You know, as a matter of personal taste, I've never quite been able to manage to like Stephen King, or rather, his books. Perhaps because people kept recommending him to me and I kept expecting too much (and I do love horror-books). It's funny you should mention his skill at writing kids/adolescents, as one of the things I don't like about him is that his adults always seem the same to me. Maybe I don't have what it takes to read those adults correctly, and that's why I feel like that -- but, you know, taste and all that. But I also have always thought that I loved his kids.
Especially in It. It was the second book I ever read in English (after Thinner), and it took me months to read it at the time, but I never gave up. Because, yeah. Definitely one of my favourite books ever, and certainly my favourite horror book. Even here, I much prefer the children's era than the adults'. But I love, love, love the children's perspective.
I don't know where I was going with my point, except that, yeah, fantastic book, and I love every single one of the Losers, because they're so wonderfully them.
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Date: 2005-03-20 06:49 pm (UTC)Especially in It. It was the second book I ever read in English (after Thinner), and it took me months to read it at the time, but I never gave up. Because, yeah. Definitely one of my favourite books ever, and certainly my favourite horror book. Even here, I much prefer the children's era than the adults'. But I love, love, love the children's perspective.
I don't know where I was going with my point, except that, yeah, fantastic book, and I love every single one of the Losers, because they're so wonderfully them.