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    Stephen King's The Body: Bookmarked

    By Aaron Burch

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    A collection of four novellas, Different Seasons includes some of Stephen King's most enduring and well-known works, including "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption," which was made into the film The Shawshank Redemption, and "The Body," which was made into the movie Stand by Me. For this entry in the Bookmarked series, Aaron Burch, editor of the literary journal Hobart, will focus on the influence of "The Body" on his life and work.

    Aaron Burch's fiction has appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, including The &NOW Awards, The Best Innovative Writing, Another Chicago magazine, New York Tyrant, Los Angeles Review, and Barrelhouse. His chapbook, How to Take Yourself Apart, How to Make Yourself Anew, was published by PANK as the winner of their inaugural chapbook contest. He is the founding and current editor of the literary journal Hobart.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIg Publishing
    Release dateAug 1, 2016
    ISBN9781632460318
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    • 3/5
      In Stephen King's The Body: Bookmarked Aaron Burch uses King's novella as a springboard into telling his own life and how the novella has influenced him. Burch does exactly what the Bookmarked series asks its writers to do, basically write a personal reflection on an important work in that writer's life. The premise sounds wonderful to me and I hope to read others in this series but this particular volume did not particularly appeal to me. As unfair as it feels to form an opinion about a person from such a short and focused (in theory) work I just did not care for or about Burch. I was far from disliking him, nothing nearly so negative, I just didn't care. It came off to me as him mostly tooting his own horn about what he has done and does do. Oddly enough I can easily imagine liking him in real life but this particular introduction just left me disinterested. Maybe I was expecting something more along the lines of how the work taught him lessons and that was why it influenced him but what it looked like to me was that he simply related to the movie and has formed his professional life around coming-of-age narratives. I want to emphasize that a work like this works very much on a level different from most other works. While memoir-like it is not a memoir, at least it isn't supposed to be. Yet it is very personal just the same. A reader's interest will likely ride as much on how they hear the writer's voice as on what the writer says. I found many of the ideas easy to relate to and thought back to my own youth. I just became tired of the writer's voice. This is perhaps an even more subjective and personal response as compared to one tempered by reading fiction or even a true memoir where one expects to read self-congratulatory comments and so are prepared.I would still recommend this book simply because for every thing that annoyed me there will be people moved and interested. The book is not about King's novella, nor is it supposed to be. I was expecting something that would play back and forth between the novella and Burch rather than a book about Burch with periodic nods to the novella. Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via Edelweiss.
    • 3/5
      SEP 06 - This was ok. The author is a creative writing professor and the movie "Stand by Me" had a great effect on him. The courses he teaches always centre around the coming-of-age theme and he uses King's The Body" for study. The book talks a lot about nostalgia with the author turning it into part memoir of his coming-of-age. He examines some scenes in the movie and the book also comparing the two. I just found it to be more about the author, Aaron Burch, who I really am not intrested in knowing about his personal life. The book being short held my attention long enough to finish it. BTW, "Stand By Me" is also one of my all time favourites which I've watched many more times than I've read "The Body. Each I read and saw the years of publication.