Stephen King

The Worst Books in Existence

A while back, I had a post chronicling the three best books I’ve ever read. So now, inspired by a fantastic post at World’s Strongest Librarian, I bring you the exact opposite of my earlier post: A collection of books that, for one reason or another, I completely despise. These are made up of books [...]

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Ron Howard to Direct “The Dark Tower” Movie Trilogy? Bleh.

When I heard that J.J. Abrams was going to be in charge of The Dark Tower film series, I was ecstatic. LOST is my favorite, Fringe is amazing, the new Star Trek franchise finally brought it out of the basement dweller zone, and Cloverfield was fun enough. Then he backed out saying that he wouldn’t [...]

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Review: Stephen King’s Under the Dome

“Huh.” When I finished Under the Dome, that’s all I could say. I just closed the novel and contemplated the ending. I couldn’t say anything else but “huh.” And for me, that’s high praise. Ashamed as I am to say it, Under the Dome is the first novel I’ve finished since June. I’ve listened to [...]

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Stephen King Odds and Ends

I started as a fan of The Dark Tower series late. I was a senior in college and all seven books had already been released. I never had to wait the decades-long wait many fans did, but when the series ended, I still felt the same pangs of bittersweet emptiness any good novel should impart. [...]

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Stephen King’s Under the Dome: Expectations

Tomorrow, November 10th, Stephen King’s newest novel Under the Dome is being released. If you haven’t realized it yet, I’m a huge fan of King’s, and I hold his newer novels (anything since Cell) in very high regard. Even with the somewhat lackluster Just After Sunset, I think King’s most recent books rival his classics [...]

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Pop Culture in the Classroom – Buffy: The Vampire Slayer and Stephen King

Back when this blog was new and I had no idea if people would even bother reading it, I wrote about my use of Joss Whedon’s Firefly in my Basic Writing II classes. With the new semester finally under way, I figure a similar post is in order to explain my newest attempt at emboldening [...]

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Parallels in LOST and Stephen King’s “The Dark Tower” – Part 4 – Cycles and Salvation

So what happens if the characters’ free will affects ka or fate so heavily that events are unable to be corrected before the narrative reaches the point where it should end but can’t? Things start over again, of course! In both LOST and The Dark Tower, events unfold for one main purpose: salvation. Both are [...]

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Parallels in LOST and Stephen King’s “The Dark Tower” – Part 3 – Course Correction and Ka

In both LOST and Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, there are higher powers at play than simply the characters themselves. Jack Shephard and Ben Linus are nowhere near as important as they each think themselves to be, nor is Roland Deschain able to decide whether or not he continues his quest toward the Dark Tower. [...]

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