Stephen King - May, 1982 interview

[Tom]

bookshelves: 1stedition, bibliography, litcriticism, non-fiction, own, interviews, bio
Read in January, 2012

This is the third book I bought today at Cliff's Books, a great used bookstore near Daytona. I got this 1st/1st for $5.00. It is a collection of interviews with nearly thirty authors; "The uncommon men & women who write Science Fiction" (front cover). When I saw it includes a May 1982 interview with Stephen King, I knew it was mine without looking at the rest of the TOC. To my surprise, I'm just now seeing some other Most Favored authors; William Burroughs, Arthur Clarke, Fritz Leiber, L. Ron Hubbard, Piers Anthony . . ..
Some of King's favorite authors & books (at least in 1982) are Robert McCammon, They Thirst, Blood Rubies and Nick Sharman's Judgement Day.
King states that John MacDonald's The End of the Night is " . . . one of the Great American Novels of the Twentieth Century." (p. 273)
He goes on to say: "There's a guy named Don Robertson . . . one of the most interesting writers . . . [another] wrote The Beguiled . . . Thomas Culenin and he's an interesting writer. . . . [another is] Michael McDowell . . . nobody writing any better books in pb-original." (p. 280)

[Tom]

I spent quite some time 'tagging' all of the authors/titles, only to have it not save properly :(
I'll try adding a link to the original, which is tagged.

[Tom]

Here's a link to the review on FB, which did retain the tags.

[Debra]

Tom wrote: "Here's a link to the review on FB, which did retain the tags."

I'll be sure to add any books in that interview to my Sai_King_Recommends bookshelf.

[Tom]

Debra wrote: "Tom wrote: "Here's a link to the review on FB, which did retain the tags."

I'll be sure to add any books in that interview to my Sai_King_Recommends bookshelf."

Very cool.

[Debra]

Tom wrote: "Here's a link to the review on FB, which did retain the tags."

Hey, where's the link?

[Tom]

oopsie.
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

[Leah]

Tom wrote: "bookshelves: 1stedition, bibliography, litcriticism, non-fiction, own, interviews, bio
Read in January, 2012

This is the third book I bought today at Cliff's Books, a great used bookstore near Da..."

I found both Clarke's "Childhood's End" and Hubbard's "Case of the Friendly Corpse" to be delightfully creepy and very King-ish. Stephen King's recommendations have never disappointed!

[Debra]

Leah, you make me want to order those from the library right now. So many books, so little time!