Thursday, November 6, 2008
BOOK REVIEW & GIVEAWAY: Storm of the Century by Stephen King - CONTEST CLOSED
February, 1989; Little Tall Island, Maine
It's all the weathercasters can talk about - the Storm of the Century. It'll be a blizzard, white-out conditions that will last for days. The tiny island community of Little Tall Island is ready. They've stocked up on provisions. They have the emergency shelter prepared. The islanders can take whatever the storm throws at them, ayuh. They have no way of knowing that evil is about to break through, an evil that will take and take, an evil that will change them all.
As usual, King delivers a wonderful thriller. From the start, you know things aren't going to go well for Little Tall. But how bad will it be? Will they fight back? Will evil overcome? That's the genius of King! The reader never can guess what he's going to do. Happy ending? Tragedy? Toss the coin, Mr. King! I was riveted until the end, guessing and wondering how things would turn out.
This one was a bit different to read, as it is a SCREENPLAY. Instead of an author's description, you get set directions. It all works out though. My rating: 4/5
Now you all get a chance to win the book! Please keep in mind that it is NOT a normal novel. It is a SCREENPLAY. To enter, you must comment below, and the contest is international. A winner will be drawn Thursday, November 20th. If you are a regular reader of my blog, you know there's a catch.
Here's the catch - the comment needs to be about a severe weather phenomena you have lived through. Torrential rain, blizzard, earthquake, hurricane, etc. Even if it just seemed wild and wooly to you, I want to hear the story! Good luck!
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15 comments:
Aw boo! Number one never seems to win but I'd really love to read this.
As for a big storm...when I was younger we had a tornado warning near my house and I was at a friends so we had to go in her basement..I don't remember much beyond that though!
-Lauren
lauren51990 at aol dot com
weather disaster huh?
Around 2 years back, there were a severe monsoon in India. Almost every major city in my state was flooded.
We had to go to the office by a company bus and it took us more than an hour to reach a 15 minute distance. We had to avoid the spilling bridges, the low lying areas and obviously the flooded places as well. The bridge we used to cross everyday while going to office was almost flooded. We could see the water level rising everyday. And we made jokes of going to office on boats. But deep down we were all worried.
Then there was one day I remember, torrential rain, flooded streets, submerged railway tracks. Every thing on a standstill. People who were out were stuck. Some people came home walking for 3-4 hours in chest level water. There were a few unfortunate ones who did not make it. Some of them sought refuge in churces and in high rise buildings.
Fortunately I was home and my entire family was safe.
But I was glued to the telivision. There were so many friends and relatives who had not reached home. God knows how but the news channels are always working. There was this one radio jockey who was stuck in the radio office for the night. And instead of wasting time, he decided to go on air and report what was happening around the city and tried communicating messages to people who were lost or stuck. He was on air for almost 12 hours that night.
It was scary and hopeful all at once. I hope i never happens again.
I remember I wrote a post next year during the monsoon season. There are a few pictures too. Take a look here. if you are interested.
I guess I have rambled on for too long, please enter me :)
I've posted this at Win A Book. No need to enter me in the contest.
I've posted this at WIn A Book. No need to enter me in the contest.
Oh wow the Storm Of The Century screenplay is awesome!
Bad weather eh? Well I live in Atlantic Canada so the weather is always pretty intense. But the worst would be when Hurricane Juan hit us in 2003 and then a few months later we were hit by White Juan - blizzard that dumped almost 4 feet of snow on us. But with the hurricane like wind we ended up with snowdrifts that buried houses - we were without power for about a week and a half and it took weeks to dig the city out.
shiloki at gmail dot com
I would love to win this! I just ordered the Movie on BluRay.
My storm of the century story happens in 1996 when the northeast was pummelled by snow. We had about 30 inches of snow and all the main roads were closed, we had a state of emergency type situation. I had just started a new job and I was worried about not going to work. I Lived in PA and work was in NJ and I didn't what to do because I wasn't sure what they do in these situations. I didn't receive a call that they were closed... silly now thinking about it but, I called my boss at the office and left a message that the roads were closed and I couldn't get in. The office was in fact closed, OF COURSE.
Faith
Faith_Bookluvr(at)yahoo(dot)com
I live in the Veneto region, Italy -- near Venice, you know. Here we don't have catastrophic weather phenomena such as hurricanes or blizzard...the only thing we have is fog in the fall/winter period. Sometimes you can hardly see the tip of your nose...quite disturbing, though.
avalonne83 [at] yahoo [dot] it
Okay, I live in KS and have experienced 3 direct torando's. The scariest one was the most recent and I was in my car with not enough time to get home and the radio was tracking the storm and it was right on my tail. I pulled over and went into a local business, introduced myself and joined the employees in their stock room while we rode out the storm....one of the more creative things I have done to meet people : )
Another one, went right down the street in front of our house and didn't touch a thing on either side of the street yet took out the entire fire department, which is 3 miles away.....this one was the eriest one, for it was so quite and still (definitely the calm before the storm)!
I love King, please enter me!
Darby
darbyscloset at yahoo dot com
This is one of the only Stephen King books that I don't have lol.
I lived through Hurricane Katrina 6 months after I moved to Mississippi. I had never been in even a semi-bad hurricane before until then. Not fun. Weirdly enough, houses all around where we were then living had all kinds of damage from small to severe (as in no longer there- like my father-in-law's then-girlfriend's home) but ours had only lost some shingles.
Several years ago we were camping in Yellowstone National Park. While visiting one of the visitor centers we were told there was a tornado warning ... not too many places to take cover in the middle of a forest. YIKES The tops of several trees were snapped off, but that was the worst of it. LUCKILY
hawkes(at)citlink(dot)net
This question is hard...after all, I live in Singapore and everyone knows the weather is great here (just very hot). The only severe weather phenomena here is the very rare floods that happened a couple of months ago. But then that was only up to about knee length or something. Well...if it ever do snow here, I say that's a severe weather phenomena! :D
I love Stephen King!
I don't have any stories though. I've lived in Kansas all my life, so you would think I've seen a tornado or two. I've taken cover several times, and I've seen the damage, but never experienced anything myself.
Hi, Interesting question! I still live in the area where this blizzard happened! In the year 1982, January 30-31, in 1982, the St. Louis Blizzard hit. Thirty inches of snow fell. This is a 1-in-70 year snow event! The strangest part was that I had only been dating a guy for a very short time and he had rode home with me from work. Of course, he couldn't go home! He ended up staying at my parent's home with me for 3 days. Thanks and please enter me in your fabulous book drawing. My son would love to read it. Cindi
jchoppes[at]hotmail[dot]com
Cindi -
I remember that storm! We were stationed in Germany at the time, and friends who lived in the metro-east actually sent us videotapes of the newscasts because the storm was so unbelievable!
i've been meaning to read this one since forever. I liked the movie version.
great review!
I was 4 months pregnant during the blizzard of 95, I dont know if that counts as a severe weather story or not...lol. I think we got about 29inches of snow. I remember hubby having to literally dig the car out of the snow for us.
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