Yeah! Alright! Someone Else Loves Chiller Novels in Summer!
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I am SO glad you brought up 'Salem's Lot . . . I read that either last summer or the summer before and I hadn't been so scared since the summer I read Dracula. I think that it's one of Stephen King's best "early" novels. And the latest rendition of it (on TNT) really bummed me out because I thought they missed the best points, despite having capable actors like James Cromwell, Rutger Hauer and Rob Lowe in the cast. I was upset that it didn't work as well as I'd imagined it could.
Speaking of his early works, if you ever need to feel good about your own writing by reading something clunky, read Cycle of the Werewolf, which inspired the film Silver Bullet, one of the first werewolf pictures I really enjoyed. (The other is, of course, An American Werewolf in London, of course!)
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon was issued in a pop-up book version right around when the closer was traded from the Red Sox to the Yankees. . .this makes me laugh because Stephen King is a DIE-HARD BoSox fan!
About The Stand, I've only seen the made-for-TV mini-series with Molly Ringwald and Laura San Giacomo, but I've been told by die-hard Stephen King fans that it was very close to the book, so I'm certainly interested in reading that, especially with all the "bird flu" paranoia in the news nowadays.
A more recent King work that's been catching my eye is Cell: A Novel and I think it serves as kind of an outlet for one of my biggest pet peeves as well as my worst fears. (The man is a total maniac.)
I could read Wicked a billion times and not get sick of it, but feel like I have an unfair advantage having read it several times already. . .in addition to having read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and the Wicked "sequel", Son of a Witch.
If I'm going to go out and get another book for the summer, though, I'm very interested in getting one in horror. . .plus, it'll give me an excuse to use my Borders card!
Looking forward to more postings,
Lizzy
posted by Lizzy Wednesday @ 11:26 AM
4 Comments:
I'm in a book club here in Austin, and I agree with you wholeheartedly. Some of the books we picked were just plain awful, but it was ok, because we accepted it, panned it and moved onto the next one.
As far as the chiller book, what are you looking for, Lizzy? Suspense, mystery, gore? If you like suspense, you might want to check out Michael Prescott, I like him. Comes the Dark was my favorite, but Stealing Faces was pretty creepy too.
Anyways, like always, I'm up for reading anything.
The creepier the better when it comes to chiller. Gore doesn't scare me, but atmosphere and mood get so much mileage. . .the more vivid the description or the more interesting the word choices, I get caught up and then *bam!* someone walks into the house and I jump!
If we mix it up, re-reading books you love with someone who hasn't read them before does have its advantages. . .especially when your "new-to-the-book" reader brings their POV into the discussion.
Plus, it's so much fun to talk about the book with someone who's just read it the first time!
A book like 'Wicked' has so many levels that it makes for a great re-reading, no matter how many times you've already read it.
How about 'Wicked' now and something like 'The Stand' or a mystery later? Let me know. . .I'm being democratic.
I think a Chiller would be a nice change of pace from what I have been reading lately.
Hmmm. Tough call.
I'll e-mail the group about it, but I'm getting a couple of good compromise ideas now.
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