[ebooktalk] Re: AN OLD FAVOURITE
- From: "Trish Talbot" <trish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 21:18:51 +0100
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.
Trish.
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Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: AN OLD FAVOURITE
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.
On 21 Apr 2013, at 19:59, Shell wrote:
Hi Ian,
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.
Shell.
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From: "Ian Macrae" <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 6:52 PM
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Subject: [ebooktalk] AN OLD FAVOURITE
> 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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