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joclyn...wow...an impressive reading list! Stephen King manages to capture character very, very well. Good stuff.

yeah, i like to read - just a little!! <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I also like to read, a little too much. I've read every King book, as well as all the Koontz,Saul, Mccammon, Rice,Barker, Harris and more and those are just some of the horror authors. I average about 6-7 books a week. Am I addicted?

[color:"purple"]just a little!! <img src="/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> [/color]

he has inspired me 2 become a writer. however, i have yet 2 finish. a poem was published and i got an editors choice award. oh well!! pet semetary I & II, Carrie, Silver bullet--think that was his--sleepwalkers, the shining, sometimes they come back--including all the sequels, i dont know if he wrote them, but were good movies, green mile, grave yard shift, children of the corn, creepshow, cujo, dead zone,misery, needful things, the night flyer, nightshift, nightmares & dreamscapes, etc. the tommyknockers creeped me out a lil bit. so did misery, theres a few ppl in htis town that would do the same thing!

Oh my favorite topic! I started reading King books when I was 11 or 12 after my mom read Christine and I saw the moie Cujo. Cujo wasn't all that great tho. My 2 favorites (because I can't pcik between these 2 as my favrites) are Misery and The Dark Half. I have read that book 4 or 5 times. I loved the book The Stand but was disappointed by the movie. I guess it would be hard to fit that book into a movie without making it a 8 hour movie LOL I loved Needful things but the movie really sucked! A funny story: I read The Tommyknockers when i was 14 or 15 and my neighbors had a green curtain in their window. I couldn't look outside at night for the longest time because of that book! LOL Did anyone every see the Creepshow series of movies?

have the 1st creepshow dvd. it was ok my fave was the one were the father came pack from the dead on father's day and the one with the monster in a box under the stairs at a college. i got a kick out of the drunk wife, reminds me of a few ppl i know!

Chef, it's great to be addicted to horror! It keeps bozos like me in work! Tif, one of my professors was in the movie "Creepshow." I think the movies tend to dumb King down a bit. They lack the characterization that is "oh-so-important" to the Stephen King universe. They usually don't do the stories justice unless they were short stories to begin with. Some nice scares, but if you don't care about the characters, you root for the monster. Sometimes, that can be fun, too... If you haven't read King's "On Writing," you would really enjoy it...ESPECIALLY if you're a writer.

Congratulations, Tif, on your Editor's Choice Award! Send us some material sometime!

[color:"purple"]once sk saw how his stories were being butchered by re-writes, for later projects he made it a condition of the contract for movie rights that HE, and only he, did the rewrites for the screenplays. he also has final say and ALL changes to the story. [/color]