30 days of books: Day Ten

Day 10 – A book you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving

This is another tough one, because frankly – why would I read something I didn’t think I’d like in the first place?

Then I remembered Stephen King.  I always thought of him as a hack writer churning out useless horror novels.

I’d read a few of his books – Carrie, Christine – and been unimpressed.  Then I read The Stand and The Talisman.  I began warming to him, then, but for a long time I thought that these would be the only books of his that I enjoyed.

And then I read On Writing, which changed my opinion of him forever.  From this, I moved onto the Dark Tower books, and I began seeing the way he intertwined this massive mythology with other books.  And I became a huge, and very impressed fan.

I’ve gone on to read much more of King’s work, and while I’m not overly fond of all of his books, there’s always something in them that attracts me.  It’s not the horrific – it’s the characters.  King is a master of writing real characters, people who live and breathe.

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Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.

30 days of books: Day Ten

Day 10 – A book you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving

This is another tough one, because frankly – why would I read something I didn’t think I’d like in the first place?

Then I remembered Stephen King.  I always thought of him as a hack writer churning out useless horror novels.

I’d read a few of his books – Carrie, Christine – and been unimpressed.  Then I read The Stand and The Talisman.  I began warming to him, then, but for a long time I thought that these would be the only books of his that I enjoyed.

And then I read On Writing, which changed my opinion of him forever.  From this, I moved onto the Dark Tower books, and I began seeing the way he intertwined this massive mythology with other books.  And I became a huge, and very impressed fan.

I’ve gone on to read much more of King’s work, and while I’m not overly fond of all of his books, there’s always something in them that attracts me.  It’s not the horrific – it’s the characters.  King is a master of writing real characters, people who live and breathe.

( Read the rest of this entry » )

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.