[fancyday1437]

I am new to the internet. And I have no idea what I am doing. One thing I do want to say though, is that I am no sports fan. That is one thing that I do not have in common with my hero, Steven King. I bet I am not the first to say that his books are crazy @#$%&* better than his movies.
I couldn't even imagine being him for one day.
Could anybody out there?
:confused::confused::eek:
I have no originallity. I have no imagination. I think that's why I love him the most, because he has those things for me. That makes him great.
In my opinion, originality is totally dead. Think about it, movies are being remade and books are being recycled. If you wrote a book about the future or scifi right now, could you really say that you never read The Hobbit, 1984, The Stand, or saw any Star Trek or Star Wars movies?
I don't think so.
Peace Out Suckers

[xvart]

Um... okay? Your love would be more convincing if you spelled his name correctly.

xvart.

[hippokrene]

I wasn't aware that Stephen King wrote science fiction. I thought he was considered horror or dark fantasy.

Anyways, it's a good thing he's apparently never read The Hobbit or 1984, or watched any Star Trek or Star Wars movies.

[Rob B]

If you wrote a book about the future or scifi right now, could you really say that you never read The Hobbit, 1984, The Stand, or saw any Star Trek or Star Wars movies?

I could say I never read those books, sure. I might be lying, though.

Is that your only question?

As for King writing Science Fiction, some of his novels & stories slip over into Science Fiction, but I've found those to be his very, very lesser works.

Tommmyknockers is about people who find an old, alien ship buried in their years. When unearthed, it has strange effects on the populace of the town.

From a Buick 8 is a mix of horror/Lovecraft/science fiction. I couldn't even finish the book

Dreamcatcher as about aliens impregnating men. Also not one of King's better books.

[Thradar]

In all seriousness I used to be a big King fan, but lost interest in his works back in the early 90s. I mess the days of IT, Salem's Lot, The Shining, etc. His earlier stuff (like many authors) was his best stuff.

Peace out suckers. :cool: LOL

[KatG]

Actually, I really liked From a Buick 8. :) It was something of a concept piece, but the characters were beautifully done -- just right there from page one.

I loved the writing in parts of Pet Semetary, but the overall book is very weak. (It was during his addict period.)

My favorite of his is The Green Mile, which began life as a serial novel reinvention and so has lots of repetition of details. It's a straight historical fantasy, not a horror novel, and many don't like it, but I think it's where King did some of his best work and story plot is beautifully designed. On the other hand, I've read maybe a quarter of King's stuff and seen a bit more in dramatizations, so who knows what else I'd like.

I wasn't that fond of The Talisman, which he wrote with Peter Straub. I don't think the book worked overall, the portrait of the protagonist was rather uneven, though it had some really interesting aspects to the multiverse idea. The book was a massive bestseller when it came out.

And yes, I like Misery very much, though King, like the people who did Romancing the Stone, didn't have much understanding of the romance market, where you seldom write about the same character twice. Misery is neither fantasy nor sf, but it is just gorgeously done psychological torture. One of the best crazy people portrayed in literature.

Bag of Bones is an interesting novel involving history and hauntings, if a touch overwrought in the end. My husband loves Eye of the Dragon, I got the idea of it, but got tired of it. I tried The Gunslinger, and while I agree that it is brilliantly written, it was not my cup of tea.

King never really does the same thing twice, even if a lot of the novels are set in Maine, and so I wait till he produces one I like the sound of and then I try to read it when I get round to it. It's very hard to scare me with a horror novel, but King often does spook me, which is more important. He uses horror, fantasy and the occasional bit of sf to to take a look at what we value in life and how tenuous it is. Sometimes he does an in your face approach and other times he goes smooth and sleepy. It's an impressive body of work, as is his mentorship of other writers and filmmakers.

[Glelas]

I am new to the internet. And I have no idea what I am doing. One thing I do want to say though, is that I am no sports fan. That is one thing that I do not have in common with my hero, Steven King. I bet I am not the first to say that his books are crazy @#$%&* better than his movies.
I couldn't even imagine being him for one day.
Could anybody out there?
:confused::confused::eek:
I have no originallity. I have no imagination. I think that's why I love him the most, because he has those things for me. That makes him great.
In my opinion, originality is totally dead. Think about it, movies are being remade and books are being recycled. If you wrote a book about the future or scifi right now, could you really say that you never read The Hobbit, 1984, The Stand, or saw any Star Trek or Star Wars movies?
I don't think so.
Peace Out Suckers


Easily the post of the century.

[hippokrene]

I’m frightened of Stephen King; I’ve never read any of his books. Horror stays with me for too long. A friend of mine had to swear up and down that the Dean Koontz book she recommended would not give me nightmares. I refused to touch his novels because I thought they were horror.

[Arash]

heh, it's odd how so many fans of King don't know him at all.

He can actually be quite a lighthearted guy and is surprisingly funny.

He just has a reputaion for being a little creepy. A product of his work and his odd looks to an extend.

Here, watch him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz9CMhMWl_E

[KatG]

A lot of them are horror, but others are not. You might like Eye of the Dragon, The Green Mile, or The Gunslinger series. Then there's that one with Tom Gordon -- forget the exact title -- and some of the collections. A lot of people like The Stand, which is sort of a giant, post-apocalypse, bizarre dark fantasy story, rather than horror. Think epic fantasy on steroids.