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     Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/28092011/35/stephen-king-pen-shining-sequel-0.html | ||
| Jamie Rosen (Jamie) Username: Jamie Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 99.241.102.179 |
Although it's being called a sequel, that word tend to have such poor connotations these days, and the brief description in the article makes it sound more interesting than that. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.151.148.89 |
sounds like a meld between the shining and Insomnia - which IIRC dealt with psychic vampires | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.4.19.77 |
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear... I couldn't be more apprehensive if Charles Dickens were still alive and had just announced he was writing a sequel to 'Oliver Twist'!  | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
Just think about it as King revisiting old characters. IIRC one of the leads in Tommyknockers was one of the leads in The ead Zone. He revisits his characters quite often. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
DEAD ZONE even | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.116.51.105 |
Jack's back! | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
The difference is, Weber, that 'The Shining' is King's most perfect horror work. The one book of his that is guaranteed to last as a bona-fide masterpiece of the genre. He's not the writer he was back then and to revisit that world and those characters would be a very dangerous game - like all great temptations. Has anyone in horror literature ever managed to pull off a similar trick? | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Stevie - Have you read Lisey's Story? I think King is quite capable of pulling off a sequel. Or at least I hope so. I think LS is one of the best books he's written. I do share your reservations, so fingers crossed (I emailed you before). | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Haven't read that one yet, Frank, and I hope you're right. I responded a wee while ago. | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 217.20.16.180 |
He's not the writer he was back then Sorry, Stevie, but this is wrong. He's a different writer from the one he was back then, which is to be expected with age, but you seem to be suggesting that he's not as good a writer... Given that the Overlook Hotel has gone, and most of the other characters from The Shining are dead, we're looking at less of a sequel and more a revisit to an old character - something King's been doing throughout his career; see Ace Merrill from The Body/The Sun Dog, or Father Callahan from Salem's Lot/The Dark Tower. Even if this is an absolute travesty of a novel (unlikely), it's hardly going to taint the legacy of The Shining. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
I've just been wondering how many of Stephen King's books can actually be classified as pure supernatural horror - without any explicit thriller, fantasy or sci-fi elements? 'Carrie', 'Salem's Lot', 'The Shining', 'Christine', 'Pet Sematary', 'Thinner', 'The Dark Half', 'Needful Things', 'Bag Of Bones'... have I missed any? | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
Cujo, Dead Zone, Cycle of the Werewolf, It,Geralds Game, Desperation, the Regulators, Dreamcatcher (which I admit I haven't read yet), From a Buick 8 (which i wish I hadn't, Duma Key That's not even thinking about the novellas in the assorted collections... | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
ok, dead zone has overt political thriller elements, strike that one. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
and I just spotted the word supernatural, so strike Cujo and Gerald's Game - which are both still pure horror novels. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.116.51.105 |
An adult Danny Torrance revisits the Overlook grounds because he frequently dreams about something still lingering there. He pitches tent (maybe literally) in the vicinity and wakes up at night, strangely drawn to the ruin and, especially, the maze. To his horror he finds an undamaged Overlook awaiting him in the moonlight. After some hesitation and trepidation he enters what appears to be the fully restored main building. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.178.152.145 |
Sounds like the house in Garner's "The Moon of Gomrath"! | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.4.19.77 |
Yes, and what was that black amorphous thing in the room at the end of the passage, Mick? It has subliminally haunted me ever since reading the book. I find Garner's books (supposedly written for children) to be absolutely terrifying. Perhaps because they were written for children? | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.116.51.105 |
I've never read any Garner! | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.4.19.77 |
His children's fantasies have all the heart and clarity of Lewis and the lyrical beauty and subtlety of Le Guin while distilling our worst childhood nightmares in the most primally disturbing way I have experienced in print... all filtered through a sensitive in-depth knowledge of English/Welsh folklore and Celtic mythology. This has put me in the mood to read 'Red Shift' at last! |