I used to be a giant King fan, ever since I first read (and it remains my favorite, not just out of the rose tinted nostalgia glasses) Pet Semetary, because the way the story is crafted, the characters and the emotions. The Creeds feel like a real family and that makes the tragedies in it all the more palpable, beside the fact that it's one of the few books I found genuinely scary as it hits me in a way some other books haven't. There's been a lot of tragic death in my family (and death of pets, I was about Ellie's Age when I lost my first pet) and it's great to sit back and wonder, even today after I lost someone close to me last year, "Would I use the burial ground?" It's sort of theraputic, which makes no sense...
But I can understand why someone can't read it, I imagine when I have a kid of my own I'll feel the same way about it.Continuing on about the Pet thing, I read Cujo once and it remains to me one of the best written suspensful stories ever. The movie was on tv a few weeks ago and I rewatched it and was at the edge of my seat even then.Misery, I read once and that was enough for me, weirdly that's a King favorite for a lot of people but I wasn't as fond of it? IDK. The Stand, I liked certainly, when I'm feeling misanthropic I pick it up, LOL.I read it a couple of times when I was working at Wal-Mart, big surprise?
Loved 'Salem's Lot, love it when I want some old fashioned vampires and can't deal with the...Victorian-ness of Dracula. The Tommy Knockers, it was so cheesey but I actually liked the movie translation of that, the actors were a help. The book, was down right disturbing. I really need to read It, I haven't yet for some reason. I feel like I'm mising something!I also unironically loved Rose Madder, I'm fascinated with the concepts of 'alternate realities' and 'alternate selves' so I was all over it.
When he got off the booze and drugs I did still like his works, (not all of them) but most of them. I think I was one of the few who actually liked Dreamcatcher, after that though, he became most a miss for me. I had a hard time with Duma Key and Lisey's Story simply because.. of the tone, it seemed like King at his most intropsective and when he gets too deep into that I loose interest.
Tried Under the Dome, a scene in the beginning weirdly threw me off it. Insomnia, eeeh...I couldn't really get into. Despite loving the change, that the main charater was an elderly gentlemen. So it's not that I think his creativity went down when he became sober, or that he got bitter, or anything, but there does seem to be a difference between the two Kings to me. When he was on drugs as well as drinking, his writing feels more-not natural or flowing but it feels less restrained I guess, more emotional, more free flowing. While when he's sober his writing doesn't feel necessairly restrained but more within certain confines, this isn't to say he's writing with certain tropes but it feels more strictly constructed rather than his older work.
Not all of his older work I liked, I hated Carrie and The Dark Half but I appreciate the plot and what he was trying to accomplish.
But I can understand why someone can't read it, I imagine when I have a kid of my own I'll feel the same way about it.Continuing on about the Pet thing, I read Cujo once and it remains to me one of the best written suspensful stories ever. The movie was on tv a few weeks ago and I rewatched it and was at the edge of my seat even then.Misery, I read once and that was enough for me, weirdly that's a King favorite for a lot of people but I wasn't as fond of it? IDK. The Stand, I liked certainly, when I'm feeling misanthropic I pick it up, LOL.I read it a couple of times when I was working at Wal-Mart, big surprise?
Loved 'Salem's Lot, love it when I want some old fashioned vampires and can't deal with the...Victorian-ness of Dracula. The Tommy Knockers, it was so cheesey but I actually liked the movie translation of that, the actors were a help. The book, was down right disturbing. I really need to read It, I haven't yet for some reason. I feel like I'm mising something!I also unironically loved Rose Madder, I'm fascinated with the concepts of 'alternate realities' and 'alternate selves' so I was all over it.
When he got off the booze and drugs I did still like his works, (not all of them) but most of them. I think I was one of the few who actually liked Dreamcatcher, after that though, he became most a miss for me. I had a hard time with Duma Key and Lisey's Story simply because.. of the tone, it seemed like King at his most intropsective and when he gets too deep into that I loose interest.
Tried Under the Dome, a scene in the beginning weirdly threw me off it. Insomnia, eeeh...I couldn't really get into. Despite loving the change, that the main charater was an elderly gentlemen. So it's not that I think his creativity went down when he became sober, or that he got bitter, or anything, but there does seem to be a difference between the two Kings to me. When he was on drugs as well as drinking, his writing feels more-not natural or flowing but it feels less restrained I guess, more emotional, more free flowing. While when he's sober his writing doesn't feel necessairly restrained but more within certain confines, this isn't to say he's writing with certain tropes but it feels more strictly constructed rather than his older work.
Not all of his older work I liked, I hated Carrie and The Dark Half but I appreciate the plot and what he was trying to accomplish.
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