This book reminds me more of "The Shining" than any other of Kings books that I have read.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Geralds Game by Stephen King
This book is more of a psychological horror than a normal "Eek a monsters about to eat me!" King book. The main character is a lady named Jessie who has had problems with anger since she was a kid. I'm quite interested in psychology and I think this was a good book to read since it includes my passion for both psychology and horror. It seems in this book Jessie has multiple voices inside her head; one a "angel", one a "devil". King has always interested me because his writing is so different. He uses so many words to describe one thing it's amazing. He can turn one thought into three paragraphs. This book is interesting but I would not recommend it for someone unless they are ready to try and understand a lot of the "boring" stuff that seems unimportant.
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Stephen King is an amazing writer and can throw is horrific and disturbing things that I know i could never think of.... or choose not too. He can turn something that one would think is harmless, like a stray dog or glass of water, into a trial, strenuous act, or psychological melt down. Jessie seems to have had very early trauma in her life and has always blocked it out. Now she is stuck and has to face the facts of life. This book reminds me of an adult version of "The Ghosts of Christmas Past". It seems the voices are acting as the ghosts inside her head and I believe they are trying to make her remember what happened all those years ago that was traumatic. This is just a guess and I am not sure if it's actually what is going on. This book is not really a horror at all I believe, of course I'm used to books and movies like "IT" and "The Shining".
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ReplyDeleteThe way you describe it, it almost sounds like this could be a realistic book, with all your psychological explanation of block trauma. What makes it horror? Is it the things Jessie does?
Interesting that you enjoy King's amount of detail. Last year, it seemed the consensus was that too much detail was boring. Anything you think you could take for your own writing?
josiah
Yes, I actually have noticed I've been putting more detailed info into my writing "And then I, found a fridge, and having missed lunch took out ingredients for a roast beef sandwich. The sandwhich tasted pretty good to, the roast beef was BB-Q, and that added a lot of flavor. The bread was Gérard’s bread." Thee horror comes from the fact that some monster thingy came into her room, and caused her to fall asleep. During this sleep she was forced to re-live the childhood trauma... It also seems that she has to overcome obstacles on 6" of metal (literally) to survive. I thought the voices she's hearing we're a new thing to her, but after reading about her childhood it would appear to be the opposite. I really hope someone gets eaten. The book is good, but theres not all that much action.
ReplyDeleteSo I'm not really sure whats happening it's not really confusing, just more random... Anyway I'm almost done this book and it was very interesting. Stephen King is a beeping amazing writer. He took something like being stuck and turned it into a 440 page book. Oh yea and it was a good book not just "I'm stuck... oh darn I'm still stuck... Maybe I should try and escape... Nah..."
ReplyDeleteI like that King writes in lots of different perspectives. This can be very confusing, but I have been able to keep up. I think he writes like this because it's so hard to do. Switching back and fourth between past, and future.
ReplyDeleteI am wondering what you thought of this book hunter. It sounds like you enjoy this book but I don't know for sure. Could you clarify?
ReplyDeleteYes, I do enjoy this book and I am almost finished it.
ReplyDeleteTo fix my spelling mistakes-fourth=forth... yea=yes.
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