A change of scenery from Stephen King's usual territory of Maine usually makes for some of the author's most arresting and impressive fiction (see Duma Key, The Shining, and The Stand). King is an author who seems to thrive on challenge, and setting some stories' locales outside his comfort zone typ...
This tied in strangely to my other Halloween reads this year: it included both the regularly shifting POVs of The House and the heavy historical horror setting The Witching Hour did so well. (As a matter of fact, if I had to pick a runner up for the Anne Rice 'obsessed with historical time and place...
★★★★★The Green Mile by Stephen KingI have read this multiple time and I loved the green mile. I could not put this book down. This story is set in E block of the prison, in 1932. It begins with twin 8 y.o. girls being raped and murder. And who could have done it, well of course, the out of towner, ...
It's been a long time since I read a Stephen King novel, and I might not have read this one if it had not turned up on our office's paperback swap shelf. I'd already seen the film, despite not being a Tom Hanks fan (so sue me), so I thought I knew the story.Well.As is so often the case, the book is ...
A lot different from the Clockwork Century novels this book is really a set of three short stories, with a growing link.It can be a bit gruesome at times, but what do you expect when you're dealing with ... no; I won't spoil it.However the formatting of the Kindle version is terrible at the end, wit...
★★★★★The Green Mile by Stephen KingI have read this multiple time and I loved the green mile. I could not put this book down. This story is set in E block of the prison, in 1932. It begins with twin 8 y.o. girls being raped and murder. And who could have done it, well of course, the out of towner, ...
How not to write multiple first-person narrative:Introduce 5 or 6 first person speakers, none of whom sound at all convincing as who they're supposed to be (a Southern slave woman, an English aristocrat, a river boat captain, a gambler, an Irish nun, etc) or distinctly different from one another.The...
The Green Mile is the first book I've read by Stephen King, and I finished the book disappointed. King appeals to the basest of emotions in his readers and often utilizes cheap literary techniques in his storytelling. These include a first-person narrative; a casual, conversational tone of writing; ...
I read this years ago, and saw the movie when it came out. This is another great example of King's ability to create real people out of his characters. Some of the best (and worst) characters I've read are in this book, my favorite being Brutus Howell. He's the kind of person I think that more peopl...
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