Thursday Thirteen
Cold update: I feel much better after a day in bed with Top Chef reruns and a box of tissues (two, actually). Today I’m actually upright at the computer! Yay!
Today’s TT is obviously a fangirl moment, but also I think people don’t realize the power of a good short story. Telling a novel’s worth of story is one skill, and writing a short is quite another. While I love many of King’s books, I still maintain his real skill is in the short format–and all you naysayers who complain about King’s endless descriptive passages might find something you like in the following short tales:
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1. The Jaunt, a short sci fi tale. (this one seriously haunts my dreams fifteen years or more after I first read it. Find it in Skeleton Crew). |
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August 30th, 2007 at 10:19 am
I’ll have to point this out to my best friend. She LOVES Stephen King.
August 30th, 2007 at 10:23 am
GOOD LIST! I love Stephen King and haven’t read enough of his short stories…
August 30th, 2007 at 10:25 am
I’m one of those that don’t like an overload of description. But his Green Mile series was fantatic. I might have to check out some of his shorts!!
August 30th, 2007 at 10:30 am
Oooh, The Jaunt!
“Longer than you think!” Isn’t that what the boy said…
Great list!:)
August 30th, 2007 at 10:38 am
ROFL!!! At first glance, I thought that said, “Chatterly Teeth” — think I read too much smut?
I really have to be in the mood for Stephen King, but when I am, nothing beats him.
August 30th, 2007 at 11:01 am
Jane–YES! OMG, still creeps me out big time!
Robin–LOL, totally not the same thing
Esmerelda–definitely grab one of his shorts (wait…hee hee). They have a totally different feel
Jennifer–Once a fan, always a fan
Rhonda–let me know what you think!
August 30th, 2007 at 11:11 am
Stephen King, I can’t do you.
August 30th, 2007 at 11:44 am
Great list!
*hugs*
Paige
My TT is at http://paigetylertheauthor.blogspot.com/
August 30th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
Great list - I used to read everything Stephen King.
August 30th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
I love Stephen King, but i haven’t read many of his short stories. I have read the Monkey, I’ll have to check out the others!
My 13 is about romantic books this week and starting Sun, I will be featuring a chapter from a free romance story each week.
August 30th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
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August 30th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
Thanks for the list. I need to check some of these out.
Get better!!
August 30th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
OMG, Shawshank and Right Number are just awesome stories! What a great list!
August 30th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
I’ve never read a Stephen King book. They’re too scary!
August 30th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
Nice list! There’s a few there I need to read.
September 1st, 2007 at 2:12 pm
Ooh, SK is one of my writing heroes. I read the short stories in Everything’s Eventual (some overlap with this list) and they’re brilliant.
1408–that is so scary. There’s one line in it that gave me the shivers for months–I had to deliberately *not* think it to myself when I was alone.
Immi
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September 6th, 2007 at 10:01 am
I’ve never been a huge Stephen King fan but the reading of his book NIGHT SHIFT in HS, and particularly the story “The Boogie Man,” is the reason I can’t sleep at night if the closet door isn’t closed all the way.