My teenage years were largely determined as a reader of novels, a certain Stephen King had written. It seems to me even before today like I had then read out of this horror-ham otherwise. After a break of many years ago I read as a more mature reader then "Reading and Writing", a reading which I vacuumed up with a special interest in me. Just to sprinkle was then followed by the novel "The Girl".
Stephen King is not about the "king of horror". And I look at his works largely as a literary value. But eventually led my path as a reader away from horror literature, as it dominates Stephen King so masterfully. I turned Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley to read classic. But I will remember the novels of Stephen King never might even unearth some point again, and read a second time.
Of particular quality is King's "It". He describes the lives of young people, and weaves them skillfully with their later life as adults in middle age. The joint fight against "it" has taken me many hours in his spell. Stuttering Bill is one of the most tragic characters I have met in novels. I have "it" read at the age of 17 years, and I can still remember to have stopped reading for several weeks. But I started again after the long break, not from the front read what I had done quite a few other novels. The break must have done me good because I was very quickly of the action.
The films of the books by Stephen King I think in some cases very good.
particular, "Shining", "Carrie" and "you". I am disappointed by the film adaptation of "It", although there are quite a few good scenes to admire. If
who would ask me what book I was fascinated as a young man, I would confidently and shot like a shot with "it" answer.
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