Friday, September 28, 2007
To all AP peeps
Please, send me an invite to join your blog, I wanna be able to comment on any and all, as my heart desires. Thanks muchoooooo
Monday, September 24, 2007
Flushing Out
I'm just flushing out ideas for my books now. I'm going to read Stephen King first. I probally shouldn't do an old book first, I'm not exactly a horror genre expert. So to make my life easier, which i'm totally for-i decided to start off with a current book.
After talking to Mrs. Clapp, I decided to go with King because of his brillance in writeing about horror. He is famous, not becasue of the number or subject of his books-but becasue of his skill at tapping into the fear of his readers. He is the ultilmate master of horror and knows better than anyone else how to make his reader's skin crawl.
So according to a list from Amazon, these are King's top books.
Top 10 Stephen King Books
1. The Stand: Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete and Uncut (Signet) by Stephen King
an end-of-the-world scenario: a rapidly mutating flu virus is accidentally released from a U.S. military facility and wipes out 99 and 44/100 percent of the world's population, thus setting the stage for an apocalyptic confrontation between Good and Evil.
Read it.
2. The Shining by Stephen King
The Overlook Hotel is more than just a home-away-from-home for the Torrance family. For Jack, Wendy, and their young son, Danny, it is a place where past horrors come to life. And where those gifted with the shining do battle with the darkest evils. Stephen King's classic thriller is one of the most powerfully imagined novels of our time.
3. Misery by Stephen King
a writer is trapped in an evil house during a Colorado winter. Each novel bristles with claustrophobia, stinging insects, and the threat of a lethal explosion. Each is about a writer faced with the dominating monster of his unpredictable muse.
Seen the movie, don't think I'm interesetd in the book
4. Bag of Bones by Stephen King
The hero, a thriller novelist, stirs up hell's plenty of angry shades while investigating his wife's death. It turns out she either had a dark secret herself or was onto some dread scandal lurking in Dark Score Lake.
5. It (Signet Books) by Stephen King
They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they were grown-up men and women who had gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them could withstand the force that drew them back to Derry, Maine to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name
OOO. this movie scared me so bad, i couldn't look down at the drain in the shower!
6. The Dark Half (Signet) by Stephen King
Thad Beaumont, whose greatest success has come with three gory thrillers written under the pseudonym George Stark. Beaumont is threatened by a blackmailer who may reveal Stark's identity; Beaumont kills off Stark instead; and Stark goes on a murderous rampage
7. Pet Sematary by Stephen King
Dr. Louis Creed moves his ideal family from congested, urban Chicago to the rural simplicity of Ludlow, ME. His property sits near a long-established pet burial ground and a mysterious Indian burial ground from which the dead can be raised
8. The Long Walk by Stephen King
On the first day of May, one hundred teenage boys meet for an event known throughout the country as "The Long Walk." If you break the rules, you get three warnings. If you exceed your limit, what happens is absolutely terrifying.
9. 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula
Vampires? not what I'm looking for.
10. Insomnia by Stephen King
Celestial forces of good and evil wage an apocalyptic war in a small Maine town
Favorites??
Insomnia
Bag of Bones
A Long Walk
The Shining
After talking to Mrs. Clapp, I decided to go with King because of his brillance in writeing about horror. He is famous, not becasue of the number or subject of his books-but becasue of his skill at tapping into the fear of his readers. He is the ultilmate master of horror and knows better than anyone else how to make his reader's skin crawl.
So according to a list from Amazon, these are King's top books.
Top 10 Stephen King Books
1. The Stand: Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete and Uncut (Signet) by Stephen King
an end-of-the-world scenario: a rapidly mutating flu virus is accidentally released from a U.S. military facility and wipes out 99 and 44/100 percent of the world's population, thus setting the stage for an apocalyptic confrontation between Good and Evil.
Read it.
2. The Shining by Stephen King
The Overlook Hotel is more than just a home-away-from-home for the Torrance family. For Jack, Wendy, and their young son, Danny, it is a place where past horrors come to life. And where those gifted with the shining do battle with the darkest evils. Stephen King's classic thriller is one of the most powerfully imagined novels of our time.
3. Misery by Stephen King
a writer is trapped in an evil house during a Colorado winter. Each novel bristles with claustrophobia, stinging insects, and the threat of a lethal explosion. Each is about a writer faced with the dominating monster of his unpredictable muse.
Seen the movie, don't think I'm interesetd in the book
4. Bag of Bones by Stephen King
The hero, a thriller novelist, stirs up hell's plenty of angry shades while investigating his wife's death. It turns out she either had a dark secret herself or was onto some dread scandal lurking in Dark Score Lake.
5. It (Signet Books) by Stephen King
They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they were grown-up men and women who had gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them could withstand the force that drew them back to Derry, Maine to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name
OOO. this movie scared me so bad, i couldn't look down at the drain in the shower!
6. The Dark Half (Signet) by Stephen King
Thad Beaumont, whose greatest success has come with three gory thrillers written under the pseudonym George Stark. Beaumont is threatened by a blackmailer who may reveal Stark's identity; Beaumont kills off Stark instead; and Stark goes on a murderous rampage
7. Pet Sematary by Stephen King
Dr. Louis Creed moves his ideal family from congested, urban Chicago to the rural simplicity of Ludlow, ME. His property sits near a long-established pet burial ground and a mysterious Indian burial ground from which the dead can be raised
8. The Long Walk by Stephen King
On the first day of May, one hundred teenage boys meet for an event known throughout the country as "The Long Walk." If you break the rules, you get three warnings. If you exceed your limit, what happens is absolutely terrifying.
9. 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula
Vampires? not what I'm looking for.
10. Insomnia by Stephen King
Celestial forces of good and evil wage an apocalyptic war in a small Maine town
Favorites??
Insomnia
Bag of Bones
A Long Walk
The Shining
I'm also looking into
Dream Catcher
Carrie
Night Shift
The Gun Slinger
We'll see.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
First things First
This isn't a blog about my book, it's just a blog. My subject is going to be Psychological Thrillers/Horrors. The point of this is-Why?
Why do we get scared, why do allow words to infiltrate our minds and warp our everyday surroundings into the unknown, into what we can't comprehend. At night, after a scary movie, you sleep with the lights on, and the door cracked open. After watching "Signs" i had to keep a glass of water next to my bed every night. The big question is, what do these author's do that keeps us to scared. What part of our brain, culture, beings, do they register in order to capture that creep effect.
All Horror stories leave their mark on the reader, wheter its by keeping us up all night, or haunting us in our dreams. How do these writers know what it takes to open up that level of fear in every reader. What is that makes us so scared-and even better, why do we love the feeling so very very much.
Why do we get scared, why do allow words to infiltrate our minds and warp our everyday surroundings into the unknown, into what we can't comprehend. At night, after a scary movie, you sleep with the lights on, and the door cracked open. After watching "Signs" i had to keep a glass of water next to my bed every night. The big question is, what do these author's do that keeps us to scared. What part of our brain, culture, beings, do they register in order to capture that creep effect.
All Horror stories leave their mark on the reader, wheter its by keeping us up all night, or haunting us in our dreams. How do these writers know what it takes to open up that level of fear in every reader. What is that makes us so scared-and even better, why do we love the feeling so very very much.
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