I love the books, like all books to visual expressions of the books, books are better.
So true about opinions changing over maturity of age.
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I know I have read a few books and they seem fine enough. Granted I was a pretty big reader back then and specifically a king fan. The books were just available and I wanted something to read. Did not have complaints like I did with chriton.
What did you dislike about Chriton’s books? I have not read them, but love the visual expressions of the stories.
I feel his ideas are great but his story telling is poor. It might really be his characters. If anyone or everyone in a chriton book died I would shrug my shoulders. You don't get very vested in his characters. Its why I feel his books make better movies than books because by and large the fix it. My big example is jurassic park. Everything useful done by the boy and girl in the movie was done by the boy and in the book the girl just cried and was just sorta a mcguffin to cause problems. So in the movie to make the girl a mor likeable character they split up the boys character from the book between them which made the movie much better.
Interesting, I never read the book or many his other books, except read ‘The Andromeda Strain’! I really liked that story, because it fits my hated of Chemical Weapons, spending way to much resources on everything Space, while so much suffering in our country & love our government run safety & health services. You got to love that story?
Oh yeah and again. His concepts are great. Its just his ability to make characters you care about which to me is a big part of story telling. Something that makes reading a much more amazing experience. So basically I would ask if you cared about what happened to the characters in the andromeda strain. Did they feel like real people that you love hate or at least understand. Thats my main complaint with him as a writer basically.
I really have to think about that, been so long.
I guess not, but story never requires that much connection to the characters. If they died, not bad, but bad if that is true, because they could prevent the strain from getting out to the real world it means everyone or very near everyone would. I assume you read the book? Maybe, it just me that feels that way,
Its been a long time since I read it but im like 99% sure I did for similar reasons to reading king back in the days when reading outstripped most other entertainment by miles. I actually read jurassic park after the movie so more recent times but still decades ago. Could just be personal preference but I have read many authors back in the day and his is the only standout for that. Granted I can't really point to other contagion type quite like that. Remember one with an alien in the antartic were if it escaped it would be the end of the world and other with stakes like that but they were set such the characters had meaning to. Like alien. I don't think the stakes necessarily mean the characters need be throwaway.
Was that ‘The Thing’?
possibly. Its been a long time and some of these were books around the house that we had. Like we had a lot of the nebula award winners and such short story compilations to.
Sorry, what is ‘Nebula’ award? For SciFi’s best books, for each year?
I don't know off hand. There were several types of short story compilations like that that originated from magazines which was were a lot of sci fi fantasy writers got their start. I only later found out at least one of the awards comes from the world science fiction society (that might not be the exact name) who does world con which I only found out about world con by going to local non for profit fan cons. So like very year several different orgs had books that were compilations of these short stories from magazines.
Thanks, for what you did know. I know & understand what you are saying about the magazines’ writers’ short stories articles spurning writers stories & Etc..
You should check-out my latest posts about ‘Steven King’, ‘It: Welcome to Derry’ & my idea for more ‘Steven King’ stories on TV.
Loved the show, made me unexpectedly cry during the last two episodes, looking forward for more! Also liked Castle Rock when it aired and I'm really curious about Flanagan is going to do for the Dark Tower
That is true,
‘The Dark Tower’ book I really enjoyed, just short my love for the ‘It’ book love. With that being said the Capitalist corporate overlords cuting out the diversity of the story from the movie forced to I will never watch the movie & let that Capitalism’s Racist & Disabling version Capitalist wash over the original story’s diversity of characters! I really liked who they got playing the main characters, switching the gunslinger to Black did not bother me.