Where should I start?
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Where should I start?
I just obtained copies of Geralds Game, The Girl who loved Tom Gordon, Just After Sunset, Bag of Bones, and Duma Key. I havent read any of these titles, and Im looking for suggestions as to where I should start?
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None of those books depend on each other, so you're pretty much free to read them as you like. I haven't read GG, TGWLTG, or BoB since they were released (and I don't remember them being all that good). JAS and DK are both spectacular, with DK being one of my favorite King books.
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I better find a copy of Duma Key and read it then. 
I didn't enjoy Bag of Bones at all, and the Girl Who Loved... wasn't much better.
Geralds Game is alright, if unspectacular. It's most interesting aspect was that it "happened" concurrently with Dolores Claiborne, but it's a pretty low-key connection.
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I didn't enjoy Bag of Bones at all, and the Girl Who Loved... wasn't much better.
Geralds Game is alright, if unspectacular. It's most interesting aspect was that it "happened" concurrently with Dolores Claiborne, but it's a pretty low-key connection.
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Re: Where should I start?
i liked Tom Gordon best of those. Sunset was also very good.Mr. Broken wrote:I just obtained copies of Geralds Game, The Girl who loved Tom Gordon, Just After Sunset, Bag of Bones, and Duma Key. I havent read any of these titles, and Im looking for suggestions as to where I should start?
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All righty, this seems to be a good place as any to place my comment.
I have only begun to forgive Stephen King (Not for DT, but for It) and am welling to reluctantly give him another chance. I'm wondering which books I should invest in so as not to regress to the unforgiving hatred that I had for King. Now, here's some info to help with the advisories:
1)I am currently reading Tommyknockers as part of a deal with a friend.
2)I've read Rage, The Long Walk, It, Gunslinger, and the Drawing of the Three
3)I tried to read Salem's Lot but got bored with it sometime around when Susan gets it (presumably) in the old house.
4)I absolutely loved The Long Walk.
So, what are some suggestions for me to read Stephen Kingwise?
I have only begun to forgive Stephen King (Not for DT, but for It) and am welling to reluctantly give him another chance. I'm wondering which books I should invest in so as not to regress to the unforgiving hatred that I had for King. Now, here's some info to help with the advisories:
1)I am currently reading Tommyknockers as part of a deal with a friend.
2)I've read Rage, The Long Walk, It, Gunslinger, and the Drawing of the Three
3)I tried to read Salem's Lot but got bored with it sometime around when Susan gets it (presumably) in the old house.
4)I absolutely loved The Long Walk.
So, what are some suggestions for me to read Stephen Kingwise?
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Govern the reasoning creature, man.
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The Tommyknockers is sort of......eh.
King's written some great short stories, so I'd suggest any of his collections. I thought Duma Key was magnificent. I thought Dreamcatcher was really good. You have to read The Stand (it's like, the law or something). I enjoyed Insomnia, not many others did. The Dead Zone is really underrated.
But I think your best bet is start with the short stories, as I think he does really well with them.
King's written some great short stories, so I'd suggest any of his collections. I thought Duma Key was magnificent. I thought Dreamcatcher was really good. You have to read The Stand (it's like, the law or something). I enjoyed Insomnia, not many others did. The Dead Zone is really underrated.
But I think your best bet is start with the short stories, as I think he does really well with them.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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I'm with Cail. 90% of his best work is in short stories and "The Stand"...I didn't buy Duma the other day since I've been disappointed in his recent novels...but Cail, you just might have persuaded me. [because I also didn't mind Insomnia, Dreamcatcher, and agree on The Dead Zone.
Recycle Tommyknockers.
Recycle Tommyknockers.
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the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
I really can't say enough good stuff about Duma Key.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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Read the extended one. It adds a lot of texture to the story.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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Well, I finished Tommyknockers...was a lot better than It, in my opinion, now to forge ahead in the deal I made with my friend, being that I would read:
Tommyknockers, The Stand, The Talisman, and all of his short stories (with the exception of the ones in his new collection)
Tommyknockers, The Stand, The Talisman, and all of his short stories (with the exception of the ones in his new collection)
'Tis dream to think that Reason can
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley
