Can you imagine the kind of bedtime stories he told his kids?
(Stephen King)
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FIRST !!
Stephen will write a story about you…
…. and it will be about your painful demise….
In soviet russia … well… you know the drill
Eeeeh. Am I the only person in existence who really, really doesn’t like Stephen King?
But he’s so awesome.
He does fall apart on the endings though.
But still. I loved “Through the eyes of the dragon”
I agree that “Through the Eyes of the Dragon” was a good book. Other than that, I think he’s mostly overrated.
This only shows that you haven’t read anything else by him.
The dark tower series is a masterpiece.
read The Long Walk or any of his other short stories…
Give ‘The Talisman’ a read.
You don’t like him personally, or you don’t like his writing?
His writing. I don’t know him personally, and I probably never will. But so many people seem to love his writing, and I simply… didn’t care for it.
Of course, this is coming from a die-hard fan of The Wheel of Time. (Which I know lots of people don’t like, but I’m a glutton for punishment.)
I can’t read his books easily either, but I love how they work out on screen – boy do I get scared!!
No, you’re not. Stephen King is an over-exposed, over-hyped hack.
I like HIM (he’s an awesome person by all accounts I’ve heard), but I’ve only managed to read one of his books–The Stand. So no, as long as you mean his writing, you’re not
Serifina – I used to LOVE his books! Until I read more than about 4 of them. Then I started noticing certain patterns and endings falling apart (as someone above mentioned). And don’t even get me started on the Dark Tower series.
Eyes Of The Dragon was a great book, but a rarity from Mr. Overrated.
I enjoyed his books when I was younger. I read “It” and “Pet Sematary” and “Christine”; they were good.
But after that I stopped reading him. For my birthday this year though my mom got me “Duma Key” and I really enjoyed it. My mom is very Stephen King obsessed.
Some of his stuff is alright, but Dreamcatcher was the worst steaming pile of $h!t I’ve ever seen…
Of course it was. You’re supposed to READ the books, not WATCH the movies.
Yeah, most of the movies suck! The Stand was pretty good, and kept to the book quite well though.
Ummm, The Shining, Misery, The Green Mile, etc.
But the movie was so funny!
So did he. He’s acutally said in an interview that he refuses to acknowledge the film because they threw out the original ending in an attempt to cash in on AVP-style hype instead…
was that on the colbert report?
lucky kids! Seriously, kids don’t want fluffy squirrelkins. They want scary. I bet the stories were awesome.
i actually read Misery at night. i do wonder what parents think “The Gunslinger” would be a good bedtime story.
I live not too far away from him. he’s really just a normal dad. This past week, they gave $150,000.00 so a troop from the Maine National Guard could come home for Christmas. they are training in Indiana and they got leave but had to pay their own way. He and Tabitha are sweet, loving people. No need to be freaked out by him, just by his books!
And his … IMAGINATION *cue Spongebob graphic*
Oh goodness!
Oh I just love the way he thinks. Like his writing style or not, you have to admit he has one heck of an imagination. And as Kacky pointed out, he’s actually a nice guy.
I read once that he is quoted as saying that he has a heart of a boy, right on his desk next to his typewriter
King was actually quoting the late Robert Bloch (author of PSYCHO, among many others) who used to say “People say I’m a monster, but I have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk”.
If you’re gonna steal, steal from the best….
Actually you can get a hint about the bed time stories told by SK by reading his son’s books. Joe Hill is his name, and the books are creepy.
Heart-Shaped Box started out AWESOME, and then fell apart – just like his Dad’s stories.
He did write somewhere that he is better at writing stories than he is at telling them…
Yeah, I can imagine his bedtime stories.
Long, long, long…
Lame, lame, lame…
With a cop-out ending.
lols
He acutally wrote “Eyes of the Dragon” for his daughter and her friend, and then they convinced him to send it in to be published…
i think i may have herad of him…never read any of his work that i know of though
Cujo, The Shining, Christine, Pet Sematary, Carrie, The Green Mile, The Dead Zone, IT, Shawshank Redemption, Dolores Claiborne, ‘Salem’s Lot, etc… if you haven’t read any of them, then you’ve at least seen the movies.
I think he’s a fine writer. People have mistaken him for a horror writer, but in my opinion, he’s not. He tells the stories of smalltown America. In Carrie, he knew what sort of antics go on in a girl’s locker room. In ‘Salem’s Lot, he told the stories of quite a few people, and told them well. In It, he told about a group of pre-teen kids, and their games. The horror isn’t the story, it’s just the backdrop. The story is hidden in the corners, waiting to be discovered.
Now you all will think I’m an idiot, so have at me!
I agree with you 100%!
His story characters and situations are no more horror and darkness than the next author’s.
Agreed. He’s been typecast as a horror writer, based on the popular films made from some of his earliest books (Carrie, Cujo, Pet Semetary, The Shining), but many, many of his books are not that horrific at all, and are very character based.
The Dead Zone was one of his earlier books that was not filled with any kind of horror at all. Other examples include The Eyes of the Dragon (already mentioned here), Insomnia, The Talisman, and Lisey’s Story (one of my personal favourites) The Dark Tower books are also quite good, though they may be an acquired taste, and suffer from a first book which is a bit harder to get into than many.
He’s an excellent writer and has ways of creating characters and situations that really get under your skin in good ways. He’s down to earth while being supernatural. He is a bit longwinded, which is why many of his okay books have made for sucky movies: too much has to be changed and cut to fit the plot into 2 hours. His short stories and novellas have made better movies as a result. Examples of this phenomenon include the Shawshank Redemption and The Mist.
The Gunslinger? Hard to get into? That was my favorite of the bunch.
Well for some, the ‘western’ thing is quite a departure from most of his books, so it can be off-putting. That and the fact that really, the first thing you see the hero do is kill an entire town.
I’m just rereading the series now – I only got as far as Wizard and Glass, and that’s where I’m at now. I have the whole series now (finally!) so I had to start all over again – and got recaptured. I find it more of a creepy fantasy with horrific overtones, but captivating, nonetheless. I’m kind of skimming the stuff about Roland’s backstory (but reading it more closely as I get closer to the end of it).
But then I like playing long, fantasy/horror RPG games.
I also just finished reading “Cell” a little while ago; that seemed like more his old style (end of the world as we know it stuff) but yeah, the ending was a little weak.
And I noticed when I read “Black House” (a sequel to The Talisman, with Peter Straub), it made a reference to the goings-on in the Dark Tower series. Drawing of the Three made a ref. to Randall Flagg (of Needless Things) – I take it he’s trying to tie all his stuff together somehow?
H.P. Lovecraft can say in 35 pages what King needs 600+ pages.
I do love me some Lovecraft!
Who wants to read a “book” that’s only 35 pages long? I could read that in 10 minutes, and then I’m bored again.
Yes, but Lovecraft doesn’t write for the everyday man. I mean, I’m no genius, nor an idiot, but there were times I had to go look up what the hell he was trying to say. “Cyclopian Horror”? I mean, come on. Granted, he WAS writing in a much different time. HP Lovecraft was very racist, though, and it shows in his work.
I’m in the middle of The Stand- spent all last night reading it- and I love it so far. But I guess I’ll find out about those “Endings that fall apart” sooner or later. I think he’s great, though.
Does anyone else think this picture makes him look like Timothy Spall?
…depends on what kind of advance and percentage points they’re willing to give him…anything less than fifty percent of gross after production and advertising are recouped and I bet he’s not even willing to tell them the time of day…fcsking bastards!!!…
Stephen King is one of the best out there. His writing is realistic. I remember reading one time about a person running from a monster, and at the same time the person was suddenly wondering if they left their stove on. That’s reality. He often shows things in a cruel manner, though. And I felt betrayed about the Dark Tower and how it ended. And why must he almost always kill the dog???
I know what he reads to them, i know one of the kids he start as…
Once upon a time, there was a Vampire that shines under the sunlight…
One documentary about King had a friend of his make the best comment on him…
Stephen is a great guy, very fun to be around, and can whisper something in your ear that will make you sleep with the lights on for a few weeks… (paraphrasing of course)
I like his older stuff – the Dark Tower, Carrie, the “Bachman Books”, The Stand – newer stuff less so. But he really is a super guy, extremely nice. When I was a kid and first reading “The Body”, I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what a “morphadite” was, so I wrote Mr. King a letter asking if he could clarify for me (it wasn’t, after all, in any of my dictionaries). He actually wrote to me on the back of my letter, in his own handwriting, explaining that Teddy was mispronouncing “hermaphrodite”, and then he kindly gave me the definition of hermaphrodite. Which was unnecessary, but very nice. I keep that letter and the envelope – it wasn’t my first “brush” with a famous person but possibly the most positive one.
Incidentally the title is “The Eyes of the Dragon”, and not “Through the Eyes of the Dragon”. An excellent novel, if sad
Neat!
I don’t like his books at all, but he seems like a really great guy. I’d love to hang out with him one afternoon, just shooting the breeze and drinking beer. Plus one of my favorite quotations is by him, the whole heart in a jar one. And yes I’ve read alot of his books. Most of the ones I’ve read are supposed to be among his best. To each his own yadda yadda yadda…
Didn’t he write for the kid’s show Eurika’s castle? He isn’t all about horror you know… that’s just what he’s known for. I bet he’d tell a great kid’s bed time story.
He lost his talent halfway through Wizard and Glass. Yet another man laid low by his own ego.
I’ve read a lot of Stephen King books, and have to say that they’re hit-or-miss. Some of them are great; I love The Stand and The Green Mile- while others aren’t as well written. Then again, it’s not surprising that he has a handful of poorly written works, when he has published so much. At any rate, you could do much worse (Twilight, anyone?)
I discovered my favorite band through him- he arranged their tour in Maine via his radio station, and then sat next to me during the concert. He’s got great taste in music.
I don’t know about Stephen King, but I know Dan Simmons’ daughter, and she says he used to host the best Halloween parties for her friends.
Been a fan of Uncle Stevie for many years now — have never had the pleasure of meeting him but would love to. He does characters better than anyone else I’ve ever read (and I read a lot, in all genres) — they live, they breathe, and you remember them for many years afterward. The Stand is a masterpiece, and for anyone who thinks all he can write is horror/weird stuff, please find the book Different Seasons — you will find the stories that were the basis for the films Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me, both superb examples of how to tell a good short story. And for those aspiring writers out there, I can’t recommend his book On Writing highly enough. One of the best pieces of advice he gives is: if you want to write, WRITE, don’t just talk about it. Also read, anything and everything, to see what works and what doesn’t, then find your own style. Do I like everything of his? No — sometimes, as he says, he goes for the gross-out, and that doesn’t appeal at all. But when he’s good there is no one better.
this guy’s a freaky dude!
I love Stephen King, I have since I was younger. I have all of his books and have read a lot of them, I do enjoy the movies made from the books as well. I even had the pleasure of meeting him in person a few years ago. He is indeed the most down to earth guy I have ever met. He is funny, reserved and not egocentric at all. I can’t say that I have ever been disappointed by any of his books or short stories.