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Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on August 08, 2006, 10:30:28 am ---Me too, Chrissi! And (more OT) I haven't read a Stephen King novel in probably 20 years.
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Now it's on me to say: me too! Well, for me it may be around 15 years, not 20.
--- Quote ---He comes off as smart but not smug, not snooty about his wealth or success, with ordinary interests and tastes but impressive insights about writing, a very likeable guy.
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That's interesting. To be honest, I never gave the author a second thought, but found him a bit unappealing just by his looks (yeah, I know 'don't judge a book by it's cover') and the fact he writes sooooo endlessly much. It's seems to me like a production-line in a car production.
--- Quote ---Also, to get slightly more on topic, you may also remember that King wrote a nice defense of BBM after the Oscars in Entertainment Weekly. If anyone's interested:
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/commentary/0,6115,1170378_1%7C%7C1145818_0_,00.html
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Thanks for this link. I read and enjoyed it. Yep, King indeed seems to be a very likable guy! And I liked his slightly humorous tone.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on August 09, 2006, 06:28:59 am --- It's seems to me like a production-line in a car production.
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That's for sure. And if his early books weren't great classics, I suspect his more recent books (though I haven't read any of them) aren't even that good. They must have suffered from that mass production.
But I think he took more care with "On Writing," or at least seemed to. As a writer myself, anyway, I enjoyed it. Great writer or not, King does have certain undeniable skills.
Andrew:
It's good to know about On Writing, I'll have to look it up. I have never read any King, mostly because I'm not interested in the genre he is best known for, also because I was put off by his style when I peeked into a few of his books. I was thinking of getting Different Seasons out of the library some time, since it contains the novellas The Body, a story of boys bonding on a woodland adventure, made into the film Stand by Me; and The Shawshank Redemption. These have been recommended as among his best stories for people who don't like his other books.
2robots4u:
Andrew...I'm a big King fan and have every one of his books in hardback, so naturally tiese last few postings caught my attention. Different Seasons is a good one to start with, and if you get hooked try Nightmares and Dreamscapes, Skelton Crew, Four ast Midnight, Danse Macabre or Everything's Eventual...they are all short story collections. In case you did not know, every one of his books have been made into movies. But, as has been referenced, his works are sometimes very deep and the subject matter grotesque. I love him..few do. Happy reading
Doug
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: [email protected] on August 10, 2006, 01:02:35 am --- In case you did not know, every one of his books have been made into movies.
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Wow. That I didn't know.
So Doug, I'm curious: does the Brokeback obsession syndrome remind YOU of The Stand?
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