Tag: King
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A Review of The Long Walk by Richard Bachman (Stephen King)
In my years as a participant in long-distance runs, I only dropped out of one race. That was the 1983 Columbus Marathon when grinding pain in my knees forced me to quit near the 20th mile. Had I been one of the boys in Stephen King’s The Long Walk, I wouldn’t have had the option…
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In Defense of Adverbs
When it comes to the “Parts of Speech” family, the adverb is the red-headed stepchild, the runt of the litter. “The road to hell is paved with adverbs,” declares no less a writer than Stephen King. “To put it another way,” King continues, adverbs “are like dandelions. If you have one on your lawn, it…
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A Review of Stephen King’s Night Shift
Stephen King is known as a masterful writer of horror novels, many of which have been turned into successful movies. But before he gained fame with such spine-tinglers as Carrie, It, and The Shining, King was a struggling high school English teacher who wrote short stories for men’s magazines to help make ends meet. In…