SORRY: TOO MUCH WORK TO DO AND TO LITTLE TIME TO DO IT... AN OLD HISTORY ISN'T IT? I'LL CAME FROM TI...
SORRY: TOO MUCH WORK TO DO AND TO LITTLE TIME TO DO IT... AN OLD HISTORY ISN'T IT? I'LL CAME FROM TIME TO TIME... WAITING FOR BETTER MOMENTS!
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Last week I spoke about this book with a friend, and he told me that he couldn't understand why 'Hearts in Atlantis' should be considered one of the best, perhaps the better, among King's books.
I think that at the base of this questions, there is an error of misunderstaning. We are speaking about Stephen King a, so to tell, 'horror writer' and when we open a King book what we are looking for is horror, dreadfull creatures and supernatural events.
Hearts in Atlantis is something different, but the difference is so subtle that you can hardly have it. This is an horror book, but the horror cames from the daily life.
The horror of a lost generation, of the end of the American Dream and the loss of the naivety.
King tells us about his generation, that was at first divided and then destroyed from the Vietnam war.
They found themselves in front of a sort of ravine: someone decided to go to Vietnam, the other decided to stay at home to challenge against this war. But at the end they all found only desperation and the loss of any possible hope.
After the Vietnam America waked up from a nightmare to discover that nothing, never, should have been the same. Thruogh this war America grew up and became another place, a new country.
In this book King tells us this history, that's also his personal history, mixing it with a bit of supernatural events, in four wonderful short stories linked from the ghosts of that war, a remind that's the trait-d'union of the entire book.
This ins't the usual King, this is a different one, more adult, more sad and more aware of the reality of his world.
Heart in Atlantis is a wonderful book, but not just an horror book or, to better say, not a common horror book.
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I was bought this for Christmas a few years ago and it's now in the loft, unread. I just couldn't get into it. Not the style I'd expect from King. ~Sharon
buzios 11.09.2003 14:26
I haven't read a Stephen King book for years. This sounds good though.
nancymac 04.09.2003 23:58
Really ,loved this book too, and agree with your comments on it, good op! Nancy
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"Low Men in Yellow Coats," about Bobby Garfield of Harwich, Connecticut, who craves a Schwinn for his 11th birthday. But his widowed mum is impoverished and so ...
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Stephen King's collection of five stories about '60s kids reads like a novel. The best is ... more
"Low Men in Yellow Coats," about Bobby Garfield of Harwich, Connecticut, who craves a Schwinn for his 11th birthday. But his widowed mum is impoverished and so ...
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Stephen King's collection of five stories about '60s kids reads like a novel. The best is ... more
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