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This build-up goes on for half a book, and then suddenly it all comes together and we are right in the middle of the worst of it. The terror and suspense builds dramatically from there.
King's brilliance I think, is that he really knows how to tell the tale with maxium impact.
100 pages into Dr. Sleep (2013).
Another page turner, and I haven't even read The Shining (did see the film though).
This book is really creepy.
I may have to take a King break, and go back to regular mystery and espionage fare.
Too many Kings in succession is almost sensory overload. Man is he a good writer though.
Finished. Normally I don't like books written in the 1st person (bios are exempt), but I found this an easy read, as if Helm was recounting the story to us in a pub. The end didn't come as that much of a surprise, as I stumbled across it while reading up about the series. Still an enjoyable read though. And i'm curious to see where Helm goes from here.
I have 'The Wrecking Crew' ready, and 'The Removers' & 'The Silencers' on order.
accept the whole young Bond idea. I like Bond smoking, drinking and shagging. :)
I guess I'll need to decide after tonight what I'll start next. Probably one of the two I took home from London almost two months ago - they've been calling for attention from behind a closet door ever since. Not that they're alone in there... several other books waiting, too...
Robert B Parker was an interesting US writer with interesting insights on certain situations,
Finished. Set a year after 'Death Of A Citizen', and with his civilian life over, Helm returns to his old life as a government sanctioned Assassin.
Though I didn't quite like this one as much as 'Death Of A Citizen', I still really enjoyed Hamiltons relaxed way of telling the story.
Next up, 'The Removers'.
I understand that they're a far cry from the spoofery of the films.
I have only read the first two, but they are a far cry from the films. But at the same time, they are not deadly serious, as there is a sliver of dark humour running through them,
Yes, you don't mind dark humour so much. In fact, there's a little bit of that in the Fleming Bond novels too. I really must make a point of collecting and reading the Matt Helm books (and the films).
http://titanbooks.com/creators/donald-hamilton/?p=1&=&order_by=date&Filter=
Thanks for the link, Major! :)
"The Lady from Zagreb" being the tenth Bernie Gunther novel by Phillip Kerr about a Berlin detective/policeman in his exploits of WWII which paints a very dark picture of the massacres of that time and how people lived with that.
By Richard Bachman a.k.a. Stephen King
I did it! I finally did it. I finally read my first Stephen King book and this time I actually finished it. After a couple of failed attempts, including Salem's Lot (twice!), I had lost all hope of ever getting through a King novel but The Long Walk, incidentally the first story King claims he ever wrote, was a definite page turner!
The premise should be enough to get you interested. Hundred boys start walking. Just walking. They cannot slow down or stop for that will get them warned and three warnings will get them 'a ticket'. The last boy still walking is the winner - of course.
Voila, as the French say. Perfectly simple but King keeps this thing exciting for about 370 pages (in my edition). I felt myself unable to put the book down so I really spent a big portion of yesterday and today reading King. But it was worth it. One might say this book pre-dates its famous copycats like The Hunger Games by a few decades. But back when it was first published, the 'light novel' for teens hadn't had its explosion into success yet so I guess The Long Walk missed out on the same money and film adaptation interest that more recent book series have been honoured with. Frank Darabont apparently has some interest in turning the novel into a self-contained film. We'll see if that ever happens.
But for sure, I recommend The Long Walk.
You'll be disspointed compared against Devil May Care I bet. I was.
I'm not sure I actually want to read all of King's bibliography. IT is the only one I have lined up next. ;-)
read it.
Point is that IT may very well have been de first true horror film I sat through and without the critical voice of a grown-up, I thought it was the scariest thing ever! That film baptised me as a life-long horror fan. So I figure the least I do is read the book. ;-)
Is one of those Singer films you refer to Apt Pupil?