the shawshank redemption/Stephen King

[starthorn]

I was stunned when I first saw the shawshank redemption air on TBS. I'm stunned again to find it was a Stephen King book.

I had only thought he wrote horror books.

Without giving the plot, does anyone know any other books Stephen King wrote like this?

[serenity]

I was stunned when I first saw the shawshank redemption air on TBS. I'm stunned again to find it was a Stephen King book.

I had only thought he wrote horror books.

Without giving the plot, does anyone know any other books Stephen King wrote like this?

The Green Mile (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Mile_(novel)), for one.

Stephen is an amazing writer and many people don't realize the variety of styles he has. It's not all horror. :D

Another beautiful story is "The Body (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Body_(novella))" (which was made into a movie called "Stand By Me")

I'll go look at my bookshelf to find others you may like. Brb!

You may like:
The Dark Tower series (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_(series)) (My favourite and his masterwork, imo)
The Talisman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Talisman_(1984_novel)) (good amount of fantasy, a lot like The Dark Tower)
The Eyes of the Dragon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_eyes_of_the_dragon) (also fantasy)
The Long Walk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Walk) (One of his best shorter stories, to me)
The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_the_Flexible_Bullet) (In my top favs of his short stories)
The End of the Whole Mess (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_the_Whole_Mess) (another short I love)
Mrs. Todd's Shortcut (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Todd%27s_Shortcut) (short story)

(I gotta stop with the short stories, he has a TON that I love. Perhaps you can just look at the collections like Different Seasons, Nightmares and Dreamscapes, etc.)

[heyseuss]

I was stunned when I first saw the shawshank redemption air on TBS. I'm stunned again to find it was a Stephen King book.

I had only thought he wrote horror books.

Without giving the plot, does anyone know any other books Stephen King wrote like this?

Grab the book that Rita Hayworth And The Shawshank Redemption is in "Different Seasons" - 4 short stories, 3 are now movies, including what Serenity mentioned, The Body which is now Stand By Me.

BTW watching it on TBS is short-changing yourself.

[trunolimit]

The mist was also a short story witch the movie sorta nails (minus the ending which was different in the book). the only thing that I thought the movie didn't deliver was that while reading you really get a feel of how everyone in the supermarket changed from rational human beings to irrational religious nuts. the movie portrayed that but no like the book.

movies just don't do books justice.

I bought a Steven king short story collection at an airport and was blown away. Mrs. Todd's Shortcut was one of the stories (that's the one where the chick gets younger every time she takes a drive down that weird road right).

he's also done some science fiction.

two stories come to mind but I cant remember the names one was about a space ship that crash landed on a planet of sand. two members on the ship. one goes crazy and it turns out

****spoiler alert***** the planet is alive and tries to eat the ship, the crazy crew member ends up becoming part of the planet
***** end of spoiler*****

the other science fiction one was where this guy invented a telleportation machine and tried to send a living being through it only to find out it has certain side effects. a little boy ends up going through the machine and lets just say what comes out the other end is not the same little boy.

one last steven king short story I don't know the name of.

its about a surgeon who was shipping some coke when his ship went down or something. he ends up on a life boat with the drugs and rows up on a deserted island. he injures his foot and has to amputate his own foot. he gets so hungry and so messed up from all the drugs that he ends up eating his own foot. his hunger isn't satisfied so he cuts off his other foot and eats it. he just keeps cutting pieces off himself to satisfy his hunger.

[stubadub]

I adored the first four books in the Dark Tower series (especially one and four) but after that they really went downhill for me. Five wasn't bad, but it didn't seem to have much forward momentum. Six and Seven feel entirely like what they were, rushed to market as a result of his near fatal collision with a car as a pedestrian.

The story no longer felt organic for me. Things that had been building since the first book were written away by a single paragraph (really? by a spider baby?), a certain character found his way into the book for reasons I find unsound, and things generally just fall apart. It just didn't feel like it was part of the same series I had loved for so many years.

I will say that although I found the last few pages slightly frustrating, I also appreciated it. Most people I talked to seemed to want to throw the book across the room in anger, but I thought it was an interesting idea.

At this point as much as I loved the first four books I find it hard to recommend to someone that has yet to begin reading it considering the way the series turns out.

[jabber]

one last steven king short story I don't know the name of.

its about a surgeon who was shipping some coke when his ship went down or something. he ends up on a life boat with the drugs and rows up on a deserted island. he injures his foot and has to amputate his own foot. he gets so hungry and so messed up from all the drugs that he ends up eating his own foot. his hunger isn't satisfied so he cuts off his other foot and eats it. he just keeps cutting pieces off himself to satisfy his hunger.

That is "Survivor Type" from the short story collection Skeleton Crew.

[trunolimit]

That is "Survivor Type" from the short story collection Skeleton Crew.

thank you jabber. I lost the book in the Dominican republic

[cashbailey]

the other science fiction one was where this guy invented a telleportation machine and tried to send a living being through it only to find out it has certain side effects. a little boy ends up going through the machine and lets just say what comes out the other end is not the same little boy.

That is most likely 'The Jaunt' from the 'Skeleton Crew' collection

[cashbailey]

And another outstanding dramatic work is 'Dolores Caliborne'.

[darthender]

Heh, looks like somebody was watching Family Guy this week. :p

[cashbailey]

No, I don't watch it. I saw an episode once and that was enough for me.

Did they do some lame Stephen King skit or something?

[trunolimit]

And another outstanding dramatic work is 'Dolores Caliborne'.

that was the first steven king book I read. I read Geralds' game after that which is kind of a tie in. well not really but there is a part where both characters each in their own story are made "aware" of one another. I was locked up for two weeks in vegas and I went through 3 steven king books 2 Phillip Margolin books and this other book about a guy who got sent back in time met Merlin the wizard and helped defeat a giant octopus, can't remember the name of it.

No, I don't watch it. I saw an episode once and that was enough for me.

Did they do some lame Stephen King skit or something?

they did a whole show on a couple of steven king stories. they even threw in the accident that steven was involved in.

[darthender]

No, I don't watch it. I saw an episode once and that was enough for me.

Did they do some lame Stephen King skit or something?Wasn't talking to you, was talking to the OP, who just happened to find out Shawshank Redemption was by Stephen King the same week Family Guy does a Stephen King special with a Shawshank Redempion segment.

[trunolimit]

Wasn't talking to you, was talking to the OP, who just happened to find out Shawshank Redemption was by Stephen King the same week Family Guy does a Stephen King special with a Shawshank Redempion segment.

oh snap :eek:

[joeyrock]

Don't forget Misery. That's a great book and a great film.