[CENTRAAL] Stephen King

Nu na alle oude (en vaak gesloten) topics, een centraal SK topic

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From The Flap:

The state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret in Shed B out back of the barracks ever since 1979, when Troopers Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox answered a call from a gas station just down the road and came back with an abandoned Buick Roadmaster. Curt Wilcox knew old cars, and he knew immediately that this one was...wrong, just wrong. A few hours later, when Rafferty vanished, Wilcox and his fellow troopers knew the car was worse than dangerous -- and that it would be better if John Q. Public never found out about it. Curt's avid curiosity taking the lead, they investigated as best they could, as much as they dared. Over the years the troop absorbed the mystery as part of the background to their work, the Buick 8 sitting out there like a still life painting that breathes -- inhaling a little bit of this world, exhaling a little bit of whatever world it came from. In the fall of 2001, a few months after Curt Wilcox is killed in a gruesome auto accident, his 18-year-old boy Ned starts coming by the barracks, mowing the lawn, washing windows, shoveling snow. Sandy Dearborn, Sergeant Commanding, knows it's the boy's way of holding onto his father, and Ned is allowed to become part of the Troop D family. One day he looks in the window of Shed B and discovers the family secret. Like his father, Ned wants answers, and the secret begins to stir, not only in the minds and hearts of the veteran troopers who surround him, but in Shed B as well.... From a Buick 8 is a novel about our fascination with deadly things, about our insistence on answers when there are none, about terror and courage in the face of the unknowable.

Een van zijn betere boeken vind ik


From the Flap:

Roused by a single drop of blood on the bedsheet, Rosie Daniels wakes from fourteen years of a nightmare marriage and suddenly takes flight. She uses her husband's ATM card to buy a bus ticket, determined to lose herself in a place where Norman won't find her. She'll worry about all the rest later. Alone in a strange city, she begins to make a new life, and good things start to happen. Meeting Bill Steiner is one; and finding a junk-shop painting is another. It may be bad art but it's perfect for her new apartment-and somehow, it seems to want her as much as she wants it. Still, it's hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder, and with good reason. Her husband is a cop, with the instincts of a predator. He's very good at finding people. The fact that he's losing his mind might even be an advantage. Rose-maddened and on the rampage, Norman Daniels becomes a force of relentless terror and savageness, a man almost mythic in his monstrosity. For Rosie to survive, for her to have a chance in her brave new world, she must enter her own myth-a world that lies beyond the surface of a work of art-and become a woman she never knew she could be: Rose Madder.

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Op dinsdag 10 augustus 2004 20:10 schreef Isabeau het volgende:
En wat vind je er zelf van

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Zijn films vind ik altijd leuk, ze ademen altijd een typische sfeer uit en wat mij opgevallen is is dat de meeste films kleurrijk zijn en/of over kinderen gaan.

Wat ik soms wel jammer vind is dat King veel tijd nodig heeft om op gang te komen en daarna zich alles in een snel tempo opvolgt. Zowel in zijn boeken als in de films.

Zo kijk ik nu iedere woensdagavond Kingdom Hospital (Yorin), een serie over een ziekenhuis, ook van SK.

Het boek "Hearts in Atlanta" (is ook verfilmd) vond ik tegenvallen. Het eerste deel was leuk, daarna werd het heel rommelig en vond ik dat er weinig tot geen spanning meer inzat. Een van zijn slechtere boeken.

Wat is er eik zo speciaal aan de torenserie en waar gaat het precies over? Ik heb ze nog nooit gelezen omdat het me zo sequelachtig overkomt

Toch maar eens beginnen aan de Dark Towerreeks dan