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Mike Philbin	IT blasphemy.	Lead	[-]
Posts: 2560 (01/01/09 03:05:20) Shocklineraholic Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I've read (and enjoyed) quite a number of Stephen King books but the big ones THE STAND and IT I've always avoided. Now, I'm taking the plunge with IT. And it's classic easy-target King i.e. kids are easy to terrorise. Try it. Pull a funny face. Raise your right shoulder, crank your left wrist and elbow. Move funny, dragging a leg maybe. Kids scream at the goofiest shit. And, 250 pages of 1000 in, IT is the goofiest shit. I'm admittedly finding it difficult to struggle on with the novel. It really could have said the same thing in far less pages. I knew it would be mostly filler. Who needs all that crap? I want story not back story. Horrify me. PS: read Strieber's BILLY over the holiday season - quite a shocking fucking book. Just plain nasty.
rileybooks		#1	[-]
Posts: 1212 (01/01/09 03:24:03) Master Shockliner Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	The best bits of IT for me were the earlier parts. The denouement was just plain daft. A book that should have ended long before it did. David
Mike Philbin		#2	[-]
Posts: 2562 (01/02/09 03:14:36) Shocklineraholic Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I was tempted to rent out the Pennywise (Tim Curry) film - hopefully it'd have a bit more 'drive'. Anyone recommend the film?
TMWright.gorezone		#3	[-]
Posts: 725 (01/02/09 04:26:18) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	IT was not, by a longshot, on my King Favorites list, and I found the made-for-tv movie adaptation unwatchable. As for my King Favorites: Carrie, Salem's Lot, The Shining, The Dead Zone, and The Stand (Gee, all the older novels, though, admittedly, I haven't read much of what King's done in the last ten or fifteen years. T.M.
Mike Philbin		#4	[-]
Posts: 2563 (01/02/09 04:51:34) Shocklineraholic Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	TM, The Stand aside, our King-favourite list concurs. I'd add Misery (both book and movie), The Running Man (book, not movie) and Christine (both book and movie) to the favs list - I've had the misfortune to read several of his later books - INSOMNIA being the slowest, dreariest King book I've ever forced myself through. So, the TV movie don't get no recs then? Last Edited By: Mike Philbin 01/02/09 05:01:01. Edited 1 times.
Karen Koehler		#5	[-]
Posts: 2089 (01/02/09 05:11:31) Shocklineraholic Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I found the book It dull, the movie even duller. However, I enjoyed The Stand, book and miniseries. The Covenhouse
JKnight1		#6	[-]
Posts: 2448 (01/02/09 08:49:04) Shocklineraholic Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	My favorite King is still Pet Sematary, both book and film, but I've stayed away from the longer works. But dude, talk about slooow: I'm re-reading The Gormenghast Trilogy. It's beautifully written by Mervyn Peake. However, I'm almost through the first book, Titus Groan, which one could expect to be about, oh, the titular character, Titus Groan. 464 pages in, Titus is now one year and four days old. Peake spent one entire paragraph describing a character taking a single bite from a pear. I'm enjoying the book because of Peake's writing skill, but King is no Peake stylistically. He needs to keep the plot moving right along to keep my interest (whereas the plot in Titus Groan first pokes its head out of the prose around page 300). Jan
Mike Philbin		#7	[-]
Posts: 2565 (01/02/09 08:57:45) Shocklineraholic Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Jan, sounds real dull - for me a plot needs to be taking a prominent step AS the reader first opens the book. Maybe it's just me but books should be like a cold shower to the reader aka the reader shouldn't be delicately waiting outside the 'narrative' for the water to become comfortably warm. Grab the reader by the throat and keep throttling - if he's lucky, he survives the experience... just.
williemeikle		#8	[-]
Posts: 1117 (01/02/09 09:11:17) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	The Gormenghast trilogy is one of the great works of fantastic literature, full of grotesqueries, memorable characters and a sense of place that's far apart from everyday reality, yet also very close. It's beautifully written, and, yes, a bit slow for today's "I want it now" readers, but it's a great work of literature, and "dull" is not a word that should be used anywhere near it. Willie
Shocklines		#9	[-]
Posts: 30452 (01/02/09 09:17:13) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	My favorite King novels are Misery, The Long Walk, Christine, Salem's Lot, The Running Man, and Bag of Bones. I often reread Misery, The Long Walk, and Christine, all of which never lose their power for me. Shocklines.com -- your one-stop shop for hell on earth
WatersDan		#10	[-]
Posts: 460 (01/02/09 09:19:09) Veteran Shockliner Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Shocklines wrote: My favorite King novels are Misery, The Long Walk, Christine, Salem's Lot, The Running Man, and Bag of Bones. I often reread Misery, The Long Walk, and Christine, all of which never lose their power for me. What? No Tommyknockers? Betrayal! www.danielwaters.com www.mysocalledundeath.com
Shocklines		#11	[-]
Posts: 30453 (01/02/09 09:27:04) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	You know what? I really dug The Tommyknockers (and I'm not the only one -- Ed Bryant loved it in Twilight Zone mag). HOWEVER, part of that is because I really like "anthology" novels, where a large part of the book is actually devoted to what are essentially shared-world short stories. Bentley Little does this a lot as well. And in the central section of Tommyknockers, you can REALLY see it (in fact, one segment appeared years earlier in Rolling Stone as a separate non-alien-related short story called "The Revelations of Becka Paulson.") Do I rank it among my favorites? No, mostly because I think it takes a while to get going. And the style of it is not going to be for everyone. But I wasn't disappointed in it one bit. It's certainly wonky science fiction, but right up my alley, and it contains one scene (the shed discovery) that I think will rank, to me, among one of King's most disturbing ever. Shocklines.com -- your one-stop shop for hell on earth
michellependergrass		#12	[-]
Posts: 457 (01/02/09 10:19:19) Supershockliner Goddess Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I never read It because I don't like clowns. My favorite SK novels are The Green Mile, The Stand, Bag of Bones, Misery, and Duma Key.
WatersDan		#13	[-]
Posts: 461 (01/02/09 10:28:38) Veteran Shockliner Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Shocklines wrote: You know what? I really dug The Tommyknockers (and I'm not the only one -- Ed Bryant loved it in Twilight Zone mag). I know--I seem to recall you and I getting lambasted on your board because of our affection for Tommyknockers. www.danielwaters.com www.mysocalledundeath.com
RossWarren		#14	[-]
Posts: 323 (01/02/09 10:32:34) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	'IT' was the book that got me into reading horror, and Stephen King in particular, it remains my favorite SK novel although I did re-read 'Pet Semetary' over Christmas and would now rate that in my top five. Having become a father since the last time of reading it certainly had a greater resonance with me. My Little Slice of the Web
dogpoet		#15	[-]
Posts: 4278 (01/02/09 11:14:47) Top-Tier Shockliner Demon Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I'd pick out Salem's Lot, Christine and The Dead Zone myself. Please buy my book, somebody?
Karen Koehler		#16	[-]
Posts: 2090 (01/02/09 11:32:12) Shocklineraholic Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	'Salem's Lot, The Dead Zone, Firestarter, Needful Things and Cycle of the Werewolf are my top choices, but The Talisman remains my favorite. The Covenhouse
dogpoet		#17	[-]
Posts: 4279 (01/02/09 11:51:35) Top-Tier Shockliner Demon Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Now I think about this more, would I get jeered at hounded off the forum if I said I preferred The Dark Half to Misery? Please buy my book, somebody?
Shocklines		#18	[-]
Posts: 30461 (01/02/09 12:23:01) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	WatersDan wrote: Shocklines wrote: You know what? I really dug The Tommyknockers (and I'm not the only one -- Ed Bryant loved it in Twilight Zone mag). I know--I seem to recall you and I getting lambasted on your board because of our affection for Tommyknockers. Yeah I can believe that. But I really wish more authors would experiment with the "anthology" novel as I call it (and I don't mean "Haunted" -- I mean separate little stories taking place in the same overall story arch). I wasn't as crazy about "Needful Things" but I still had fun with it. If anyone knows of other authors or books in this style besides Bentley Little and King's relevant books, let me know. (Doug Clegg's excellent sick "The Abandoned" is also another that comes to mind.) Shocklines.com -- your one-stop shop for hell on earth
dogpoet		#19	[-]
Posts: 4280 (01/02/09 12:34:21) Top-Tier Shockliner Demon Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Have you read The Arabian Nightmare (Robert Irwin), The Architecht Of Ruins (Herbert Rosendorfer) or Manuscript Found In Saragossa (some nutcase who shot himself through the head with a silver bullet because he thought was becoming a werewolf), Matt? All three nest stories inside each other, though they aren't really broken up into a series of vignettes in the same way. Please buy my book, somebody?
dogpoet		#20	[-]
Posts: 4281 (01/02/09 12:45:16) Top-Tier Shockliner Demon Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Now I think about this more, A Canticle For Leibowitz, Kim Newman's Seven Stars and Tanith Lee's Books of Paradys series (Particularly The Book Of The Beast and The Book Of The Dead) are probably closer to what you're after. Please buy my book, somebody?

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