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[krisspomms]

Il vieillit surtout !! Stephen King pour être aussi génial, ne peut être qu'inquiétant et bizarre

[ErnadoO]

Il se drogue pour avoir un tête pareille?

[krisspomms]

ça c'est probable, il a pas fait une cure, il ya quelques années,alcool, ou drogue , je sais plus ....

[coline]

je crois que c'etait l'alcool...suis plus sur....n'empeche je repète moi il me fou la trouille on dirais le mec dans shinnig

[krisspomms]

Novembre 2006
Stephen King était ce mois ci en Angleterre pouur sa tournée de promo de Lisey's Story

Article-interview du 10 novembre sur un site d'infos belge

Stephen King interviewé dans l'émission This Morning sur une chaine anglaise ITV le 7 novembre 2006

[coline]

ben je confirme on dirais jack Nicholoson dans Shunning quand il pète un cable

[willow500]

"On dirait une souris"...

Perso je ne trouve pas qu'il ressemble à J. Nicholson. Il a un visage si particulier avec son côté cynique et ses sourcils... qu'ils gigotent de manière totalement bizarre... !

Mais j'avoue que la tête de S. King correspond bien à ses bouquins...

[krisspomms]

Il a une gueule ce type , et passe pas inaperçu ( de là à lui confier mes enfants à garder ... ) ....

[krisspomms]

Retrouvez sur ce site un dossier sur King

Comprenant :
*** Un document audio en 3 parties :
1) à propos de Lisey's story
2) Une lecture de Lisey's story
3) Des réponses aux questions de lecteurs, très diverses ( les sujets allant de Georges Bush , à sa pneumonie )

*** les deux premiers chapitres complets de Lisey's story.


*** et les commentaires de King lui même sur certains de ses romans les plus connus

King on King
Stephen King reveals the thoughts and feelings behind some of his biggest books


Carrie (1974)
"I can’t go back and read it because it consumes pretty awkward baby steps — it feels like what it is — which is a short story that got a little too long for one of the men’s magazines. That’s what it was originally intended as."

Salem’s Lot (1975)
"That was really a homage to the horror magazines of my youth. The Tales from the Crypt. I wanted to do a Moby-Dick of horror novels, if I could. That was really the inspiration for it. I was teaching a horror class in high school at the time and I always wondered what would have happened if Dracula had come to America."

The Shining (1977)
"I hated the Kubrick film and that’s what people remember, I think. I used to think that books outlive the films, but I’m not sure that one’s done it. The thing about Jack Nicholson was that he played a character he played in a lot of biker movies, you know, the psycho. So I never liked the movie much."

The Stand (1978)
"For a lot of my fans, if I’d died after that book, they wouldn’t know the difference."

The Dead Zone (1979)
"That’s the first real novel I wrote. The others are just like exercises and that’s a real novel with real characters, a real big plot and sub-plots. It’s got a lot of stuff. It was the first that wasn’t a Doubleday book. It was bought by New American Libraries, a paperback publisher, went out to 20 hardcover publishers and 19 turned it down. Viking was the only one to pick it up, because the other 19 said that it wasn’t a horror novel and wouldn’t buy it. The film is one of David Cronenberg’s best movies. I love that movie."


Cujo (1981)
"I love Cujo. It does what I want books to do. It feels like a brick thrown through somebody’s window, just feels like a really evasive piece of work. It feels anarchic, like a punk rock record. It’s short and it’s mean."

The Talisman (1984)
"It was a real wonderful experience to write with Peter Straub. It was a chance to really stretch and to reach for some archetypes and consciously to reach for some big things. We talked about the hero’s journey, we talked about Huckleberry Finn, we talked about epics and that sort of thing. We allowed ourselves to think big. I’m proud of that book."

Misery (1987)
"It’s probably my favourite. Well, Lisey is my favourite, but Misery was like the first where it felt like I’d got hold of something big. Writing books is like surfing. You paddle your board out, then you catch the waves, right? And most of the waves are little and you ride them the best you can, but every nowand then you catch a big one. Misery felt like a big wave. It’s the first of the real books about writing and I felt like it was good. The film is great. Kathy Bates was perfectly cast."

Needful Things (1991)
"I was never as disappointed by reviews as I was by the reviews of Needful Things. I thought here is a really funny black comedy about American under the heel of Reagan. It’s where everything is for sale and all you have to do to get anything is sell your soul. That’s all it costs. And the reviews were terrible and the reason seemed to be that everybody wanted a horror novel and what they got was a comedy. And I don’t think anybody understood that. I loved the book. I think it’s funny."

Dolores Claiborne (1992)
"That was a lot of stories that my mother told about people she knew when she was a kid."

Rose Madder (1995)
"Probably the least successful book that I’ve written. If I have trouble with a book I always say to myself I hope this book doesn’t grow up to be Rose Madder."

Dream Catcher (2001)
"That was the first book after the accident. I couldn’t write on the word processor so I had the pillows propped around me and wrote with a pen, in longhand."

Cell (2006)
"I just had a ball with that. It sat in my head for probably five years. I had the idea in New York City but I couldn’t set it there, it was like an escape from New York, but New Yorkers get so shirty about their geography. They say, they never would have gone by 89th Street, they would have taken the tunnel. And I thought I can’t put up with that. And then one day when I was coming back from a Red Sox game, I said, you know how to get out of Boston, set the book in Boston. Everything fitted."