So far, reading Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot

  1. I’m surprised I’ve never heard King compared to Ray Bradbury
  2. It is refreshing to see a more Bram Stoker approach (so far) then the “vampires as enemy bike gang” approach which I have loved since watching The Lost Boys and Whedon used.  I wonder if King will give the vampire ghostly properties (bodies could become mist and then solidify in the original Dracula novel).
  3. It is so, so, so much better written than Stoker’s idiot book.
  4. But I do hate seeing Stoker’s rather inventive way of pasting together “journals” given up in favor of a standard third-person approach.  Then again, Stoker’s attempt was a failure, so maybe King was smart to not try to emulate it.

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