The Works of Stephen King

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I was slightly advanced in my reading when I was younger. So when our 6th grade teacher asked for a book report about any book we wanted, I chose Christine. They were oral reports.

So I got up in front of my class and began to describe the book. And I left nothing out. Their little eyes got huge, and my teacher cut me off. It's a wonder she didn't call my mom and ask her if something was wrong with me.

I did the same thing w/ Children of the Corn. When I got to the part about killing off the grownups when they hit 18 years old, my teacher just cut me off and made me sit down. I was so ticked, b/c I was so sure everyone in the class would have fallen in love w/ King if they could only have heard the rest of this story. Rats!

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I've been rereading The Long Walk this week, and...it doesn't seem that far-fetched anymore. Which is freaking me out.

Don't let Mark Burnett read that story. It will be really happening, sooner than you think. *shiver*

I actually have part of Salem's Lot written in my first favorite quotes book (started when I was about 12). The part where Mark Petrie is lying in bed and thinking about the differences between adults and children, and how they handle nightmares and the boogie man. Excellent passage, and so true.

Speaking of The Boogy Man, and I said before, one of the creepiest SK stories ever. "Craws, Daddy. Craws!"

What was that short story about the guy who gets picked up in a restaurant by some chick (Nora? Nona?) and she turns into a rat? That story freaked me out, b/c I kept thinking how anyone could sink into the realm of madness and have no idea they were doing it until the end. Freaky.

BTW, one of the building names in Crouch End was Cthulhu-something.

I missed week four of the mini series b/c our power was out so the DVR didn't tape. It never picked up the repeat, either, so that kinda stunk. I was looking forward to They Got A Hell of a Band.
Oh, and I loved Henry Thomas in The End of the WHole Mess. As far as I'm concerned, Henry Thomas can do no wrong. He's one of the least recognized great actors out there, IMHO. But that's for another thread.
The only thing going for The Fifth Quarter was Jeremy Sisto and his stubble. Pretty, pretty.
The Road Virus painting was totally lame. The one I had pictured in my head will always be better. That's one thing that sucks about movie adaptions. I was wondering, though - why did whats-his-name decide he had to go out to the Road Virus' car? He ran away from him that whole time, then suddenly, after falling down the stairs, eh says, "Guess I gotta go outside now." Huh?!?

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Eeeee! They're making a movie of "1408"! The creepy hotel room short story!
With John Cusack...it can't be that scary with Lloyd Dobler in it, right??

[Laira]

So I'm reading The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon and I kept wondering why with all the emphasis on Trisha's woodcraft instruction at school, no one told her the cardinal rule: when you're lost stay in one place - do not wander around. All I could think is that the stupid kid would have been fine if, when she first realized she was lost, she'd simply sat tight and waited for rescue instead of traipsing to New Hampshire. I was told that when I was Trisha's age before I went on my first Girl Scout camping trip.

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Edited because it seems I already wrote about how badly "1408" freaked me out.

Embarrassing confession: I cried when Harold shot himself in The Stand. He was an angsty sixteen-year-old, I was an angsty sixteen-year-old...

[india7]

Yeah, but you didn't have a whole bunch of murders, injuries and sabotage on your hands so that you could hook up with the Anti-Christ.

[prydainprincess]

Ok, TNT runs everything else into the ground. Why have they not re-run N&D? I was away during the summer, and my bf recorded some but not all (stupid TIVO).

Anyway, my yeas for King: Carrie, The Shining, the Stand, Pet Semetary, Green Mile (not too much talk about this one here), Needful Things, Thinner, pretty much all short stories/novellas, Rose Madder, Dolores Claiborne

Nay: It, Desparation, Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, The Tommyknockers, Bag of Bones, Dark Tower (for some reason, even though I love fantasy, his just doesn't do it for me)

I was one of those kids forbidden to read King as a kid (I scared easily). So of course as soon as I got to college I began reading him by the truckload.

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I love The Green Mile! I didn't read it as it was being published serially but waited until the whole thing was finished, and once I read it I was glad I waited 'cause if I'd had to wait weeks between installments, I probably would have gone quite postal.
I need to read Needful Things again; I only read it once and that was about 10 years ago. That'll be a good one for autumn...

[prydainprincess]

I read Green Mile the same way and am so glad I did so.

Did anyone watch Kingdom Hospital? Sci-Fi re-ran the first few eps last week and I'm so hooked it isn't funny.

[india7]

Just got an email from the TNT website when I had signed up to keep track of when Nightmares and Dreamscapes would be on last summer. N&D is now out on DVD if anyone cares to get your bad selves a copy!

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Has anyone started reading Lisey's Story yet? I have it on hold at the library, but who knows how far down on the list I am for this.