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doesn't he admit to being a hack, though? like he admitted that he directed Maximum Overdrive while on a coke binge or something
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You can't talk about his short stories without mentioning Survivor Type!
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Butt Frosted Cake posted:ive only read one stephen king book and that was christine. it was decent enough but it probably didn't need to be that long and it didnt leave me a lasting desire to read any more of his stuff when any of his stuff worth a drat got a cut down movie adaptation. So who do you read for horror?
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Jul 26, 2014 00:50
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King was better when he was on and recovering from drugs.
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Jul 26, 2014 00:51
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Dean of Swing posted:King was better when he was on and recovering from drugs. He was just a real bad drunk. But, yeah, he was better when he was killing himself.
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Jul 26, 2014 00:53
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Everyone worsens post substance abuse except maybe Nick Cave
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Jul 26, 2014 00:59
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who the gently caress is nick cave?
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Pumpy Muffinz posted:So who do you read for horror? i mostly read literary fiction but i like to check out well regarded genre writers on occasion. reading through the thread i might check out his short stories because that seems to solve really the only gripe i had with christine
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Butt Frosted Cake posted:i mostly read literary fiction but i like to check out well regarded genre writers on occasion. reading through the thread i might check out his short stories because that seems to solve really the only gripe i had with christine I don't really care if you like King or not. I was hoping you could help me find some horror books to read.
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Jul 26, 2014 01:03
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Stephen King is pretty chill and a guy I'd like to share a non-alcoholic drink with also lol if you don't know who Nick Cave is
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Jul 26, 2014 01:28
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facebook jihad posted:Stephen King is pretty chill and a guy I'd like to share a non-alcoholic drink with He's totally awesome and does his business around town and talks to everyone and shops at the mall and the grocery store, etc. Also, since I grew up in part in Maine and lived in most of the places he writes about, it's like having a personal author - the best selling one ever? It's cooler than cool when King is writing literally about the town down the road (Salem's Lot is set for real in Cumberland, ME).
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Jul 26, 2014 01:39
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facebook jihad posted:Stephen King is pretty chill and a guy I'd like to share a non-alcoholic drink with Who the gently caress is nick cave?
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Jul 26, 2014 01:40
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i liked cell including the ending lol i thought ut was a neat idea!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Pumpy Muffinz posted:Who the gently caress is nick cave? A musician who did loads of drugs and made great music on them, then stopped doing drugs and writes songs in an office he rents 9-5 Monday to Friday now. The first post-drug abuse album was poo poo but they've been very good since
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Jul 26, 2014 02:18
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Professor Shark posted:LONGER THAN YOU THINK DAD LONGER THAN YOU THINK! Yeah for some reason the idea of that has always stuck with me. His ability to create verisimilitude of ordinary middle class life has always been kind of impressive. Also The Stand is really one of the great end-of-the-world books despite all the religious nonsense. Plus he actually tried to play a Humorous Hayseed in a movie. I don't notice that on Hemingway's or Pynchon's resumes.
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Jul 26, 2014 02:18
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EmmyOk posted:A musician who did loads of drugs and made great music on them, then stopped doing drugs and writes songs in an office he rents 9-5 Monday to Friday now. The first post-drug abuse album was poo poo but they've been very good since So he's not as cool as Andrew W.K.
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Jul 26, 2014 02:20
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I don't know much about Andrew W.K. so I'll defer to your judgment. He did write a book about date raping Avril Lavigne though which is nice.
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Jul 26, 2014 02:25
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The Shining (the book) is legitimately amazing/scary.
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EmmyOk posted:I don't know much about Andrew W.K. so I'll defer to your judgment. He did write a book about date raping Avril Lavigne though which is nice. That isn't nice. It's horrible.
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Jul 26, 2014 02:29
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I just finished Dr. Sleep. Meh. It's really about AA, I think.
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Jul 26, 2014 02:30
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He looks like he sells crack to the Antichrist so I guess he has a look to live up to. He also wrote a duet for Kylie Minogue about killing the woman you're in love with. She sang it with him though, so I guess he is not all bad.
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Jul 26, 2014 02:35
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P. much everything about IT makes way more sense once you know he wrote the book over the course of a single 6 month booze-and-cocaine fueled bender. The Derry Interlude parts hold up best, but for the gist of the story I'd just watch the miniseries. You get to see Tim Curry as an evil flesh eating clown which I think we can all agree is pretty sweet.
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Jul 26, 2014 02:48
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what does that have to do with Steven King?
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Jul 26, 2014 02:50
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the gunslinger books are all boring af qtiyd
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Jul 26, 2014 02:54
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ilikedirt posted:the gunslinger books are all boring af qtiyd the first two are great! After that. Fight as you will. I might be there.
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Jul 26, 2014 02:58
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Pennywise the clown was really a spider.
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Jul 26, 2014 03:02
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Everything's Eventual is entertaining as gently caress
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Jul 26, 2014 03:02
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whoever it was that posted you don't enjoy the ending that much but it doesn't matter because you had fun getting there earlier itt was right and did a good job with that post
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Jul 26, 2014 03:03
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jackyl posted:whoever it was that posted you don't enjoy the ending that much but it doesn't matter because you had fun getting there earlier itt was right and did a good job with that post lots of words that mean nothing. Jackyl! my friends!
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Pumpy Muffinz posted:lots of words that mean nothing. Jackyl! my friends! and nothing of value was lost?!?!
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jackyl posted:and nothing of value was lost?!?! True.
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Jul 26, 2014 03:27
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He's a hack that was able to reproduce a living dynasty of profitable authors. Let's see anyone on the forums try that.
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Jul 26, 2014 03:28
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What two or three books are widely considered some of his best work by his fans?
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Jul 26, 2014 03:38
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the short stories, they short enough that he doesn't get enough time to write an orgy into it, usually.
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Amarcarts posted:What two or three books are widely considered some of his best work by his fans? I'd go Misery, The Stand, and then maybe a short story collection - say, maybe Night Shift because he's often a lot better in short form.
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Jul 26, 2014 03:43
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I really like the Langoliers,
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11/22/63 was great. Most of the rest of his modern stuff sucks.
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Disconnecticus posted:I'd go Misery, The Stand, and then maybe a short story collection - say, maybe Night Shift because he's often a lot better in short form. Night Shift is loving terrific. King was young, driven, and in full-on rock 'n roll horror mode.
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i read black house recently and it was pretty bad. protagonist is a rogue cop with a devil may care attitude. had a magical blind guy as well as magical insane people. the bad guy is an elderly pedophile cannibal who loves buttcheeks. a demon gets killed with a magical baseball bat. actually, that last part is cool. the rest of it sucked though
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Rasmussen posted:I've never read a Stephen King book. I read some Dean Koontz when I was a kid, they were okay I guess. Amarcarts posted:What two or three books are widely considered some of his best work by his fans? The Bachman Books - 4 novellas including The Running Man & The Long Walk Skeleton Crew - short stories. Army men come alive to kill a hitman, shipwrecked doctor on barren island with only medical kit and pounds of heroin, etc Night Shift - more of the above, only need 20 pages to tell a tale. The Running man if had to pick just one story. nimh fucked around with this message at 05:23 on Jul 26, 2014 |
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