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3.57 AVERAGE
3.57 AVERAGE
My first Stephen King book that I did not enjoy at all. Felt unfocused and unnecessarily long. If you take that for granted you’ll find some interesting ideas about horror and a few autobiographical parts. But that didn’t save the book for me personally.
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As with On Writing, Danse Macabre is clear-sighted and educational, loaded with interesting insights about what makes horror unique as a genre, both in film and literature, and why we are so enamored with it. I love it.
I listened to this book and the narrator was great. I think I would have liked this book more if it was 1982 and I was a dude. I would love an updated version, because King's intro about contemporary horror films was gripping.
A bit outdated after some 30 years after publication, but the perspective Stephen King provides on the horror genre are still interesting to read. The psychological analyses within this genre overview(?) are particularly interesting as my background of study was in Communication and English theory based on psychological ideas. An updated version, or second waltz would be nice to add to the critique of thirty years hence to see how the genre has evolved or devolved since then through the events that have taken place. But, we shall see if that perspective will ever be released by King since I would have loved my college textbooks to be written in such a vernacular style as this was.
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Revisiting this for possibly the tenth time or so. Still some of the best essays on horror fiction and movies ever written. Invaluable.
You don’t just get the monicker “The King of Horror” without truly knowing horror.
This book personally missed me in many ways as I am a fan of Stephen King and not so much a fan of the entire scope of horror.
But this is the love child of an author who not only has dominated the modern horror writing landscape but whose works have almost all been adapted into film or television (almost always poorly with only a few incredible exceptions). For this to come from King at the age of 34 only 10 novels and 7 years into his writing career at that has now spanned more than 50 years and 80 books is absolutely ridiculous. He had clearly read more, studied more, and learned more about the entire topic of horror in 34 years than I could hope to learn about 1 minuscule topic in my entire life.
This made me realize just how vast of a knowledge of horror writing, television, and movies that SK has. This is probably why his works vary in scope, forms of horror, and originality. He knows nearly everything that has been done before, pays homage to them, but always steers clear of redoing what has already been done.
This book personally missed me in many ways as I am a fan of Stephen King and not so much a fan of the entire scope of horror.
But this is the love child of an author who not only has dominated the modern horror writing landscape but whose works have almost all been adapted into film or television (almost always poorly with only a few incredible exceptions). For this to come from King at the age of 34 only 10 novels and 7 years into his writing career at that has now spanned more than 50 years and 80 books is absolutely ridiculous. He had clearly read more, studied more, and learned more about the entire topic of horror in 34 years than I could hope to learn about 1 minuscule topic in my entire life.
This made me realize just how vast of a knowledge of horror writing, television, and movies that SK has. This is probably why his works vary in scope, forms of horror, and originality. He knows nearly everything that has been done before, pays homage to them, but always steers clear of redoing what has already been done.
Libro que me ha encantado. Pese a ser una disertación por así decir, no se libra del estilo propio de King en cada uno de los capítulos. Desde luego me ha hecho querer leer muchos más libros y ver películas que conocía o no
King's non-fiction is always sharp and this is no exception. At times he gets distracted and he falls into the trap he supposedly hates of over analyzing works of fiction, but the book doesn't suffer because of it. The television section was a bit of drag, but only because it is woefully out-of-date (TV no longer the red-headed stepchild of the entertainment world, but rather the gold standard). Interesting insights and his appendices made my to-read and to-watch lists grow substantially.