tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329706.post8453326406361738623..comments2024-03-14T16:57:29.045-04:00Comments on Whisky Prajer: Horns by Joe Hilldpreimerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09905531259256800022noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329706.post-36866179857503889642010-05-13T06:25:42.149-04:002010-05-13T06:25:42.149-04:00Thanks, Y-man. Of the bunch, the two I'm most ...Thanks, <b>Y-man</b>. Of the bunch, the two I'm most likely to seek out are probably <i>The Shining</i>, 'cos it's clearly very close to the author's heart, and <i>Salem's Lot</i>, 'cos I have grade 12 memories of the cig-smokin', trash-talkin' ... you know, <i>that</i> girl ... carrying that paperback around.Whisky Prajerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14076228013022881173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329706.post-77961306625602064052010-05-08T11:58:51.276-04:002010-05-08T11:58:51.276-04:00I think it also depends on the Stephen King that y...I think it also depends on the Stephen King that you start with, and the less you know about it the better. "The Shining", "The Stand", "The Dead Zone" and "Misery" are great books any way you slice it. There are other good ones like "Salem's Lot", "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon", "The Green Mile", "The Dark Half", and "The Tommyknockers".<br /><br />That said, "The Shining" is still his masterpiece. If you've not read that, do give that one a try. Persevere until the first weird thing happens at the hotel. <br /><br />And, like David Foster Wallace, you have to like the way he lays down the words.yahmdallahnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329706.post-84909836768531961372010-05-07T13:37:59.143-04:002010-05-07T13:37:59.143-04:00Curiously enough I never read a Stephen King book ...Curiously enough I never read a Stephen King book when I was an adolescent -- or so I thought. When I was 14 or so I read a book called <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Long-Walk-Stephen-King/dp/0451196716/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273253702&sr=8-2" rel="nofollow">The Long Walk</a></i>, which completely blew me away. I tried to press it on anyone who'd listen, and usually got ridiculed for my troubles. It was written by some guy named Richard Bachman. I didn't find out he was King until I was almost 30. I'm sure I would've plowed through the entire library at the time, if I'd only known.Whisky Prajerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14076228013022881173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329706.post-65010630055901940582010-05-06T23:52:43.403-04:002010-05-06T23:52:43.403-04:00I was recently talking with some friends about Ste...I was recently talking with some friends about Stephen King. I'm pretty luke warm myself (I agree with your assessment of his writing style.) But my friend said, "You've got to understand what it was like to discover Stephen King when you're 14 and in this conservative environment. It just completely blows you away."<br /><br />That may be the difference. I didn't start reading Stephen King until I was in my late 20s, read a couple books, and largely decided I couldn't understand what all the fuss was about. But I can only imagine what these books would have been like to read at 14.<br /><br />And in talking with Stephen King nuts, it does seems to me that almost all Stephen King Fans get hooked young.Joel Swagmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329706.post-24925185253088627622010-05-06T11:22:36.376-04:002010-05-06T11:22:36.376-04:00The irony! I'd been mulling over my use of &qu...The irony! I'd been mulling over my use of "pleasant" was appropriate, but the more I thought about it the more I wondered if I was the right guy to review any horror book at all: the vast majority of them just don't strike me as being "horrific." Not that I'm incapable of horror, mind you. Get me going on a few <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Shake-Hands-Devil-Failure-Humanity/dp/0786715103/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273159259&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow">non</a>-<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Night-Trilogy-Dawn-Day/dp/0809073641/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273159324&sr=1-3" rel="nofollow">fiction</a> titles and I won't be able to fall asleep for weeks.Whisky Prajerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14076228013022881173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329706.post-27943180261462370722010-05-06T10:57:21.565-04:002010-05-06T10:57:21.565-04:00I'd forgotten you don't like the King! Oh...I'd forgotten you don't like the King! Oh well. He does seem to be one of those binary ones - love'em or hate'em.<br /><br />"Horns" is one of my recent abandonments. The misery and the goo were just too thick for me to carry on. Put another way, the writing didn't put me off, just the topic and the execution thereof.yahmdallahnoreply@blogger.com