Diane Evans wrote:
> Colin,
>
> Don't you think Jack Nicholson would have been the perfect film version of
> the "Walkin' Dude" in the Stand?
yes i do. It's a pity that he was in The Shining which ruined a good book. Jack was
great,
really good, but the film was not as the book was. King himself didn't like it. Mind
you
the scene where he is bashing his way thru the bathroom door is chilling.
> Have you read "The Girl Who Loved Tom
> Gordon?"
I haven't read much King in years. The last one I managed to get all the way thru was
Insomina. I got part thru Rose Madder. As I said, for me he has become too long winded.
His stories are excellent but he waffles so.
>
>
> Have you read "Swan Song" by...I think it was Robert Cameron? Along the
> lines of The Stand. How about an elderly precursor of those called
> Lucifer's Hammer.
Not heard of either of those.
> Or The White Plague by Frank Herbert (yeah, I loved
> those Dune books, too, and read every one when I was in my 20's.)
Not read any of those either. is the this same author as the film DUNE? boooooring!
Have read a few Koontz and enjoy them. However, had to stop reading False Memory as the
first 100 or so pages I managed wer all about someone descending into obsessional
thinking
and fear about themselves. That was too close to home. First time a book has affected
me
that way. After two days I thought all my old OCD was back!
The only other book I stopped reading because I found it too distrubing was a
biography of
Denis Nielson(who lives just up the road in Whitemoor). If you don't know, he killed 15
men. he boiled them up afterwards and disposed of them down a drain. (which is how he
was
caught-th flesh blocked the drains)he was an ordinary plain looking civil servant.
>
>
> Diane
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