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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft | 
 agrandir | Auteur: Stephen King
Créateur: Stephen King
Éditeur: Pocket Books
Prix de liste: EUR 5,71
Acheter Neuf: EUR 1,95
Vous épargnez: EUR 3,76 (66%)
Neuf (14) D'occasion (5) de EUR 1,95
Évaluation moyenne des clients:  2 commentaires
Classement parmi les ventes: 12628
Média: Poche
Édition: Reprint
Pages: 320
Poids (kg): 0.2
Dimension (cm): 6.7 x 4.2 x 1
ISBN: 0743455967
Code Décimal Dewey: 813.54
EAN: 9780743455961
ASIN: 0743455967
Date de publication: Juillet 1, 2002
Disponibilité: Expedition sous 1 a 2 jours ouvres
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Short and snappy as it is, Stephen King's On Writing really contains two books: a fondly sardonic autobiography and a tough-love lesson for aspiring novelists. The memoir is terrific stuff, a vivid description of how a writer grew out of a misbehaving kid. You're right there with the young author as he's tormented by poison ivy, gas-passing babysitters, uptight schoolmarms, and a laundry job nastier than Jack London's. It's a ripping yarn that casts a sharp light on his fiction. This was a child who dug Yvette Vickers from Attack of the Giant Leeches, not Sandra Dee. "I wanted monsters that ate whole cities, radioactive corpses that came out of the ocean and ate surfers, and girls in black bras who looked like trailer trash." But massive reading on all literary levels was a craving just as crucial, and soon King was the published author of "I Was a Teen-Age Graverobber." As a young adult raising a family in a trailer, King started a story inspired by his stint as a janitor cleaning a high-school girls locker room. He crumpled it up, but his writer wife retrieved it from the trash, and using her advice about the girl milieu and his own memories of two reviled teenage classmates who died young, he came up with Carrie. King gives us lots of revelations about his life and work. The kidnapper character in Misery, the mind-possessing monsters in The Tommyknockers, and the haunting of the blocked writer in The Shining symbolized his cocaine and booze addiction (overcome thanks to his wife's intervention, which he describes). "There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing." King also evokes his college days and his recovery from the van crash that nearly killed him, but the focus is always on what it all means to the craft. He gives you a whole writer's "tool kit": a reading list, writing assignments, a corrected story, and nuts-and-bolts advice on dollars and cents, plot and character, the basic building block of the paragraph, and literary models. He shows what you can learn from H.P. Lovecraft's arcane vocabulary, Hemingway's leanness, Grisham's authenticity, Richard Dooling's artful obscenity, Jonathan Kellerman's sentence fragments. He explains why Hart's War is a great story marred by a tin ear for dialogue, and how Elmore Leonard's Be Cool could be the antidote. King isn't just a writer, he's a true teacher. --Tim Appelo
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 Will the real Stephen King stand up? Janvier 8, 2005
B. Chandler (Arlington, Texas)
3 sur 3 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile
This was money well spent. This book is more than the title implies. First it is a selected biography of Stephen King. I enjoyed the poison ivy episode. This is not a deviation but an explanation of why he writes the way he does and the background that he draws on. Secondly this is a "how to write like Stephen King" book it reflects his likes and dislikes. I agree with most of them. I suppose that that is why I like his novels.
However I can only guess that he must spend a lot of time around people that cuss. It is not like he is not aware of it. I feel that he is somewhat proud of the fact that he cusses a lot. Luckily he said it is not necessity to be excessive.
I share his dislike for flashbacks. And he also expresses several dislikes for other stilting crutches, including excessive description of Back-story.
An added bonus is his description of the van accident that a certain comedian commented about saying that Stephen lost his Tommyknockers. Stephen forgot to mention that he bought the van that hit him for destruction purposes. Talk about revenge.
Over all after reading this I was compelled to try my hand at writing.
 Un livre a conseiller aux non-habitues de Stephen King Juin 7, 2002
4 sur 4 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile
Stephen King delaisse pour une fois la fiction pour parler de son art, de ses methodes, de ses opinions et plus generalement de sa vie. Le livre est compose de 3 parties principales : la premiere raconte sa vie et comment il est venu a l'ecriture, la deuxieme fait une liste des outils indispensables a ses yeux a tout auteur digne de ce nom et la troisieme parle du processus d'ecriture d'un roman ou plus generalement d'une histoire et du rythme de travail.
Pour qui ne connait pas King, ce livre est un moyen de l'aborder en douceur, sans les histoires a faire fremir qu'il ecrit habituellement. Mais l'accident de la route qu'il a eu lors de la redaction de ce livre est peut-etre l'histoire la plus effrayante qu'il est pu ecrire parce que bien trop reelle !
J'ai aime ses explications, simples et bien dans son style. C'est vrai qu'on pourrait croire qu'ecrire est facile. Ecrire sur un sujet l'est (qui n'a pas eu de redaction ou de dissertation a faire ?) mais partir d'un sujet simple et le laisser evoluer l'est beaucoup moins ! King ne dit pas que ca va arriver comme ca, sans rien faire mais qu'eventuellement pour certains, avec beaucoup de travail, il pourrait peut-etre survenir un miracle. Pour lui, ce miracle s'est resume a beaucoup de travail, une veritable passion pour l'ecriture et la chance d'avoir a ses cotes la presence (a differentes etapes de sa vie) de personnes l'ayant aide a s'ameliorer (sa mere, puis le redacteur en chef d'un journal et a present sa femme).
La lecture de ce livre se fait surement moins rapidement qu'un roman et si le lecteur n'est pas interesse par les differentes etapes et methodes de la creation d'une histoire ecrite, il risque de trouver cela bien long et peu passionnant. Mais King dit que tout ecrivain est avant tout un lecteur et je pense que l'inverse est un peu vrai. Quel lecteur ne serait pas interesse par ce qui se passe dans la tete d'un auteur lors de la redaction d'un livre ?
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