I really need to get into king's short story collections this year

@DaveReadsKing

Жыл бұрын

Night Shift is a great place to start

Really glad I found your channel!

@DaveReadsKing

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Hey Dave great video one of my favorite Stephen King novellas is the long novella Lowmen in yellow coats

@DaveReadsKing

Жыл бұрын

Great choice - that one is excellent!

@samtubebackagainramey6971

Жыл бұрын

@@DaveReadsKing trust me I was crying by the end

@samtubebackagainramey6971

Жыл бұрын

@@DaveReadsKing also did you pick 19 as the number for your reasons because it's an important number in Stephen King's books

I just finished The Langoliers and I loved it! Have a feeling going to love whole collection in Four Past Midnight. My first King Short Story collection…I need them all!! Lol

@DaveReadsKing

Жыл бұрын

Nice! If you enjoy this one you’ll *love* the rest of them!

Apt pupil is superb. Very dark but utterly gripping.

@DaveReadsKing

Жыл бұрын

So dark!

Well I'll be. You were right. There truly is more from you than just your stellar series.

@DaveReadsKing

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

I've Been Waiting for this for a long time...... Thank You❤

@DaveReadsKing

Жыл бұрын

You’re welcome!

Oh! I grabbed "Elevation" several months ago and I'd forgotten about it! Have to read it! Thanks for the reminder! -----mike

@DaveReadsKing

Жыл бұрын

You’re welcome!

My favorite novella is Big driver from full dark no stars I also enjoyed the movie adaptation ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

@DaveReadsKing

Жыл бұрын

Nice! Although not a novella according to King’s website! 🤷🏻‍♂️ even though it clearly is!

The Breathing Method is a criminally underrated novella in my opinion. I never understood how this book would get so much hate. I actually liked it the most in Different Seasons. And obviously we do know good how the first 3 novellas are.

@DaveReadsKing

Жыл бұрын

I agree, and depending on what mood I’m in that one often sits third or second in my Different Seasons ranking - such a stellar book!

Did the official website completely forget that Full Dark No Stars existed? 🤔 well, Okay, then 😂 great list of course

@DaveReadsKing

Жыл бұрын

Ha! It has all four of those ones listed as short stories not novellas, which is wild!

Elevation was a nice read

@DaveReadsKing

Жыл бұрын

Indeed - very uplifting (pun intended)!

It’s hard to beat The Body. I’ve been begging them to put it in the Creative Writing reading curriculum at my university for 2 years with no avail.

@DaveReadsKing

Жыл бұрын

Academics - don’t know great writing when it’s staring them in the face!

@Toby-rj4tm

Жыл бұрын

@@DaveReadsKing They’d rather push the same tired short fiction that hasn’t inspired a single student in over ten years. With The Body, I was told it wasn’t appropriate because the kids cuss too much. They’re twelve year old boys. They should have a vocabulary that would make any priest drop his Bible

@DaveReadsKing

Жыл бұрын

Exactly! That sounds so frustrating - The Body is arguably the best coming of age story ever put to paper

@Toby-rj4tm

Жыл бұрын

@@DaveReadsKing agreed

Great video. The body is my favourite. So engaging.

@DaveReadsKing

Жыл бұрын

Just a perfect story!

Have you done anything on the collection "Stephen King Goes to the Movies?" It's a reprint anthology of King stories that were made into movies with King's intros and comments about how he thought the movie versions of the stories worked.

@DaveReadsKing

Жыл бұрын

I know it well - I’ve got two copies on my shelf! I’ve not done an episode on it, but I am using it when I get to movies covered in that book…I read from King’s but about Children of the Corn on my episode, and I think I’ve referenced his top 10 from that book too 👍

@TheMikester307

Жыл бұрын

@@DaveReadsKing Half the fun is reading his introductions, especially that "Children of the Corn" has probably inspired the most bad movies!

@DaveReadsKing

Жыл бұрын

😂

Ok, so here is my top 10 with a couple of caveats first - I've not read all of his novellas (shamefully still haven't read The Body yet, but I've seen the film a few times) and also I'm including the stories in Full Dark, No Stars. It's my favourite collection, so to hell with the official website!! Anyway, here goes... 1. The Mist 2. 1922 3. The Langoliers 4. Apt Pupil 5. A Good Marriage 6. If it Bleeds 7. The Library Policeman 8. Big Driver 9. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption 10. Dolan's Cadillac (I consider this a novella, and it's my list, ner ner) I haven't read any of Hearts in Atlantis yet, it's never appealed to me, but I'm sure I'll get around to it. And Life of Chuck is the only one from If It Bleeds I've not read, bizarrely. Anyway, I plan to read that once I'm finished Revival.

@DaveReadsKing

8 ай бұрын

Great stuff, thanks for sharing!

Interesting Ranking ... 1. The Body 2. The Mist 3. Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption 4. Low Men in Yellow Coats 5. Breathing Method 6. Apt Pupil 7. 1922 8. Blockade Billy 9. Elevation 10. Little Sisters of Eluria Uhm, yes, I did the list without looking up, what the novellas are. I really liked "Ur", but I don't know if I liked it enough for the Top Ten. "Hearts in Atlantis" could also be in this ... perhaps I should reread "Life of Chuck" - First time I thought more like: Uh, that is weird!

@DaveReadsKing

11 ай бұрын

Nice! There are some crackers in your 10!

1) 1922 2) The Mist 3) The Body 4) Mr. Harrigan’s Phone 5) If It Bleeds 1922 is one of the few books I’ve read that has actually given me nightmares it was traumatizing.

@DaveReadsKing

7 ай бұрын

Nice choices!

1922 should be a novel. its sooo good.

@DaveReadsKing

2 ай бұрын

I think its short length is part of the magic - keeps it tight

Chuck is such a well written story, Lowmen is a cracker, buy hey...The Body is such an evocative, well put together, beautiful story, how can you argue against it.

@DaveReadsKing

Жыл бұрын

Perfect, every time!

Four past midnight is great theme wise. How is the execution that i have to see. Haven't read it yet. Im looking forward to read it

@DaveReadsKing

10 ай бұрын

Ok, enjoy

I'm a new king reader. Im starting with night shift with night surf.

@DaveReadsKing

10 ай бұрын

Good place to start! But you’ve already read Four Past Midnight, right? At lest, I get that impression based on your other comments

7:25 did you mean the KZread channel or just for a phrase?

@DaveReadsKing

9 ай бұрын

Do you mean when I said ‘other worlds than these?’ If so, it was a Dark Tower reference

@NoahsReading

9 ай бұрын

@@DaveReadsKing oooooooh ok that makes sense now. I haven’t actually read all of the dark tower books only the first. There is a channel called other worlds than these and that’s why I got mixed up 👍

Blockade billy I enjoyed. Not a baseball fan though.

@DaveReadsKing

Жыл бұрын

Nice! I thought it was fine

So Rita Hayworth is not a novella?

@DaveReadsKing

6 ай бұрын

It definitely is - number 4 on this list of memory serves me correctly?