The only time a book made me jump. Sorta the book.

The only time a book ever made me jump was the bath tub scene in The Shining. He has a great ability to set you up for a sudden turn of events.

 

He'll be describing some mundane scene. Suddenly he's describing something horrible, as if he had jumped a few seconds into the future. Then your imagination fills in the gap and the scene plays like a movie in your mind. Hitchcock said that what is not seen is more important that what is. King is a master of that art.

I keep forgetting about all these other stories that were written by King. It's funny, you think of him as a writer of Horror stories; but he has branched out well beyond that genre.

 

And some of those that he has "branched out" with, was written before he wrote horror stories.

 

The publishers just found them after he made it with the horror stories.

 

Stand by Me was a novella called "The Body."

And some of those that he has "branched out" with, was written before he wrote horror stories.

If you're a fan of King, you should get a non-fiction book he wrote called, "Stephen King On Writing." In it, he tells his life story and talks about how he developed his writing abilities. Really interesting.

Looks like a good one I think I will go to see it.

I read the book and liked it, although at the end you are left to your devices to wonder what happened to the people. It is the pure unknown of the story that drives it. In the book, how the people in the store reverted to myths and folklore with the voice of reason finally winning out was interesting.

 

Seems to me, that in King stories the reader has a willingness to put himself in the place of the speaker, which makes them more scarey.

Don't know how I remembered this thread but I just watched this movie for the first time and I must say that I really didn't llike it one bit, although I can see where it could be a very good book. You could tell the budget was lacking in the special effects department and I thought it was WAY too over the top and extremely cheesy with a very predictable ending. I did think the individual acting was pretty good but other than that I thought it was awful.