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Hello Erudite Scholar...
Welcome to SKMB! Surely there is no guessing in knowing you are a SK fan!!! What is your favorite book?
Hope you like it here.. stay awhile.. keep posting!!
Would you like a balloon? IT floats! We all float down here... you will float to!
Welcome to SKMB! Surely there is no guessing in knowing you are a SK fan!!! What is your favorite book?
Hope you like it here.. stay awhile.. keep posting!!
Would you like a balloon? IT floats! We all float down here... you will float to!
Don't know if I have a favorite book. I personally think his short stories are way better, and those I collect. But I'm tearing through "Doctor Sleep" right now. I'm 300 pages in which isn't bad for only like two days. I gotta say I love this one. Very good pacing. I haven't read everything by Steve and I'm not sure I'd care to. I read all sorts of other stuff too. Classics of course. Spy thrillers. Weirdo oddity books like some of Joyce Carol Oates and J.G. Ballard and Anthony Burgess. Nonfiction about all sorts of stuff. Science fiction (especially the old school guys like Frank Herbert, Harlan Ellison, Asimov, Bradbury, Jules Verne, Edgar Allan Poe, H.G. Wells, even ol' El-Ron). Legal thrillers. True crime. Crime fiction, especially stuff by Donald E. Westlake and Lawrence Block. Medical thrillers. I used to read comics but mostly stopped. I still love and read the rather hard-boiled character "Golgo 13" (somebody should really tell Steve about this character if he isn't already a fan) and have hard copies of every English translation and scans of even more fan "scanlations" of classic stories and even scans of damn near every story in order from 1968 to maybe a couple years ago (only problem is that they are in Japanese; if any one you know a good Japanese to English translator who likes good crime and spy stories, let me know).
I also write. Short stories. Nothing published. But once I really polish something good and I'm proud of it, I'll submit it to publishers.
I have an idea for a novel about the Beatles being Soviet assassins. Think about it: they were living in Berlin in 1961-2. What if they were replaced with lookalikes?
You might enjoy Joyland ... and his latest trilogy : Mr Mercedes, Finders Keepers & Suicide Prince (not yet available)
My favorite Stephen King novel would have to be "Firestarter" and then "The Dead Zone." "Gerald's Game" was neat.
I was thinking I might try "Mr. Mercedes" next (the next Stephen King book I read, I mean). And "Joyland" looks great.
I also love the late great Elmore Leonard and his style and use of language is probably the biggest influence on me as a writer.
The title has been altered to End of Watch now.
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