The Stephen King Story by George Beahm

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TanyaS

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It's a very good read, good pics, good insight. I spelt the author's name wrong, I have realised. It's readable. Makes me feel I know King so much better, or that is, his writing career. Oh, thank goodness we have had the gift of SK!!!!!!!!
 

muskrat

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Hope it's not as bad as Haunted Heart by Lisa Rogat. She tries her damnedest to make King sound like a jerk, and succeeds only in making herself sound like a money-hungry gossip hound. And fulla factual errors, like calling the old monster mag Castle of Frankenstein a comic book. If she woulda read Danse Macabre, she woulda known better.

Shoddy stuff.
 

not_nadine

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Hope it's not as bad as Haunted Heart by Lisa Rogat. She tries her damnedest to make King sound like a jerk, and succeeds only in making herself sound like a money-hungry gossip hound. And fulla factual errors, like calling the old monster mag Castle of Frankenstein a comic book. If she woulda read Danse Macabre, she woulda known better.

Shoddy stuff.


Glad I've never heard of this one. blah, looked it up.

Myself, I'm waitin for Marsha's book.... :) Naw, I know she wouldn't do it... but still....
 

jchanic

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Hope it's not as bad as Haunted Heart by Lisa Rogat. She tries her damnedest to make King sound like a jerk, and succeeds only in making herself sound like a money-hungry gossip hound. And fulla factual errors, like calling the old monster mag Castle of Frankenstein a comic book. If she woulda read Danse Macabre, she woulda known better.

Shoddy stuff.

I've also read it. Pure garbage.

John
 

TanyaS

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Hope it's not as bad as Haunted Heart by Lisa Rogat. She tries her damnedest to make King sound like a jerk, and succeeds only in making herself sound like a money-hungry gossip hound. And fulla factual errors, like calling the old monster mag Castle of Frankenstein a comic book. If she woulda read Danse Macabre, she woulda known better.

Shoddy stuff.
No, it's a good and fair assessment, written as a fan of King more than not. Well researched, well written, very readable. I enjoyed it. Haven't read the one above, and probably never wll.
 

GNTLGNT

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No, it's a good and fair assessment, written as a fan of King more than not. Well researched, well written, very readable. I enjoyed it. Haven't read the one above, and probably never wll.
....I will be as nice as possible in curbing my "blech" for this wart on the backside of the literary world....and advise you to run screaming for the hills if he ever offers to sell you a bridge or any swampland.....
 

Robert Gray

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With as much autobiographical information available from Stephen King himself in several nonfiction works and countless interviews, I'm not sure how much I would get out of even a good third party book about his life and times. To be honest, I don't like reading biographies of living people. Every since I was a kid, a biography was something you read about someone who is both dead and great. As Sai King is alive, and I very much want him to continue to be so for both non-selfish and selfish reasons, I just can't bring myself to read a biography of him. It would feel like a jinx, like stepping on cracks or walking under a ladder. I think if anyone should write such a book, it should be one of his children in the very distant future.
 

Geminii23

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I found George Beahm's Stephen King Companion to be a really great read. There wasn't really anything in it that came across to me as unfavorable about King that I could tell. Really more of a chronology of his life. So I guess I am in the minority here.

I often find Authorized Biographies or Exclusive ones based on interviews to be far too biased. I imagine a lot of famous people don't want things that could be controversial being brought to light. Also didn't George write those books long before SK wrote On Writing?
 

mal

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I'll probably read it eventually (everything is eventual so I've heard). If I am pursuing information about someone's life I'll try to read all sides and everything from everybody. I think the truth is always somewhere in the middle. Just like any news items I pursue I try to get the leftist, centrist, rightest, and sometimes radical slants of the story. Armed with this often conflicting information I am then better prepared to separate the wheat from the chaff. If he is a coin chaser using this to enhance his finance then I say his Kitty Kelley shtick might yield a few nuggets of truth or insight along the way.