A 90-minute movie can’t touch the characterization King provides us with in hundreds (sometimes thousands) of pages. This is perhaps one of the biggest differences between reading a Stephen King story, and watching a film based on it. More than writing about horror, he writes about people – and he writes about people in a way that is so brutally honest, we see ourselves in his characters. Stephen King is a supremely talented writer. So what makes Stephen King different? What makes his stories rich with the stuff Sunday schools are made of?įor me, the answer is: Talent. Okay I’ll admit, I’m the kind of person who can find spiritual wisdom and life lessons in the pages of Penthouse just as easily as a church pew. When asked, the first thing that springs to my mind is self-doubt: What if I’m wrong? What if there really is nothing spiritual about Stephen King’s stories and I’m just grasping at straws here? What if I’ve doomed myself to write a monthly column about… nothing? The writer’s worst nightmare. It’s not the first time I have been asked the question since starting this column three short months ago, and I’m always somewhat alarmed by it.

The question was served cold with a heaping side of skepticism, and it took me slightly off guard. Book.I was having brunch with a friend of mine on a recent Sunday, a horror film actress in fact, who asked: Do you really think there’s anything spiritual about Stephen King’s books? The picture shown with my listing was supplied by the listing website. I do not upload pictures of my books but if it is pictures that you need they are only an email request away. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY.

Actually not that bad a copy of a book that is getting reely hard to find in a first printing. A compilation edition of the first four Bachman Books which were originally published as PBOs with an introduction by King 'Why I was Bachman'. It has been awhile since I have had one of these in stock especially in a First Printing of the First Omnibus Edition, the true hardcover first.

browning to extremities, light tanning to the reverse.

The19.95 priced jacket has some light rubbing wear, some edge wear, bit of chipping to the area at the top and heel of the spine. This copy has some light tanning/soil to the edges of the text block, a group of 5 pages prox have been corner bumped, a wrinkle to the black cloth spine area with no wear to the bright gold inlay. A square solid tight carefully read copy.

The Long Walk by Richard Bachman