Tag: Stephen King
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Stephen King’s IT Parade: The Booklist Reader
Anybody getting excited for the new movie adaptation of IT? I am not sure it will be as good as The Gunslinger, but my hopes are high, as IT is probably the Stephen King book I have read more than any other. (Its competition is The Stand–I can’t remember which one I’ve read more times.) I don’t quite feel up…
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Stephen King is always appropriate…
Stephen King is one of my favorite writers, so here’s a little thing he wrote about Donald Trump. Here’s the trailer for The Dark Tower, because we need that now. And just for fun, here are pop songs reimagined as Stephen King book covers.
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What I love about Stranger Things…
If you like the kinds of books I do and you haven’t been watching Stranger Things on Netflix, get thee to a television. This series constantly references Stephen King’s books plus tons of great movies by John Carpenter, Steven Spielberg, and others we remember from the ’80s. And it has Winona Ryder! She is the ’80s for…
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All Play And No Work…
This is a great piece by Neal Pollack about writing and The Shining (book and movie), and it also touches on the “calm the fuck down” parenting method, which we have adopted in our household as well: All Play And No Work: Neal Pollack Watches ‘The Shining’ On Netflix With His 13-Year-Old Son True story. When The Shining first…
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A few recent links about writing and similar creative pursuits…
Stephen King asks: Can a novelist be too productive? We are all artists now, though. But if you don’t click on this story, the writer doesn’t get paid.
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Favorite Reads of 2014
I was going to do a whole “year in reading” post, but I got sucked into other things and now I find the year has already turned over. Happy new year! Here are my favorite reads of last year. Many are relatively new, some are classics, all are worth your time. The Sundial by Shirley…
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Recommended Reading: Revival by Stephen King
Recommended reading for this week is Revival, Stephen King’s latest novel (and the second he’s published this year). Now I’m a King fan from way back. I think this is the best book he’s turned out in a long time, maybe even since the early days. If you are looking for gore and scares, you won’t find…
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Halloween picks: The Scariest books
I usually like to get in the Halloween spirit by reading a scary book or two. This year, my top pick is NOS4A2 by Joe Hill. If you like Stephen King, you’ll love this book by his son. Not only does it read like King, but it reads like King at his absolute best–one of those great big…
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Book List: Big Books for Summer
Settle into your summer reading with one of these epic novels. Summer is the perfect time to wade into a really big book. You know the books I mean, the kind that can double as a door stopper for a recalcitrant screen door or a small table to hold your drink on the beach. Most…
Shannon Turlington 