The Friday 56 is hosted by Storytime with Tonya and Friends
RULES
- Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
- Turn to page 56.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like).
- Post a link with your post to Storytime (and here on Bryan’s Book Blog, I’d like to know what book you’ve got at hand).
I was looking through Stephen King’s Danse Macabre the other night for information on The Doll Who Ate His Mother for my A-Z Wednesday entry, and it was still sitting next to my laptop today, so it is the closest book to hand. So, let’s see what words of wisdom Stephen King has for the Friday 56:
“In terms of image and emotion—the young kidnap victim being pulled from the cistern at dawn, the bad guy terrorizing the busload of children, the granite face of Dirty Harry Callahan himself—the film is brilliant” (56).
I have to add the next sentence as well, because it is just brilliant: “Even the best of liberals walk out of a film like Dirty Harry or Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs looking as if they have been clopped over the head … or run over by a train.” Say what you will about Stephen King’s place in the canon, or merits as an author, you can’t deny that the man certainly has a way with words!
1 comments:
Yes he does! I have always loved his way with words and feel I have to defend my love of his books. Each and every person who has ever told me that they think he's not such a good writer has told me it was because he goes off on tangents that are inconsequential to the story. Since when dos that make you a bad writer?
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