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Love 'Salem's Lot. Been reading Stephen King since I was just a young 'un.
Read Salem's Lot when I was a security guard on the night shift…and next to where I was working was a cemetery! I kept thinking every time I went outside, I was going to run into Barlow. :-)
The bedroom window scene made me sleep with the light on.
Stephen King scary? When will people stop kidding themselves? I know this is an old post, but seriously, if you find King scary, you don't know scary.
The problem with SK: his early novels are good entry-level horror books. The problem is that people tend to stick with him even after he starts to suck, with leads to the complete waste of time reading books like Gerald's Game and Insomnia. I can see why this would have happened in the past, if you live in a small town with no book store and a small library, your choices were limited. But now you can learn about genre books here at GR, get yourself to a Walgreens for an Amazon card and you can buy any book you want to read. The 21st century is a wonderful place, where horror fans will not be limited to the words of Stephen King, whose work seems to have degenerated into the literary equivalent of the Dr Phil Show.
Chad, I read 'Salem's Lot as a teenager and I too checked the window in my bedroom for a month -- it terrified me. I re-read it as an adult, and while it didn't scare me nearly as much, it's a great riff on Dracula with good old American small-town pettiness thrown in. It's a good novel.
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Apr 10, 2014 09:47PM
Love 'Salem's Lot. Been reading Stephen King since I was just a young 'un.
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Read Salem's Lot when I was a security guard on the night shift…and next to where I was working was a cemetery! I kept thinking every time I went outside, I was going to run into Barlow. :-)
The bedroom window scene made me sleep with the light on.
Stephen King scary? When will people stop kidding themselves? I know this is an old post, but seriously, if you find King scary, you don't know scary.
The problem with SK: his early novels are good entry-level horror books. The problem is that people tend to stick with him even after he starts to suck, with leads to the complete waste of time reading books like Gerald's Game and Insomnia. I can see why this would have happened in the past, if you live in a small town with no book store and a small library, your choices were limited. But now you can learn about genre books here at GR, get yourself to a Walgreens for an Amazon card and you can buy any book you want to read. The 21st century is a wonderful place, where horror fans will not be limited to the words of Stephen King, whose work seems to have degenerated into the literary equivalent of the Dr Phil Show.
Chad, I read 'Salem's Lot as a teenager and I too checked the window in my bedroom for a month -- it terrified me. I re-read it as an adult, and while it didn't scare me nearly as much, it's a great riff on Dracula with good old American small-town pettiness thrown in. It's a good novel.
