tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4711894235083615616.post5931428386794507086..comments2023-06-24T05:26:37.303-05:00Comments on The Writer's Notebook: ITThe Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06995038596311181381noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4711894235083615616.post-68530364709677341712010-07-12T07:59:31.161-05:002010-07-12T07:59:31.161-05:00King's weakest points have always been his end...King's weakest points have always been his endings, as he is a SOTP (seat-of-the-pants) writer. He takes an idea and runs with it. The rating is for the overall effect of the book, which is of very high quality in my opinion, with extremely well-drawn characters.<br /><br />I have yet to read The Talisman, so I can only hope my initial read is more rewarding than your re-read was. And I love The Running Man. Read it in less than a day, and ignored the movie version afterwards.The Writerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06995038596311181381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4711894235083615616.post-13140024482935109582010-07-11T23:15:13.133-05:002010-07-11T23:15:13.133-05:00Loved the book in high school (read it twice back ...Loved the book in high school (read it twice back then). Oddly, what lingers in my memory now, these two decades later, is what bothered my most about the book. What the female character let's them all do to her at the end, to help them find their way out of the sewers? What was that all about? When the final form of the IT was revealed? Kind of cliche and anticlimactic, don't you think?<br /><br />But overall, I have very fond memories of the journey through that book. I remember thinking for years what an amazing, multi-film horror epic it would have been... and then that abominable TV version of it came out. What a disaster that was...<br /><br />I recently re-read The Talisman - another King book I read in high school and remembered fondly. I was stunned by how disappointing and grueling I found the book when I re-read it. Nothing like I remembered it. I was crest-fallen. I bring that up to say that the experience re-reading The Talisman has tempered my desire to re-read other King novels, such as IT. I'd rather hold onto my faded, fond memories of IT than re-read it and likewise be bummed.<br /><br />Favorite all-time King novel was The Running Man, actually. I read somewhere that King said he wrote it in about 4 weeks, and was so high on coke he barely remembers writing it... lol.David Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07594244647778062784noreply@blogger.com