Rereading Stephen King's "It"

I started re-reading IT last week and got about half way and now it's shoved down the bottom of a basket with loads of stuff on top (so the evil can't get out).

The first few nights I barely slept as I was so freaked out and since then I've had to get my winter duvet out as everyone knows the monsters/evil clown can't get you under thick duvets, they can only get you if you sleep under a sheet or light blanket. Fact.

I couldn't read The Shining again now ( I was utterly terrified of the book as an older child!!) and now I've seen the film, Jack Nicholson would be in my head.

I could never watch The Stand either, as I have images of the main characters in my head that are going to stay that way thank you.

Cujo was a very good film adaptation though.
The Green Mile and Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me are utterly brilliant film adaptations.
I think the filmmakers did extraordinarily well.

The Stand is my favourite, but I love IT too. I re-read it a few months ago, and I had completely forgotten the ending, so it was like reading it for the first time.

I couldn't read Pet Sematary now I have children.

I like Stephen King very much, but haven't read much of his later stuff.

I really enjoyed Danse Macabre, did anyone else read that one?

I loved It, but the best imo has to be Pet Sematary, the sheer horror and terror in that haunted me for years. The film of it is good too.

Loved The Stand, Cujo, Firestarter, Carrie and The Long Walk.
Wasn't mad keen on The Tommyknockers , Tom Gordon or Insomnia.

Totally agree about the books changing after his accident, he's like a completely different author. However I read Duma Key and Cell and liked them!

"It" is just too scary to read again! Once is enough since I am a big scaredy pants and I HATE clowns - probs because of this book... they all float down here :(

It's also a sad book about bittersweet memories of childhood and how some people take childhood friendships for granted. Then you grow up and realise how difficult it is to make true friendships and you feel bad for letting go of old friends so easily when you are young...

Anyway, I loved "The Stand" although it is a tome! Ahhhh... Memories

ooh, what's next?

Oh yes - and the weird bit with Bill's wife, is that right? I was disappointed in the ending when I re-read it last year.

Stephen King is suberb and 'It' and 'The Stand' two of he very best.
Bit scary to read at night though!

Last time i read The Stand was last year. I can remember being curled up on a Saturday night reading with Sky News on in the background i looked up to see what the breaking news was.....Swine Flu outbreak in Mexico

Shit myself!

I thought 'Cell' was rubbish. Quite enjoyed 'Duma Key' (v different from his usual) and thought 'Dome' was okay and a return to form in the sense of characterisation and initial idea but then got a bit silly and was frustrated a bit by the huge death toll (although I understood why he did this).

'The Stand' makes me sob every time I re-read it - his greatest talent is not in the horror but in the characterisation and the empathy he enables one to develop with them, I think.

Too much 'mind-numbing banality' (how v v true!) and now I can't think straight anymore.

Aahh.. Gotcha! Sorry, think I need to wake up a bit!

I think deaddei means King could have condensed his tale a bit, not that the editors have been getting the scissors out

He does love the looooooong stories but they are gripping. I loved The Dead Zone too.

I had a very strange experience reading Cujo last summer - he had written a paragraph from the perspective of the mother (SAHM) and I swear he had stepped into my head and written down exactly what it's like sometimes to be a wife and mother. I don't think I've ever read a male writer who so perfectly captures the at times mind-numbing banality of a woman's life as he did in that one paragraph.

Am thinking of having a Stephen King revival read: might head for the library next week...

OMG that clown is terrifying! I must have another read of that, it must be a good 20 years since I last read it too.

But deaddei 'Got to page 500, and am realising it could have been slightly condensed' Oh noo! Do they really do that with his books?? How annoying!

I do like to come back to SK once in a while. Every so often a SK book is the only thing that hits the spot isn't it? It's a sort of craving.

Just reading Insomnia atm. I can't say it's gripped me as much as others I've read of his, but still enjoying it even so.

My favorite was always The Dead Zone. I was reading SK when he first started writing as the books were being released but then didn't read anything for years except Rose Madder and Misery until recently when I read Under The Dome and Duma Key. I preferred Duma Key. I have Cell from the library but DS has pinched that.

I love his short stories. Still shudder at "The Road Virus Heads North"

Dolores Claiborne

I love, love, love It and the Stand. I like the Stand more, but It is tremendous too. My favorite part in It is when Bill (who has a stutter) tells Richie that he's going to speech therapy. Richie replies, "Ggggive 'em hhhell, Bbbbbill!" :) So typical of boys that age...

They're both great books, and It is terrifying. I still stay away from storm drains.

I also really like Delores Claiborne and Firestarter. A new one that I also was a big fan of is The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.

The stand is brrrrlliant. Read it, read it!

I just finished under the dome last week at 3 am on a school night. Vg, I'd say he's back on form.
Still can't bring myself to finish the dark tower series.

IT is an evil, evil book