Hello, I'm a new reader, having discovered that Stephen King's prose really agrees with me. The book, On Writing, inadvertently became a springboard into everything else he's written...but there's so much! I'm not panicked, just dipping my feet in here and there.
Anthologies are great, and I tend to read them differently from others (I think). I tend to read an individual story, and then go read something else, a comic or a novel, and then come back and read another story. To give each story it's due, as it were.
I know that Different Seasons is more a collection of novellas than a short story anthology. It seems cleverly organized, on the surface, connecting each story to a season. My question is, are these novellas still basically standalone? I want to jump forward and read The Body, and then maybe Apt Pupil next. And then eventually down the road, The Shawshank Redemption.
Any thoughts on that? Is there an overall effect with reading the book through from beginning to end and experience it's passage through seasons? An alternative reading approach I considered would be to read the individual novellas during their seasonal timeframe. So Shawshank Redemption while it's still springtime, and then in a couple months return to it for Apt Pupil, ect.
Or just let me know if I'm overthinking this, and have a laugh. I don't mind. I often overthink things. I'm just really enjoying my start with his books, and there are so many I'm looking forward to, but it's a little overwhelming!
Anthologies are great, and I tend to read them differently from others (I think). I tend to read an individual story, and then go read something else, a comic or a novel, and then come back and read another story. To give each story it's due, as it were.
I know that Different Seasons is more a collection of novellas than a short story anthology. It seems cleverly organized, on the surface, connecting each story to a season. My question is, are these novellas still basically standalone? I want to jump forward and read The Body, and then maybe Apt Pupil next. And then eventually down the road, The Shawshank Redemption.
Any thoughts on that? Is there an overall effect with reading the book through from beginning to end and experience it's passage through seasons? An alternative reading approach I considered would be to read the individual novellas during their seasonal timeframe. So Shawshank Redemption while it's still springtime, and then in a couple months return to it for Apt Pupil, ect.
Or just let me know if I'm overthinking this, and have a laugh. I don't mind. I often overthink things. I'm just really enjoying my start with his books, and there are so many I'm looking forward to, but it's a little overwhelming!