[ebooktalk] Re: AN OLD FAVOURITE
- From: "Shell" <shell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 22:26:18 +0100
I tried the Dark Tower series and they were definitely not for me, but then
that's not really my genre of reading anyway, so it's not fare to comment. I
gave up on it anyway.
Shell.
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From: "David Russell" <david.russell8@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 10:09 PM
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Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: AN OLD FAVOURITE
> I have to say that I find King very patchy. When he is good he is really
> excellent, as in "The Stand" and "Bag of bones", but some of his books are
> totally unreadable, for me at least. One called "From a Buick 8" was one of
> the most boring books I have ever tried to read.
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> I rarely read him these days, but people keep suggesting I would enjoy the
> Dark Tower series. Maybe I will try one or two some time, but they are
> nowhere near the top of my list.
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> David
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> On Behalf Of Trish Talbot
> Sent: 21 April 2013 21:19
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> Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: AN OLD FAVOURITE
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> Yes, Ian, I would definitely agree that "The Shining" is one of his best
> books, of the ones I've read anyway. It was the first one I read, as I
> hadn't thought I would like Stephen King, and was surprised when I enjoyed
> it. I also liked "Misery" and "Gerald's Game". I found "Insomnia"
> painfully slow and boring, and there was another one I gave up on, whose
> title escapes me at the moment. I started "Dolores Claybourne" and can't
> remember now why I didn't finish it, but might give it another go.
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> Trish.
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> [mailto:ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Ian Macrae
> Sent: 21 April 2013 20:46
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> Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: AN OLD FAVOURITE
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> Don't recognise that title Shell, but The Shining is one of his best. In
> fact, much of his good stuff is about writers of whom Jack Torrence is one.
> Some time ago I read an interview with the actor who played Lloyd the barman
> in the Kubrick film and he described how Jack Nicholson deliberately took
> torrence over the top in the first scene when the Overlook starts coming
> back to life. For anyone interested in giving King a go while steering well
> clear of the out-and-out horror stuff, I'd really recommend Delores
> Claiborne. Yet another brilliantly conceived and constructed story
> masterfully told. For anyone less faint-hearted, Misery is a great book and
> also a great film with a memorable performance from Kathy bates.
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> On 21 Apr 2013, at 19:59, Shell wrote:
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> Hi Ian,
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> I have to admit that I'm not a Stephen King fan. I enjoyed some of his
> earlier books and would still like to read The Shining as it's one of my top
> ten favourite films. I remember reading a strange book by him many years
> ago called something like the Eyes of the dragon I think, but that could be
> wrong. I think I read it on calibre casettes, so that must be a fair few
> years ago. I enjoyed that one enormously, though it's not my usual type of
> book.
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> Shell.
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> From: "Ian Macrae" <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 6:52 PM
> To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [ebooktalk] AN OLD FAVOURITE
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>> Some people here will know that I'm a fan of Stephen King. Having read
> almost everything he's written, I'm not though uncritical. He admits
> himself to having written Somme of his books while the balance of his mind
> was chemically disturbed by recreational drugs of one sort or another. But
> I've just finished a book which has confirmed my belief that King is one of
> the great story tellers of literature. Many of his books are very long.
> But writing under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, he wrote a number of
> shorter novels which have been published as The bachman books parts one and
> two. I've read two of these since yesterday lunchtime. The first, rage,
> was drawn to my attention by a message to the RNIB TB list because there's a
> story going round that King wants to take the book out of print because its
> subject matter concerns a school shooting and it's apparently been found in
> the possession of recent people who've undertaken similar activity. I have
> to say I found it compelling. But the second, the Long Walk was even more
> so. I started it just after The Archers omnibus and finished it just before
> 6. It's set in a future US society and The Long Walk of the title is what
> we'd now call a reality gameshow involving a hundred men who set off from
> the US Canadian border. The game has strict rules - no one can drop below
> the speed of 4 MPH or stop walking without receiving up to 3 warnings after
> which soldiers accompanying them shoot the offender. The walk continues
> until only one of the men is left standing. the winner can have a life-time
> supply of anything he wants. This is a truly masterful piece of King
> storytelling, full of suspense, anxiety, tension and excitement of a very
> understated kind. Anyone who avoids him for his horror quotient need not do
> so with these stories. Absolutely excellent and highly recommended.
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