There was a book by one of my favorite authors that I just could not get past the third page of...despite others telling me what a good book it was. I tried several times and just coudn't do it.
Be careful...die-hard King lovers get a little "funny" about that kind of criticism. lol
I didn't care for it either. I also didn't like "The Running Man" and I thought "The Stand" was too long and overly pretentious. now...I'm going to go hide
I am a die hard Stephen King fan. Been reading his works since 1975. I just bought a new one this morning, it's The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. It's a book of short stories. I truly do love his short stories. The Mist was one of my favorite.
I've been a fan of King myself. i like a lot of his work. I agree. His short stories are excellent. I really enjoyed Nightshift immensely and concur about the Mist. I want to add that the movie actually was better than the story and King also agreed with that. It's quite rare that a King story interprets better to film
The Stand was great. Go away with your baaaahd self, goat. Shoo shoo. Aww shoop. I just stepped in goat poop.
Actually there are a number of his books I was disappointed in when he just started churning them out after hitting the big time. Still a fan though (FYI to Karen). ;-)
I agree about The Stand, Harry. Read that over a few days---couldn't easily put it down.
I started with Salem's Lot---had a hard time sleeping for about 3 weeks. That kid with the red eyes hanging on the screen became an everlasting image in my mind.
Tried to read a few others, but he was just too successful in planting unsettling images in my mind. Unfortunately, I finally had to give up on his books---I really needed more sleep.
If it's possible, I consider Clive King's evil, brit twin. There is something awesome about his prose and the atmosphere he generates. It's so dark, dank, and bleak
I love King, too. This was a Dean Koontz novel. (I swear they were twins, separated at birth and raised on opposite coasts!) It is called Dragon Tears, IIRC.
I think I read that one. King wrote one called The Eyes of the Dragon. That was a pretty decent one. He wrote it for his daughter because she told him she didn't like all his boogie men.
No, but I remember The Notebook was so boring I stopped reading it, but I had to read it for a book report so I just skimmed the rest. I have also read some weird fan-fiction someone told me about that was so bad that I couldn't stop reading it, it was just so hilariously bad.
Yes. It doesn't happen often but when it does, sheesh, it's ruined my mood for the day! Couldn't tell you the names. They must have been so bad that I blocked them from my mind.
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