Post by Sprague Dawley on Oct 25, 2024 10:10:43 GMT
The Dark Half (1989)
10/10
Bought on a whim, $2 hardback copy. From 1989, had never heard of it before but for $2 took a punt. Turns out it's based on his pseudonym "Richard Bachman" and his anonymity issues etc.
So easy to read. It just drags you in. The guy cops a lot of shit from lit snobs but he's a motherfucking master of storytelling. Unlike all the twitteratiii authors who just biff random words at a screen ..... but haven't got a one story in the bones. Why did they start writing a book if they haven't got a story to tell? "Oh, I took some drugs and wrote a novel on the weekend".
Then they'll push and plug each other's books praising each other to the high heavens on fucking TWITTER then come out with an "oh, by the way, I don't actually read other people's books' '.
This just in; to amass a vocabulary befitting an author, you are going to have to do a metric FUCKTONNE of reading yourself.
So sorry.
You're 23 years old and you live on twitter.
Self publishing and wee indie presses might be a boon but they also have something to answer for ffs.
Reading King's books you can just see how tantalising it must be to turn them all into movies. Just perfectly mapped out for it.
Guessing the sparrows in this would be a CGI nightmare though
I can already see Tommy Lee Jones as Sheriff Panghorn.
10/10
Bought on a whim, $2 hardback copy. From 1989, had never heard of it before but for $2 took a punt. Turns out it's based on his pseudonym "Richard Bachman" and his anonymity issues etc.
So easy to read. It just drags you in. The guy cops a lot of shit from lit snobs but he's a motherfucking master of storytelling. Unlike all the twitteratiii authors who just biff random words at a screen ..... but haven't got a one story in the bones. Why did they start writing a book if they haven't got a story to tell? "Oh, I took some drugs and wrote a novel on the weekend".
Then they'll push and plug each other's books praising each other to the high heavens on fucking TWITTER then come out with an "oh, by the way, I don't actually read other people's books' '.
This just in; to amass a vocabulary befitting an author, you are going to have to do a metric FUCKTONNE of reading yourself.
So sorry.
You're 23 years old and you live on twitter.
Self publishing and wee indie presses might be a boon but they also have something to answer for ffs.
Reading King's books you can just see how tantalising it must be to turn them all into movies. Just perfectly mapped out for it.
Guessing the sparrows in this would be a CGI nightmare though
I can already see Tommy Lee Jones as Sheriff Panghorn.