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01-25-2006, 12:15 PM
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New King novel
Does anyone have any comment yet? Anyone up all night reading it or can critique even the first few pages?
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01-25-2006, 02:23 PM
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As was Shakespeare! When writers get off the gravy train, we sometimes get offerings like King's "The Colorado Kid", which I can just imagine he loved, but readers did not to the same degree. Arguably, King submitted this just to pull in some bucks when he was asked to do a book for the Hardcase Crime series. But he hardly needs dough! I thought "Kid" was well written, as are all King's works, but I didn't think it fit in the hardboiled crime genre. (It was as though in this instance "hardcase" meant a hard case to solve!). If King is writing potboilers, then he is at least trying to please his "constant readers".
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01-25-2006, 05:07 PM
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King
King has a new book? What is it called?
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01-25-2006, 08:49 PM
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Ive never read a king book in my life.
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Hang the body in the shed Using meat-hooks through the legs Catch the blood as it drips from the stump Like the others from the past The naked belly, full of cysts Smells so good, I cant resist I know inside this ones the best As I eat the rotting chest
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01-26-2006, 03:03 AM
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Sabersword, the new book is called "The Cell", and it's about people becoming zombified through the use of cell phones. Violence naturally reigns, and those intrepid folks who didn't live with cells attached to their ears must battle the new threat! The amateur reviews on amazon.com vary a lot in their estimation, but one pro one claims that the book is a return to horror for King, and that sounds great to me!
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01-26-2006, 03:22 AM
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Quote:
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"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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01-26-2006, 03:59 AM
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Yes, The Shining is really top-notch horror! Years ago, before King became famous, I picked up Salem's Lot in the grocery store because it looked scary (and was!!). Sometime later, I noticed The Shining in the same store, saw that it was by the same author, and bought it. Just about this time King really burst on the scene and became a sensation. I think "It" is also horrifically creepy, and the short-story books are among my favorites. Since I find werewolves terrifying, I also love King's works dealing with them.
Speaking of such frighteners, a non-King book I found really scary is The Wolfen by Whitley Shreiber. It doesn't concern werewolves--rather a clandestine breed of animals--but it's enough to give you the creeps for weeks! The movie was uttlerly silly compared to the book, however, because it used real wolves! "Dog Soldiers", though--SCARY!!
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01-26-2006, 09:27 AM
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I don't know anything about the new King novel, but I do have to say that I have been very disappointed with his more recent works. I will still read it of course, I am a big fan of his older stuff. In my opinion, the last good book he wrote was Bag of Bones, which I do happen to like a lot.
Urge: you don't even think the stories in Night Shift or Different Seasons are worth a read?
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