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Professor Shark posted:Stephen King is very upset at his generation and writes about them really, really well. The "Hearts in Atlantis" section is really good, and every story ties together and is good. It is a Good Book that is overlooked except by Dark Tower nerds who only care about the first part.
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I really enjoyed Hearts in Atlantis in a "Only going to ever read this once on holiday" kinda way. As a Tower nerd I find the first part pretty good especially after reading that it was going to affect the tower books. The second part is definitely my favourite, adding a sense of mortality with the draft for Vietnam to the age old art of drifting in college and flunking out. It is primo King. I have to admit, one of the king writings I always go back to is Callahan's Odyssey in Wolves Of The Calla. It had a good mix of King's beautiful writing about the romance of America and a great cat and mouse as we gradually see the machinations of Roland's true enemies. The idea of being lost in time and space, wandering the hidden highways without a past or future. Forever meeting people on their own journeys and affecting their lives as they affect yours. Like a kind of Incredible Hulk meets Quantum Leap. You can't say there is nothing good about the 5th book. That's why I always liked the White Lands of Empathica section of the last book. It felt like one last big journey across mysterious beautiful lands before the end.
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# ? Aug 4, 2015 12:49 |
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Mike stared in disbelief as his hands fell off. From them rose millions of tiny maggots. Maggots!? Maggots. Maggots. Maggots. Maggots. Maggots. All over the floor of the post office, in Leytonstone.
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I saw on the Dark Tower wiki a user posted that Pennywise is in 11/22/63. I haven't read the book, but is there anything that suggests that?
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# ? Aug 4, 2015 13:03 |
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No there isn't, to my recollection. It's a fairly grounded historical fiction, with the exception of one chapter that tries to deal with the consequences of time travel.
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# ? Aug 4, 2015 14:27 |
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I didn't read much of the Dark Tower books, but I know stuff about the whole thing, as well as the books that are tied into it. I always kind of wished that The Green Mile was one of those books, considering how King writes about John Coffey just 'showing up out of nowhere'. Always kind of thought he came from the Dark Tower universe.
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# ? Aug 4, 2015 14:29 |
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He came from the magical negro/magical retard dimension, like most of King's support characters.
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# ? Aug 4, 2015 14:32 |
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I didn't read much of the Dark Tower books, but I know stuff about the whole thing, as well as the books that are tied into it. I always kind of wished that The Green Mile was one of those books, considering how King writes about John Coffey just 'showing up out of nowhere'. Always kind of thought he came from the Dark Tower universe. I just assumed he was and that he was some sort of foil to Flagg, the initials being a common trait (John Coffey, Jesus Christ)
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notZaar posted:He came from the magical negro/magical retard dimension, like most of King's support characters. lol
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# ? Aug 4, 2015 17:32 |
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4outof5 posted:this is wrong you are wrong I wish we could have more young roland books. That was probably the best book in the series, imo
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# ? Aug 4, 2015 18:57 |
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The weird fantasy/Western mashup world Roland came from and its vague downfall were a really compelling setting and I was always sad it didn't get more fleshed out than it did
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# ? Aug 4, 2015 19:37 |
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Wastelands is my personal favorite.
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# ? Aug 4, 2015 19:43 |
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Well this thread sure took an interesting turn. Can we talk about the greatness of the '85 film "Cat's Eye"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FeVTVsiCJs Everything about this movie is awesome. Drew Barrymore, Kenneth McMillan, James Motherfucking Woods.
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# ? Aug 4, 2015 19:53 |
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lot of good books from him, some even after he got hit by the van. read From a Buick 8 and expected a rehash of Christine. Was pleasantly surprised.
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# ? Aug 4, 2015 19:57 |
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my thoughts on stephen king are that it's nice to see someone with Downs Syndrome make something of themselves
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# ? Aug 4, 2015 20:29 |
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loving lol
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# ? Aug 4, 2015 22:16 |
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If I'm being truly honest, Gerald's Game is probably my favorite Stephen King novel. As the catchphrase of this thread goes, I really hated the ending. The cool thing about Gerald's Game is you can just stop right before the final chapter and it works fine imo. I thought ending the novel with Jesse saying "my dad did it" (paraphrased) was pitch perfect. it was a bit on the nose i guess, but it hit the whole theme of the book home really well...but then I saw that there was a more. There was honestly no good reason to explain who the Thin Man in the corner of the bedroom was. Let alone drag the entire thing out with dramatic courtroom scenes and litigation. It's probably the only book of his that really bothered or disturbed me on a significant level because the plot setup is scarily plausible. Other books I liked: Misery (minus all the story-within-a-story poo poo) Christine That short story where a finger was poking out of a sink drain and harassing a dude? what was this? Desperation Regulators Green Mile
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 02:11 |
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uwaeve posted:The Dark Tower ending was amazing. Anyone itt asking if they should give it a go should, sorry if you had people prejudice you towards thinking it's gonna suck.
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We need an anthropomorphic van pointing at him.
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 03:20 |
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the Bunt posted:That short story where a finger was poking out of a sink drain and harassing a dude? what was this? The Moving Finger, from Nightmares and Dreamscapes. I really enjoyed that one story about the guy who kills his brother or partner, but eventually goes insane and it's all because of something he drank. I might be misremembering it, but I thought it was based off of how bumblebees die when they sting something, so this drug kills those who kill. Could be wrong, though.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:The Moving Finger, from Nightmares and Dreamscapes. The end of the whole mess. They discover the water in a town makes the people living there peaceful, so take a bunch of it and toss it into a volcano right before an eruption. The plan is to make the whole world peaceful but it has the unforeseen side effect of making everyone slowly go retarded instead. The book tapers off as the man poisons himself and dies as he writes it. I have the audiobook read by Matthew Broderick.
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 05:57 |
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Professor Shark posted:I saw on the Dark Tower wiki a user posted that Pennywise is in 11/22/63. I haven't read the book, but is there anything that suggests that? When Jake is scoping out Derry on his first trip through the time thing there's a little montage of things he sees. And one of them is some sort of thing in a drain pipe that he feels is probably responsible for all the bad poo poo that happened recently. But now it's playing possum or resting or something. On my phone so no exact quote sorry. Also the whole time he's in Derry there's constant references to It, including a few mentions of a murderous clown. Source: this thread prompted me to start rereading that book.
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 06:25 |
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Pennywise would starve today because kids can't go outside ever without their helicopter parents
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Sinking Ship posted:When Jake is scoping out Derry on his first trip through the time thing there's a little montage of things he sees. And one of them is some sort of thing in a drain pipe that he feels is probably responsible for all the bad poo poo that happened recently. But now it's playing possum or resting or something. On my phone so no exact quote sorry. Also the whole time he's in Derry there's constant references to It, including a few mentions of a murderous clown. Source: this thread prompted me to start rereading that book. Also Jake watches Bev and ... Bill? Maybe Ben dance at a highschool dance or something and it made me cry irl because I read IT when I was twelve and they were the best friends I ever had because I'm a loser baby so why don't you kill me?
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 17:50 |
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i went nuts after first reading stephen king as a child. it was so provocative for me to be reading books with the kind of adult content, even more shocking that they carried some of these books in my school library deep in the south. i haven't read any in a very long time, well over a decade, but i remember the books that had the biggest impact on me IT The Mist (short story) The short story of the guy doctor / heroin smuggler who crashes in a desert island and journals his descent into autocannabilistic psychosis The Green Mile (first book to make me cry from reading) Pet Semetery Firestarter The Shining (probably scared me the most of any of his stories) Misery i thought Christine was a real stinker
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 18:44 |
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naem posted:Pennywise would starve today because kids can't go outside ever without their helicopter parents Pennywise would be happier than ever today because he could just use social media and not have to hang out in sewers and lockerrooms
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 18:45 |
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the Bunt posted:That short story where a finger was poking out of a sink drain and harassing a dude? what was this? it was properly short, simple, and horrifying
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 18:45 |
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Does anyone remember the name of the short story where this guy is buying flowers and everyone is talking about how in love he looks and then he kills a woman with a hammer? I can't remember the name of it and my work blocks search engines for some strange reason. edit: Never mind! Its The Man Who Loved Flowers Solice Kirsk fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Aug 5, 2015 |
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With regards to The Raft being overly violent and gruesome, it has its place in literature. "Splatterpunk" is definitely a genre that I think is due for a comeback.
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Blazing Ownager posted:Am I the only one who thinks the best Stephen King movie had no actual involvement at all with Stephen King? Namely, In The Mouth of Madness. Thanks to this thread, I just downloaded and watched this and it loving RULED. Lots of good actors delightedly hamming it up for all they were worth. The early 90's seem a strangely long time ago: those crappy cars, subtly odd fashions and all the smoking indoors. Also, animitronic special effects the BEST special effects
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