My Long Walk Through Stephen King's Lot

Soon I’ll be posting my thoughts about the King novel I’m currently reading.   I’m just about finished; I have less than a hundred pages to go.   It’s definitely a good one, so I’ll be eager to share my thoughts on it. In the meantime, given that it’s been so long since I posted anything, I figured I’d share my current top ten list of King novels.   I wanted to do this somewhat early on in my blogging journey, thinking it might be neat to see how the list evolves over time as I continue reading King’s books.   This isn’t necessarily a list of my “favorite” King novels, but rather my attempt to identify those I think are his “best.”   This kind of task is notoriously difficult, particularly when you are a fan of the work you’re assessing.  I also realize it's a silly exercise.  But what can I say?  I love lists, and it's fun to make them!  At any rate, after much debate, this is my attempt to highlight the novels I consider to b...

  Before I started this blog, I imagined I would only write about Stephen King’s books.   But King’s work is frequently adapted to the screen—for better or worse—and occasionally the movies are worth examining. Not many of them, mind you, but some; particularly those which are ambitious attempts to tackle some of King’s most well-established and highly revered works.   Something, say, like the recent big-screen adaptation of IT .   I didn’t go see the movie when it was in theaters, which speaks to a curious fact about me at this stage of life.   If I were 15 years younger, I’d have been there in a heartbeat.   But life changes, and the things I like doing often get lost in the shuffle of managing everything I feel I need to do.     This weekend, however, I had a few hours to spare, and I allowed myself to factor in something I’d like to do, and that was most definitely to sit and experience “IT.”   I’ve mentioned the book in p...

So, no, I'm not really referring to making my way through Stephen King's  Dark Tower series.  I've already completed that.  The title of this post is just a lame Stephen King reference, much like the name of my blog. I simply want to write something at the outset that gives a little of my history as a Stephen King fan.  I haven't read all of his work, but I am on a determined course to do so.  In the last ten or so years, I've come across more and more of King's writing that continues to persuade me that he is more gifted, and capable of deeper, more eloquent writing, than he is frequently given credit for. This post will highlight what I've read up until now, and hopefully express a little about why I value his writing so much.  I consider myself an avid fan of Stephen King’s books, but my journey began with his movies.  I was a young adolescent when I first encountered the frightful, gory, and depressing “Pet Se...