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King says in the intro to the restored version (at least the one that I read) that he has met a lot of his fans who consider "The Stand" their favorite of his works, and even ask him what happened to the characters afterwards - "As if I get letters from [the characters] from time to time."...

Yeah, Herbert has some good novels. I've read at least four that I can think of off the top of my head, and I have a few others I'm going to get to one of these days. My favorite was The Dark.

I got to talking with a guy on another forum about Stephen King's book On Writing, which I was actually about to go buy until this conversation. This guy recommended a book by Jack London instead. The point is this guy said "A lot of us think we can just sit down with pen and paper and write...

Hi folks. I've been registered on here a few months but haven't posted my intro until now... I'm Wisconsin born and raised, and despite my earlier dreams I've never lived anywhere else. But that's okay, not every bestselling book has to be set on the East Coast. ;) I'm a reader and an...

First off, I'd like to tell Stewart that, while you are entitled to your opinion, I must disagree that all horror is s**t. Granted, the vast majority of horror fiction isn't comparable to anything by Charles Dickens or Jane Austen, but there are some works in the genre that have genuine literary...

Hey lenny, I started City today and read 45 pages. At first I wasn't sure, but now I am enjoying it. Not as much as the first, but it's still very good. I laughed out loud at one point - I see Brian hasn't let up on the black humor part of his writing. This should be fun.

I loved it! Read it in two days, mainly in two marathon sessions. Very good. It wasn't perfect, but 1) what book is, and 2) very impressive for a first novel. The only thing I had a problem with was how accomplished Keene's zombies were - who ever heard of zombies driving cars and shooting with...

I didn't care for IT - way, way too long. There was no reason whatsoever he had to make that thing over a thousand pages. And I didn't like Cujo that much either. It didn't even seem like a horror story, just a drawn-out drama with a few gruesome deaths thrown in to remind the reader that it...

I know this may sound like blasphemy to most who enjoy horror fiction, but I've got to say it. I don't care that much for the work of H.P. Lovecraft. During the course of some reading I was doing today on Wikipedia I came across some entries referring to Lovecraft and how his work is so...

On a related note, I was browsing the homepage of Dorchester Publications (home of Brian Keene :) ) and came across this page about a featured new werewolf novel: http://www.dorchesterpub.com/Dorch/SpecialFeatures.cfm?ID=2101 Sounds interesting.

On a related note, did you see this week's Saturday Night Live? They had a sketch where a guy is teaching a public learning class about using MySpace.com... so you figure that the desks will be full of teenagers, but then they show the "students" and all but one of them are men in their 30s and...

Just a WARNING - the interview in that link gives away the ending of The Rising, sorta. As I found out too late when I decided to read it before finishing the book. :(

FWIW, I finally got around to starting The Rising today and I went through 90 pages before I finally put it down. And when I did, it was only because my brain needed a breather. (No matter how much I enjoy something I'm reading, there's only so long I can read before I have to take a break for a...

One thing I really dislike is musicians who record a cover (i.e. a recording of another artist's song) for like every other release. Brooks & Dunn is one act that comes to mind. Also, on a similar note, musicians who "sample" (i.e. steal) old hit records for their own songs. A good example is...

A lot of what I want to say has pretty much been said by other posters, so I'll try to be succinct. It is true that comics today are intended more for adults than children; for that matter I think that shift had already started in the 1970s and '80s. Several of the Batman comics I have from...

If you're just starting out, and you're going the superhero route, you might want to go with the "Ultimate" line for Marvel or the "All-Star" line for DC, where they rebooted the major characters. The continuity and storylines might be a little easier to follow. The main thing that bugs me...

Actually, I have The Woodsman on my Netflix queue. Course, I have well over 400 other movies in my queue as well, so it's not like it will be the next one I get either. But yes, from what I understand of pedophiles is that they can't be "cured", though some learn to control the urges better...

How could I forget Wilding??? That was an excellent, excellent novel. It's on my list of top horror novels.

I've been a fan of SVU for a few years now, but watching this week's episode almost made me stop. Not because it was bad, but because its subject matter was disturbing. The plot revolved around a teenage boy who operated a website where pedophiles could pay to see him do things to himself, and...

I've been putting off buying the "Special Editions" on DVD and now I'm glad I did. As I understand it, the new DVDs will include both the original, unaltered versions and the Special Editions. There are things I like about both, so I would much rather have both versions of each film. I was...