wrote, “Tired of overblown, doorstop-sized thrillers…? You’ve come to the right place. Hard Case novels are as spare and as honest as a sock in the jaw.”

Hard Case Crime is scheduled to publish nine books in 2005, increasing to a schedule of one title per month in 2006. The next two titles in the line, due in stores at the start of March, are Home Is the Sailor by 1950s pulp master Day Keene and Kiss Her Goodbye, an original novel set on the mean streets of Edinburgh, by the rising young Scottish noir stylist Allan Guthrie.

For information about these and other forthcoming titles or to sign up for the Hard Case Crime mailing list, visit www.HardCaseCrime.com.

[Solamnic_Knight]

shall we start a book club? hehe

[angelbloodzero]

saw wolves of calla in powerbooks greenbelt. anyways, nah, i dont think uncle stephen CAN retire. he may try but he just cant.

spew!

[cliff_simon]

Para sa akin heto ang mga pinakanakakatakot na books niya:

Non-chronologicaly:

IT
'Salem's Lot
Four Past Midnight
The Stand
The Shining
Pet Sematary
Rose Madder

I've got most of his books except for recent ones.

[prettyportrait]

hello! im also a stephen king fan... di ko pa nabasa lahat, cant find time yet pero im collecting the titles na...

so far fave ko pa rin tlg *** apt pupil!

[SoliduS_AlphA]

Tak can tah!

[Nivla_Poa]

Stephen King isn't one of my favorite writers, since I hate some and love some of his works, but some of his books are among my favorites.

Scariest Stephen King book for me was Salem's Lot. Pet Sematary came close, but the words of Salem's Lot still haunts me... particularly the one about "the sweet laughter of a child".

Eyes of the Dragon was probably the easiest book of his I ever read. It was very good.

I honestly don't know why I can't finish "Dreamcatcher". It reads so slow... dragging.

I personally think Stephen King is the best when writing short stories. Apt Pupil is the best, but there's this one story which title escapes me at the moment where a woman places a call to herself in the past? Still makes me wonder.

[nozmail]

Randall Flagg, he was that bad guy from The Stand.

I'm currently reading On Writing.

[kylie_minogue]

I have the Rose Madder book pero i wasn't keen on reading thick books that time kaya d ko natapos so i lent it to my friend. She said it was ok. Now i have to find that book so that i can finish reading it! Dang!

[deejaye_11]

stephen king is one of my favorite authors.. haven't read all of his novels though..

gusto ko *** books niya na mga nabasa ko... but i like "The Green Mile" the most... :)

[the_icewolf]

the best sa king yung different seasons. hope springs eternal... about andy dufersne...

langoliers very good din saka yung tv movie na storm of the century, "give me what i want and i will go away".

salems lot? pinakamasaya na part yung si ben at yung doktor asa morgue, tapos naging bampira na si mrs. glick.

sa dark tower series naman, yung wastelands, lalo na yung nakasakay na sila ke blaine. i anticipated the next novel to very good. and it was! (wizard and glass)...

iba talaga gumawa ng story si stephen...

[monicai]

Randall Flagg hehehehe. Brings back memories when I read The Stand and even watched its TV adaptation starring Gary Sinise and Molly Ringwald. Randall Flagg was wearing his hair long during those times. Even saw Stephen King doing a cameo like he always does.

I love his short stories especially in "The Graveyard Shift" and "Nightmares and Dreamscapes"

[louise014]

i love On Writing and The Green Mile though it's kinda long...
*okay* i am his avid reader!

[joross01]

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[two_eggs]

never finished reading "Firestarter"

[Econ_major]

actually, maganda *** firestarter, hindi *** *** ganun kaliga ng salems lot... i really love it when charlie mcgee lets loose her power and creates inferno in the barn... grabe...

favorite part sa salem's lot: the confrontation between barlow and the priest... grabe... and also ben pounding the steak to susan...

[Econ_major]

fave stephen king books:

It
Rose Madder
NEEDFUL THINGS !!!! the last Castle Rock story... sobrang ooomph !!! ganda
Pet Sematary
Carrie
Firestarter
'SALEM'S LOT. I think his best...

has any1 read the cell? *** bagong book

[the_icewolf]

NEEDFUL THINGS

yup, first few pages ang saya agad... sandy koufax rookie card? i have it here somewhere!!!

[boinks]

count me in!

Fan of Stephen Kings works (except the fantasy ones - Dark Towers)

[Jeques]

I am not a big Stephen king the horror-novelist fan, but one of my favorite books was written by Stephen king, and it is the only book I've read by him. Title is: On Writing A Memoir Of The Craft. I think It's a "must read" book for every aspiring would-be writer. And you will hear the gentle voice of this man, the author we know who wrote the many obscure stories, he showed his better side in this book.:)

[batinks13]

I've read The Tommyknockers, and it was the first thousand page book that I've read. Couldn't put that one down so I finished it in like three days.

I've also read Insomnia, the Dark Half, Gerald's Game and the most recent one, Desperation. May nakita nga ako na DVD ng Desperation on sale, I want to buy it para makita ko ang difference..:)

[lytblu]

i love stephen king. i have almost all his books. i like green mile the most. i also like the shining. there were some parts talaga na kinilabutan ako. haha. meron din iba na hindi ko natapos dahil nabore ako sa kwento like the dark tower series. i have the complete series kaya lang hanggang ngayon nasa book 2 pa rin ako. hehe. di ko kasi type yung ganon story eh. di ko din naman binili yun. it was a gift from my uncle. lisey's story--i started reading 2 months ago pero i stopped when i reached mga page 20+...boring din kasi eh. insomnia, the black house, tommyknockers...mga yan di ko din tinapos. pero lahat yan tatapusin ko din naman balang araw. sayang din kasi eh...

[ayane]

i love stephen king!

since he's published hundreds of books... i'm still just trying to collect them.

i'm in the first few dozen! :D

[juve_grrrl10]

thanks to my bookmates at work, we were finally able to finish The Dark Tower. i had DT4 and 5, another had DT6 and the other had DT7.

Thanks SK! It was really a great journey!!!

don't read the DT7 coda unless you have to...i wish i didn't! so i'll just try to block it out of my memory...

[albert_sy2]

DT7 was terrible!

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

WTF was that?

The best DT books were...

- Wizard and Glass
- Wolves of the Calla

The others were so-so and DT6 and DT7 were cr@p (BLASPHEMY!!!).
I'm one of SK's biggest fans, but DT7 was just a letdown.

[buffy17]

On Writing... hehe, i will now start going over my old SK books from Booksale

pero this guy's a genuis... hands down... and i agree, his short stories are the best.. what are his collections of short works by the way?

[buffy17]

On Writing... hehe, i will now start going over my old SK books from Booksale

pero this guy's a genuis... hands down... and i agree, his short stories are the best.. what are his collections of short works by the way?

[nozmail]

On Writing... hehe, i will now start going over my old SK books from Booksale

pero this guy's a genuis... hands down... and i agree, his short stories are the best.. what are his collections of short works by the way?

skeleton crew and everything's eventual. i don't know kung meron pang iba.*okay*

[buffy17]

skeleton crew and everything's eventual. i don't know kung meron pang iba.*okay*

na-excite akong i-rediscover si SK, so binasa ko ang isang story dun sa Everything's Eventual... yun 'the things you love will be taken away'... or something to that effect, can't remember the exact title

pero magaling siya sa short stories niya... yun Nightmares and Dreamscapes (?) collection din yun?

long live, haha

[nozmail]

currently reading four past midnight. four novellas like different seasons. only longer. ;)

[ooooooooooooooo]

..I personally think Stephen King is the best when writing short stories. Apt Pupil is the best, but there's this one story which title escapes me at the moment where a woman places a call to herself in the past? Still makes me wonder.

I think the title of that story is "Sorry, right number" nasa Nightmares and Dreamscapes siya :D

Favorite favorite author ko rin si Stephen King, sana pumunta siya dito sa Pinas kagaya ni Neil Gaiman heheh.. are there other horror authors na marerecommend niyo? Konti na lang yung di ko nabasa sa books niya e

[albert_sy2]

I've never read any other author as good as Stephen King in terms of pacing and narrative.

[burn_my_eyes]

i prefer the old stephen king novels. the new ones...seems not shephen king, more like ghost writer.

[albert_sy2]

When I read I couldn't believe it was a Stephen King. It SOUNDS different from his previous books.

[msvivendi]

Yes, Apt Pupil was creepy. Very effectively written. I also liked the novella Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption. On Writing is one of the most unpretentious (and useful) advice-to-young-writers books I've read. I remember recommending it to someone else and a third person who was at our table actually snorted. Snob. :) Some people turn their noses up at commercially successful writers without bothering to find out if they can actually write. And Mr. King certainly can.

[albert_sy2]

When I read I couldn't believe it was a Stephen King. It SOUNDS different from his previous books.

I was talking about CELL

[kylie_minogue]

i'm reading his needful things book now. i just saw it on a book sale. i hope it's good. from the summary at the back cover, it looks enticing. :)

[last.dodo.bird]

Hey guys, what can you say about his The Dark Tower series (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_(series))?

[albert_sy2]

Needful Things is a very angry book. I loved it!
The Dark Tower series is good, but the last book (#7) was a HUGE letdown.