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78% (7 of 9)
Location: Ireland
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I'm an aspiring writer that lives in Ireland. Love books, movies, music, and everything got to do with entertainment.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Stephen King's On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, is probably the best advice book you're goin to get. It has three parts: (1)An account on his younger life, and why he thinks he came to be the type of writer she is today. (2)The second part is an absolutely fantastic account on writing. He runs you through Plot Development, Character development, different types of plot eg: Story/Situation, advice on Literary Agents, submitting short-stories to magazines etc etc etc... (3)And the last 60 pages or so is an account on the horrifying accident he had in 1999 in Maine. He walks through it in detail. As an aspiring writer myself, I found this book classic. When I… Read more
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
As horrifying as the film is, the novel surpasses it big time! First of all, the film is very slow to take off with the frightening bits, and is boring for the first fifty minutes or so, but in the book - the eeriness starts instantly. The characters are a lot more likeable in the book, and we see a lot more of the snooping detective - Kinderman.
Now, I'm an absolutely huge fan of King, and all the books I've read belonging to him have freaked me out in some way or gave me chills, or plainly stopped me from sleeping. But this book is so eerie, it's undescribable. It's kind of like the eeriness starts your engine, and your warming up. And when you get to a more frightening… Read more
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