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King had maybe 2 good books tbh
He is overrated as
I've gotten through 4 of the stories. They are pretty dull and all derivative of some other King story. Except they don't even seem to be written very well. I guess I was hoping for something new here and there.
King had maybe 2 good books tbh
He is overrated as
King was great back in his day but he lost his fastball quite a while ago.
There's no doubt. I still try him out from time to time. I guess I keep hoping I'll find a gem. The JFK time travel book was OK. I heard Mr. Mercedes was decent. The first book I read was Cujo and I was hooked for a while. Christine, Pet Semetary, The Stand, Different Seasons, The Bachman Books...loved all those. Eye of the Dragon. The short stories.
Lol @ 2 books.
That's one more than the revered Harper Lee.
I enjoyed 11/22/63 quite a bit. Completely underwhelmed by the sequel to The Shining.
I am looking forward to this:
Fave book of his is The Stand. Just great pulpy goodness.
He's pretty much ruined his son's career in my opinion. Joe Hill was a pretty good young author, but now he seems obsessed with being Richard Bachman 2.0.
wow. I did not even know he had a son that wrote. Although now that I look, I recognize some of the les.
Any recommendations?
I like Joe Hill's stuff, and I didn't mind the Dark Tower references in NOS482.
Lol fiction novels
That guy playing Oswald... dead ringer.
I like Best New Horror, which is a short-story collection of his. He and his father also wrote In the Tall Grass together, which is in my mind when he started to fall apart.
I'm struggling to get through that book. I've tried twice already, but I just don't find it compelling. Gonna try it on Audible.
Locke and Key was also a cool comic, I would recommend it. Hill wrote it.
It kinda felt like a rehash of Black House by King/Straub as far as the villain went, but they may have been twinners or something.
I think I said it in another thread, but I also enjoyed Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers
Im gonna pick it up soon. The Stand and IT are my faves.
I've read a couple more and they were better than the first few.
Love Poe and Lovecraft, have most their stuff. But, never warmed up to King.
Ambrose Bierce
Lord Dunsany
Arthur Machen
Hugh Walpole....one of the fathers of the Gothic novel.
Monk Williams...another father of the Gothic novel.
Must reads.
Clark Ashton Smith
Robert W.Chambers
Guy De Maupassant
others in the same vein that deliver the goods.
One of the greats books....H.P. Lovecrafts Book of Horror. All those mentioned above have stories in the book. And. Lovecraft himself has an amazing intro to the "Supernatural in Literature", an amazing read. And before the 21 stories in the bok H.P.L has a short reason as to why he chose that story.
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I haven't read any of those except the obvious Poe stories.
What are some of HPL best stories? I may try to listen to some on Audible but they don't have Book of Horrors. They have The Dark Worlds of HPL but it's 4 different volumes. What's a few good starter stories!
I really liked King's first few short-story collections. I think after he did Nightmares and Dreamscapes, he hasn't been as good. I will get BoBD on Audible, though, as soon as it goes on sale.
You start HPL with....
The Color Out Of Space
next...The Call of Cthulhu
One of my prized possessions is a first edition...The Lurking Fear. And I highly recommend this book, we find both the above mentioned stories there.
Everything has a best, top of the line, when it comes to the supernatural/horror it gets no better than HPL.
Robert E. Howard had Conan, ERB had Tarzan, Sax Rohmer had Fu Manchu, Sir Conan Doyle had Sherlock Holmes, Tolkien had his Lord of the Rings saga and HPL had his The Cthulhu Mythos
How good is this?
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all it's contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we voyage far.
The opening to...The Call of Cthulhu
I'll be damn ya finally made some impact. I was about to start a Max Brand western, but think I'll read The Lurking Fear again, you planted the seed. Now if it would only storm.
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Can't stand Lovecraft's works, or at least the few I've tried. The Cthulhu mythos is pretty cool, though. Since this is a topic on King, his contribution, Crouch End, was awesome, in my opinion. Also loved Peter Clines' 14 and Fold as contributions to that genre.
I liked Just After Sunset. I hadnt read anything of his since Dark Tower was finished until i picked that up in 2010 or so. I agree about Crouch End, it was great.
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