Mike & Sarah Talk about Why They Love Stephen King

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Mike kicks off the new Stephen King series by talking with fellow Constant Reader Sarah from the booktube channel Sarah Reads. Completely spoiler-free discussion.
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@TheBookCure 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for having me, Mike. Had a great time recording this (and defending my opinions afterward, haha). Now I just need to figure out how to let go of the fact that I said 5+4+4 = 11, hahahaha

@mikesbookreviews 3 жыл бұрын

100% my pleasure. I look forward to many more meetings along the path of the Beam in our future.

@alynam82 3 жыл бұрын

You both were fun to listen to, I enjoyed this conversation, and Mike I stand by your comment about Dean Koontz 😆

@bmoneybby 3 жыл бұрын

Quick maths. Ya that adds up haha

@PhilipChaseTheBestofFantasy 3 жыл бұрын

My two favorite Stephen King experts! Yes! Plus, two genuinely kind and smart people talking about an author I’m growing to appreciate more and more. Doesn’t get better!

@mikesbookreviews 3 жыл бұрын

I owe it to you for introducing me to such an intelligent young mind in Lady Sarah. Thankee sai, Gunslinger.

@PhilipChaseTheBestofFantasy 3 жыл бұрын

@@mikesbookreviews My pleasure!

@Danny_Matson 3 жыл бұрын

All three of you are awesome

@coleton7048 3 жыл бұрын

Sarah's only been on booktube for 3 or 4 months, has over a thousand subs and is getting invites to Mike's channel, Philip Chase, and Library of Allenxandria... That's how cool she is. I predict her channel blowing up.

@mikesbookreviews 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, she’s definitely one of my automatic watches.

@Natsirt39 3 жыл бұрын

This is exactly what I needed this morning. The Billy Summers anticipation is building!

@Jane42. 3 жыл бұрын

Loved listening to you two chat. Thanks for your time and thoughts on King!

@mikesbookreviews 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for listening!

@PnutButtaJllyMan 3 жыл бұрын

I'm slowly becoming a stepen king fan. Read 11/22/63. Really liked it. I just stated Revival yesterday and really enjoying that. The Stand is next month. If I enjoy that one, I'm gonna probably go back and start reading through it in publication order. Read 1 or 2 a month between my fantasy books.

@bmoneybby 3 жыл бұрын

All 3 of those are good books so plan on reading more King haha

@towerjunkie1947 3 жыл бұрын

I look forward to more episodes of King palaver. My favourite character is Roland too. My favourite book of his is The Dark Tower in general, but my favourite horror story of his is IT and my favourite drama of his is The Green Mile. P.S. I'm as King obsessed as you!

@sarkass8958 3 жыл бұрын

Sarah is so delightful ❤️

@mikesbookreviews 3 жыл бұрын

She’s the best.

@cynthiaholmes5124 3 жыл бұрын

My top ten favorite books of Stephen king 1. The stand 2. Insomnia 3. The talisman 4. wizard and glass 5. the long walk 6.The wastelands 7. Rose madder 8. Sleeping beauties 9. The gunslinger 10. Black house

@ginabeachy4897 2 жыл бұрын

This made me want to try the Dark Tower series again. I was really young the first time and just couldn't relate. Recently read 11/22/63 and it has renewed my fascination with Stephen King.

@ToxicRazor74 3 жыл бұрын

A brilliant conversation and a welcome introduction to Sarah. Hope her channel goes from strength to strength. Eloquent, passionate and intelligent and a great addition to the booktube community!

@shawngillogly6873 3 жыл бұрын

Lol. Sarah talking about the teacher being upset her scary story was actually scary happened to me when I was a kid. A looooong time ago. To which, i have to ask, what do teachers expect when they ask for spooky Halloween stories? And I loved even Wolves of Calla, and I did read Winds through the Keyhole, enjoyed it. And I would read it as book 4.5. My problem with DT is books 6 and 7 should've been 1 book. And I agree the metafiction as a rescue device was a bit too 4th wall breaking. Even though I liked the metafiction in Wolves.

@Dylan13Collins 3 жыл бұрын

My first introduction to Stephen King when in a college course. It was a Gothic course where we read the hunger games, the yellow wallpaper, etc. In it, we read "the man in the black suit" and I became obsessed! I had never felt tension and suspense to that degree in anything and it's just a short story. It's incredible!

@eddiepolo6047 3 жыл бұрын

2 of my favourite tubers discussing 1 of my favourite authors! Thankee sai!

@TheYrttitee 3 жыл бұрын

I love these collaboration videos. Keep them coming!

@josephcarrel7202 3 жыл бұрын

The second novel in my series that I'm working on right now is a fantasy Western. Set in the 1800's kind of like a western Dresden. I watch everything you and Sarah put up thanks for lifting her up.

@bmoneybby 3 жыл бұрын

That sounds cool.

@josephcarrel7202 3 жыл бұрын

@@bmoneybby you can find me on Twitter at @josephcarrel87 I give release updates there.

@matthewsherwood5866 3 жыл бұрын

I love all the guests you have been having on lately just subscribed to Sarah!

@seymourtoa 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome episode! Very much excited to devour more of your King's Multiverse talks and ideas. Long days...

@zahraferdous6548 3 жыл бұрын

Right after I saw you two in dr. Phillip's channel I was thinking how much I'd love to see you two make deep dive contents on King. And then I open KZfaq today and wallah! Dream came true! Thank you both of you. Hope you make more like these.

@wackyswacky1374 3 жыл бұрын

32:22 The Oral Tradition is the oldest form of storytelling, going back thousands and thousands of years, and I honestly think LISTENING is the ideal way to consume these stories. Stories were probably originally written down so the orator could keep the story consistent. When Virgil wrote the Aeneid, he meant for the book to be performed in front of an audience. Everyone today reads books by themselves, but really we should be reading them aloud in a group setting, experiencing the books together.

@clementine_makes_monsters 2 жыл бұрын

This was a great episode! I could listen to the two of you talk for hours, you should do more videos together!!

@jeffhaubrich6121 3 жыл бұрын

14:50-Sarah,I totally agree with your thoughts his book endings! Great discussion you two!

@No1emilybrowningfan 3 жыл бұрын

Love this. Glad to know there are people out there who love King as much as I do. At this moment reading the shining for about the twentieth time

@YourBrainonBooks 3 жыл бұрын

Laws yes!

@carlosandino5524 3 жыл бұрын

Sarah and Mike talking books. Love it!

@TheDarkchum1 Жыл бұрын

I am reading Salems Lot for the first time rn because of mikes channel and it is SOOOO GOOD HOLY F&$#@!

@seanoumedian6430 2 жыл бұрын

You guys are awesome!

@shadowcreek321 3 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite videos! Can't wait for more SK videos!

@believer773 3 жыл бұрын

Hi friend Mike, I found your channel because of my love for Malazan, but being an *older* fan of sci-fi and horror I will always love Stephen King, he was my first favorite author, I hope the younger generations keep on finding his work

@mikesbookreviews 3 жыл бұрын

Same here!

@rumpelRAINS 3 жыл бұрын

This was great. I love the King talk.

@ThisIsJaysWorld 3 жыл бұрын

When I started Stephen King I was 9. My first King book was The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. I loved it because I had a lot in common with Trisha (same age, parents also just split up and an older sibling making things harder than they have to be) That was my 1st real novel I ever read and it hooked me, not just to Stephen King but to the horror genre in general which is all I used to read. I didn't get into fantasy until I was like 15 when I picked up ASOIAF bc someone (incorrectly, but I still appreciate it) sold it to me as "horror with swords and dragons" . Favorite TV adaptation: The Storm of the Century or Rose Red

@niallmaritz2599 3 жыл бұрын

I know it's probably kind of crazy, but what got me to take a look into Dark Tower, was the short story from Everything's Eventual, which I read first. I loved it so much, that I just HAD to read more about Roland. And I also really love the first book, The Gunslinger, although I've noticed, not a lot of people do... Especially not compared to the rest of the series.

@omarsalman1331 3 жыл бұрын

This is such a good conversation to listen to for all the SK fans!

@websterkntz7 3 жыл бұрын

Dean Koontz fan here; I've read like 80 Koontz books - and I find it so funny to watch the silly rivalry. I was laughing out loud (and okay, maybe cringing a little) at the Koontz scene in IT. But the weird rivalry is hilarious, immortalized forever in FAMILY GUY.

@roylandrum863 3 жыл бұрын

Just starting my Stephen King journey. I tried reading Cujo and Christine when I was a teenager, but never finished a King novel. Read 'It' last month and now starting with his books in publication order. Just read Carrie last week and Salem's Lot is up next. So far, I'm loving his character development. Planning on starting Dark Tower after I finish Realm of the Elderlings.

@RespectTheSourceMaterial 3 жыл бұрын

i needed this!

@justinvoye8967 3 жыл бұрын

This was great, looking forward to more King content!

@wholeclothandscraps6044 2 жыл бұрын

I read the entire Gunslinger series just so I could read Song of Susannah. Decided to do it based only on the title.

@evanbode4660 3 жыл бұрын

This was awesome! Love the Stephen King content!

@Karlipagemaster 3 жыл бұрын

Love this new series! Hope you keep it up!

@mikesbookreviews 3 жыл бұрын

That’s the plan!

@uptown3636 3 жыл бұрын

Mike, I agree that Salem's Lot is one of King's scariest. Definitely don't want to read that one with the window open...

@loudoesreviews 3 жыл бұрын

Always great to listen to people who grok King! Interesting perspectives from both of you.

@Ulmo90 3 жыл бұрын

My parents read to me when I was younger, but I started reading by myself when I wanted a quicker pace than they had energy to read for. So don't worry your kids might begin reading by themselves soon

@Thecatladybooknook_PennyD 3 жыл бұрын

Yep everyone develops at their own rate. My older son read way faster than my younger but in the end they were reading so that's all that counts.

@dpeady78 3 жыл бұрын

More of this please ! People taking about King and LOTR is my jam

@thomasdelrez2545 3 жыл бұрын

Love the collaboration

@Michael_L_Morrison 3 жыл бұрын

This is awesome! I loved it! I'm never going to say no to more Stephen King content.

@remusaldana8147 3 жыл бұрын

The Dark Tower saga is my all time favorite, loved it when I finished it the first time years ago, and now re-reading it after years of literary studies, I now understand what King wanted to do with that ending: for those interested, you should read the poem from Robert Browning, and try to analyse/ understand the purpose of the poem, and you will understand why the end of King's Dark Tower was perfect !

@kabiansadi 2 жыл бұрын

Mike, you should do a collab with The Love of Reading. His channel is such a Stephen King treasure and both of you tackle King's work in a really similar way.

@Thecatladybooknook_PennyD 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome video!!

@layedout778 3 жыл бұрын

“I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I aim with my eye. I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father." BANG! -- A Stephen King Tower-junkie :)

@inkfeats1143 3 жыл бұрын

“People who only listen to audiobooks”🤣 You caught me! in my defense I have a 6 month-old and the housework feels never ending. Audiobooks are there for me in a way physical books can’t be for now. But I do look forward to the day I get back to my solitary nook with a book. Love the King content! Im an American living abroad and so reading King really helps me feel like I’m back in the states. his writing is just so comfy:)

@ShelfCentered 3 жыл бұрын

M-O-O-N spells great Palaver. Thanks, I'm a huge dark tower fan, even the ending. That's my entrance to the King even though I attempted the Stand first. That was way too soon. Love it now, but I needed some other books first.

@wholeclothandscraps6044 2 жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed the ending too. My husband also liked the ending. He said that is what changed the story from a Western fantasy to a horror story. Exactly how many times has Roland done this.

@ShelfCentered 2 жыл бұрын

@@wholeclothandscraps6044 Good point, I hadn't thought of that but I'm totally using it from now on!

@ShelfCentered 3 жыл бұрын

I've come to the point in my life when I've realized I need to stop putting off my favorite author's books because I can always reread them if I need more. I keep doing it, but acceptance is the first step right

@toshomni9478 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome collaboration. Looking forward to more of these in the future. I actually prefer The Talisman and Black House to The Dark Tower when it comes to Stephen King fantasy mostly because they are co-written by Peter Straub who is also a brilliant writer known for mostly doing horror and having them work together is a dream come true.

@jonathanrodriguez4666 2 жыл бұрын

I grew up in a religious home and went to a religious school and heard ALL the stories about Stephen King basically being the devil. So I had to see for myself and borrowed Cycle of Werewolf from the library at the age of 12 (mostly because it was the shortest book). I thought it was pretty meh but it made me want to read another and then I was hooked for life.

@lindal7827 3 жыл бұрын

23:32 Hi, yes we would. At least I would. Would love to hear you talk about Buffy

@bobbobby-xm3xb 3 жыл бұрын

love the king videos mike

@turtleanton6539 3 жыл бұрын

Wow what an awesome idea moreike this please :p

@praetorxyn 3 жыл бұрын

I saw the IT miniseries and liked it, then read Dark Tower, then 'Salem's Lot, then IT, then The Stand. I liked the Doctor Sleep movie so much I decided to read The Shining and Doctor sleep as well, currently about 40% of the way through The Shining. Not sure how much more of King I'll get into after this, as I tend to be more of a "series" guy.

@readingwithrobson3911 3 жыл бұрын

Favorite Stephen King book: The Shining Worst book: Desperation (my opinion) Underrated book: Revival Overrated book: Cujo (my opinion)

@Michael_L_Morrison 3 жыл бұрын

Worst book for me is Sleeping Beauties. It was a slog for 75% of the book before it picked up. I can't tell you the number of times I almost DNF'd it. My favorite toggles between Salem's Lot and It. Revival was simply fantastic!

@dpeady78 3 жыл бұрын

I always pivot between The Stand and Salem’s Lot as favourites. Least fav is probably Christine

@NamasteBbooktube 3 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: it has been said about Dean Koontz that he combines the occultism of Stephen King with the scientism of Michael Crichton. I say, give him a chance. Recommended book: Phantoms. Fear Nothing.

@ioanaberbece8137 3 жыл бұрын

Except for some things in IT at the end I never had any trouble with SK's endings. I don't know where this idea comes from. Sometimes it makes me think it's just something 'popular' to say, but not really a real thing. Does it make sense?

@dragonflii Жыл бұрын

What happened to the other two novellas in Four Past Midnight?

@MrSoderlingfan 3 жыл бұрын

Great too see some king talk looove it! Will we see Mike and Jamie Fuego in the future?? =) Great episode

@cmmosher8035 3 жыл бұрын

I can't remember which video it was but Mike said Jamie is supposed to be on the next one.

@Knightshade1965 3 жыл бұрын

My favorites of Stephen King books are, the shinning, Carrie and the dead zone. Alright, you mentioned something about Dean Knootz, I'm a big fan of his older books and have read some of his newer stuff. Don't put down someone unless you read his books. Yes, I understand that people put him down because Stephen King fans have always done that.

@welitonE3 3 жыл бұрын

I agree with you, Dean Koontz is fantastic in his own way.

@danielvanrooyen9602 3 жыл бұрын

Could not agree more, Salem's Lot was one crazy vampire book and some really creapy scenes. Imagine a R rated Salem's Lot movie with a proper budget.

@stevenstewart782 9 ай бұрын

Dean koontz and Stephen King are two of my favorite authors.I must say that Koontz has a much bigger problem with story endings than King does

@dylanbivins847 3 жыл бұрын

The one dislike must be from Annie Wilkes or Greg Stilson.

@mikesbookreviews 3 жыл бұрын

The Man in Black fled across the comments section.

@Knightshade1965 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe, you should ask, how many movies did Stephen King have a small part in?

@pattic6077 3 жыл бұрын

What scene is mike referring to in It that he thinks maybe Stephen king should’ve left out? I was just curious because I’m not sure.

@mikesbookreviews 3 жыл бұрын

It’s a secret to everybody.

@ZachMurtaugh 3 жыл бұрын

I popped for Dawson’s Creek

@nicolashernandezvidal6040 3 жыл бұрын

So excited for this video series! I’m just getting into Stephen King, started with the Shining last October, have read 4 others since. (It, Carrie, Later, The Body) I think King could become a favorite author, despite my mixed thoughts so far. It: 8.5/10 The Shining: 8/10 Later: 7/10 Carrie: 6/10 The Body: 4/10

@TheDarkchum1 Жыл бұрын

Me. I liked Tommyknockers lol

@actung74 3 жыл бұрын

A King fan who has yet to read IT, The Shining, or 11/22/63?? In fairness there are many books to get through.

@wigglesworth19 2 жыл бұрын

I wanted to give this a like but it had 420 so I think I’ll leave it

@mikesbookreviews 2 жыл бұрын

This is Ka.

@cynthiaholmes5124 3 жыл бұрын

I just finished song of susannah it's much better than wolves of the calla can't wait to read the final book

@Michael_L_Morrison 3 жыл бұрын

Alot of people complain about Song of Susannah. I'm not one of them. SoS has some great moments, and I always look forward to them on a reread of the series.

@readingwithrobson3911 3 жыл бұрын

First!