any STEPHEN KING fans out there?

[juve_grrrl10]

This is God, no wonder!!! Dapat talaga chronological ang pagbasa mo sa DT...kaya nga series eh 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 .

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! 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]

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!

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?!

[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!

[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


stephen king rules

[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.

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....

[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...

[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?

[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?

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