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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr Midnight" data-source="post: 588004" data-attributes="member: 69">The following has nothing to do with classic literature, so pass on by if that's what yer a-hankerin' fer.-----------------------------------------------------Just because everyone's talking King, I'll jump in with some stuff. I began reading him around twelve, and for the age, it was just scary enough. I burned through pretty much everything he had in a year, and then started from the beginning. An odd thing, as a fantasy reader- I really like The Eyes of the Dragon when I was young, but I read it again this year and found it to be pretty dull. I mean, the story's okay, but as a genre tale I thought its excitement was far too boring and the danger too "meh". Salem's Lot (and the short stories about the town) still hold up for me as exceptionally effective and creepy, and I've been meaning to re-read those lately. King does vampires the way I like 'em... monstrous cockroaches. They move in and take over your damn town, killing everything in sight. They don't wear ruffled silk doublets and lie about, whining about in-undead politics. Pet Sematary scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. The line about the gibbering goat head floating in the air haunted my head for years. The short stories are great, because the protagonists aren't at all like your typical King proties... they're not so witty, they can die, you get the feeling that not every one is just a slight bit different from another. Pretty much everything in NIGHT SHIFT or SKELETON CREW has seen four or five reads from me... THE LEDGE, STRAWBERRY SPRING, the miniature soldiers story, and the giant rats story stand out to me now... very much like Twilight Zones or great EC comics that never were. I read MISERY once in a while, and it's just a little airborne, it's still good, it's still good. I haven't read much King since I read TOMMYKNOCKERS. Most of his recent (Which to me means since IT) stories, IMO, have been all about creepy things leading up to a confrontation between good and evil, with good winning out. I don't like that- finding out that whatever was creepily doing something can be attacked when the protagonist(s) turn the tables and bum rush the show. I recommend THE LONG WALK, from THE BACKMAN BOOKS, for no particular reason. I just always liked it.</blockquote>

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