Just wanted to take a moment to introduce myself. Never thought I'd actually visit a message board of a writer I've long admired (though I do have a couple of precious items from another writer, as a result of sending a 'Thank You' note).
Not entirely sure how I feel about writing here now, but am compelled to do so...am presently about 1/2 way through "Doctor Sleep," the 1st King book I've picked up in many years (the "Green Mile" series having been the last). I think "The Shining" was my all-time favorite book at one point, and though it has been since I was a late teenager that I read it (and never felt a need or desire to re-read it), when I learned about a sequel, my "inner ear" perked up.
I waited, though. Something kept stalling me. With a recent birthday past -you know, Life, the Universe, and Everything type of wonderful day- I knew what I wanted to purchase for myself. From the opening pages, though, I felt an immediate unease...one that hasn't left a bit, even though I'm only about halfway through the book.
I don't have any illusions that you read these threads, Mr. King...but if, on the off-chance you do, I'd like to say this to you: *Get the fu@k outta my head!*
...and yeah, I say that with a half-smile. I am mostly joking...I think. There's no way you could possibly know my history, or -as I just finished telling a friend- my mother's history. But your writing in this book has hit a different sort of level with me. For those of us who actually understand the shining, as a nebulous thing that, in the real world, is not supernatural in any way really...well, the read is deliciously unsettling. And...it also touches a raw nerve.
Thanks for that. Again...I think.
Not entirely sure how I feel about writing here now, but am compelled to do so...am presently about 1/2 way through "Doctor Sleep," the 1st King book I've picked up in many years (the "Green Mile" series having been the last). I think "The Shining" was my all-time favorite book at one point, and though it has been since I was a late teenager that I read it (and never felt a need or desire to re-read it), when I learned about a sequel, my "inner ear" perked up.
I waited, though. Something kept stalling me. With a recent birthday past -you know, Life, the Universe, and Everything type of wonderful day- I knew what I wanted to purchase for myself. From the opening pages, though, I felt an immediate unease...one that hasn't left a bit, even though I'm only about halfway through the book.
I don't have any illusions that you read these threads, Mr. King...but if, on the off-chance you do, I'd like to say this to you: *Get the fu@k outta my head!*
...and yeah, I say that with a half-smile. I am mostly joking...I think. There's no way you could possibly know my history, or -as I just finished telling a friend- my mother's history. But your writing in this book has hit a different sort of level with me. For those of us who actually understand the shining, as a nebulous thing that, in the real world, is not supernatural in any way really...well, the read is deliciously unsettling. And...it also touches a raw nerve.
Thanks for that. Again...I think.
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