{"id":812,"date":"2009-11-11T22:59:11","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T06:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/?p=812"},"modified":"2009-11-08T23:01:51","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T07:01:51","slug":"stephen-kings-old-charm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2009\/11\/stephen-kings-old-charm\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen King’s Old Charm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
\n\n<\/td>\n\nDifferent Seasons<\/b>
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Stephen King<\/i><\/p>\n

ISBN: 978-0451167538
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I have many lost<\/i> books: those I bought, kept, but never finished. This one holds the record. I bought it on a business trip no less than 20 years ago. I read one of the four stories and put it down. The story was too intense that I needed a break. When I found it in one of my boxes in the garage, I was puzzled. Only after flipping it I discovered that it was the very one that I have been searching for. It has the original story that was later made into a best selling movie that shortened the original title: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption<\/i>. For too long, I looked for the wrong book, thinking only the movie title.<\/p>\n

The collection really made no sense at all. The other three stories — Apt Pupil<\/i>, The Body<\/i>, and The Breathing Method<\/i> — were forged together with no apparent connection to the namesake seasons. This is probably the biggest flaw of this book: the title. All four stories are masterfully written, but the book title did no justice and probably contributed to my multi-decade search for the wrong book to re-read.<\/p>\n

This is the old Stephen King that I was a big fan of. He drifted away from haunting story telling and gradually became formulaic horror, like Dreamcatcher<\/i> and From A Buick 8<\/i>. This is the Stephen King I remembered when I read On Writing<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n

And it has been satisfying. I miss old Stephen King and hope to find a writer as talented as he was today. Any recommendation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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