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I wonder how much is influenced by where we are and whom we're with.
For books, I recall my strongest reactions were at times that I was alone. I'm not sure if the effect would have been the same if every hour someone popped in and asked if I wanted a cup of cofee etc... ![]() However, I guess if I really had to choose between the intensity of a good scare and marital bliss, I would choose the latter. At least we can both get scared watching a movie together. Regards Caleb |
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I don't read books that look scary. Never read Stephen King.
I have been fooled on occasion when the author sneaks a scary scene in the middle of the novel. |
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![]() Most of the reviewers agree that it's terrifying so there must be much more to it than what is revealed. |
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It -by Stephen King kept me up at night in high school. I couldn't close my eyes without seeing certain images from the book.
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For me it was The Exorcist. I read it in my teen years, and I can still remember FEELING that the devil was hiding in that book... It played with my mind so much, had trouble sleeping... The movie was something but the book was something else!
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Though I think that Kids-In-Jep is a really easy way to creep people out, speaking as a woman and knowing the way I'm hard-wired to respond to that type of thing. It almost seems a cheat, and I find that when authors open up their stories with that type of a beginning, unless there's something else happening that intrigues me, I most times than not, won't continue to read the book. I just avoid reading Stephen King, and only know the storylines of The Stand and The Shawshank Redemption because I saw the movies. I think "The Haunting", the movie version of the Jackson book, is one of the scariest I've ever seen, mainly because it allowed my imagination to fill in the blanks, rather than trying to out-gross me with blood and gore. I actually bought the tape of it but have never watched it. I start it up, and then Julie Harris' character starts to make me too anxious and I stop - lol. I originally saw the movie as a kid, watching it on TV with my sister. It scared the s**t out of both of us; I don't think that my sister has ever watched it again. I don't think that I could make myself read the actual novel. |
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The problem with the written word is you can make your mind see all sorts :shudders:
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I was looking for this in eBook format, does it exist?
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I went through a mini-Stephen King phase, however. I only managed to complete It and the The Stand (which I found disappointing). I started and stopped, Dolores Claiborne, The Tommyknockers, Gerald's Game, & The Talisman. I watched the Shawshank Redemption, and The Green Mile, both of which I loved. I also watched The Shining and Pet Cemetery. I will never watch the latter again! Edit: I was just reminded of The Eyes of the Dragon which I heard King wrote for his daughter. It was a nice change of pace for him. Last edited by Nyssa; 01-15-2011 at 08:42 AM. |
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They're making a film of Woman in Black at the moment (with Daniel Radcliffe) and I hope they keep it as subtle as the book and play and not make a "typical" Hollywood version because that would ruin the story IMHO.
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Back to the topic of scary books, one of my true crime documenteries last night was about a case I was unfamiliar with. If there is a book about it, it should be truely frightening. I am going to look and maybe will be able to report back with a scary read. |
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I always thought King's novella The Mist was probably his scariest work. It wasn't outright terror-inducing like IT, but it was an extremely effective tale, very disquieting.
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I have a hard time choosing between James Dickey's Deliverance and Capote's In Cold Blood. One's a novel, one is true crime, but the bottom line for me is that both are based on what people do to people. No supernatural element. That to me is scarier than anything paranormal. Ordinary people aren't safe.
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