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To my surprise, this turned out to be my favorite novella in Different Seasons.

Anyone who thinks Stephen King's books are "moral trash" clearly has never UNDERSTOOD any of them so why would it matter what they have to say.

Also, most times people who are prejudiced this way...

If you say so :). I'm willing to believe you are right!

I wonder if I'm the only one?

I have only been reading Stephen King since last summer (before that I only knew him through the movies and a few poor German translations of several 1970/80s novels....

I hesitated for a long time before I decided to read Gunslinger. I am NOT a fan of the fantasy genre. I prefer horror creeping into the world I know and "bad things" happening to people I can...

Thank you folks. That was helpful. I'm currently reading IT and after that I'll start the DT series and after THAT, I'll give Insomnia a reread.

Maybe I should have done it the other way round.

First of all, I loved the book, and will do a reread ASAP, but I have so many books to read since I am a new King-fan. :blush: (Next is It and then the DT series.)

There are a few things I don't...

I thought it was a really good idea.

And why should a bunch of alien kids NOT look at humans the way human kids look at insects or rodents? And use this cool thing they have found to have "fun"...

I hate to sound like the person who just has to be right but...

early in the book Julia's age is given as 43.

Later on when she and Barbie have sex, her thought is that she is old enough to be...

I am in the middle of it and I'm having a bit of trouble. I enjoy it, but sometimes I think it just MIGHT be a tad too long. And I'm at the stage where I just want Big Jim Rennie to die a slow and...

No :) But I guess we all have our own mental image of Barbie.

11/22/63 had me bawl like a baby at the end.

I would recommend starting with a few recent novels (UTD, Cell, 11/22/63) followed by The Stand and then the Castle Rock books and stories (including Bag of bones). By the time they are done with...

I haven't read all of his books and stories yet, but the ones that so far have terrified me the most (enough to be afraid of sleeping alone), were Gerald's Game, Langoliers and Cell. In Gerald's Game...

Barbie.

I like a good villain but a villain will never be my favorite character. My favorite character always has to be one I'd like to be around in person. None of the bad guys meets that...

I also see some similarities, mostly in so far as the characters in both stories are put in unusual, never-experienced-before situations and circumstances. Both books show how shockingly fast...

He has written so much,and I am so far behind (because I am a reborn King-fan) that I don't predict I'll have time to read much else in the next few years. And even IF one day I have read every word...

Barbie remembers Fallujah and bad things happening there, and if you read this Wikipedia entry about Fallujah, it seems a whole lot more likely that he's thinking about Fallujah related events in...

No, I'm pretty sure he's a vet of the second Iraq war. The incidents he talks about or that are mentioned in the book, make me think so. Second, it fits in better with the relationship between him...

Barbie is YOUNG, so it can't be Bruce Willis or Russell Crowe!! Crowe could be Colonel Cox though.

Barbie - Josh Hartnett or Jeremy Renner.

Can you please spoil it for me? I have no idea what novel you all are talking about. (But I sure loved listening and watching SK read Afterlife!)