RE: Aspiring and experienced Writers' discussion thread
September 3, 2015 at 11:23 pm
(This post was last modified: September 3, 2015 at 11:27 pm by Ravenshire.)
(September 2, 2015 at 10:01 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote:(September 2, 2015 at 8:53 pm)Thena323 Wrote: What did you read by Stephen King? He's got an a pretty extensive body of work. I would agree that some of more recent stuff is pretty cruddy....they can't all be hits! He's still one of my favorite writers. The guy is a master when it comes to short fiction, in my opinion anyway.
Stephen King offers a great deal of insight into what makes a good writer in Stephen King On Writing.
I don’t remember the title off the top of my head. It was a novel that opens with this guy tracking another guy. After several scenes King still had not gotten around to telling me why he was tracking the other guy. He enters a town and kills everybody after the spiritual woman accuses him of killing the Crimson King. There was a lot of violence and bloodshed but I never knew why things were happening. Never knew why the main character’s goal was. He was just there.
If you give me some recommendations, I’ll give King another shot.
That's "The Gunslinger."
"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." It's the first part of a much longer tale called "The Dark Tower." It's dry, but it's short (something of a rarity for a King novel), and the following books are worth it.
Other King recommendations (in no particular order):
"11/22/63"
"The Stand" - Either the original edition or "The Complete and Uncut Edition"
"The Green Mile"
"Misery"
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