Hi, this is my first post here.
SK weaned me off Tom Clancy quite permanently.
SK weaned me off Tom Clancy quite permanently.
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Welcome!Hi, this is my first post here.
SK weaned me off Tom Clancy quite permanently.
Welcome. and glad to hear that.Hi, this is my first post here.
SK weaned me off Tom Clancy quite permanently.
Try James Herbert - he writes some really graphic horror novels. Sorry he did. he passed away last year. the novels are quite short but truly frightening. I read one called 'The Dark' and wouldn't leave the light off for a few days. be warned he wrote graphic scences about men and women and what they do. but he was frightening. RIP James.Has reading Stephen King ruined you for reading anyone else? I'm trying to read widely as Mr. King says but nothing grabs me like his work does. Any suggestions?
WElcome what SK book are you reading at the moment?
hi just saw you like Roddy doyNo question about it, there is no writer I like better, but I read a LOT, and all over the place. What I found is that it's his style that grabs me--conversational, slightly earnest, earthy, with realistic characters. It's writers like that that grab my heart: Steinbeck, Alcott (Don't laugh! I have a whole theory about the similarities in their styles ), Wharton, Twain, McMurtry (earlier rather than later, here), even Shakespeare. Writers with similar humor would be Irving, Roddy Doyle. His childlike wonder: Bradbury, Gaiman (who led me to Pratchett--he's hilarious, so we're back to humor). Then there are all the fine writers who write in counterpoint to Mr. King--precise where he's expansive, cooler where he's emotional. They all balance together and against a King-sized (heh-heh) yardstick in my head/heart. But I read them all, because reading good writing both builds your skills and the lexicon you draw upon (for writery types) and enriches your mental and emotional playground as a human being. SO figure out how Mr. King is feeding your inner animal, then search for writers that can do something similar. Eventually, you'll catch on something in them that leads you to someone else, and that person will lead you elsewhere, and then... Oh, the places you'll go!
hiNo question about it, there is no writer I like better, but I read a LOT, and all over the place. What I found is that it's his style that grabs me--conversational, slightly earnest, earthy, with realistic characters. It's writers like that that grab my heart: Steinbeck, Alcott (Don't laugh! I have a whole theory about the similarities in their styles ), Wharton, Twain, McMurtry (earlier rather than later, here), even Shakespeare. Writers with similar humor would be Irving, Roddy Doyle. His childlike wonder: Bradbury, Gaiman (who led me to Pratchett--he's hilarious, so we're back to humor). Then there are all the fine writers who write in counterpoint to Mr. King--precise where he's expansive, cooler where he's emotional. They all balance together and against a King-sized (heh-heh) yardstick in my head/heart. But I read them all, because reading good writing both builds your skills and the lexicon you draw upon (for writery types) and enriches your mental and emotional playground as a human being. SO figure out how Mr. King is feeding your inner animal, then search for writers that can do something similar. Eventually, you'll catch on something in them that leads you to someone else, and that person will lead you elsewhere, and then... Oh, the places you'll go!
Hi booklover72 - I am reading a book called Under the Dome (still) - it is a re-read and I put it down a while back and then stopped reading. I will pick it up again this evening before bedWElcome what SK book are you reading at the moment?
Hey - that is cool that you are in Ireland!hi just saw you like Roddy doy
hi
You like roddy doyle, roddy is just down the road in kilbarrack from me - i'm irish. did you see/read the commitments. because of the jargon used in the film/book audiences outside of ireland had to be given a dictionary to find out what they meant. lol. i read anything too - from Mark twain, oscar wilde, tolstoy, forysth, clancy herbert etc. but take a wild guess as to who i alwasy come back to?
hi just saw you like Roddy doy
hi
You like roddy doyle, roddy is just down the road in kilbarrack from me - i'm irish. did you see/read the commitments. because of the jargon used in the film/book audiences outside of ireland had to be given a dictionary to find out what they meant. lol. i read anything too - from Mark twain, oscar wilde, tolstoy, forysth, clancy herbert etc. but take a wild guess as to who i alwasy come back to?
Hi booklover72 - I am reading a book called Under the Dome (still) - it is a re-read and I put it down a while back and then stopped reading. I will pick it up again this evening before bed
Gee - that is kinda creepy! I like the way you look at thingsDoesn't sour me on other authors, but I get tired of SK if on an extended run of titles, back to back to back. Only read about four SK books a year, about one each season. Same with Dean Koontz, same with Agatha Christie. Spacing each writer out allows time to savour & internalize each story and each individual style, plus at the rate in which Dean and Stephen are releasing books, I'll be reading new titles well into the future, let alone the ones I haven't gotten to yet.
I love knowing that I won't get to MY last SK/DK book for YEARS to come. Goodness forbid, when I finally catch up and hold the last book I need to read from either of these writers in my hands, when we no longer see new material being released, I may just put it on the mantle and not read it. Seems silly, but I don't want to reach the end.
I'll just specify in my Will that it... and a flashlight... gets buried with me.
Doesn't sour me on other authors, but I get tired of SK if on an extended run of titles, back to back to back. Only read about four SK books a year, about one each season. Same with Dean Koontz, same with Agatha Christie. Spacing each writer out allows time to savour & internalize each story and each individual style, plus at the rate in which Dean and Stephen are releasing books, I'll be reading new titles well into the future, let alone the ones I haven't gotten to yet.
I love knowing that I won't get to MY last SK/DK book for YEARS to come. Goodness forbid, when I finally catch up and hold the last book I need to read from either of these writers in my hands, when we no longer see new material being released, I may just put it on the mantle and not read it. Seems silly, but I don't want to reach the end.
I'll just specify in my Will that it... and a flashlight... gets buried with me.