oh stephen

book: lisey's story

author: stephen king

completion date: 08/07/10

method: borrowed (mum)

the only other stephen king novel i've ever read was the shining and i have to say i loved the movie and i liked the book. i think stephen is a strong idea man but he creates the most bizarre twists and i never really can under stand where they come from. i feel like he wanted to be a fantasy writer once upon a time but settled for what he does now which isn't really fantasy or horror is just kind of 'bizarro'.

let me get something straight- i liked lisey's story. i felt that the character of lisey was strong and interesting. stephen captured the sibling relationship to a tee. he seemed to know exactly how they play off eachother without making it tacky or contrived. they are all strong characters. what i wanted was for there to be no fantasy. the idea is there is this world (boo'ya moon) that people can access and things and people can be left there). we are introduced to this story perifially in the beginning but it soon becomes a major element of the plot. what i wanted is for this world to not exist. i wanted lisey's husband, scott, to actually be totally insane and to have invented this world which he used to escape his horrifyingly abusive childhood. basically i wanted there to be a twist, but there wasn't one. no twist. everything was real and thats what i didn't want.

one thing i loved in this novel though was 'the bad-gunky'. i'm not sure what to classify it as (depression, self mutilation, escapism) but it seems to be all the bad feelings we have that get so bottled up we go insane with them. and i loved this because this made sense. totally. and i believe i have felt something at least similar to scott's 'bad gunky' but i might just be projecting.

i am really at a loss as to why stephen king is such a popular writer, because i don't really thing he's very good at what he does, but then again 'twilight' has sold almost as many copies as the bible.

xo-ellebee