SDSwami Wrote:Sorta like the other thread on here, but I was thinking more of a Non-FPW line.
I always liked Needful Things. One moment that will always stand out to me was when I read this the first time during my senior year. Towards the end of the book when all hell breaks loose, there's a scene where Ace sets off some dynamite under the bridge in town. I was reading this part while in study hall one day and at the exact same moment where the bridge goes up, someone had pulled the fire alarm in the school. I think I came a few feet off my chair when that happened.
My favorite short story is definately The Body Politic by Clive Barker. I've never read a story that made me laugh this hard but at the same time think to myself "What if this is really true? Would I ever know?". If you've never read this, it's located in the book The Inhuman Condition.
Overall, the scariest books I've read would have to be Salem's Lot, The Keep, and The Damnation Game.
crimson Wrote:For me it would have to be "Battle Royale" by Koushun Takami. I just finished all 600 plus pages days ago. Just the way some of the charachters (most about 15 years old) brutally kill each other with no remorse or any emotion is just chilling. great book, easily one of my favorites.
Kenji Asakura Wrote:Welcome to board,crimson.
Battle Royale was translated to English? That's amazing.
Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:Is that the same BATTLE ROYALE that was made into a movie a few years ago? I saw the film; it was truly chilling.
jimbow8 Wrote:I didn't particularly care for it either, so make sure you post your second reading opinion.
The characters were good (this is where King's brilliance lies, the characters), but the story was kinda flat.....similar to Dreamcatcher.
InfinityLtd Wrote:I finished my re-read of "The Tommyknockers" last night, and I will say that I did like it a little better than last time. My big problem with the book (and it takes a LOT for me to say this, believe me) is that it was too long. IMHO, I think almost all of Part II could have been easily dropped (the part where we find out what happened to other individual characters).I don't know if any King books occupy my "this is awful" category, but I haven't read Gerald's Game. I like Firestarter and From a Buick 8. The botton of the King barrel for me would be Tommyknockers, Dreamcatcher, Hearts in Atlantis (mostly because the movie was SO AWFUL), Eyes of the Dragon (because he didn't have a good grasp of the genre).
Anyway, it has moved out of the "Oh, Bob, this is AWFUL" area inhabited by Gerald's Game and Dreamcatcher--sorry, read it twice and hated it--and up into the "Eh, it's okay" area--with books such as Firestarter and From a Buick 8.
Two more months until "The Dark Tower"!