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I think I read this book maybe 20 years ago and I remember at the time being quite inspired by it (though now I don’t recall anything specific about it). So now that I am writing more, and more often than not careening back and forth between acute impostor syndrome and looming deadline panic, I was thinking it could be a good time for a re-read. Except now of course I can’t find it anywhere in the house. I find it hard to believe it would have been included in The Great Cull before moving to the present Casa Azahar but if it doesn’t turn up soon I will get another copy. Turns out there is a new 25th anniversary edition, so might be worth updating anyhow. Of course then I will have to re-learn how to read…
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I love that book — with a single exception, King’s animadversions on the subject of adverbs. Yes, they can be overused, but sometimes they are just the right medicine.
I remember my first readings of King, and my fascination and delight: he wrote dialogue just the way people speak, including all the crudities, instead of euphemizing; he gave us horror and absurd humor in the same sentence, without apology for the incongruity. And his monsters are always, in the end, not the vampire or the sentient car or the Ancient Evil In The Sewer, but the way humans misuse other human beings.
I’d love to see the “On Joy” addendum. I may have to get the anniversary edition myself.
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Yeah, may just get the updated one. Weird though, the hardback is listed for 8.80€ and the paperback for 18.37€.
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