The Stand

[hodge]

I read it as a young adult. I love Stephen King's writing voice, his characters, his great moral sense.

One book of his I could not bear to even try to read was Cujo because I love dogs so much.

I also never could get through Duma Key. I tried three times post-PTSD. It's really good, but too triggering for me. It's about a guy who loses an arm in an auto accident but goes on to retire and start painting and becomes a successful artist.

 

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I use to read Steven King, but his books just became to far out there for me. I loved reading his book "IT" But it took me months to get past the first few pages.

 

[hodge]

It creeped me out more than most of his works. I've always had an aversion to clowns.

 

[pixel]

can you explain this to me?

Sure, i don't wish to derail the thread though, so I've opened up a new one for discussion:
Dr. Peter Levine's Theories


Back to The Stand! (i feel like i should be saluting :D)

 

[Call-Me-Dream]

The stand is one I haven't read, I myself am trying to finish Duma Key, I haven't picked it up in years, I'm not sure why I haven't finished it, I love so much about it, maybe i keep putting it down because I fear it ending.


Cujo, left a bad taste in my mouth, read it a long time ago, left me sad.

Almost anything by him is amazing, hell, his book On Writing is probably one of my favorite pieces of non fiction ever.

 

[scout86]

One of my all time favorite books!

 

[ladee]

It started off the miniseries well but I found it got silly at the end. Is it better as a book?

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I never saw the miniseries. I read the first one that came out and it was ok. The unabridged one was very good. Have no idea why so much was left out of the first printing.

 

[hodge]

Oh, @BelovedDreamwalker, I also loved his book On Writing as well as his forewords to novels and short stories where he would talk about writing. I read him when I was a young aspiring writer. Much more fun to read than Strunk and White, lol.