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Post by cael on Feb 25, 2014 8:42:39 GMT -5
Lucky, Mid. My reading choices weren't policed persay, but when I tried to buy my own copy of Gone with the Wind when I was 13 (a friend loaned it to me and I had to give it back before I finished), mom wouldn't let me because of the racist language in it. ugggghhhh so annoying. Then I got it out of the library and that was fine. -faint-I also wasn't allowed to buy music with parental advisories. I read a ton of John Grisham when I was 13/14. I got really into Patricia Cornwell when I was 14/15, love her series. ...I am embarrassed to say to date at 31 years old I have not read a single Stephen King book.
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Post by ginpin on Feb 25, 2014 8:49:54 GMT -5
I was lucky in that my parents didn't police my reading and listening. I am sure that if Mom had seen the language/subject matter of Cujo, the first Stephen King book I read, she might have had a heart attack. The sad thing is, while I am a precocious reader, my little 10 year old brain could really understand some of the subject matter in Cujo.
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Post by midjd on Feb 25, 2014 9:21:53 GMT -5
Stephen King made DH the voracious reader he is today. I gave him my copy of Rose Madder in 7th grade and he loved it. That was probably the first non-school book he ever read. The first SK book I read was Misery - not sure why my mom didn't say anything, since the movie was out by then and its goriness was no secret.
Ginpin, what's your favorite of his books?
Cael, you should try one! They're not all blood and guts - Bag of Bones is a beautiful love story (title notwithstanding ). The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is also good, as long as you're not a hiker (it's about a tween who gets lost in the woods).
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Feb 25, 2014 9:49:13 GMT -5
The first SK book I read was Misery - not sure why my mom didn't say anything, since the movie was out by then and its goriness was no secret
I read that in 6th grade. My favorite part is when she runs the cop's head over with a lawn mower. Brutal.
I stopped reading SK after awhile because it became too predictable.
I recently purchased his book about the JFK assisination, that was REALLY good. Not your typical SK book.
I can handle that just fine but I can't watch a lot of horror movies either, especially "slasher porn". The images stay with me long after the movie is over. I don't enjoy them at all.
I can handle things like the original Halloween which is more suspense really than gore, but I can't watch Saw/Hostel or movies like that. DH is ordered to watch them when I'm not home
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Post by ginpin on Feb 25, 2014 19:44:01 GMT -5
Stephen King made DH the voracious reader he is today. I gave him my copy of Rose Madder in 7th grade and he loved it. That was probably the first non-school book he ever read. The first SK book I read was Misery - not sure why my mom didn't say anything, since the movie was out by then and its goriness was no secret.
Ginpin, what's your favorite of his books?
Cael, you should try one! They're not all blood and guts - Bag of Bones is a beautiful love story (title notwithstanding ). The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is also good, as long as you're not a hiker (it's about a tween who gets lost in the woods). Love LOVE most Stephen King books. My favorites are probably the older stories...Christine, The Shining (I was actually scared to turn the page on that one), 'Salem's Lot, The Stand, IT. I liked the JFK one, and I liked Duma Key. I haven't yet read Lisey's story...anyone read that one? I love Dr. Sleep, which is the sequel to The Shining. Cael, lots of great movies are actually Stephen King stories. Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, The Body (Stand by Me). The Eyes of the Dragon is fabulous, although not a movie. Bag of Bones is great, and was made into a TNT or Lifetime-type movie. It is currently on Netflix. Anyone like Dean R. Koontz?
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Post by milee on Feb 25, 2014 19:54:43 GMT -5
I live very near to where King has a summer home and Duma Key describes dozens of things in our neighborhood and area so it was a fun read. Although he added a fictional island off the tip of the real life island, many of the other descriptions are of actual places around here. Since he's an avid long distance walker, I think he must have regularly walked many of the same areas I live and run because it's easy to recognize places he's describing in the book. One of my best friends who only lives a couple of miles from me has a huge waterfront estate that you access down a slightly winding, mysterious road hidden with vegetation - has a huge sign out front with her home's name "Heron's Roost." When I told her about the book and asked if she knew King (she knows everybody, so I figured she'd had him over), she said she didn't know him and had no idea that was the name of the scary place in the book.
I thought there were some really interesting concepts in The Stand.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Feb 25, 2014 20:09:25 GMT -5
I may be odd man out here but I have tried to read SK books without much success. But I love every movie made from his books. This is odd for me since I usually love a book much more than the movie.
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Feb 25, 2014 20:10:46 GMT -5
Me too! You must have read "Needful Things" - if not I suggest it - it was creepier than "The Shining" (At least to me) - but Stephen King creepy in a good way. His more recent novels aren't nearly as good as his classics.
And steff, I was also annoyed at the rain-delay for Daytona - but I'm glad DE Jr won. (I was rooting for Jeff Gordon though).
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Feb 25, 2014 20:13:27 GMT -5
Probably the quirkiest thing for me is, I always have to start off on my left foot - whether walking, climbing/descending stairs, etc.
Always left - I think that's probably from many years in the baton corps as a teen.
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