The Stephen King Ultimate Companion: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences
by Bev Vincent
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"Celebrate the King of Horror's 75th birthday with Stephen King: The Ultimate Companion, which explores the connections between Stephen King's life and his body of work"--Tags
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Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences by Bev Vincent is an informative and entertaining look at King's life as in is entwined in his writing.
Not quite a biography but biographical, this book focuses on the literary output and how King's life has been played into the stories, and how they sometimes come back to influence his own life. Like so many people I have read just about everything he has written (also like most people there are some things I haven't, he is simply that productive) as well as most of the works written about him, yet there were still some things here I was unaware of.
The strength of this volume is less about learning something new as it is about having a well-written overview of his show more career in an attractive book that can be referred to whenever I have a question. I loved the pictures, seeing old covers and photographs, letters and notes about various books, and of course pictures from the many movie and television adaptations.
While this is definitely something any King fan will want I would also recommend this to those interested in literary history and the area where works of fiction meet popular culture.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley. show less
Not quite a biography but biographical, this book focuses on the literary output and how King's life has been played into the stories, and how they sometimes come back to influence his own life. Like so many people I have read just about everything he has written (also like most people there are some things I haven't, he is simply that productive) as well as most of the works written about him, yet there were still some things here I was unaware of.
The strength of this volume is less about learning something new as it is about having a well-written overview of his show more career in an attractive book that can be referred to whenever I have a question. I loved the pictures, seeing old covers and photographs, letters and notes about various books, and of course pictures from the many movie and television adaptations.
While this is definitely something any King fan will want I would also recommend this to those interested in literary history and the area where works of fiction meet popular culture.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley. show less
I'm hot and cold with this one, but Vincent mostly gets points for quoting much of the inspirations King had for his various novels and stories, even if they're mostly "what ifs?"
It's interesting that the author chooses to do synopses of some of the books, yet others seem to get a very short shrift, and I'm not sure why.
But overall, it's about Stephen King, so it's always going to be entertaining. I just wish it had gone more in depth.
It's interesting that the author chooses to do synopses of some of the books, yet others seem to get a very short shrift, and I'm not sure why.
But overall, it's about Stephen King, so it's always going to be entertaining. I just wish it had gone more in depth.
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- The Stephen King Ultimate Companion: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences
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- 2022-09-13
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- Mobs of obsessed readers flock to Bangor each October, hoping Stephen King has opened his supposedly haunted house to the public for Halloween. However, King, who once told Conan O'Brien he has become the "Santa Clause of Hal... (show all)loween," ended this tradition long ago after it became too overwhelming. Even when it isn't Halloween, fans often loiter on the street outside his home - soon to house is literary archives and become a writers' retreat - peering through the wrought-iron gates festooned with metalwork bats and spiders, in hopes of catching a glimpse of the famous author. -Introduction
There is a well-known legend that Stephen King suddenly arrived on the publishing scene with Carrie in 1974. As with all legends, there is some truth, some fantasy, and much oversimplification to that notion. The often... (show all)-told take pays short shrift to King's long apprenticeship. By the time Carrie appeared, King had been writing for nearly twenty years and had been a published author for a decade, -Chapter 1, The Future Artist As a Young Man (1950-1969) - Canonical DDC/MDS
- 813.54
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- PS3561.I483 Z897
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature, Biography & Memoir
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- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
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- PS3561 .I483 .Z897 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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