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Back in Munich...
Sep. 30th, 2013 07:37 pm...for a few days, at least, but not yet able to watch either the Breaking Bad finale or the Once Upon A Time season premiere (it's only a matter of minutes for the later, though), and at some point I'd love to get my hands on the season premiere of The Good Wife as well. I grew somewhat dissaffected during the last season, but the finale included a set up of such a lot of promise that I'm really curious what the show will do with it.
Something else: this November, Stephen King is going to visit Germany for the first time ever and will do two readings, one in Hamburg and one in Munich. The Munich one will take place in the Circus Krone and yours truly has acquired a ticket online, and duly prepaid for it. However, I'm now told to pick it up at the day (to be expected) and that there is no reserved seating but it will be a matter of who gets their first (unexpected and unwelcome). Since the ticket counter whre you can pick up your prepaid ticket opens at 16:00, the circus at 18:00 and the reading won't start until 20:30, I am now contemplating the virtues of going there early but spending at least two hours, if not four, standing around somewhere, vs showng up later and getting a bad seat. This is not how readings usually happen, but then again, as I said: first visit to Germany ever. And he has as many readers there as in the rest of the world. I mean, I was a teenager of the 80s. I grew up with his books, to the point that when I visited Maine for the first time with my Aged Parents, I made a lot of incomprehensible (to them) jokes and watched those picturesque small towns with a cautious eye.
Favourite Kings: Misery because it's one of the few books that get across what writing feels like to the writer, it's good meta and suspenseful at the same time, and I will always have a problem with the film changing one quintessential writing-related point about the ending; Talisman which he co wrote with Peter Straub because it's one of my favourite quest tales; Dolores Clairborne because hooray for middle aged unpretty heroines with convincing voices. I also love The Body but in all fairness, I saw the film (Stand By Me) first, and that became one of my all time favourites, whereas in the other cases I read the books first, with The Shawshank Redemption being a similar case.
I have a soft spot for: Carrie. Definitely not the film (though I'm curious how the new one will be). I actually did start reading King with Carrie, i.e. his first published novel, and there are a lot of beginner elements there, but it also has raw power, and that ability to write convincing teenagers that I haven't come across often in horror, for all that the genre often features them.
Something else: this November, Stephen King is going to visit Germany for the first time ever and will do two readings, one in Hamburg and one in Munich. The Munich one will take place in the Circus Krone and yours truly has acquired a ticket online, and duly prepaid for it. However, I'm now told to pick it up at the day (to be expected) and that there is no reserved seating but it will be a matter of who gets their first (unexpected and unwelcome). Since the ticket counter whre you can pick up your prepaid ticket opens at 16:00, the circus at 18:00 and the reading won't start until 20:30, I am now contemplating the virtues of going there early but spending at least two hours, if not four, standing around somewhere, vs showng up later and getting a bad seat. This is not how readings usually happen, but then again, as I said: first visit to Germany ever. And he has as many readers there as in the rest of the world. I mean, I was a teenager of the 80s. I grew up with his books, to the point that when I visited Maine for the first time with my Aged Parents, I made a lot of incomprehensible (to them) jokes and watched those picturesque small towns with a cautious eye.
Favourite Kings: Misery because it's one of the few books that get across what writing feels like to the writer, it's good meta and suspenseful at the same time, and I will always have a problem with the film changing one quintessential writing-related point about the ending; Talisman which he co wrote with Peter Straub because it's one of my favourite quest tales; Dolores Clairborne because hooray for middle aged unpretty heroines with convincing voices. I also love The Body but in all fairness, I saw the film (Stand By Me) first, and that became one of my all time favourites, whereas in the other cases I read the books first, with The Shawshank Redemption being a similar case.
I have a soft spot for: Carrie. Definitely not the film (though I'm curious how the new one will be). I actually did start reading King with Carrie, i.e. his first published novel, and there are a lot of beginner elements there, but it also has raw power, and that ability to write convincing teenagers that I haven't come across often in horror, for all that the genre often features them.
