prologue

[truxpin]

Its funny I must have read this book 20 times as a young adult and would always skip things like the prologue to get to what I considered the "meat" of the book. The gore, the scares, the action so to speak. So I pick it up today after what must have been at least 10 years not really expecting anything special, I just ran out of other books to read, and I really read the prologue and realize what a perfect, beautiful(really just another word for perfect) piece of writing it is. I write occasionally and every once and a while I can write something that comes out exactly the way I want and in reading the prologue I can see that is what happened here. Maybe as you get older you realize how rare seeing something perfect really is, and it is rare. Anyone looking at this post I encourage you to read it and see what a perfect picture it paints. Appreciate it as the work of art that it is. And if you don't believe that it is anything special, try to write anything close. And writing like this is what people who knock S king dont realize. He is not an horror writer, he is a gifted writer who happens to enjoy writing about horrror. The prologue proves it. I just finished Bonfire of the Vanities and there was nothing as clean as what is written in Christine in describing a scene or character. Close but not quite. Just wanted to show my respect. And I will keep trying to come somewhat close in my own writing.

[ginapenn]

I love the prologue too. SK writes in such a down-to-earth, casual way, you feel like he's actually speaking to you. That's the sense I get whenever I read Christine. One of my favorites!!

[IstillInsistIseeTheGhosts]

Gotta read more prologue, Stephen makes you want to read even more than you did before. Getting the background about how the book was formed and his life is amazing. It's beautiful honesty to his readers.

[Gladys]

I agree with the fact that it seems that SK speak to us, talking about his wife or is manager. The prologue of Brume is very interresting