WHOO HOOO! My book, Stephen King, A Face Among The Masters, was reviewwed at www.sfsite.com by Sandra Scholes. She has previously reviewed other books about King, such as "A Brief Guide to Stephen King."
Scholes summerizes the book, noting unique features and offering her commentary along the way. She notes that at the end of each chapter is a recommended book. "After this chapter, Brighton David Gardner recommends Lord of the Flies by William Golding as the readers may like the book and notice its similarities. Gardner does this at the end of most of the chapters. I found it helpful to know that there are other books I would enjoy."
In particular, she seems to have liked the chapter on Alfred Hitchock.
One of the more interesting chapters is 4: Which Book Would Alfred Hitchcock Film? Hitchcock's movies are iconic; Psycho, North by Northwest and Vertigo stand out as popular ones. The meaning of this chapter is that if Hitchcock was alive today; there are certain novels by King he might like to turn into movies. Some of them, Cell, The Running Man, and Dolores Claiborne all have similarities to Hitchcock movies; therefore they are prime examples of the horror genre and ideal for his type of movie making.My favorite line, "Gardner makes what could have been an ordinary book about a writer a true pleasure to read."
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Somebody needs to visit a parallel universe and snatch Hitchcock out of it circa 1940 and bring him back to our 2014.
ReplyDeleteOh, the movies he could make.
(I specify a parallel universe, by the way, so that none of his existing movies would disappear. I may have put too much thought into this...)