Stephen King: Short stories or novels? Your preference?

bicentennial_baby

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Sat Dec-22-07 04:43 PM
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Poll question: Stephen King: Short stories or novels? Your preference?

If you're a fan of Mr King's work, do you have a preference for his short stories or his novels? Me, I greatly prefer the short stories, by a longshot. But of his novels, I do also love The Shining and The Stand.

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BarenakedLady

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Sat Dec-22-07 04:44 PM
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1. Both

Depending on my mood.

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bicentennial_baby

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Sat Dec-22-07 04:52 PM
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6. Gotcha

:hi: Hope that you are well

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RadiationTherapy

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Sat Dec-22-07 04:50 PM
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2. Novels.

I have read 'IT' about a dozen times during various stages of my life, and Mr. King has an amazing ability to assist me in seeing both my past and present and the long winding tube that connects them.

I have recently abandoned Neal Stephenson's 'Cryptonomicon', which was very challenging for me because it is like this military/business pirate libertarian wet dream kind of thing and am 394 pages into the long version of 'the Stand'. Again.

I do love the shorties as well and have read them all.

I grew up in New England and no one writes that place like Stephen King. I have missed N.E. lately. Hm.

g.

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bicentennial_baby

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Sat Dec-22-07 04:51 PM
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4. Yes, he certainly does write it well

I'm from MA...Lovecraft did it well also :hi:

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RadiationTherapy

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Sat Dec-22-07 04:56 PM
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8. 413 Represent!!!

Chicopee, actually...ha!

When I think of Lovecraft, I always think he was onto something; which scares the shit out of me!

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bicentennial_baby

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Sat Dec-22-07 04:58 PM
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9. 413, w00t!

I'm from Greenfield, out in Eastern MA now. Goin home for Xmas though, can't wait! :bounce:

:hi:

And yes, I think he was too... :scared:

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Sat Dec-22-07 05:04 PM
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11. Hmmm. I think I have been to Greenfield...

every time we needed a packy run on a Sunday. Is that right???

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Sat Dec-22-07 05:05 PM
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12. Ha! You got it!

:rofl: I loved that loophole

Yes, intersection of 91 and 2. :)

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Sat Dec-22-07 04:50 PM
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3. Nightmares & Dreamscapes is my favorite collection.

Great stuff. He can be so creepy!

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bicentennial_baby

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Sat Dec-22-07 04:51 PM
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5. Love that one!

I spent a good part of a summer laying in my backyard reading those stories :)

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Sat Dec-22-07 04:58 PM
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10. do you recall Home Delivery?

About the lobsterman's wife and the zombies? That story was the first encounter in my ongoing love affair with zombies and the 'zombie apocalypse' genre. Unfortunately, there aren't many good writers willing to write book upon book about zombies. :)

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Sat Dec-22-07 04:53 PM
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7. Night Flyer

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