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Welcome, Jenny. Tom Gordon is really underrated, I think, such a great read.



What most impresses me about the novel is that the writing craft required to create that much tension in a novel about folks taking a walk is staggering; and it was the very first novel King wrote. How did he get so much right from the very beginning? Brilliant.

Welcome to our new members! :) Glad to have you!
Something I wanted to mention & ask my fellow King fans. I thought I'd seen all of the movies made from the King's novels or collected shorties. However, I was a bit disappointed & surprised to see 'A Good Marriage' on The Lifetime Channel this past weekend.
I watched it after discovering that King adapted the novella (from 'Full Dark, No Stars'- a collection of 4 disturbingly entertaining novellas) himself & worked in tandem with director Peter Askin.
Anyone else seen this & what did you think?
I was waiting through the entire movie to see King make one of his cameo appearances but I was disappointed that, with several opportunities, it never happened. I thought to myself that it could be possible that the cameo was so short & quick that I missed it, so I did a little digging online. I discovered that King was interested in playing the minister when he gives a benediction. I was pretty shocked to discover that actress Joan Allen (the wife in the film) requested that King "stay away" & remain off set, which he did. Ouch Joan!! So....no cameo, bummer! Extra bummer because he was ready to do one & already had one in mind.

Next on my shelf I have Insomna, The Talisman or Four Past Midnight. The good thing about King is that used bookstores often have lots of his stuff.
I also enjoy reading history, theology and other fiction. I like to think I have diverse reading interests. Anyway, glad I found this group.

Sheri, Sorry, I didn't see the movie. Wow, that's disappointing that King had to stay away. I would have thought he'd want creative input on all his projects.
David, Every time I go to a used bookstore I see King novels. I'm at the point where I need to take a list with me, because I can't remember which ones I own. I just read The Stand this year. Wow, what a story! I loved 11/22/63. Have you read that one?


Sheri, Sorry, I didn't see the movie. Wow, that's disappointing that King had to stay away. I would have thought he'd want creative input on all his projects.
David, Every tim..."
I have the same problem. I now take a picture of the King section of my bookshelf before I go to the book store. The used book store I go to always has King books, and I can't always remember which ones I have. I just pull the picture up on my phone and check titles.

Sheri, Sorry, I didn't see the movie. Wow, that's disappointing that King had to stay away. I would have thought he'd want creative input on all..."
He has very little input on any adaptations of his works. He cashes the checks to the producer who bought the rights to his story. After that, it's the producers project.


Welcome Nicole. Look forward to you comments, would like to hear your opinion of Sleeping Beauties whenever you get through it.


And I'm pretty sure that even though it was published later, The Long Walk was the first novel King wrote.


Ger, we are starting to read Carrie in December. Join us.

Probably true, I heard rumor that he wrote it when he was in high school. If that is the case he didn't need to go to collage the Long Walk is a stunningly well written book.

According to Wikipedia:
"While not the first of King's novels to be published, The Long Walk was the first novel he wrote, having begun in it 1966-67 during his freshman year at the University of Maine some eight years before his first published novel Carrie was released in 1974."


I was thinking the same thing. If Tabby hadn't rescued his manuscript from the trash and told him to keep writing it, we might not ever have unlocked the wellspring (sorry) of King novels. BTW a world without Mr. King would really be lacking. Like a world without Mozart or Muscle Cars. :-)

Welcome to the group.


Four past midnight... hell of a place to start! Welcome.

Welcome to our new members! :) Glad to have you!
Something I wanted to mention & ask my fellow King fans. I thought I..."
What a real bummer Sheri! It's like watching a Marvel movie without Stan Lee on it.


Hi Pamela, welcome. Cujo was my first King as well, when I was 10.

I agree, I love Goodreads and it was a relief to find it! Though for me it’s the best feature was less about tracking/finding which books I have read and more about being able to remember which books I want to read! I love being able to reference my list and buy books off it every so often on thriftbooks :):)



"Plundering her bookshelf", WOW. It's true; bookshelves were made to be plundered. Welcome.

Hi Pamela, wow Cujo at 9, a harsh story for a 9 year old, but I guess it depends on the 9 year old reading it. Did your Mother know you took her book?
I agree about goodreads I love discussing books with others who enjoy the same things I enjoy. Even if we don't agree we still love the written word. I am a self confessed book nerd and Potterhead as well.

Howdy Mr Brooks...yes she knew because it was in my hand every spare moment I had lol. She always encouraged my reading and I was way above my age group in reading comprehension and maturity. I’m not sure exactly why she wasn’t overly concerned since it was such a scary book for someone around that age but I was never one to scare easily lol. I think that concerned her more than me having night terrors honestly, my fearlessness.
I do confess that there has been one movie I saw as a kid that scared the hell out of me but I couldn’t tell you the name of it. What I remember most was that it was based in France at the time guillotines were the French people’s choice of execution. In the movie they were chopping heads off left and right! 😲 Anywho I don’t think I slept a wink that night...kept waiting the guy that pulled the rope to pop out from under my bed and chop my head off! 😒😂 I don’t remember how old I was but I was young.

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