any STEPHEN KING fans out there?

[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!!!

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[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.

[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.

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[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.