Yay, another dumb story.
The next short story I have decided to rant on is "Suffer The Little Children"
once again, it didn't really scare me at all. It was just weird. An elementary school teacher one day all of a sudden gets suspicious of some kid name 'Robert' in her class. She starts avoiding him because she sense something 'ominous' about him. More stuff happened, she got more and more scared, until she stared thinking that all the kids were out to get her. Robert, the first one to scare her, 'transformed' into some sort of monster. I didn't really understadn thsi part, it wasn't described very well
She had a mental breakdown and ended up running away from the school screaming. She took a whole month off before returning.
Upon her return, she started freaking out when she saw the children again. She is a nutcase, and decided to massacre her class.
She brought a gun to school and called them into a room one by one. She shot each one in the head, and didn't stop until another teacher came into the room to find masses of dead kids on the floor. She was sent to a mental hospital where she continued to be afraid of children.
Okay...what? This story was beyond stupid! The descriptions were so poor, I didn't even understand half teh story! At the end of the story, one of the doctors started to become wary of the children. So, from what I can tell, In this story one of the following is true.
-all adults are paranoid and suffer from severe schizophrenia
-Stephen King hates kids and decided to potray them as a bunch of creepy monsters
-This was some random ramblingn made into a crappy short story.
I still haven't started liking this book, it's not scary, it's not interesting, and I'm behind on reading because I don't want to read it because it's dull. Because of this, I'm probably going to end up pulling an all-nighter on thursday night to finish the book. What can I say, I'm morer of a youtube type of person.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Thursday, February 19, 2009
The House on Maple Street
I finished the short story, 'The House on Maple Street' and I must say, it's not what I was expecting at all. When I started reading this story, I was expecting a real horror story. When I had finished reading, I was left sitting thinking to myself. "that...was the most dissappointing and pointless story I've ever read." I found the story totally aimless.
The characters themselves were well developed, but they were dull. The story was realistic, so much though to the point where it was just reading a boring chapter into someone's life. The plot to the story wasn't very descriptive either. The ideas put into it were interesting, and unique, but weren't used to their full extent.
Trent, Laurie, Brian, and Lissa are the four children in the story. Their Mom, Catherine, was newly married to Lew Evans. Lew was a horrible stepfather, and an abusive husband. The kids wanted to send him away. A rather typical storyline I thought. One day, in a crack in the wall, Lissa saw a strange vein of metal. When the four children investigated it, they found it ran through most of the top floor. As they investigated later that month, the found that the metal was moving, and growing inside the house, completely filling it.
Trent later discovered that the metal was coming from the wine cellar in the basement. There were glowing numbers counting down. These numbers said that the clock would reach 00:00:00 in about 3 days time. He decided that somethign would happen to the house, and it would get rid of Lew. How he figured that would happen, I'm not sure, but he's a main character, so he will typically figure everything out.
Well, he made a plan to get everyone out of the house, while Lew was locked in his own office. The house grew wings and flyed away...literally. The metal turned out to be some substance from space, and when the odd glowing counter reached 00:00:00, the house turned into a spaceship and flew off into the night. The story ended with The four children standing in pouring rain laughing maniacal, evil laughter.
I was seriously disappointed in this. It was interesting enough...but it was still dull. The book has yet to give me nightmares. I only hope later chapters are more interesting, if I have the motivation to pick up the book again. It still isn't really catching my interest.
~Amber
The characters themselves were well developed, but they were dull. The story was realistic, so much though to the point where it was just reading a boring chapter into someone's life. The plot to the story wasn't very descriptive either. The ideas put into it were interesting, and unique, but weren't used to their full extent.
Trent, Laurie, Brian, and Lissa are the four children in the story. Their Mom, Catherine, was newly married to Lew Evans. Lew was a horrible stepfather, and an abusive husband. The kids wanted to send him away. A rather typical storyline I thought. One day, in a crack in the wall, Lissa saw a strange vein of metal. When the four children investigated it, they found it ran through most of the top floor. As they investigated later that month, the found that the metal was moving, and growing inside the house, completely filling it.
Trent later discovered that the metal was coming from the wine cellar in the basement. There were glowing numbers counting down. These numbers said that the clock would reach 00:00:00 in about 3 days time. He decided that somethign would happen to the house, and it would get rid of Lew. How he figured that would happen, I'm not sure, but he's a main character, so he will typically figure everything out.
Well, he made a plan to get everyone out of the house, while Lew was locked in his own office. The house grew wings and flyed away...literally. The metal turned out to be some substance from space, and when the odd glowing counter reached 00:00:00, the house turned into a spaceship and flew off into the night. The story ended with The four children standing in pouring rain laughing maniacal, evil laughter.
I was seriously disappointed in this. It was interesting enough...but it was still dull. The book has yet to give me nightmares. I only hope later chapters are more interesting, if I have the motivation to pick up the book again. It still isn't really catching my interest.
~Amber
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Intro
The book I am reading is 'Nightmares and Dreamscapes' by Stephen King. It's a series of 20 short stories written by him, all in the horror genre. Reading is not one of my favourite activities, so I am not making much progress on reading the actual book. In the first short story, 'Dolan's Cadillac', a man is following his wife's murderer, hoping for revenge. He seems a little crazy actually, so I can't really say I like him that much. In the first story, I don't like any of the characters because from what I can tell, one is a psyco, and the other is a murderer.
It's the first Stephen King book I've read, and I'm hoping that it's horrific, because I have a hard time getting scared by books. It has about 700 pages, and I'm hoping to finish it by the time we get bakc form the ottawa trip.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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