So I have read this book a number of times starting in 5th grade when I was the same age as the kids. I am almost the same age as the adults, so this is interesting to me. I also recently saw the movie, and it was fine. But it had the same problem any movie version of any book that greatly outdistances its adaptation has: it just can’t take the time it needs to do the job correctly. Things I liked about the movie: […]
Everything down here floats…
I’m on the tail-end of a monstrously disruptive cold, so I had to scrap my plans of having this review out by the 21st, Stephen King’s septuagenarian birthday. In the realm of missed opportunities, this rates as a fairly minor disappointment, but it would’ve fairly cool nonetheless. It is one of the most quintessentially “Stephen King” stories, and it’s recent and wildly successful adaptation should, perhaps, not be seen as particularly surprising. In my mind, it holds a premier place in his oeuvre, alongside The […]
I wanted this to be awesome
Ok so let’s just get this out of the way. I read R.L. Stine books when I was younger, but I quickly outgrew them and moved on to Christopher Pike books. He was a little bit more advanced than R.L. Stine. Still – Stine was a big early influence on my enjoyment of horror / scary books. So, I had high hopes for this “adult” story. It wasn’t bad. It was absolutely a page turner, and I love that in a book. It just could’ve […]
Spring and Summer Reads: Horror and Autobiography
I have been so busy the past few months with my own book and now assorted hurricanes, that I didn’t have a chance to post reviews of all of the books I have been reading. The first bunch is a combination of horror and autobiography, which pretty much sums up my interests of late. Anyone have a good horror autobiography to recommend? In the meantime, here are a few titles from my recent reading list: The Men in My Life: A Memoir of Love and […]