09-21-2004, 07:13 PM
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unfortunatly I'll be waiting till it comes out in paperback or someone drops the hardback off at the used bookstore I frequent.
I remember MANY years ago reading the original version of the story that was printed in a sci-fi/fantasy magazine chapter by chapter each month years before it was re-written into the book format. so yes, I will be looking forward to it
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09-21-2004, 10:27 PM
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i bought it today, and can't wait to check it out, whoo hoo!!!!
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09-22-2004, 03:57 PM
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Originally Posted by wyndhy
there really are a lot of misconceptions about king's work. he's not all about scarey, supernatural, boogeyman under the bed writing. rita hayworth and the shawshank redemption comes to mind right now and there are tons of others, espesially his short stories. he is a master of the short story. and just a little fyi... there is a sort of pre-quel to the gunslinger series (besides the myriad books that tie into it in some way) and it's titled the eyes of the dragon, takes place a few generations "before the world moved on". not that i'm pimpin' for king, but i urge you to just give his stuff a try. scarey or not, you've got to admit the man is a first rate story-teller.
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Oh yeah wyndhy... Eyes of the Dragon is a real good tale.
And another King short story that people are familiar with, but often don't know is King's work, is The Body, known to most people by the film version, Stand By Me. Then there is the serial novel The Green Mile, also made into an excellent film.
Of course... he didn't become known for Horror without reason.  IT is pretty scary, and his short story The Mist actually had me afraid to turn out the lights before going to sleep. 
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09-22-2004, 04:01 PM
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IT is pretty scary.
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pretty scary??? iread that book in highschool, i.e. way past the age of monter-in-the-closet-fears, and was scared to sit on the toilet for two months.  |
09-22-2004, 04:02 PM
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actually had me afraid to turn out the lights before going to sleep. |
AHA!!!!
So you HAVE slept with my wife! I knew it!
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09-22-2004, 04:11 PM
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LMAO @ WI!
Wyndhy ~ Did you see the TV movie of IT before reading it? I think that made it a little less scary... because I knew what was coming for the most part.
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09-22-2004, 04:32 PM
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pixie of the wood
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LMAO @ WI!
Wyndhy ~ Did you see the TV movie of IT before reading it? I think that made it a little less scary... because I knew what was coming for the most part.
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nope and i was sure pennywise was a-commin to get me.  i actually thought the movie wasn't all that much but prolly cause i read the book first and for the same reasons you had. plus the director and fx peeps could not come close ot what my immagination can do to me in a dark room with a scary book. and, i LOVED the mist. i wished it was novel instead of a short story when i finished it. after i read it we listened to the audio-tape and it was even scarier. the sound effects really creeped me out. |
09-22-2004, 09:10 PM
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The scariest/creep me out thing I have ever read was a simple paragraph from Danse Macabre.
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i meant to ask yesterday if this was because it was true. i never read danse macabre. it's about his thoughts on horror writting, right? is that why it was so disturbing, because it was real...or taken from real life anyway? |
09-22-2004, 09:21 PM
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I read it so long ago when I was on a King trip back in the 90's. There is a very short paragraph in it where he describe the terror of fumbling in the dark for a light switch and then having something reach out and move your hand closer to the switch. It was him describing how you take something that is already intense and then kick it up. I will not even try to turn the light on anymore. The possibility of it happening scares me more than the dark.
My son is 13 and I am not sure when I want to start letting him read his stuff. Anyone have a good suggestion as to what is the least sexual or graphically violent works?
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09-22-2004, 09:38 PM
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lil, the eyes of the dragon that i mentioned before is a book theat departs from kings' m.o. he actually wrote it for his daughter 'cause she didn't like his scary stuff, and it's got a great moral. check it out:
http://members.tripod.com/~charnelh...fthedragon.html
aside from steven king, the princess bride by william goldman and of course the harry potter series (i loved every one of these) by j k rowlings are all great books that challenge a kid to read something longer than a comic and deeper than the latest highlights magazine. |
09-22-2004, 09:59 PM
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Oh he's a crazy reader...has read allllllll the Hitchhiker's guides about 3 times now. I am trying to allow him to move to a tad more mature materials. He devours books and I love that about him. Makes it hard to ground him from electronics though cause he'd happily just read.
I want to figure ut which is the softest King yet still scary. He's been through much of Poe's stuff already. I'll check out the dragon book. |
09-22-2004, 10:12 PM
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ah, i see. i'm not sure what you mean by graphic. most of kings stuff isn't bloody and most of his stuff doesn't have much to do with sex either. okay. maybe tommyknockers or it or the girl who loved tom gordon? all scary books (although i'm not sure they can come close to poe on the creep-out scale ). it's great that your baby loves to read so much, you musta done somethin right! |
09-22-2004, 10:29 PM
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The opening scene of the Dark Tower picks up at the Dixie Pig where Jake and Pere are going in to find Susanna. They enter the pig to see...then Jake..and Pere...Ok I meant to spill my beans about what happens but I just can't do it!
Needless to say the opening scene is AWSOME!
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09-23-2004, 05:49 AM
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My son is 13 and I am not sure when I want to start letting him read his stuff. Anyone have a good suggestion as to what is the least sexual or graphically violent works?
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Lil..I always thought The Tallisman was a great book for younger readers. It's kind of in the fantasy realm more than anything. I think that's where I'd start.
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09-23-2004, 05:59 AM
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TY Eliza! I will check it out!
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