Hey all, I am new to the forums and to SK's work in general.
I'm not a big horror fan, in written or visual form. I love suspense, but not horror. Especially not really supernatural horror. So, obviously, I didn't really think to read much of Mr. King's work (though I did know he had some non-horror genre books out there).
In any case, I had 11/22/63 in my amazon wish list for a while, but never went as far as to buy and read it. A co-worker recommended it and reminded me about it before a long trip I had. I've always been fascinated by the assassination, so I thought it would be perfect, and finally bought it. What an awesome book!! I loved every word of it! So fascinating...
So after I finished that, I went right out and bought a few more of his books that seemed less on the straight-up horror side. I just finished The Stand. It was very good as well, also very thought-provoking, although I prefer 11/22/63 more. I also have Blaze. And I don't remember even buying it, but apparently I bought Mr. Mercedes as well.
The latter two books, I guess I must have felt fell more on the crime novel end of the spectrum. I am learning that even non-horror books by SK will have startling violence---startling as in.. more gruesome or unexpected than you would maybe expect from other authors of other genres, I guess is what I mean. Also, it seems almost all his books have some kind of supernatural/unknowable forces type element in them. Which is fine. Just an observation.
My biggest issue with reading these books is: I can't stomach or stand reading about (or seeing or even the implication of ) violence against animals, which is something that's casually mentioned in passing in "all" (meaning both) the SK novels I've read, and will probably continue to be there. So, that's hard. It kind of takes me out of the action, because it just distresses me. Hey, I saw Jurassic World a few nights ago and was sad over all the fake CGI dinosaur deaths. Human deaths don't affect me that much. Just animals, since they didn't choose to be part of human BS-ery.
So, anyhow. I have Blaze and Mr. Mercedes. Which should I read next? Or, any other recommendations from Mr. King's library that I should check out? I feel like I will probably read the Dark Towers series as well, when my life calms down a bit, since I'll probably get sucked in and want to read them all as quickly as humanly possible.
I'm not a big horror fan, in written or visual form. I love suspense, but not horror. Especially not really supernatural horror. So, obviously, I didn't really think to read much of Mr. King's work (though I did know he had some non-horror genre books out there).
In any case, I had 11/22/63 in my amazon wish list for a while, but never went as far as to buy and read it. A co-worker recommended it and reminded me about it before a long trip I had. I've always been fascinated by the assassination, so I thought it would be perfect, and finally bought it. What an awesome book!! I loved every word of it! So fascinating...
So after I finished that, I went right out and bought a few more of his books that seemed less on the straight-up horror side. I just finished The Stand. It was very good as well, also very thought-provoking, although I prefer 11/22/63 more. I also have Blaze. And I don't remember even buying it, but apparently I bought Mr. Mercedes as well.
The latter two books, I guess I must have felt fell more on the crime novel end of the spectrum. I am learning that even non-horror books by SK will have startling violence---startling as in.. more gruesome or unexpected than you would maybe expect from other authors of other genres, I guess is what I mean. Also, it seems almost all his books have some kind of supernatural/unknowable forces type element in them. Which is fine. Just an observation.
My biggest issue with reading these books is: I can't stomach or stand reading about (or seeing or even the implication of ) violence against animals, which is something that's casually mentioned in passing in "all" (meaning both) the SK novels I've read, and will probably continue to be there. So, that's hard. It kind of takes me out of the action, because it just distresses me. Hey, I saw Jurassic World a few nights ago and was sad over all the fake CGI dinosaur deaths. Human deaths don't affect me that much. Just animals, since they didn't choose to be part of human BS-ery.
So, anyhow. I have Blaze and Mr. Mercedes. Which should I read next? Or, any other recommendations from Mr. King's library that I should check out? I feel like I will probably read the Dark Towers series as well, when my life calms down a bit, since I'll probably get sucked in and want to read them all as quickly as humanly possible.
