LOOK WHO’S BACK Timur Vermes Translated by Jamie Bulloch MacLehose Press (maclehosepress.com) £15.00 Adolf Hitler opens his eyes to find himself lying in the middle of a piece of waste ground in Berlin. The last few days – his final days in the Bunker – are a blur and it doesn’t take long for Hitler […]
Read More LOOK WHO’S BACK by Timur VermesSARAH LANGAN On the web: sarahlangan.com On Twitter: @SarahVCLangan I first read Carrie in high school, which, given my personality and social status, worked about right. What surprised me was the humanity allotted to the characters– Carrie White is sympathetic and tragic. Sue Snell and her Tommy are good kids. The bad kids, well, they’re […]
Read More #CarrieAt40: So High School by SARAH LANGANLAGOON Nnedi Okorafor (www.nnedi.com) Hodder & Stoughton (www.hodder.co.uk) £13.99 Lagos, Nigeria. Three strangers meet three yards from the sea on the city’s Bar Beach late on a January evening: Adaora, a marine biologist who lives in the affluent part of town; Agu, a soldier whose moral compass has earned him a beating from his colleagues […]
Read More LAGOON by Nnedi OkoraforBEV VINCENT On the web: http://www.bevvincent.com On Twitter: @BevVincent On Facebook: bev.vincent A lot of people think of Carrie as Stephen King’s first novel, but it wasn’t—not by a long shot. It was his first published novel, but by the time it came out he had already written over a half dozen books, most (but […]
Read More #CarrieAt40: Carrie White at 57 by BEV VINCENTJOHN CONNOLLY On the web: johnconnollybooks.com On Twitter: @jconnollybooks Carrie wasn’t the first Stephen King book that I read. That honour goes to ‘Salem’s Lot, King’s second novel, which I must have read in the late seventies, or 1980 at the latest. (I have a clear memory of a classmate in school pressing The Shining […]
Read More #CarrieAt40: The Beginning by JOHN CONNOLLYALISON LITTLEWOOD On the web: http://www.alisonlittlewood.co.uk On Twitter: @Ali__L I don’t actually remember the first time I read Carrie. I can remember reading it, of course – I’ve done so more than once – but not the when and where. It would have been when I was pretty young, and busy reading everything I could […]
Read More #CarrieAt40: A Regular Guy by ALISON LITTLEWOODCARRIE Stephen King (www.stephenking.com) Hodder & Stoughton (www.hodder.co.uk) £7.99 And there is, of course, the knowledge that Carrie went home on Prom Night. Why? It is hard to tell just how sane Carrie’s motives were by that time. She may have gone for absolution and forgiveness… In any event, the physical evidence seems to indicate […]
Read More #CarrieAt40: CARRIE by Stephen KingBOOK GEEK On the web: bookgeeksays.blogspot.co.uk On Twitter: @Book_Geek_Says Stephen King is of course a deity of the horror/suspense/scifi/fantasy fiction world, ok, maybe just of the world in general. I will fully admit that until 2009 I was only aware of SK’s work due to film adaptations. My first experience of which was watching Misery […]
Read More #CarrieAt40: From Film to Book by BOOK GEEKKEITH B. WALTERS On the web: http://www.keithbwalters.com On Twitter: @keithbwalters Sections of the following essay are taken from Keith’s book, DARK WORDS: KILLING TIME WITH HORROR FICTION AUTHORS, which is available on Kobo and Amazon Kindle. Surely every one of us is that ‘Constant Reader’. When asked if I could submit a piece of writing […]
Read More #CarrieAt40: An Evening with Stephen King by KEITH B. WALTERSTHE INVESTIGATION Jung-Myung Lee Translated by Chi-Young Kim (www.chiyoungkim.com) Mantle (www.panmacmillan.com) £16.99 Fukuoka Prison, shortly after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbour, is used for the incarceration of, amongst others, dissidents and those of anti-Japanese tendencies. For the most part , these people are Koreans, a race whose language has been outlawed and whose culture […]
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