There is an old Family Guy cutaway which depicts Stephen King meeting with his publisher to pitch his next novel. Obviously desperate for an idea, King quickly looks around the office and grabs the publisher's desk lamp. "So this family gets attacked by . . . a lamp monster! Ooooh!" he waves his han...
Not my usual cup of tea. Of course I've heard of Stephen King, and I have vivid memories of the movie "Carrie", but I'm not a horror fan in general. This collection of four novellas, however, presented itself to me on the book exchange shelves at work, and looking at the length of the book, and cons...
The overall theme of this collection, whether Stephen King realizes it or not, is that lazy little sin we call sloth. If you're a no-account layabout, the Langoliers will come and eat you up. If you're too lazy to write your own material, John Shooter might come calling. Can't be bother to take back...
I don’t understand the disdain this novella gets from other SK fans. In discussions of the “past midnight” collection, The Sun Dog is usually listed as the weakest, with all the love going to The Langoliers. How buzzing, hopping little balls of teeth that eat reality can trump the idea of an alterna...
This is the problem with King. He's written so much that it's impossible to even recollect whether you actually read some of his stories or not.Either King has stopped exercising self-criticism after he got his first book out, or he just stopped caring either way.Now, I'm all for self-therapy, I jus...
Will i ever sleep again the way I used to? I seriously doubt it. This book is consisted of 4 stories, all different and completely inovative. The one that impressed me the most was the first one : "The Langoliers". This is about a group of people riding on a plane in which they encouter some type of...
Straight Up Midnight: An Introductory NoteOne Past Midnight: A Note on 'The Langoliers'--The LangoliersTwo Past Midnight: A Note on 'Secret Window, Secret Garden'--Secret Window, Secret GardenThree Past Midnight: A Note on 'The Library Policeman'--The Library PolicemanFour Past Midnight: A Note on '...
Straight Up Midnight: An Introductory NoteOne Past Midnight: A Note on 'The Langoliers'--The LangoliersTwo Past Midnight: A Note on 'Secret Window, Secret Garden'--Secret Window, Secret GardenThree Past Midnight: A Note on 'The Library Policeman'--The Library PolicemanFour Past Midnight: A Note on '...
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