Some of those movies are The Shining (1980), Christine (1983), Stand By Me (1986), Misery (1990), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), The Green Mile (1999), Knightriders (1981), Creepshow (1982), Pet Sematary (1989), Sleepwalkers (1992), and the TV movie The Stand (1994). ... Stephen King. ... One book that was greatly influenced by King's life was his 1977 novel Rage, which he wrote in the pseudonym of Richard Bachman. ... In this book King really show's how wicked the whole even really was and how crooked the government could be, which brings me to my next point...

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Indeed, when I informed people that I was writing a critical essay on Stephen King the most common response was laughter. ... For some, we have been on page one of a Stephen King book almost countless times before (the man is a prodigious author), and in a comforting way we know what to expect. ... When we open a Stephen King book, nearly all of us have some idea what to expect. ... The way in which "The Green Mile" was released in many slim volumes over an extended period of time does nothing to distance King from the above image. ... As I have already briefly mentioned, many of his books ...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publica...

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